The MARITIME of the future The project aims to increase the number and level of competence of maritime craftsmen, so that the companies in Blue Denmark will also ensure good growth opportunities in the future. This will be done through three areas of action: Target and tone vocational education and training in this way they address the maritime companies’ skills needsIncreasing more and more skilled pupils for the vocational training courses relevant to the maritime sectorCreate more internships at the maritime companies The project aims to support the implementation of the vocational school form and solve the problem of future shortages of vocational training in the Capital Region of Denmark. This will be done with an effort in relation to the maritime industry, which is one of Denmark’s strongest and most value-creating industries. More than 40 % of the employees in Denmark have a vocational education.The Maritime Crafts of the Future support the vocational school form’s objective that more pupils should choose vocational training, that the retention of pupils should be increased, that more company placements should be created and that all pupils should be challenged. In this way, the project will work to maintain the level of competence and thus the strength of the maritime cluster in the Capital Region of Denmark and at the same time contribute to the completion of vocational training by more young people.