DigiMar Project: Making Sea Travel Safer Through Education

The DigiMar project, focused on enhancing navigational safety through innovative learning tools, is on track with its planned schedule. This July, the project celebrated a significant milestone with its first international meeting, where the project's progress was discussed.

"Our common goal has been to create a sustainable foundation and a functional framework for the upcoming development work, which will enable the creation of teaching practices and tools as well as digital education based on the genuine needs of maritime navigation," explains project manager Maiju Kaski from Fintraffic VTS.

The objective of the DigiMar project is to improve maritime navigation safety by implementing a digital teaching experiment. Future initiatives will concentrate on developing educational videos and chatbots to further this aim.

Digital tools will be used by project partners to create and analyze language and communication databases and to design maritime communication simulation tasks. The database and possibly the chatbot can later be utilized in developing a broader maritime communication library, which can be used in AI-based speech recognition and communication management solutions.

More information about the project can be found on the project's website: https://digimar.si/ (link is external) and https://www.fintraffic.fi/en/vts/projects-and-development/digimar

The DigiMar project (Digital Education for Maritime Communication) is an ongoing Erasmus+ project until autumn 2026, aimed at developing routine communication skills among mariners, particularly between ships and VTS centers. The project is coordinated by the University of Ljubljana in Slovakia, with partners from Croatia, Montenegro, Sweden, and Norway, in addition to Fintraffic.