Just before the end of 2025, we accomplished another significant step towards our next stage.
Two of our partners, INNOVATION_YACHTS and GREENBOATS, organised the “teach the teachers” workshops, sharing their vast knowledge about sustainable materials and their practical use in boatbuilding with VET trainers.
The Innovation Yachts team reported high spirit and engagement from all participants. Our partner’s goal was to show them how to really apply their material concept, so they produced a real part of the French shipyard’s VOLCAT16 (https://lnkd.in/eAyJqHKW)!
In the end, everything worked out perfectly, and all participants in this workshop agreed that they now feel ready to prepare their teaching materials to work with their students and our forward-looking fibre material concept.
We express our sincere thanks to their partners Isomatex (https://www.isomatex.com/) and bto-epoxy () for their support and successful cooperation.
We also thank all the participants for all the objective and constructive discussions during those two days.
Gölcük as MTAL- one of our partners- Shipbuilding Area teachers, Yakup Tortumlu and Telyas Sevim, participated in the training and workshop held in France within the scope of the TEcoNaut project, and have gained significant gains on sustainable maritime technologies.
Feedback from their teachers:
“As a teacher in shipbuilding, we came to France and received education within the scope of our school’s project partnership. During this process, we had the opportunity to examine new, sustainable, and transformable materials in detail. We have developed new methods of transmitting what we have learned here to our students in our school. It has been a very productive project for us, both theoretically and practically. ”
Both VET teachers, thanks to this project:
🛠 Examined the new generation of composite and transformable material technologies on site.
👨 🏫 They developed new education methods to be passed on to students.
🌍 Exchanged knowledge directly with international experts.
⚓️ Included a sustainability perspective in engineering and manufacturing processes.
This experience enhances their teachers’ expertise and raises the quality and relevance of the information they will transmit to their students to the highest level.
Gölcük as MTAL is an example of efficiency and commitment to building a world-class education and experience for their VET students in Turkey.
The skill shadowing workshop conducted by Greenboats shipyard (Germany) set a strong baseline for our transition into the project’s most critical phase.
By analysing Europe’s pioneering applications of biobased composites on the spot, the participants obtained concrete outcomes to transfer this knowledge to vocational training and industry cooperation models.
Thanks to the Greenboats team, who run AR-GE and production in an integrated way, for their openness, technical guidance, and collaborative culture throughout the process. Our examination of the transformation of linen fiber from agriculture to composite boat production was a valuable learning experience for the participants.
Technical discussions with the teachers revealed that we have developed a joint approach to effective project cycle leadership.
Each phase of this course development will strengthen VET schools’ capacity to deploy innovative manufacturing technologies and significantly increase the TEcoNaut project’s potential sectoral impact.
Building a sustainable boating sector is a significant challenge, and the TecoNaut project is proud to contribute to its answer.
Next step: Run the piloting and finish the content development process.
Exciting times are drawing near in 2026, beginning with our pilot courses on “Sustainable Materials for Boat Construction” to be held in Palma and Maó (Balearic Islands) in January.
Stay tuned!
Pictures and reports thanks to Ayşe Fizan Sasa (Gölcük as MTAL-Turkey)
