Blue Career Centre of Eastern Mediterranean & Black Sea

The Blue Career Centre (BCC) is a regional platform for dialogue between business stakeholders, education & training institutions, research organizations, policy makers, civil society as well as the EU and the Union for the Mediterranean. It gives the opportunity to increase employability by providing prospects for young jobseekers and support to businesses in finding eligible employees with proper qualifications. The project consortium along with observers from neighboring non-EU countries, such as Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, will join forces in order to: • Attract higher education graduates or persons with vocational/technical qualifications to maritime professions through targeted and innovative education and/or training initiatives (including career guidance); • Offer mentoring and career guidance to students (age 15 - 18) for Key Blue Sectors in the region; • Retrain and up-skill workers employed in other sectors and/or people currently unemployed for a job in the Blue Economy; • Diversify and expand the skills of people currently employed in the Blue Economy to progress in their careers and/or to facilitate their mobility to other maritime jobs. The project MENTOR- Blue Career Centre of Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea is one out of six positively evaluated projects within the "Blue Careers in Europe" calls for proposals. The partners are the Oceanography Center of the University of Cyprus (coordinator), the Maritime Institute of Eastern Mediterranean (MAR.IN.E.M., Cyprus), the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece), the Marine Cluster Bulgaria, and the Constanta Maritime University (Romania).