Short-duration training units

In total, the consortium developed 6 training units of 25h, that are presented below! 4 courses were implemented in the past months and new editions are being discussed by the consortium! Know more here.

Courses available

WHALE WATCHING BY MARITIME TOUR OPERATORS

  • Identify the different marine species that can be found on a cetacean’s watching trip.
  • Implement and monitor good practices on board.
  • Manage approximations considering the species and its behavior.
  • Identify the dangers and threats of cetaceans and raise customer awareness of their protection and conservation.
  • Cetaceans
  • Other specifies observed
  • Checklist for the identification of whales
  • Cetaceans behaviour
  • Iberian killer whales
  • Legal framework of the cetaceans -watching activity
  • Good practices guide
  • Dangers and threaths

DURATION
25h

PRICE
Free

FORMAT
b-learning/ face-to-face (includes practical training)

LOCAL
Portimão

OCEAN CONSERVATION

  • Identify the main measures of management and control and good practices
  • Characterization of the main activities and pressures related
  • Identificar as principais medidas de gestão e controlo e as boas práticas
  • The Ocean
  • Main activities and pressures in the ocean
  • Main normative frameworks for ocean conservation
  • National and international bodies relevant to resource management
  • Structural funds

DURATION
25h

PRICE
Free

FORMAT
e-learning/b-learning/face-to-face

TARGET GROUPS
General public (above 18)

OPERATING ELECTRONIC CHARTS

  • Distinguish the differences between raster and vector maps.
  • Characterise the on-board electronic chart display systems
  • Recognise nautical symbology on electronic charts and obtain position lines.
  • Creating routes with waypoints of different bearing.
  • Defining danger zones or safety limits on the electronic chart.
  • To successfully monitor the routes created.
  • Introduction to the course – the reasons for the emergence of electronic charts and what they have brought to seafarers:
  • Types of electronic charts
  • Chart Display Systems for Electronic Charts
  • Updating electronic charts
  • Practical applications in system – exercises

DURATION
25h

PRICE
Free

FORMAT
b-learning/face-to-face

TARGET GROUPS
Seafarers who have successfully attended short-duration training units of Navigation: 6497 – Navigation – Elementary Operations and 6498 – Navigation – Initiation to Coastal Navigation, who wish to operate an electronic chart system as an aid to navigation

BASIC DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SEAFARERS

  • Use the main computer tools from the user’s point of view.
  • Protect personal data and privacy in digital environments.
  • Use an e-mail application.
  • Search data, information and digital content on the Internet.
  • Share information through digital technologies.
  • Use public and private digital services.
  • Use digital content production applications (apps)
  • Scanning documents
  • E-mail
  • Searching data, information and digital content
  • Apps – web applications
  • PDF and digitalisation

DURATION
25h

PRICE
Free

FORMAT
E-Learning

TARGET GROUPS
General public (preferably seafarers) with basic computer knowledge

ENGLISH LANGUAGE – COMMUNICATION ON BOARD

  • Apply specific vocabulary of the maritime sector in conversation in English
  • Identify structures, equipment and materials of the maritime sector and their denomination in English
  • Use expressions in English during operations on board
  • Understand and use basic phrases of the Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP)
  • English as a common maritime language
  • Standard Marine Communication Phrases
  • Maritime vocabulary
  • External Communication Phrases
  • On-Board Communication Phrases

DURATION
25h

PRICE
Free

FORMAT
E-Learning

TARGET GROUPS
seafarers with English level B1

MARINE ANIMAL CATCHER AND PEDESTRIAN FISHERMAN COURSE

  • Identify the legislation applicable to the activity of harvesting marine animals
  • Apply basic knowledge of ecology during the activity
  • Prepare and use fishing gear according to the harvesting method
  • Handle marine animals considering safety and packaging recommendations
  • Identify risks and preventive measures in the activity
  • Apply basic first aid techniques
  • Carry out personal safety and survival at sea procedures
  • Regulations applicable to the activity of trapping and fishing for marine animals
  • Conservation, protection, and sustainability of the marine environment
  • Fishing methods
  • Packaging and handling
  • Safety and Health at the Workplace

DURATION
25h

PRICE
Free

FORMAT
b-learning/face-to-face

TARGET GROUPS
Over 18 years of age, registered as an animal catcher or pedestrian fisherman, or wishing to register.