THIS MONTH…
- Maritime UK South West – 2021 Sponsorship and Strategic Partner Offer,
- £10M Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition,
- Satellite Technology For Offshore Floating Wind Farms,
- Plus events and funding for: knowledge transfer, innovation, digital skills, cyber security, smart ports, the shift to clean maritime and sub surface autonomy
Join Maritime UK South West – 2021 Sponsorship and Strategic Partner Offer
Maritime UK South West brings together the public, research and private sectors under the shared vision of creating a clean and prosperous ocean economy for the South West. Sponsorship is aimed at raising the profile of your business while becoming a Strategic Partner is for organisations who share our vision and want to partner in the delivery of our annual strategic plan. You can see our 2020 sponsors and strategic partners at the bottom of this newsletter. To find out more about our plan for the 2021, achievements last year and the features of the offer visit our sponsorship page.
Ocean Technology Webinar Series
Maritime UK South West and Oceansgate Marine Technology Enterprise Zone in Plymouth host a regular programme of marine technology webinars. Forthcoming dates:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory – New Data Buoy Wednesday 10th March 11:00-11:45
Smart Sound Connect – Live Network Launch Wednesday 24th March 11:00-11:45
Further events will be added soon. Please contact sheldon.ryan@maritimeuksw.org if you would like to discuss ideas for subsequent webinars.
Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition £10M
The Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition builds on the vision set out in the Clean Maritime Plan and underlines the government’s commitment to addressing emissions from this sector. This one-year ‘springboard programme’ will lay the foundation for a network of real world projects to kick-start government investment in decarbonising the maritime sector ahead of COP26. Maritime UK South West held an event to garner ideas and commitment for the competition. A video is available and slides to explain more about the programme. If you are interested in being part of a SW bid please contact sheldon.ryan@maritimeuksw.org.
Event – Satellite Technology for Offshore Windfarms
The Satellite Applications Catapult and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, supported by the UK Space Agency, invite you to a half-day Spark Session exploring Satellite Technology for Offshore Floating Wind Farms.
Thursday 11th March 2021, 09:30 – 13:00 GMT
Approaches to delivering energy supplies to Ships in Port – Efficient energy managementship
The innovation exchange is looking for innovative solutions for delivering energy efficiently to ships whilst in port. This challenge is being split in to two sub-challenge:
- Making efficient connections
- managing energy being delivered to ships.
Closing date: 25/03/2021
Defence and Security Accelerator Map the Gap Phase 2 competition
Phase 2 Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), aims to develop and trial a number of system demonstrators able to tackle some of the key issues of gap crossing survey. Total funding £2 million.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme allows a UK registered business or not-for-profit organisation to partner with a UK higher education or further education institution, RTO or Catapult.
This new partnership brings new skills and the latest academic thinking into the business partner to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project. The knowledge base partner will recruit 1 or 2 graduates (known as ‘associates’) to work on the project
Innovate UK Smart Grants
Smart is Innovate UK’s ‘Open grant funding’ programme.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £25 million in the best game-changing and commercially viable innovative or disruptive ideas. All proposals must be business focused.
Applications can come from any area of technology and be applied to any part of the economy, such as, but not exclusively:
The arts, design and media
Creative industries
Science or engineering
Closing date: 26/05/2021
Innovate UK Smart Grants
Smart is Innovate UK’s ‘Open grant funding’ programme.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £25 million in the best game-changing and commercially viable innovative or disruptive ideas. All proposals must be business focused.
Applications can come from any area of technology and be applied to any part of the economy, such as, but not exclusively:
The arts, design and media
Creative industries
Science or engineering
Closing date: 26/05/2021
Approaches to mitigate against stranded diesel assets
The innovation exchange is looking for innovative solutions for avoiding the ‘stranding’ of diesel-powered assets within ports and harbours. Emissions legislation and air quality directives will start to take effect and the use of fossil fuel powered assets may become restricted or banned from use if the polluting impact of their use in terms of emissions are not addressed. Stranded assets are “assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities” and in the context of this challenge refer to diesel powered assets with working lives that extend beyond the horizon for their restricted use or banning. Owners and operators are seeking non fossil fuel alternatives or means to dramatically reduce their emissions from assets like generators, forklifts, mobile cranes, and port boats.
The winning business(es) in this competition will be given an opportunity to present their solutions to a group of major port operators, with the potential of a commercial opportunity to deliver their solution.
Closing date: 25/03/2021
Innovations to be tested on pioneering autonomous submarines
Industry and academia invited to trial novel sensors and payloads on testbed
Tech start-ups, innovators and academics are being offered the chance to showcase and test their novel sensor and payload technology on the Royal Navy’s first extra large autonomous test submarine.
The project offers a unique opportunity to undertake at-sea testing and trials of industry and academia innovative prototype technology on the pioneering Extra Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) developed by MSubs Ltd through the first stage of the Developing the Royal Navy’s Autonomous Underwater Capability programme with the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
Event: Real and present cyber security challenges for ship operators, insurers and lawyers
Cyber-SHIP Lab invites you to join us as we team-up with experts from Baker Tilly, HFW and Astaara to embark, online, on a Shanghai to London container ship voyage to explore the cyber security processes, threats, decisions and consequences faced by crews, HQ personnel and vessels on this “typical” global supply chain route
Event: Smart Ports use cases
The event will bring representatives from the five ports along with government, Cluster Sponsor Royal Haskoning DHV and trade bodies to discuss the implementation routes for the developed use cases and how they link to other ports and to the government strategic perspectives.
17th March 13:30 – 16:00.
Free government-funded training courses available to 250 adults in the South West
An additional 250 learner places have been announced on the #Train4Tomorrow Digital bootcamps which are open to adults in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset, Torbay, Cornwall and Dorset.
The free-to-access courses are separated into six key areas, including IT, cyber, data science, software, digital marketing and healthcare and courses are worth up to £3000.
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