The project focuses on training for maritime personnel (working on ships and in ports) and intends to elaborate a competence portfolio of new professions in the sector and disseminate it in order to promote professional mobility. The main aims of the project are: to analyse and address emerging training needs in various aspects of marine transport in the partner countries, with a view to identifying the skills required for a new multifunctional job profile; to institute a system of training credits recognised throughout the EU; to use the Europass Framework system of transparency in qualifications and to integrate it with other systems of certification already in use in marine transport; to design appropriate electronic tools – a database and smart card – which will be of practical help to users of the system and will offer companies a safeguard against falsification.