All at Sea

Written by Gordon Wilmsmeier  |  Monday, 02 June 2008  | 

Holyrood Magazine publishes article on NMU. The article from Richard Johnstone presents interviews with Gordon Wilmsmeier and Gavin Roser about the NMU project, its aims and potential impact in Scotland.

As the Scottish Parliament holds an inquiry into Scotland’s ferry services, a potentially important development in the future of Scotland’s maritime industry took place in April.

The Transport Research Institute (TRi) at Napier University has won a grant of €1.6m to lead the development of the Northern Maritime University (NMU). The three-year project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund – running until 2011 – and aims to create an institutional setting for the NMU, said Gordon Wilmsmeier, the NMU’s project manager.

“The aim of the project is really to inaugurate the Northern Maritime University, rather than a specific programme. We will have a lot of preparation, pilot studies, scoping the market, speak to industry and get industry involved. This cannot be done in one day so we need a specific period to set this kind of institution up and to set the project up,” he said. “It will be made easily accessible to as many people, and our programmes will be strongly developed on e-learning.” ...

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