OneLearn Global and RINA unite technical training and seafarer wellbeing in new learning partnership

OneLearn Global, a member of OneCare Group, and RINA have teamed up to provide a comprehensive maritime learning solution that merges technical proficiency, digital education, human performance, and seafarer wellbeing. By combining resources, the two companies aim to widen access to high-quality education that enhances professional competence, human performance, and workforce resilience within the maritime industry.

Selected courses from RINA's Learning Hub will be accessible through OneLearn Global's Learning Experience Platform (LXP), while chosen OneLearn Global courses will be offered via the RINA Learning Hub. Initially, the partnership will concentrate on Greece and Singapore, with potential expansion to other regions. As the skills required of maritime professionals evolve rapidly, decarbonisation, digitalisation, cybersecurity, and increasingly intricate regulations are transforming technical roles across the industry.

Simultaneously, there is heightened focus on fatigue, mental health, psychological safety, and the human factors affecting performance at sea. By merging RINA's specialized maritime expertise with OneLearn Global's digital learning capabilities and OneCare Group's expertise in seafarer wellbeing, the partnership intends to offer maritime organizations a more comprehensive approach to workforce development.

The integrated offering encompasses ship operations, marine surveys, safety, cybersecurity, energy, environmental compliance, and maritime regulation, in addition to mental health, resilience, fatigue management, psychological safety, leadership, and workplace wellbeing. Marinos Kokkinis, CEO of OneCare Group, stated, "The maritime workforce of tomorrow requires more than just technical competence.

Seafarers and shore-based professionals must adapt to new technologies, fuels, evolving regulations, and complex operations, often in challenging working conditions. To effectively train them, we must address both the person and the profession. By integrating RINA's technical expertise with OneLearn Global's digital learning capabilities and OneCare Group's focus on wellbeing, we can develop a more holistic approach to training maritime professionals."

Spyridon Zolotas, South Europe Marine Vice President at RINA, commented, "The maritime industry's skills are evolving swiftly as the shipping sector adapts to technological advancements, the energy transition, and new regulatory demands. Ensuring maritime professionals have access to high-quality, relevant training will be crucial as the industry undergoes this transformation.

Our collaboration with OneLearn Global broadens access to RINA's specialized maritime training while incorporating learning focused on human performance and wellbeing. This provides maritime organizations with a more extensive means to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and resilience their workforce needs." The collaboration highlights the collective conviction that maritime learning should increasingly link technical knowledge with human factors influencing safety and operational performance.

By providing complementary learning across both platforms, OneLearn Global and RINA aim to offer maritime companies and their personnel easier access to training that supports professional competence, individual wellbeing, and improved performance at sea and onshore.