DEVELOPMENT OF MARITIME EDUCATION AND TRAINING THROUGH HUMAN-WARE UPGRADING

The need for a new approach in Maritime Education and training (MET) has become essential, competency based training and formal education does not have the same effect on seafarers as it did ten years ago. The vast development in technology and new discoveries in neuroscience are introducing new tracks through which MET systems could be upgraded and enhanced. Considering the mental health of seafarers and developing their cognitive and intellectual capabilities through education, parallel to the application of new lifestyle choices, could upgrade seafarer's mental capacities and intelligence, to be much more efficient in acquiring, memorizing & recalling knowledge, and thus better enable them to take proper decisions to reduce the potential of human error.