The maritime industry has a shortage of qualified personnel, especially in Europe. Further employment in the maritime sector can help solve Europe's major unemployment crisis, especially youth unemployment. Throughout Europe, maritime education and training qualifications of one country have not been recognised by other countries in Europe. One major contributing factor for this shortage of qualified personnel is a lack of internationally recognised maritime qualifications and lack of entrepreneurial activities, which inhibits the mobility of seafarers and shipbuilding personnel in finding work in their countries and/or different countries, starting up the business and reducing these shortages. The SEAMAP project has addressed the need for cooperation between VET and the world of work in the maritime sector by fostering integration of maritime working life into maritime institution-based VET and enhancing the entrepreneurial skills of the people dealing with the maritime issues. This was achieved by the promotion of more work related activities in the intended VET programmes, including the innovative models of work placement, maritime career platform and entrepreneurship. The project team has identified and map available maritime jobs /placements and business start-up both at sea and ashore in partner countries. The main benefits of the project are to improve the attractiveness of the maritime industry, to provide increased mobility across, to foster the career guidance, to enhance the placement opportunities and to develop the entrepreneurial competences of the people at maritime and VET sectors. The project has four main objectives: to support internationally recognised seafaring qualifications as a response to current identified shortages of seafarers and employees at shipbuilding sector and help companies to recruit personnel who are qualified to undertake various maritime employment and placements opportunities at sea or ashore, including ship operating, ship building, maritime service sector, etc. to create opportunities for young trainees and maritime personnel to find jobs commensurate with their qualifications to develop the entrepreneurial competences at sea or ashore including maritime service sector and ship building sectors by need analysis. to create a web based platform to unify job seekers/trainees and job/placement providers in a medium which will allow both parties easier access to jobs/placements and bring employees/trainees together respectively. The platform will provide a range of support services to aid the skills development of trainees/personnel in order to find jobs which meet their qualifications and to start-up their own business (entrepreneurial competences) in the maritime sector. The project consortium consists of six major and leading maritime and or educational organisations, with most partners having many years of experience in EU projects. Most of the partners are policymakers and decision makers, with some being social partners in the maritime and educational sectors. The expected results during the project and on its completion are: - Need Analysis: Collating, Classifying and Mapping the Available Maritime Jobs (Maritime Job Profiles) - Content Development for the Platform: designing and configuring the content of the online platform – with 5 languages (English, Turkish, Spanish, Romanian and Polish) - Creating and configuring the online platform (Maritime Career Platform): www.see4sea.com - Case Study: Online Questionnaire and Need Analysis about the entrepreneurial skills in maritime sector - Elaborating the content and training material: Entrepreneurship Training Material for Maritime Sector The project has had an impact on creating opportunities for people in maritime sector to find jobs commensurate with their qualifications. As a project impact the project has provided an innovative web-based platform (www.see4sea.com) for seafarers and related personnel and shipbuilding personnel to develop their skills and ultimately find their dream job, whilst similarly catering for employers and helping them to employ the best and most qualified person for a position. Developing an innovative matching platform has reduced the skills mismatch which is the gap between an individual’s job skills and the demands of the labour market which affects all layers of society, from the productivity and efficiency of businesses to the current and prospective welfare of people in the maritime sector. As more qualified personal can be employed by the help of the platform, it will have an impact on safety at sea hence reducing accidents and loss of life, money and adverse effect on the well-being of the workforce / workplace.