Naust Marine recently completed its participation in the European Union´s Leonardo da Vinci mobility project.
The Leonardo da Vinci mobility project is a part of the EU training programs and Naust Marine’s participation ensured the company a two year grant to send four staff members for training at European companies that Naust Marine has strong links to.
The employees were all sent for a week long stay in Denmark where each employee visited two companies.
The first two men visited IGE + XAO and Omron Electronics A/S where the companies products were presented to them and they attended courses in the companies software and equipments.
The latter two men went to PR Electronics A/S and Omron Electronics A / S. They also had the companies products presented to them and attended programming and device software courses.
The men were all satisfied with their experiences and felt they had improved their knowledge and formed important relationships with staff members at the host companies.
There were however various problems to be solved during the process. One man undertook his trip on crutches as he got hurt just before the planned trip. Volcanic eruption also affected the latter two men’s tour. Flight cancellations, due to ashes in the air, created uncertainty about whether they would reach Denmark in time for the planned course and within the grants timelimit.
In the end they managed to reach Denmark a day later than planned and therefore missed the first day of their course.
The original plan had also been to send two men to Denmark and two to Italy. Because of work commitments at Naust Marine it was however impossible to realize the planned trip to Italy within the timeframe set by the Leonardo project. As all preparations for a planned trip to Italy had been done, two Naust Marine staff members travelled to Italy at the company´s expense two weeks after the Leonardo project was completed.
Naust Marine participation in the Leonardo project therefore led to six employees undertaking training at partner companies in Europe.