EMSA e-Portal for experts and speakers

The EMSA e-Portal for experts and speakers allows you to connect your expertise with EMSA. It is a database of maritime specialists whose experience complements our in-house knowledge, and who might be able to contribute to our work through participation in projects, training courses, events and seminars.
What we do
Since its foundation, EMSA’s role has centred on building a safe, secure, green and competitive maritime sector throughout the EU, helping people and goods to move freely and safely through the Single Market, and strengthening the EU’s maritime presence abroad.
EMSA’s roadmap for the future is its Five-Year Strategy (2020-2024) which frames its actions and initiatives through five strategic pillars: sustainability; surveillance; safety; security; and simplification. Through these pillars, the Agency supports a wide range of policy actions and strategy goals at EU level, and acts as a service provider and reliable partner for Member States and EU institutions and bodies alike.
EMSA manages and develops an extensive portfolio of technologically advanced tools and services, and houses specialist technical expertise on the maritime sector, acting both as an international reference point for maritime issues and as a knowledge hub
Through capacity-building and training for maritime experts at Member State and international level, EMSA also plays an important role in ensuring the application of relevant EU legislation and international standards.
Developing the maritime knowledge base
The maritime sector is knowledge-driven; both at individual, industry and institutional level, and EMSA’s work reflects that drive. Through the EMSA Academy, the Agency provides learning services outside formal education to all beneficiary organisations and their individual staff members. EMSA also organises conferences, workshops and seminars, on topics encompassing the five pillars of its strategy – sustainability, surveillance, safety, security and simplification. In addition, the Agency contributes, through studies and reports, to a wide range of policy initiatives and actions at EU and international level.
Join the e-portal for experts and speakers
The EMSA e‑Portal for External Experts and Speakers enables you to connect your expertise with the work of the Agency. It serves as a database of specialists whose knowledge complements EMSA’s own capacities and who may be invited to contribute to projects, training activities, events or seminars organised by the Agency.
Connect with us
As part of the implementation of its core tasks, EMSA organises, develops and delivers a wide range of activities that may require specific expertise to complement the knowledge available within the Agency. The EMSA e‑Portal enables External Experts and Speakers to register their details with a view to being contacted by the Agency for future projects, knowledge‑sharing activities, training courses or events that correspond to their particular areas of expertise. For this purpose, prospective External Experts and Speakers register through two distinct tracks.
How to Register
Experts
External Experts shall register under a Call for Expression of Interest (CEI) launched by EMSA. The complete documentation related to the CEI can be downloaded here.
Please read the documentation carefully, and follow the instructions given. Please also watch the tutorial videos for 'External Experts Database'
Speakers
Speakers may be invited to support the learning services offered by EMSA or to deliver presentations on their areas of expertise during seminars, workshops or other events organised by the Agency. Speakers shall register directly through the EMSA e‑Portal. Where a specific task relating to the field(s) indicated in the e‑Portal for Experts and Speakers is to be performed, EMSA will assign Speakers on the basis of the skills, experience and knowledge required, and in accordance with the principles of non‑discrimination, equal treatment and absence of conflict of interests. When applicable, Speakers may be reimbursed for expenses in line with EMSA’s rules on reimbursement. No other remuneration will be paid by EMSA. If you are interested in registering as a Speaker, please use the e‑Portal. If you have any doubts on the use of the e-Portal, please contact experts@emsa.europa.eu.
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