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The “Bachelor
Degree in Business with Specialization in Management for Yacht Captains”
was designed with the aim to relaunch the skills and credibility in the global
market of people who work in the Italian maritime sector and to guarantee
quality and protect the professionalism of captains and also of those who wish
to enter this sector. A formation course that will allow certifying
the managerial ability of the captain in all phases of the yacht’s life: from
design and construction to refit.
Captains – professionals of the maritime sector with
years of experience in the field who have not earned a
degree, but wish to do so without having to restudy everything they have
already learned and have recognized up to 50% of their previous work experience
as part of the degree program;
Freshers – students entering their
first-degree program in the area of yachting management,
experimenting with innovative learning approaches such as work-based learning
to also acquire the skills and experiences required by the employment market
and allowing them to be more effective in their professional integration
Graduates – students who already have a previous degree and
are looking for a career change and aspire to become acquainted with the
yachting management sector
Given the notable presence of Maltese flags in
yachting, GY Academy (with Headquarters in
Malta) – in collaboration with the ISYL Foundation (Italian
Superyacht Life) and NAVIGO, a
nautical innovation and development company – has developed the bachelor’s
degree with an innovative study program that implements new methods such as:
Students
enrolled in the program have the possibility to request GY ACADEMY the
recognition of previous knowledge and skill the student has gained
through formal learning (training, workshops, seminars, etc. ) and non – formal
learning (workplace-related), allowing them to reduce the time of studying for
the bachelor degree to up to 50% ( from 3 years to 1year and half)
Students have
the unique opportunity to experience in practice what has been learned during
the bachelor as they will learn how to facilitate daily interactions, work and
brainstorming while working on-site in shipyards with professionals.
Furthermore, they will acquire not just a bachelor’s degree but also the work
experience requested by the employment market and making them more successful
in securing a job in the sector.
By the end of
the bachelor program, students may be employed in various professions such as
shipyard manager, recreational tourism, marine consultancy, business or
economic development, entrepreneur, project management, yacht management,
business development, Pleasure Craft management, operations supervisor,
security operations coordinator, sales manager
The course is
held partly online and partly through specific work experiences: the future of
higher education allows students to be more flexible and to work and study at
the same time wherever they are.
These short courses are addressed to individuals who would
like to acquire more knowledge in the Yachting sector either to advance in
their career or to change career, without obtaining a bachelors degree. The
courses provided are:
It consists of the following study units: Managerial Organization and
Leadership; New Market Solutions – YARE; Maritime English; Maritime
Economics; Project and Operations Management;
Course duration: 6 months
It consists of the following study units: Managerial Organization and
Leadership; New Market Solutions – YARE; Maritime English;
Entrepreneurship; Marketing;
Course duration: 6 months
It consists of the following study units: Financial Accounting;
Introduction to Economica; Maritime Economics; New Market Solutions
– YARE; Legal Concepts and Maritime Law; Maritime Economics;
Course duration: 6 months
It consists of the following study units: Communication and Public
Relations; Marketing; New Market Solutions – YARE; Marketing; Naval
Architecture, Ship and Yacht theory; Maritime English; People Management;
Course duration: 6 months
It consists of the following study units: Managerial Organization and
Leadership; New Market Solutions – YARE; Maritime English; Maritime
Economics; Project and Operations Management; Saftey and Security
Management in the Maritime Sector part 1; Safety and Security Management in the
Maritime Sector part 2; Marketing; Naval Architecture, Ship and Yachting
theory;
Course duration: 1 year
*New
Market Solutions – YARE consists in
the participation of the students to the Yare (Yachting Aftersales and Refit
Experience) conference on the future of the market and nautical district
promotional events, an international Superyacht meeting between Captains and
the refit industry in Viareggio (Italy) and its nautical district dedicated to
Superyacht Sector. YARE will host 100 superyacht captains (with an increasing
number of people on board yachts over 60 mt LOA) from all over the world who
will meet an equal number of international aftersales and refit companies
in B2B meetings.
1.Completed secondary education (Level
5 EQF) matriculation examination or vocational qualification (level
5 MQF) possibly related to subjects like economy, business, finance as well as
navigation; no particular grades are requested for such subjects but applicants
might ask GY Academy relevant staff to assess their educational and
professional profile in order to evaluate whether they have the right ability
to succeed as well as recognition of prior learning, in line with GY Academy
IQA and RPL Policy.
2. Should demonstrate at
least 1 year of ‘seagoing service’ [reference: STCW Convention,
International Convention on Standard of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping
for seafarers, 1978, point 26] with official documentation (e.g. for
Malta or the UK the “Seamen’s Discharge Book”; for Italy the “libretto di navigazione e
estrattomatricola”; etc); for those students who already have a
previous degree and are looking for a career change and aspire to become an
entrepreneur. GY Academy relevant staff will assess the documentation
compliance in order to evaluate whether they have the minimum navigation
experience needed to complete the Bachelor programme.
3.Level of English requested
is B2 for the English Language Edition of the course; the level
of Italian requested is B2 for the Italian Language Edition
of the course; the level of English or Italian can be assessed by an
independent commission composed by language experts or, alternatively, can be
proved with independent English/Italian evaluations (e.g. IELTS,
TOEFL CELI, CILS etc.).
·
Full time: 3 years
·
MQF Level 6
·
180 ECTS
·
partly online and partly through specific work
experiences
1.
Applied Mathematics (7
ECTS)
2.
Financial Accounting
(7 ECTS)
3.
Introduction to
Economics (6 ECTS)
4.
Managerial Organization
and Leadership (8 ECTS)
5.
Communication and
Public Relations (4 ECTS)
6.
Entrepreneurship
(5ECTS)
7.
Business Law (5 ECTS)
8.
New Market Solution –
YARE (3 ECTS)
9.
Marketing (10 ECTS)
10.
Naval Architecture,
Ship and Yachting Theory with management of pleasure craft (5 ECTS)
1.Maritime
English (4 ECTS)
2.Legal
Concepts and Maritime Law (7 ECTS)
3.Maritime
Economics (8 ECTS)
4.Information
and Technology Management (5 ECTS)
5.People
Management (6 ECTS)
6.Project
and Operations Management (7 ECTS)
7.Safety
and Security Management in the maritime sector part 1 (12 ECTS)
8.Safety
and Security Management in the maritime sector part 2 (6 ECTS)
9.Search
and Rescue (5 ECTS)
1.
General Data
Protection – GDPR (3 ECTS)
2.
Business Process and
Management Techniques for Operations (6 ECTS)
3.
Work-Based Learning
(17 ECTS)
4.
Academic Research (4
ECTS)
5.
Dissertation
(30 ECTS)
1.
Students develop
Entrepreneurial, Business, Leadership and Management skills;
2.
The students develop
an entrepreneurial mindset and a commercial way of thinking on how to apply new
ideas, methods, and perspectives to yachting businesses and projects;
3.
Students will gain a
managerial sense and business approach through their knowledge of advanced
quality processes and general principles of performance management, yachting
oriented
4.
• The students learn
to apply logical and rational methods in complex and variegated
business-related situations in the field of yachting and management as they
attain analytical and problem-solving skills;
1.
Students will be
exposed to standard and innovative strategies and their implementation, as well
as how to adapt leadership approaches/practices in a various business and
organizational context, yachting field-oriented;
2.
Students will be
exposed to Safety and Security management issues at an advanced level to face
any possible situation from a professional and ethical perspective.
3.
Students will
critically define markets and creatively apply marketing concepts and
principles using a customer focus to effectively sell products and services.
4.
• Students will gain a
managerial sense and business approach through their knowledge of advanced
quality processes and general principles of performance management, yachting
oriented;
1.
Students will be
equipped with all the necessary tools for success in approaching complex safety
and security maritime challenges, identifying, analysing and evaluating
situations, ideas and information in order to figure out any possible problem.
2.
• Students will be
able to share leadership and responsibility, work cooperatively, and get along
with co-workers having acquired proper Yachting Management tools and mindsets;
3.
Manage a business
project, responsibly and autonomously, in their own organization as
entrepreneurs or in a different one as intrapreneurs.
4.
Students manage a
yachting project from conception to launch through having a complete vision
GY academy will utilise a flipped methodology whereby
learners are directed to self-study and follow online instruction material on
the platform. This will ensure that all material is covered adequately.
Lectures could mix theory and action learning methodologies
such as term project assignment, i.e. case studies, papers, analytical works
and so on.
Peer learning” will be strongly encouraged and proper
virtual environment will be available to this end, provided by the online
learning platform. Moreover, Learners will be able to be supported, tutored or
supervised by teachers (or supervisors or tutors), according to what the single
teacher will consider as most profitable for her/his specific module or
discipline.
Each module could employ one or more of the followings:
1.
Portfolio:A portfolio is a collection of student works that exhibits
her/his efforts, progress and achievements assessed on individual basis.
2. Projects assignments: a project, a work (e.g. a numerical analysis on a
spreadsheet) or a paper could be assigned to a student on an individual or team
basis and evaluated individually.
3. Examinations: classical evaluation form to assess individual
outcomes. Each teacher could define proper details according to the particular
discipline and teaching method.
Portfolios as well as Projects, Work or Paper assignments
will be designed with a formative assessment perspective in order to support
students to achieve relevant learning outcomes;
For more information regarding the program or for requiring the
application form kindly contact us through our page or via email info@navigotoscana.it info@gy.edu.mt
