Mass Maritime partners up for shipbuilding workforce development project

As part of our Career Connect Washington Maritime Sector ongoing work, we actively track, document, and inform about emerging technologies and trends. There’s a strong Finnish component to how Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) will use the $5.8 million shipbuilding workforce development grant it was recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The academy will partner with Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) in Rauma, Finland, to develop an international shipbuilding fellowship. Additional shipbuilding workforce development project consortium partners include Bollinger Shipyards and Finland’s Länsirannikon Koulutus Oy WinNova (WinNova) and Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) — which is partnering with Bollinger to build USCG Arctic Security Cutter icebreakers.

The project, called NEXTSEAS (Next Era Xceptional Technology for Shipbuilding and Education in Americas’ Seas), is a four-year effort to address the scarcity of skilled workers in the U.S. shipbuilding sector – estimated at more than 300,000 – through an international fellowship and training pipeline that blends advanced European expertise with U.S. industry adoption.

Go to this link to read the full article published by MarineLog https://www.marinelog.com/uncategorized/mass-maritime-partners-up-for-shipbuilding-workforce-development-project/