On May 21-22, 2015 in Izmail on the basis of Separate training unit "Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company" the VII International scientific-practical conference "Staff training- European choice" was held. The leading areas of the Conference were:

• trends of development of vocational education and training;
• legislative support of training of the sea transport workers;
• sectoral qualifications frameworks, professional and educational standards;
• open (distance) professional training of the companies’ staff;
• safety culture of professional skilled of the sea transport workers;
• foreign languages’ competence as a means of competitiveness of the sea transport skilled workers.