Greener Shipping Summit April 2025

New Technologies and Education

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Eugenides Foundation, Athens, Greece

1. Enhancing Maritime Education for Next Generation Seafarers
• e-learning engagements and simulators, an update on: e-learning platforms, Virtual Reality VR, simulators and cloud simulators, the role of artificial intelligence in service of learning engagements
• How the above learning techniques will be applied to enhance education on future technologies, like low emissions technologies and equipment, alternative fuels, carbon capture
• How soft competence will contribute to bridge the gap of inadequate hard competence (knowledge and experience)
• Personnel assessment: The importance of accessing the effectiveness of learning process, Methods and tips for assessment, available tools and platforms
• SIRE 2.0: Focusing on Human Element | Training needs that may arise through Inspection results

2. Collaboration between academia and equipment makers-builders, class societies and operators
• Discuss and define how the academia can help in the development and handling of new technology. What is the current experience?
• Building bridges between theoretical education and practical experience
• The role of apprenticeship and internship
• Encouraging practical partnerships between research, innovations and education
• The role of class societies and IACS in the newly emerging technology world

3. Reshaping the Training Needs to Deal with New Technologies
• Describing the new technology in shipping, advanced automation and control, new fuels, new engines, reducing risks and enhancing safety
• Redefining roles and responsibilities in a new technology driven maritime world and ensuring the operators and officers / seafarers onboard are properly prepared
• The role of artificial intelligence in equipment design and integration, focusing on navigation, cargo handling, machinery operation and condition based maintenance
• Defining smart ships, real-time monitoring and remote operation: An option or a future rule requirement?
• Cyber security issues and developments. Relay on technological guard systems and educating stakeholders on maintaining secure data environments