On Tuesday, April 5th, 300 guests gathered in Svendborg to celebrate the topping out of the new SIMAC – Svendborg´s International Maritime Academy. Among these, the craftsmen, the students, teachers as well as representatives of the municipality and foundations.

The building, designed in collaboration with C.F. Møller, will be ready in 2023 to educate future leaders for The Blue Denmark and a number of other innovative industries.

The new facility features teaching rooms of various sizes, large common areas, two auditoriums, several laboratories, a simulator center with virtual learning environments, staff quarters with meeting rooms for the staff - a total of 12.500 m2 educational program divided into four floors.

The architectural competition was carried out by the SMUC Foundation (Svendborg Maritime Education Centre Foundation), which was founded with the purpose of owning, developing and building the new SIMAC, as well as operating land and buildings in cooperation with SIMAC. The project has been made possible thanks to a substantial donation from A.P. Møller and his wife Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller’s Foundation for Public Purposes.