Denmark: ATV Hosts Meeting on Industry’s Demands for Engineering Educations

On Monday 21 November 2011, the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences – ATV – will be hosting a stakeholder meeting at A.P. Møller-Mærsk on the industry’s demands for the naval architecture and marine engineering educations of the future.

The Danish Maritime Fund has tasked the ATV, under the guidance of academy member Mr. Bo Cerup-Simonsen, with the establishment of a working group that is to develop a proposal for the composition of an updated naval architecture and marine engineering education in Denmark. The task is partly an offshoot of the conclusions from the ATV seminar “Innovation in the Maritime Industry” held on Esplanaden on 16 May 2011.

The proposal for the naval architecture and marine engineering education must be based on the future competence needs of the maritime industry and, at the same time, be an attainable goal for the Danish universities both organizationally and academically.

In advance of the stakeholder meeting, the working group plans to carry out a number of interviews with industry representatives. On the basis of these interviews, the working group will draw up a discussion paper that will be presented at the stakeholder meeting to be held on 21 November 2011. Furthermore, the discussion paper will be circulated by e-mail prior to the meeting to all those who have registered.

The discussions and the work at the stakeholder meeting as such will form the basis of the summary report of the working group to be submitted to the Danish Maritime Fund.

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Source: DMA, October 28, 2011