## Output 7 Transnational network for professional education in aquaculture

Output
Transnational network for professional education in aquaculture
Output description
With the establishment of a transnational network for professional education in aquaculture, VET
Colleges and University Colleges in the sector will join forces to become a respected network of
competence, to ensure and increase education, and the skills of all levels of workers in Aquaculture
or other relevant professional green fields in a lifelong learning perspective.
The network will be an European non-profit organization aimed at education in fish farming, teachers,
learners, aqua culturists and other relevant green area educations and professionals. The network is
a membership organization for educating learners of all European qualifying levels in the profession.
The organization will stimulate the educated learners to develop their profession aquaculture.
All the members’ entities have their own unique expertise and can contribute (through their
participation with ”study and support”), to other project partners, other colleges, the industry, and the
network as a whole, in order that the subject is further developed in line with the European objectives
for aquaculture and the Sustainable development goals of the United Nations.
Through mobility projects, educational programs, and mutual exchange of information between
members, the organization might increase the industry’s professional and social status. Through this
work it should fall naturally for all of the members to actively promote the network’s objectives and
activities.
The network ensures the sustainability of project results (transfer of results in the vocational training
practice) and contributes to its dissemination. The network should see itself as an information and
communication platform for stakeholders of education in Aquaculture. It should aim to work closely
with companies and national- and international professional associations.
To support the vision and mission, the network should strive to be an active, inspiring and innovative
organization where all the members involved take collective responsibility for achieving the goals set
by the network.