Crisis Management System (CMS3) - Training in Oilspill - Completed
Goal
Each time an oil spill occurs, it has a significant impact on the maritime environment and on the nearby coastlines. The marine and coastal ecosystems are detrimentally affected, and economic consequences are enormous.
This makes it essential to have a well functioning and well trained European oil spill expertise based on cooperation among European maritime member countries.
The challenge has been to develop new tools and facilities in the process of improving local and international capability in responding to oil spills in marine environments.
This tool was found in the former CMS 2 project result, where an interactive web Home Pages trainingcourse was developed.
CMS will fully implement and disseminate these former results into a full web Home Page based marine rescue training system including e-learning modules for those who usually participate de facto in responding to incidents of oil spill at sea
CMS offers an innovative ICT-based web Home Pages learning system on a high pedagogical
level.
*** Open and distance learning
** Utilization and distribution of results
** Sustainability
** Lifelong learning
** Technical area
** Service activities
* ICT
Involved personals “at home” will find:
• Full interactive, modern correspondence and response training on oil spill disasters
scenarios. Training work place is own PC placed world wide and corresponding through
internet browser.
• Fully e-learning modules, where selected training scenarios are disposed on personals
own PC world wide. The e-learning modules are fully integrated in the web based rescue
training system and offers technical training materials, technical tests, film clips and
open Weblogs on training results.
Target Groups:
3 countries are involved in this EU sponsored project namely Denmark, Norway, and Estonia, with Offshore Center Danmark as project coordinator. Each responsible country partner has a number of local national parties involved.
The country responsible partners are:
-Offshore Center Danmark, project coordinator and leader
-Estonia Maritime Academy
-Stavanger Offshore Technical College, Norway
-Antilope IT, Denmark
The beneficiaries are envisaged to be National and Local Environmental Authorities, Coast Guard Authorities, Shipping Companies, Harbour authorities, Police and Offshore Operators.
The target group is educational institutions and maritime training centres wishing to use the developed website based training system.
Description
Participants: Two maritime institutions, namely Stavanger Offshore Technical College, Norway, and the Estonian Maritime Academy. Local partners from Denmark are the Danish IT consultancy company Antilope IT, Jack B. Jørgensen, former SOK, and Offshore Center Danmark.
On the basis of recent experiences and well documented accidents at sea – e.g. Erika, Prestige et cetera – with heavy oil spills as a consequence, the main objective of the project is to develop a training concept, which may be used in training oil spill crisis response for personnel with interaction from organizations, authorities and shipping companies. The project will work towards developing realistic training scenarios and an immediate response system for current or former occurences of oil spills so that the division of resources may be evaluated and optimized. A database of past occurences will be established in an efficient and easily accessable fashion, which includes graphical description. The project will be unique within EU.
Mile Stones
The target for the project is to generate and test a number of e-learning modules related to oil spill response.
Results
A unique way of training in oil spill management using a web-based communication package, including chat windows, live training instructors placed remotely and easily adjustable training scenarios has been developed.
For more information about the project please visit project's webside www.cms3-project.org
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