Scientists and experts from Bulgaria, Greece, Egypt, Estonia, Kenya and Croatia met at the opening meeting of the Green Sea Horizons project from 23 to 25 April 2025: Innovation and cooperation in marine engineering and sustainable technologies – GEMS-TECH.
The project envisages the exchange of good practices and the modernisation of maritime higher education in Egypt and Kenya, in partnership with European universities and professional organisations, and the introduction of innovations in maritime governance.
Visitors to the UTP were partners from the University of Zagreb (Croatia), the Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), the University of Aegean (Greece), the En Shams University (Egypt), the Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (Egypt), the Jomo University of Agriculture and Technology of Kenya, the Technical University of Mombasa (Kenya), the Lake Victoria Basin Commission based in Kenya, the Arab Institute of Navigation (Egypt) and the non-governmental organisations Creative Thinking and Development (Greece) and the Institute of Technology Transfer and Innovation (Bulgaria).
During the three days of the meeting, the participants outlined the specific measures and deadlines for the four work packages of the project: ‘Governance’, ‘Modernisation of curricula’, ‘MOOC’, ‘Dissemination of information and sustainability of results’.
The partners had the opportunity to get acquainted with the specialized laboratories of the UTP in the field of IP – telephony, firewalls and cybersecurity, the cell of a mobile operator, the video surveillance cabinet, as well as to visit the museum collection of the University.
The meeting took place in the meeting room of the Academic Council, equipped with the latest generation of videoconferencing equipment, which allowed members of the teams of the participating organizations to participate in the discussion in real time, together with the representatives of the consortium.
GEMS-TECH is a project with number 101179386, funded by the European Union under the Erasmus programme and is worth EUR 793 000, with a duration of 36 months.
