Transversal competencies for employability in the Ocean I³ project

Abstract

The European Higher Education Area nowadays requires taking as a basis the development of the competences demanded by the labour market, so that students develop an effective professional profile for the performance of their professional activity. Ocean I³ is one of the educational projects of higher education, a cross-border project of Euskadi-New Aquitaine educational innovation that was born with the aim of ocean sustainability. This study analyses the perception that students and teaching staff participating in the project have of the development of transversal competencies for employability in Ocean I³. The results show that participation in the project has contributed to the development of transversal employability competencies, such as teamwork, awareness of different points of view, communication, autonomy, complex conflict resolution and adaptability.