Escola Europea - Intermodal Transport, the European centre for Reference for training in logistics and transport Intermodal, will celebrate its 20th anniversary this month anniversary with a sea voyage in the Mediterranean between Barcelona, Civitavecchia, Palermo and Genoa, on board the ships of Grimaldi Lines and Grandi Navi Veloci. From 14 to 19 October the community of the Escola will retrace its history by sea founding route, with a program that will include ceremonies a special course on board and commemorative events in each stopover, which can be followed live on social networks with the hashtag #Escola20Y.

The celebration will begin in Barcelona on October 14 in the Jardins de l'Areté, where the headquarters of the Escola are located, in the port. Here will be held the presentation of the 20th anniversary and the presentation of the awards, followed by speeches institutional and the inauguration of the first of the Areté spaces, which will take different forms in each port and have been conceived as places of meeting, dialogue and reflection. Their The name recalls the Greek concept of areté: virtue, excellence and fullness. On the same day, commemorative course, and the day will end with a cocktail offered by Port de Barcelona, before the departure of the ship that same evening to Civitavecchia. The itinerary will continue in Civitavecchia (16 October), Palermo (17 October) and Genoa (19 October). An event will be held in each city organized together with the respective Supervisory Authority Port System, which will include a ceremony institutional project, the inauguration of the Areté space in the port and a cocktail of networking between port administrations, companies in the sector, training centers and public institutions. Overall, the four airports are expected to bring together approximately 700 representatives and professionals from the Mediterranean area.

Together with the Areté spaces, the Escola will deliver over 100 Areté institutional awards to the authorities partner companies, training centres and universities that have contributed to building its path. Teachers who have been part of the programs of the Escola in Barcelona and in Italy, and will be two named awards were conferred on Emanuele Grimaldi, president of the Grimaldi group, and to Antonio Vargas, councillor of the Grimaldi Group, for their leadership and their contribution to the development of the European School and its training programs.

Since its founding in 2006, the Escola has evolved from an initiative dedicated to short sea shipping up to to become an international reference center for training in intermodal and sustainable transport. In these two decades it has trained over 25,000 students from the Mediterranean, from Europe, Africa and other regions of the world. "This which was born in 2006 as a pioneering initiative of the ports of Barcelona, Rome, Genoa and, subsequently, Palermo, together with Grimaldi Lines and Grandi Navi Veloci - underlined Eduard Rodés, director of the Escola Europea - is become something much bigger than we would have I could imagine: a living community of ports, institutions, companies and professionals united by a shared vision of a sustainable logistics".