Overview on Romanian Highschool Students' Attractiveness for Maritime Transport Studies.

The paper is presenting a part of the results obtained between 2021-2022 within the Capacity building Project "Challenges of Maritime Digital Leaders in the Algorithmic Age (DIGITAL LEADER)", research grant by the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) and the Nippon Foundation in Japan. Anticipating the structurally change of careers choice from sea to shore-based employment, in order to increase the attractiveness for studies, maritime educational institutions expand the focus of teaching technical core competences and knowledge necessary for on board jobs, to those competences needed for an array of on-shore jobs, complementary to seafaring. Some of the objectives of the study were to establish most in-demand skills for maritime digital leadership and to propose updated operational training methods for maritime training necessary to increase the students' attractiveness for maritime transport studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]