IMO Model Courses

The program of model training courses developed out of suggestions from a number of IMO Member Governments, following the adoption of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, (STCW), 1978, as amended.

Assisted by contributions from various Governments, IMO has designed the series of courses to help implement this Convention and, further, to facilitate access to the knowledge and skills demanded by increasingly sophisticated maritime technology.

The courses are flexible in application: maritime institutes and their teaching staff can use them in organizing and introducing new courses or in enhancing, updating or supplementing existing training material.

Many courses include background information for students in a compendium. For some titles these compendia are sold separately from the course. Model courses related to the STCW Convention were revised and updated  after the major revision of the Convention in 1995.