General information

The delivery dates of the courses included in this Training Plan will be adapted to suit seafarers' needs and availability.
People interested in applying for one of these courses can go to the provincial or local directorate of the Social Marine Institute closest to their place of residence where they will be informed of the dates of the various editions of each type of course.

The selection of course attendees will be made in accordance with the terms established in Article 12 of Royal Decree 292/2018 of 18 May, following the procedure of its Article 13.

 Interested parties must formalise an application, valid throughout the national territory and for a period to be determined, duly completed and signed for each type of course, using the current official form, which may be obtained directly from the provincial or local offices of the Social Marine Institute or downloaded from this website,(application) in the terms established in articles 9 and 10 of Royal Decree 292/2018, of 18 May,  which regulate the procedure for access and the scheme for providing maritime and health professional training of the Social Marine Institute, and  Order TMS/693/2018, of 28 June, which implements Royal Decree 292/2018, providing the documentation contained in the aforementioned regulations.

Each applicant for maritime and health professional training of the Social Marine Institute may submit and keep in force a maximum of five applications.

Applications may be submitted:

• At any provincial and local office of the ISM.
• Through the e-Office of the State Secretariat for Social Security.
• Any place established in Article 16.4 of Law 39/2015 of 1 October on the Common Administrative Procedure for Public Administrations.

To guide and manage access to maritime and healthcare vocational training, the Social Marine Institute has an extensive office network to serve the public at the provincial and local directorates, where qualified technical personnel will provide the necessary information and advice.

In addition to meeting the condition of beneficiary on application submission date, the requirements demanded by the Social Marine Institute to access the type of course applied for must also be accredited on that date.

Maritime and healthcare vocational training is open to:

• Spanish workers or nationals of a member state of the European Union or of the European Economic Area who reside in Spain and foreigners with a valid work and residence permit, who are affiliated and in a situation of registration or similar to registration, including intermittent-permanent workers, in the Social Security Special Scheme for Seafarers at the time the application is submitted.
• Applicants for an ISM course, not included in the previous section, who at the time of submitting the application are applicants for an occupation in the maritime fishing sector.