- Partner with or Sponsor Maritime UK SW
- Maritime 2050 Innovation Forum, Hull, 9th March
- Winners of the Round 3 Clean Maritime Demonstrator Competition Announced
- Celtic Sea Cluster: Seize the Opportunity of Celtic Sea FLOW: Guidance for SMEs
- Maritime BIM Bootcamp, Southampton, 21-22 June 2023
- £5.5M Tranship II Project to see major UK Research Vessel Powered by Hydrogen
- National Careers Week Opportunity, Dartmoor Trust Careers Fair – 8th & 9th March 2022
- New report identifies pathway for £75bn for UK shipping’s energy transition
- Latest maritime funding and national newsletter from Maritime UK
- Interreg France (Channel) England programme Annual Event 16th March, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
- World’s First Co-Located Seaweed and Offshore Wind Farm
- New Funding Opportunities
- VC trends in maritime technology, Anjali Bakhru, Co-founder, pH3 Capital Ventures
- Great South West Regional Launch
- Simulator transforms research into marine and maritime installations
- Electric Transition Workshop at South Devon Marine Academy, 28th April 2023, 08:45-15:30, Kingswear
Partner with or Sponsor Maritime UK SW
Maritime UK SW is collaborative Innovation focussed cluster focussed on the South West of England. If you would like to work as a cluster partner or sponsor our events, newsletter and communications contact sheldon.ryan@maritimeuksw.org. Details of sponsorship and our annual review and workplan for 23/24 are on the Partner and Sponsor page of the MUKSW website. Our current sponsors and partners are listed at the bottom of the newsletter.
Maritime UK Innovation Showcase, Hull, 9th March
Hosted in Humberside, on the day of the Maritime UK Awards to be held in Hull the event will showcase the maritime assets and opportunities in the region including regional research, the Humber Freeport and news from the regional maritime cluster.
The event will include:
– Keynotes from Tom Chant MBE, Chief Executive of the Society for Maritime Industries and Robin Mortimer, Chief Executive of Port of London Authority
– News from the £206M UK SHORE investment in clean maritime
– Case studies from leading maritime innovations across the UK
– Opportunities to get involved in funded collaborative R&D bids through workshops led by:
– The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
– The Defence and Security accelerator
– The Connected Places Catapult
– Dept for Transport – UK Shore
– Funding and support for innovative businesses, export support and R&D Tax credits
– Ample opportunity to network with other innovative businesses from across the UK
The event has more than 100 sign ups so far so sign up now to secure one of the last places.
If you would like to sponsor the event please contact Sheldon.Ryan@maritimeuksw.org
Winners of the Round 3 Clean Maritime Demonstrator Competition Announced
Maritime UK congratulate all the winners (particularly those from the South West!) and look forward to helping more bids come together through subsequent consortia building events such as the event held in Poole on 21st Feb to promote the the £60M ZEVI funding and EPSRC Hub
Celtic Sea Cluster: Seize the Opportunity of Celtic Sea FLOW: Guidance for SMEs
The webinar series will provide the latest overview of the Celtic Sea FLOW and provide practical advice to businesses seeking to enter this market. The event will be hosted online and, though primarily aimed at SMEs in Cornwall, will be of relevance to other UK supply-chain companies.
– Meet the Need: Developer and Tier 1 Requirements for Celtic Sea FLOW – 9th March – 10am
– Be Strategic: The road to winning work in Celtic Sea FLOW – 16th March – 10am
Maritime BIM Bootcamp, Southampton, 21-22 June 2023
Unlocking the full potential of Building Information Management within the Maritime sector MaritimeUK together with the Society of Maritime Industries, British Port Association and Royal HaskoningDHV are pleased to announce the launch of our Maritime BIM Bootcamp in 2023 – An interactive two-day workshop that aims to unlock the potential of Building Information Management (BIM) for the entire maritime industry.
By bringing together the maritime supply chain, we will look to plot the journey we will all need to follow to create a fully collaborative BIM integrated industry aligned with the Maritime 2050 strategy. Throughout the two-day workshop, we will take a detailed look at the current state of affairs, share success stories and establish what we can learn from more BIM mature industries. This will provide us with the platform to establish the goals on how we will all move forward together with BIM integration at the core of the full project lifecycle.
£5.5M Tranship II Project to see major UK Research Vessel Powered by Hydrogen
The Centre for Future Clean Mobility (CFCM) is part of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 3 (CMDC3), which was announced in September 2022, funded by the Department for Transport and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. As part of the CMDC3, the Department allocated £60m to 19 flagship projects supported by 92 UK organisations to deliver real world demonstration R&D projects in clean maritime solutions. Projects will take place in multiple locations around the UK from as far north as the Shetland Isles and as far south as Cornwall.
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.
Please contact Jess Huxley (jhuxley@maritimeuk.org) to express interest in this event.
New report identifies pathway for £75bn for UK shipping's energy transition
Recommendations on priority areas of focus are intended to contribute to the next iteration of the UK government’s Clean Maritime Plan:
- Specific sectors of the UK maritime sector such as ferries, offshore service vessels and the offshore wind market present an opportunity for priority action and targeted measures
- New sources of capital will be required to fund the industry’s decarbonisation transition
- Institutional investors could be a viable source of funding with the appropriate government support
- Specific funding mechanisms (illustrated through case studies) can help to overcome the barriers to investment
World’s First Co-Located Seaweed and Offshore Wind Farm
PML will be providing independent analysis of the Amazon-funded North Sea Farm 1 project, which is a first-of-its-kind seaweed farm located amongst offshore wind turbines. PML’s role in this innovative project is to establish the role offshore seaweed farming could play in capturing and storing carbon in the future.
VC trends in maritime technology, Anjali Bakhru, Co-founder, pH3 Capital Ventures
As the blue green economy continues to work towards its 2050 Net Zero commitments, we’re seeing it emerge as home to a growing number of technologies and innovation. Currently contributing £116bn+ to the UK economy within a $3tn global industry, there’s a clear opportunity for new thinking and strategies to help this sector expand as we unlock change-making technologies for our oceans, ports, and inland waterways.
New funding opportunities
- ZEVI Strand 1: Battery electric vessels and charging infrastructure
- ZEVI Strand 2: Shore power technologies, shore-side and vessel-side
- ZEVI Strand 3: Alternative fuel vessels and refuelling infrastructure
- UK Seafood Fund: Infrastructure Scheme round 3
- Improving transport in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
- Hydrogen Innovation Initiative (HII)
- See all opportunities
Great South West Regional Launch
- The GSW Partnership will be running a series of local launch events over the next 6 months or so across Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset to share the Great South West’s emerging ambitions and priorities for the region with the first one starting in Taunton, Somerset on the 29 March from 2.30 – 4.30pm. Over the coming months events will also be held in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.
Call for abstracts: Cyber-SHIP Lab Annual Symposium 2023 at the IMO
We invite researchers working in maritime cyber security and related fields to submit abstracts for consideration for presentation on Day-one of the Cyber-SHIP Lab Annual Symposium 2023. The Symposium will take place 1-2 November 2023 at the International Maritime Organization in London (IMO). For the second consecutive year, the IMO is supporting the Symposium by co-hosting and participation.
University of Plymouth hosts Ukraine delegation for talks about long-term partnership
The University of Plymouth and State University of Infrastructure and Technology (SUIT) in Kyiv signed a formal twinning agreement in May 2022. Representatives from the State University of Infrastructure and Technology (SUIT) in Kyiv have made their first visit to the University of Plymouth. The two organisations signed a formal twinning agreement in May 2022 as part of the #TwinForHope campaign launched by Universities UK and the Cormack Consultancy Group.
2023 Maritime UK Awards and SW Nominees
The 2023 Maritime UK Awards are to be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hull on Thursday 9 March. Maritime UK is grateful to ABP who are Diamond Sponsors for the Awards. Each year the Maritime UK Awards rotate around the UK, having visited Plymouth, Portsmouth and Glasgow so far, the 2023 Awards visit Hull.
Held for the first time in September 2019, the Maritime UK Awards are run by the industry for the benefit of the industry.
This year, Maritime UK’s Patron HRH The Princess Royal will join 600 industry colleagues and partners in government for an evening to celebrate the wonderful world of maritime and the fantastic progress being made by organisations across the sector in support of Maritime 2050.
The awards follow the first Maritime 2050 Innovation Forum, being held locally ahead of the awards on 9 March.
Huge congratulations to those from the South West who have been shortlisted.
Actisense
Cornwall Marine Network
City College Plymouth
South Devon College
Harland and Wolf
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Interreg France (Channel) England programme Annual Event 16th March, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
The FCE programme, managed by Norfolk County Council, has funded 51 high quality co-operation projects aimed at delivering economic, environmental, and social growth across the Channel area of the UK and France.
Over its lifetime the Programme has committed €228.2 million to a wide range of projects, which support innovation, developing low carbon technologies and improving the attractiveness of the FCE area.
Maritime UK to inspire girls to consider STEM careers in Maritime
Maritime UK is to deliver a nationwide ‘roadshow’ to inspire girls to consider Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) careers in the maritime sector.
Maritime UK has been awarded £100,000 in grant funding from the Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB) to deliver a Maritime Roadshow for Girls throughout 2023. The roadshow will aim to encourage Key Stage 3 girls to choose STEM subjects and to give the students greater awareness of career opportunities across the maritime industry.
Simulator transforms research into marine and maritime installations
The new technology will be used on research in sectors such as offshore renewable energy and clean maritime.
A state-of-the-art facility which could play a critical role in the global offshore renewable energy sectors has been installed at the University of Plymouth.
The Maritime Simulation Laboratory brings together a network of high-tech components that can be used to run a series of maritime scenarios in real time.
At its heart is a Kongsberg K-Sim Dynamic Positioning simulator, which will initially be used to simulate, test and optimise marine operations throughout the lifecycle of floating offshore wind (FLOW) installations.
Electric Transition Workshop at South Devon Marine Academy, 28th April 2023, 08:45-15:30, Kingswear
A workshop event, supporting the transition to electric propulsion and clean technology in the South Hams marine leisure and tourism sectors
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