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ENHANCing Human Performance in Complex Socio-Technical SystEms

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Training of crew to reduce maritime accidents

Human error accounts for three quarters of all marine accidents. This is why it is important to ensure crews have the skills they need to manage complex tasks. In this context, the EU-funded ENHANCE project will explore ways to reduce decision errors and skill-based deficiencies. Specifically, it will bring together engineers, operators and psychologists in order to find ways to help crew cope with new technologies. By connecting academics and industry, ENAHNCE will develop new training and performance assessment methodologies. According to the project, knowledge will be shared across academia and industry, across sectors and across continents.

Objective

Rapid technological development within the maritime industry has improved efficiency, productivity and safety. However, this advancement is creating increasingly complex socio-technical systems, for which training has left human operators ill-prepared. Over 75% of all maritime accidents are attributed to human error, and smaller crew are handling more complex tasks. If safety is to be maintained or improved, it is vital to equip crew with the skills needed to manage them effectively.
ENHANCE specifically investigates these issues for maritime applications by utilizing knowledge sharing between process and maritime industries. We will bring together the expertise of engineers, psychologists, human factors specialists and operators to generate solutions to cope with technological development. The project has two main objectives: a) to better understand the human role in complex socio-technical systems through close collaborations between the academic and non-academic sectors; and b) to develop new training and performance assessment methodologies designed to enhance the human performance.
To ensure knowledge transfer, ENHANCE will connect academics and industry through an extensive secondment programme. This will bring together expert academic knowledge of advanced training techniques with the needs of the maritime industry and the best practice of the process industry. We will share knowledge across academia and industry, across sectors and across continents. Ultimately, this research will enable the maritime sector to improve the performance of humans within their complex socio-technical systems. This, in turn, will reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, reducing the negative social, economic and environmental impact of the sector. In addressing the needs of the maritime industry, we will also generate new cross disciplinary research initiatives, new career paths for researchers and new opportunities for long-term industry-academia collaboration.

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Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

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UNIVERSITETET I SOROST-NORGE
Net EU contribution
€ 335 800,00
Address
RAVEIEN 215
3184 BORRE
Norway

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Norge Agder og Sør-Østlandet Vestfold og Telemark
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 381 800,00

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Last update: 11 December 2023

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