The School of Maritime Affairs welcomes its first promotions

The National School of Maritime Safety and Administration, the leading school of maritime administration, takes up residence within the ENSM

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The school trains public agents of the Ministry of the Sea in initial and continuing training. It also opens its continuing training courses to all public officials who contribute to French maritime policy: agents of the French Biodiversity Office, the National Customs Coast Guard Directorate, the Maritime Gendarmerie, the National Navy, …

The objective of the training provided at ENSAM is to improve maritime skills within the administration in all areas: protection of the marine environment, surveillance and rescue at sea, control and planning of activities and uses, technical inspection of ships, pollution prevention, maritime crisis management, seafarers' administration, etc.

How to join school?

The school offers different courses whose initial common point is access to a civil service corps with or without a diploma:

The training offered

  • Short-term maritime specialization training for senior sustainable development technicians, administrative and sustainable development control secretaries and seafarers' trustees, intended for operational (patrol vessels, coastal units, etc.) or administrative services. ENSAM also provides long-term maritime specialization training for state public works engineers, in the 4th year of ENTPE, who are destined to become ship safety inspectors.
  • Long-term maritime specialization training for state public works engineers, in the 4th year of the ENTPE, who are destined to become ship safety inspectors.
  • The particularity of ENSAM is that within it there is a large military school “the School of Maritime Affairs Administration” (EAAM), providing initial and continuing training for maritime affairs administrators. The promotions of cadet officers of the National Navy are of the order of fifteen students per year: - from the IEP and faculties of law or economic sciences, - from the major business schools - from the Ecole Polytechnique - from other civil or military corps - from the merchant navy

The training is delivered in close collaboration with the Naval School, with the University of Nantes and soon Le Havre (Master 2 in maritime activities law) and now with the National Institute of Public Service (formerly ENA) for the common base “senior public service”.

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