Line of action:

Status:

Execution date:

General:

To promote the employability of women on board in the environment of the REDMAR Network.

Specific:

1. Strengthening of the REDMAR Network for the exchange of good practices in equality, safety and the environment.

2. To introduce the gender perspective in Maritime-Fisheries Training Centres through the development of workshops and the testimony of women on board.

3. Creation and implementation of a Platform in the environment of the REDMAR website, to promote opportunities for equal access to employment for women with degrees in maritime-fishing training.

A1- Strengthening of the Redmar Network for the exchange of good practices in equality, safety and the environment.

A1.1 . Expansion and consolidation of the REDMAR network.

A1.2 Carrying out 3 Work Sessions for the exchange of good practices in the field of equality, safety and the environment, with the aim of establishing networking strategies.

A2- Introduce and promote the gender perspective in maritime-fisheries training

A2.1 Identification and contact with training centres

A2.2 Preparation of training session content

A2.3 Development of materials for training sessions

A2.4 Carrying out 3 training sessions aimed at students

A2.5 Carrying out 3 training sessions aimed at teachers

A2.6 Collaboration in the implementation of training sessions and preparation of results report and roadmap

A3- Creation and implementation of a Platform in the REDMAR web environment

A3.1 Creation of wireframes that allow the design and structure of the content to be defined.

A3.2 Creation of interactive content (registration forms, publication of job offers and professional profiles).

A3.3 Assistance and maintenance for the proper functioning of the Employment Network

A4- Dissemination and dissemination actions.

A4.1. Establishing a media communication plan

A4.2. Updating of REDMAR’s website and social networks

A4.3.REDMAR Forum Update

A4.4. Sending of conclusions of the project’s actions to maritime-fishing training centres, entities and companies in the sector.

A4.5. Final Day of Presentation of Results.

A5- Coordination and monitoring.

A5.1. Monthly meetings to learn about the progress of the tasks and the achievement of the project’s objectives.

The REDMAR Ill project was implemented during 2020 with the aim of promoting the employability of women on board. The project focused on three fundamental pillars: continuing to strengthen the REDMAR Network, providing maritime-fisheries training centres with sufficient tools to educate and train from an egalitarian perspective, enhancing skills and abilities without generating differences by sex to which they belong; and to launch the first employment platform for women graduates in fishing in the environment of the REDMAR website (www.redmar.es). These are the results of the project:

1. Strengthening of the REDMAR Network for the exchange of good practices in the field of equality, safety and the environment. Twelve new entities have joined the network (eight ship-owning companies). With these new adhesions, the Network has a total of 30 entities.

2. Good practices in the field of the fishing sector, with the holding of three workshops focused on equality (in educational and business sectors related to the sea), safety (prevention of occupational risks) and the environment (marine waste and litter). Here are some takeaways from these three meetings:

Environmental workshop:

• A clear legislative framework is needed for the classification, treatment and management of marine litter. There are legal loopholes for waste that is not clearly classified.
• Fishing boats are always going to have problems bringing in bulky gear and waste, so it is necessary to identify points where there is a loss of nets, make an active effort on the part of the Administration and promote the existence of boats dedicated to this type of activity.
• 80% of marine litter comes from land, and practically the remaining 20% practically from the merchant and leisure sector.
• Ways should be found to jointly implement the Transposition of Directive 2019/883, scheduled for 28 June 2021, means of containing waste on board, such as compactors and waste storage systems.

Equality Workshop:

1. Conclusions at the educational level:

• Establish educational plans in which measures and actions are taken that contribute to reducing the inequality that exists in the P.F. of the maritime-fishing family.
• Parity in the decision-making channels, responsibility and participation of different sectors of the educational community of the educational centers.
• Integration of the Equality Plan in the Educational Projects of the Centres, in the Coexistence Plans and in the Tutorial Action Plans.
• Use of non-sexist and inclusive language in the school’s documentation, teaching resources and materials, posters, website, etc.
• Training for students and teachers in equality.

2. Conclusions at the business level:

• Systematize the collection of data disaggregated by sex, to know the situation of women in the sector.
• Promote the breaking of stereotypes in the choice of studies and incorporate information on professional opportunities linked to maritime fishing training in educational centres.
• Encourage a greater presence of women on board fishing vessels, trying to make women in these positions visible in a positive way.
• Promote access to positions of responsibility in ship-owning companies, not only in administrative management. Try to get women to access other higher levels in companies.
• Promote equality plans and measures in companies in the sector.
• It would be positive to try to carry out a mapping and identify what their situation is in terms of equality, to see that the plan has its monitoring and evaluation. That the equality plan does not remain just in a drawer.
• A fundamental action to open the way to make the profession and the training associated with the profession visible. Visibility of the profession and the studies associated with it, incorporating the presence of women in the media.

ORP Workshop:

COAPRE’s success story was shared, emphasizing the importance of identifying, evaluating, and planning by task, not by job.

Examples of good practices were presented, such as the consideration of the differences that hinder the incorporation of women (work clothes, machinery, spaces, etc.) and other relevant elements such as the consideration of women’s CVs, the guarantee of equal pay for jobs of equal value and the consideration of specific risks such as sexual harassment.

The first results of the study of analysis of occupational risks and preventive needs in fishing vessels in Galicia were presented. Women have more problems accessing work on board and there are inequalities when it comes to being able to obtain days at sea to have a professional degree. On some occasions, these women are referred to the merchant navy or the passenger, to overcome the difficulties encountered in the sector. However, on the issue of ship adaptability, she insists that none of the women who participated in the REDMAR project consider that the lack of structural adaptation is a barrier to their access to their work on board.

3. Introduction of the gender perspective in maritime-fishing training centres located in three autonomous communities (Galicia, Andalusia, Canary Islands), through the development of various training sessions aimed at students and teachers, as well as the testimony of women embarked during REDMAR II (2017 call for the Pleamar Programme). Among the conclusions are: In the 2017-2018 academic year, 100% of the participants in the basic vocational training in Maritime Fishing Activities were men. In the case of medium-level farms, except for aquaculture farming, where female participation was 25.2%, in none of them did it exceed 9%. Likewise, in higher level vocational training, only aquaculture is close to parity, with 39%, and in the rest the participation falls below 8%. In the 2018-2019 academic year, female participation in university degrees in agricultural, agricultural and rural engineering did not exceed 32%.

4. Creation and implementation of an employment platform on the Redmar website to promote opportunities for equal access to employment for women with degrees in maritime-fishing training. Various job offers and candidate profiles have been collected, through the completion of forms aimed at interested companies and candidates. Integrate the gender perspective into daily practices.