SKEMA an FP7 coordination and support action

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• SKEMA- an FP7 coordination and support action

Johan Woxenius Professor of Maritime Transport
Management and Logistics School of Business,
Economics and Law, University of
Gothenburg johan.woxenius_at_handels.gu.se Business
Ship Theme Day, April 7th 2009
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The SKEMA project

• Coordination and support action in the Seventh
  Framework Programme
• June 2008 June 2011
• Populating a Knowledge Base with accessible
  information from other studies and policy
  documents
• More ambitious periodic studies
• Thematic network
• Direct policy advice to the European Commission
• Lead by Athens University of Economics and
  Business
• Partners from Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Denmark,
  UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece and
  Cyprus

www.skematransport.eu
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Consolidation studies

• Consolidation of results from
• Research
• Investigations
• Policy documentation
• Presenting easily accessible information
• In short thematic reports
• Searchable in the Knowledge Base
• Structured according to a subject index
• Economic and legal framework
• Trade and transport models
• Modelling intermodal transport services
• Relationships between interregional trade,
  economic growth and maritime services
• Maritime governance
• Maritime transport and logistics development
• Safety, security and sustainability capabilities
• Technology forecasting and assessment

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Periodic studies

• Filling knowledge gaps
• Contemporary topics identified by
• The European Commission
• Industry
• The partners
• Original research and concentrated efforts
• e-Maritime
• Safety and security
• Competitiveness
• Working conditions
• The modal back-shift study
• Impact Study of the future requirements of Annex
  VI of the MARPOL Convention on Short Sea Shipping
• EU will implement a rule for 0,1 sulphur in fuel
  (distillates) in Emission Control Areas from
  2015
• Measures to avoid modal shift from SSS to road
  transport

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Our part

• Consolidation studies
• Maritime transport human resources and education
  training (Gill Widell)
• Study on European Seafarers (JW and Niklas
  Arvidsson)
• Education and training in the maritime sector (JW
  and Carl Sjöberger)
• Port related training practices (NECL and DPC,
  Ireland)
• Sustainability marketing of maritime services
  (Catrin Lammgård)
• Emission trading schemes and cleaning
  technologies (Zoi Nikopoulou)
• Periodic studies
• Parts of the modal back-shift study (JW, Zoi,
  Philip Linné)
• Management
• Work package leader for periodic studies
• Responsible for peer reviews of deliverables

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Characteristics of maritime transport HRM

• Need for continued education
• New technology
• New legislation
• New practices
• Maintaining competence
• Changing career paths
• Sea to shore
• Operations to office
• Shipping to transport
• Navy to the mercantile marine
• For operations training in simulators
• Navigation, engineering and port handling
• Port operational management
• Stevedoring
• From strong arms to operating machinery
• From casual job to job security
• Navigation and ships engineering
• Long periods from family
• From see the world to operate machinery