Event Type
Conferences and Workshops

Competence Development within Maritime Preparedness in The High North

Event Dates
2017-08-29 - 2017-08-30
Location
Nuuk, Greenland

​The Conference is arranged as a part of the MARPART projects (www.marpart.no) and will serve as a meeting place for academia, emergency professional and governmental bodies and institutions that work in the area of maritime preparedness and emergency management. The conference will also include participants from the UArctic network on Arctic Safety and Security:
http://www.uarctic.org/organization/thematic-networks/arctic-safety-and…

Themes and topics for the conference will be in line with MARPART projects’ task studying Arctic region’s overall maritime activity, the preparedness resources and cooperation challenges with special focus on emergency management competence acquisition and knowledge transfer.

The following topics will be covered at the conference:

  • Maritime risk areas in the Arctic and emergency management competence needs
  • Educational programs for emergency management competence development
  • Concepts and tools for simulation, training and exercises
  • Framework for table top and functional large scale testing of exercise concepts

If you want to participate at the conference, please, register here:
https://response.questback.com/nord/marpart-conf2017

Registration deadline is 31 July 2017