Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:52
Northern Maritime University extension
Two years of continued project funding have been secured from the EU Interreg North Sea Region Secretariat by TRI's Professor Kevin Cullinane and Gordon Wilmsmeier.
The "Northern Maritime University" (NMU) project has been given a two year extension period thanks to the funding. The extension of the project has been driven by dialogue and feedback from stakeholders in the maritime industry about the formation of a transnational network of universities in the North Sea Region (NSR). The existing expertise of international partners in the NSR will be pooled to provide multidisciplinary and internationally oriented qualifications.
Industry representatives and stakeholders have responded very positively to the NMU approach and the intensive discussion with stakeholders has revealed new strategic needs regarding education, specifically for the maritime sector in the North Sea Region. The total funding this project has now received is €4.9m and will hopefully go a long way to meeting the demands of the maritime industry.
Professor Kevin Cullinane said: "It's great to win yet another pot of research funding from the EU's Interreg (North Sea Region) programme. This is the fifth TRI project to be supported by this form of structural funding in the past three years, with TRI having gained recognition from the Interreg Secretariat, through the hard work of Gordon Wilmsmeier and Yakov Boglev in particular, as a benchmark for best practice in leading and managing such projects."
Further information on the project is available at:
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