- Sponsor the Maritime UK Newsletter for 1 year
- New Innovation Grant call for Devon-based Advanced Marine SMEs
- Plymouth and South Devon Freeport first to be given the green light with Full Business Case approval
- Supply chain opportunity for maritime: How the tide has turned on UK tidal stream energy as costs ebb and reliability flows
- Less than 40 days to go until submissions for the 2023 Maritime UK Awards close!
- Transport Research and Innovation Grant programme
- Funding awarded to guide future autonomous and clean marine tech regulation
- National Careers Week Opportunity, Dartmoor Trust Careers Fair – 8th & 9th March 2022 – Ashbury Hotel, Okehampton
- Export Round Table, Jan 18th, Poole
- Blue Economy Investors looking for offshore floating wind experts
- A New Strategy for the Celtic Sea Region to tap into Offshore Wind Potential
- Free Training in Devon
- Solis Marine Engineering lunch and learn HQS Wellington 28th March
- Team Resolute selected as preferred bidder for Naval Support ships
- Opportunity for Tech Companies – Waypoint4 is now open for applications!
Sponsor the Maritime UK Newsletter for 1 year
The Maritime UK Newsletter is up for sponsorship for 2023. The monthly newsletter is an objective source of news and opportunity for the SW Ocean Economy and reaches over two thousand contacts in the ocean economy, mainly focussed around the SW. Contact sheldon.ryan@maritimeuksw.org with your bid by Feb 25th. The winning bid will have their logo at the head of the newsletter for 12 months from March to March and all proceeds will go towards cluster activity, listed for each year on the Partner and Sponsor page of the MUKSW website.
New Innovation Grant call for Devon-based Advanced Marine SMEs
Following highly successful previous rounds, the Marine Business Technology Centre is delighted to announce a new Innovation Grant call for Devon-based Advanced Marine SMEs.
Eligible businesses have the opportunity to receive 75% support for their innovation programmes up to a total project value of £4,000.00. Funding can be used for consultancy support, specialist time and scientific studies.
Closing date is the 31st March 2023 and projects need to be completed by 30th June 2023. Please note grants are limited and will be distributed on a first come first served basis.
Plymouth and South Devon Freeport first to be given the green light with Full Business Case approval
New employment land, new businesses, thousands of jobs and millions of pounds of investment is coming our way with the approval of the Plymouth and South Devon Freeport Full Business Case announced by the government today.
Plymouth and South Devon Freeport is the first of eight Freeports to be given the full green light along with two others. The approval unlocks millions of pounds of grant seed funding and enables applicable businesses to join and take advantage of the Freeport status.
Supply chain opportunity for maritime: How the tide has turned on UK tidal stream energy as costs ebb and reliability flows
A recent article published in The Guardian explains cost reduction and supply chain opportunities in the growing field tidal flow energy.
Less than 40 days to go until submissions for the 2023 Maritime UK Awards close!
The Maritime UK Awards are open to organisations from across the breadth of the maritime sector and its component shipping, ports, services, engineering, science, and leisure marine industries.
This year, a number of categories have been updated to include academic institutions, cadets, ratings and young professionals. The 14 award categories cover topics across the sector, including innovation, diversity, clean maritime, and international trade, to name a few.
Transport Research and Innovation Grant programme
Government has announced its latest round of Transport Research Innovation Grant (TRIG) funding, worth £1.85m. The funding could be awarded to as many as 60 projects to develop early stage research projects designed to support new ideas to create a better transport system.
The TRIG programme is delivered with the support of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC) and offers small grants of around £30,000 to projects which will prove a concept of new transport technologies.
Funding awarded to guide future autonomous and clean marine tech regulation
Plymouth’s role as a pioneering place for autonomous marine vessels and green technology has been given a financial boost from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The consortium led by the Council has been awarded £842,490 under the BEIS’s Regulators’ Pioneer Fund to develop a framework for testing autonomous and prototype maritime vessels for research and development.
National Careers Week Opportunity, Dartmoor Trust Careers Fair - 8th & 9th March 2022 – Ashbury Hotel, Okehampton
Maritime UK are working with Maritime UK South West to attend the Dartmoor Trust Careers Fair during National Careers Week. This event will be the largest of its kind in North and West Devon and will bring together students from a wide geographical area. Over 2500 students across years 9 – 12 are expected to attend.
It would be fantastic to have various Maritime stands at this event and showcase to the students the wide variety of opportunities available in the Maritime Sector and in particular in the South West.
This event is free to attend as the inaugural event, but the Dartmoor Multi-Academy Trust are accepting donations towards their running costs.
Please contact Jess Huxley (jhuxley@maritimeuk.org) to express interest in this event. Deadline for expressions of interest: 20th January 2023.
Export Round Table, Jan 18th, Poole
Join Poole Marine Hub, Dorset Chamber and the Department for International Trade to explore international opportunities for the Marine Sector and learn from successful exporters Actisense.
Actisense, the marine and agritech electronics company based in Poole, UK, won an award celebrating international trade at the inaugural Maritime UK Awards, 2019.
Solis Marine Engineering is hosting a lunch and learn session on board the HQS Wellington in London on Tuesday , March 28th 2023
Join Managing Director Simon Hindley who discusses his experience of working with hydrogen, ammonia, electric and methanol fuelled projects and provides his views on which of these really has the potential to provide the answer to the maritime industry’s future fuel requirements.
To register for this session, please email solis@solis-marine.com
Blue Economy Investors looking for offshore floating wind experts
To support the decarbonisation of the maritime industry, join dynamic conversations with private investors and entrepreneurs.
A New Strategy for the Celtic Sea Region to tap into Offshore Wind Potential
The Celtic Sea Cluster has launched its new Regional Strategy, outlining how Wales and South West England can maximise the economic benefits of floating offshore wind technology, in line with the forthcoming Celtic Sea leasing process being delivered by The Crown Estate. The strategy will allow the region’s stakeholders to ensure their activities are aligned and can achieve their common objectives.
Free Training in Devon
SMART SKILLS is proud to offer a range of fully funded training solutions to meet the needs of businesses across Devon, helping to support economic growth in the region. Our quality Partners offer flexible training from one day workshops through to full qualifications, delivered face-to-face or online.
Celtic Sea Cluster Workforce Working Group
- Two parallel working groups have been set up under the floating offshore wind cluster
- 1) “Demand” group, made up of developers and industry to articulate the requirements: number and type of job and when they will be required
- 2) “Supply” group, of training providers and local stakeholders to prepare a pipeline of talent able to fulfil these requirements within the region.
- Modelling work is now underway to map out this demand and how the supply can meet it. This will help form a regional strategy to maximise the number of skilled FLOW careers in the region.
- For information please contact olaf.marshall-whitley@celticseapower.co.uk
Latest Maritime funding and national newsletter from Maritime UK
Visit the Maritime UK funding page for all the latest funding opportunities and sign up to a new national newsletter.
Team Resolute selected as preferred bidder for Naval Support ships
- Team Resolute selected as Preferred Bidder to deliver naval support ships
- Highly capable team includes BMT, Harland & Wolff and Navantia UK
- Bolsters UK shipbuilding and delivers on National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh
Opportunity for Tech Companies - Waypoint4 is now open for applications!
Safetytech Accelerator is a non-profit established by Lloyd’s Register. We’re the first fully dedicated technology accelerator focused on safety and risk in industrial sectors. Our mission is to make the world safer and more sustainable through wider adoption of industrial safetytech.
Our flagship commercial acceleration programme – Waypoint – is dedicated to the introduction of carefully selected emerging safety and risk management technologies in the maritime industry.
Waypoint 4: Nearshore is currently open and welcoming applications from technology companies with solutions addressing safety and risk challenges during nearshore operations. The solutions should be commercially ready and scalable. Read more about the programme.
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