The Escola Europea de Short Sea Shipping is a European training and research centre with the objective of promoting intermodal transport as a basis for the development of sustainable logistics in Europe.
The organisation focuses its activities along 4 areas of competencies – administration, communication, knowledge and events management – and 3 different types of services – training, R&D, and cluster internationalisation within the Port of Barcelona.
The Escola began as a centre offering that was funded by the Marco Polo Programme. It offered training to professionals active in the logistics and transport sectors and to University students studying logistics within the European Union. Now the organisation has gained experience and expertise in the administration of national and international projects, using its communication tools and skills in collaboration with other partners on other European projects, developing new content in collaboration with recognised European institutions, and the promoting existing logistics clusters within the Mediterranean.
The Escola functions not only thanks to the generous support of the Marco Polo and TEN-T Programmes of the European Union, but also from the partnerships it has developed over the years with key ports and shipping line companies throughout the Mediterranean. Our partners are the port of Barcelona – the main patron of the Escola – , the Ports of Rome, the port of Genoa, and the Shipping lines Grimaldi Group Naples and Grandi Navi Veloci.
All of the above demonstrates the potential of our organisation and the commitment of this European initiative.
