Capacity Building
EMSA’s wide portfolio of training courses offers support to national maritime authorities in their day-to-day duties as flag, port and coastal state authorities. It includes e-learning courses which are available to member states, EFTA, and enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy countries. The courses are devised to address the needs of the maritime administrations. EMSA does:
Capacity building through training through in-house, regional and national trainings or seminars;
Capacity building through guidelines, recommendations and best practices developed by the competent personnel of the Agency;
Capacity building through enhancement of existing tools and development of new tools such as MaKCs, THETIS and RuleCheck.
EMSA developed, maintains and implements a harmonised Union scheme for the training and assessment of competences of port State control inspectors by Member States.
EMSA monitors the work of the European Coast Guard Functions Forum, the Mediterranean Coast Guard Functions Forum and the European Coast Guard Functions Training Network, and support their activities within the context of capacity building as relevant.
As part of the projects for technical assistance funded by the European Commission, EMSA offers cooperation and assistance in the fields of maritime safety and security, prevention of pollution from ships and marine environmental issues to: