Project Objective

MarLEM (Maritime Logistics Engineering and Management) has its genesis on a very particular identification of specific growing skills gap affecting particular knowledge intensive sectors, in this case Port and Maritime, such as skills mismatch between labour market needs and the output of educational institutions, and a lack of communication and cooperation between education and industry to efficiently align supply and demand.

With its foundations on previous projects in this scope, MarLEM aims at addressing specific identified needs and gaps, namely:
• Skills mismatch;
• Lack of communication and cooperation between education and industry.

Objectives:
To design, structure and develop post-graduate training (Master’s degree) in the field of Logistics Engineering and Management, applied to the large maritime-port space, with particular focus on the following areas of knowledge:
• Strategic Logistics;
• Business Analysis and Maritime-Port Processes Analysis;
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Sea;
• Systems Integration – Integrated Logistics;
• Sustainability and Resilience of the Supply Chain;
• Operational Logistics – Maritime-Port space logistics’ domains;
• Integrated Logistics Support;
• Systems Engineering.

Activities:
MarLEM’s will encompass 5 activities of technical nature / course development, and 3 transversal activities, focusing on coordination / management, dissemination and follow-up, respectively:
Technical activities (5)
• Situation Analysis
• Training Design
• Training Planning
• Training Validation
• Training Certification
Coordination / management / dissemination activities (3)
• Project Coordination
• Demonstration, Dissemination and Promotion
• Follow-Up

Target groups:
Specific end-users, namely students, professionals working on port and maritime domain and professionals from other
industries.

Expected impacts:
• Clarification of skills gap, and respective proper answer;
• Entrepreneurial capacity, and employability;
• Transfer and exploitation of knowledge;
• Communication, cooperation, pooling/sharing of knowledge and new synergies between Industries, Universities and Authorities at EU level;
• Proper equipping of industries.

Outputs: periodic reports (every 6 months) and a final report; end-user’s needs specifications, training specifications; training
and communication plans; and a course certification dossier.