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TRAINING & EDUCATION

MarTID 2020:

Global Maritime Training

Survey is Open

The third annual global Maritime Training Insights Database (MarTID) survey is of? cially open through February 29, 2020.

Take the MarTID 2020 Survey What’s in it for me?

To facilitate a broader response globally, the MarTID As was the case in the past two surveys, the 2020 sur- steering group again opted to both shorten the survey and vey will be followed by a series of publicly-available re- to offer three, targeted versions for these three stakeholders: ports, broadly published. These reports will provide both • Vessel Operator survey: high-level and deep-dive information covering both broad https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020MarTIDOperator trends as well as deep coverage of the 2020 special topic. • METI survey: Although MarTID was founded and run by the three part- https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020MarTIDMETI ner organizations, it requires community involvement to • Seafarer survey: succeed. Your participation, approximately 30 minutes of https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020MarTIDSeafarer your time, helps to broaden the depth of information.

• Vessel owner/operators will have a means to benchmark their own training initiatives.

Why is MarTID Important?

• Maritime training institutions will be able to

This MarTID initiative is the ? rst of its kind in the world. There is broad agreement that roughly 80% of better gauge future needs.

• Seafarers will potentially have a clearer picture maritime accidents involve human factors causes. As such, vessel operators and maritime training centers are of evolving skills requirements.

pouring signi? cant resources into creating best practice and innovative training programs. The MarTID database

What is MarTID?

will grow in breadth and depth annually with your par- MarTID is a non-commercial, joint initiative of the ticipation, shining a light on the training approaches and World Maritime University, Marine Learning Systems and successes of global vessel operators and training centers. New Wave Media. Its core principles include ethical integ-

Insightful, hard-to-get information inside the report in- rity, objectivity and con? dentiality. It was launched in 2018 clude global trends in training budgets, average training with the completion of the inaugural survey and publica- amount spent per seafarer and trends in training tech- tion of the 2018 Training Practices Report, which can be nologies and training models. found, along with the 2019 report, at www.MarTID.org.

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