Protocol of understanding in order to institute an Academy of the Sea in Lazio



The vice president of the Region Latium, Massimiliano Smeriglio, the chancellor of the Tuscia university, Alessandro Ruggeri, and the president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia, Pasqualino Monti, has signed a protocol of understanding for the definition of the executive project of the Academy of the Sea, that he previews the realization of a finalized integrated formative pole to the development of the occupation, the requalification of the workers and the support of the strategic areas of the production and the services of the regional territory.

In particular the formation of the professions and the trades will be valued legacies to the sea, to the harbour and coastal areas of the region Latium, besides the valorization of the distances of high university formation. The Tuscia university has in program the activation of a skillful bachelor in "Economy of the Sea" to place side by side to the degree curriculums in Environmental Sciences and Biology and Marine Ecology.

In the protocol it is previewed, moreover, the involvement of institutional, social, economic and productive the truths of the territory, besides those university ones, understandings as partner the privileged for the actions of "development of the acquaintance", with the objective of maximum integration with stakeholder and various actors of the field and the territory.

The Region Latium is ready to invest in the project through the European Social Fund 2014-2020 for the activation of formative distances for the fields "occupabilità", "adaptability" and "high formation" in the within of the economy of the sea and the connected professions. The working group sets the objective to manage an executive and definitive project of the Academy of the Sea within 120 days.

Draft - it has emphasized the vice president of the regional agency - of "a strategic project for the Region Latium that holds with two prerogatives of the new European programming: the valorization of the productive, economic and landscaped resources of the territory with a high level of formation, is regarding the professions to high specialization, than for the handicraft historical professions. To connect these two levels of activity - it has found Massimiliano Smeriglio - means to create the conditions in order to value the potentialities of the woven territory and productive in a context the always greater protection of the sea and the shoreline of our region".

The president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia has evidenced that the signature of the understanding protocol "represents an action fundamental and important in the optical of an effective and mutual collaboration to the aim to not only guarantee the young people of the territory and, a continuous formation on the economy of the sea. In the specific one he has specified Pasqualino Monti - he previews himself to in economics activate a degree curriculum of the Sea finalized to the creation of manager of tourism, of the logistics of the management of the port and shipping management, creating able professional figures to manage in integrated way the opportunities that the ports offer to our territory, the Region Latium and the Country".