Green Visions: Greening Your Future
Green Visions: Greening Your Future is a programme which seeks to raise awareness of Devon green industry businesses, careers, apprenticeships and qualification routes to secondary school pupils attending northern Devon schools. There will be a focus on northern Devon projects but also keen to include any cross-Devon green initiatives such as floating offshore wind, solar […]
Finding the right fit: How T Levels are bringing young talent into the maritime industry
Finding the right talent is crucial – especially in a highly technical sector like the maritime industry. But long-standing skills gaps and people shortages are holding many engineering and manufacturing businesses back. Engineering & Manufacturing T Levels have been designed to help solve both these problems. T Levels are part of a reformed education system […]
Maritime UK South West is proud to welcome its new sponsor Robok
Robok are a Cambridge based AI startup, transforming industrial sites by using existing CCTV to enhance safety and efficiency. Trusted by major UK operators, its platform enables proactive hazard detection, compliance monitoring, and operational optimisation for safer, more productive workplaces. To find out more contact Shaun Dye – Operations Manager – shaun.dye@robok.ai find out more […]
GSW Marine and Maritime New Innovator Launchpad
GSW Marine and Maritime Launchpad Round 3 has launched with £2.3 million for projects between £25-£50K For projects that grow innovation activities in the marine and maritime cluster in the Great South West (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset). Your project must: – have total project costs and grant funding request of between £25,000 and £50,000 – […]
Maritime UK Announces 2025 Award Finalists
Maritime UK is delighted to reveal the finalists for the Maritime UK Awards 2025, taking place on Thursday 26 June in Dover, Kent, in partnership with DFDS, Liverpool John Moores University, and the Port of Dover. This year’s awards promise to be a vibrant celebration of the excellence, innovation, and leadership that define the UK’s […]
Horizon Europe Topics published on EU Portal
The EU Funding & Tenders Portal has now updated to include most of the 2025 Topics for Pillar 2 of Horizon Europe. You can search this using key words to find Topics that might be interesting for you or you can click on one of the 40 specific Topics that have a link (note that […]
Maritime UK South West is delighted to welcome the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) as its new strategic partner
Committed to driving economic growth, the MCA supports key priority sectors like advanced engineering, digital and tech, and clean energy industries, harnessing the region’s talent and innovation to create new opportunities. These synergise significantly with MUKSW ‘s focus areas and the partners are looking forward together to support the creation of further high growth in […]
Connected Places Catapult Maritime Future Fuel Trial & Demonstration Plan
The Connected Places Catapult has recently concluded year 3 of its Innovate UK funded Maritime Milestone programme, where the focus of a major piece of work is on preparing the sector for transition to future fuels. There were two focus areas: Future Fuels Blueprint – a blueprint that outline key activities to enable future fuel […]
Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme Published
The Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility Work Programme for 2025 has, at last, been officially pre-published. This contains details of all of the competitions for the whole of 2025 for this part of Horizon Europe (over €1.2Bn available). The EU splits this into Destinations. The six Destinations in Cluster 5 are: Climate sciences and […]
MUKSW Welcomes new sponsor Azets
Azets has joined our growing list of sponsors, bringing their expertise and support to our network. Azets is a top 10 national firm of Chartered Accountants, Taxation and Business advisors with several offices throughout the South West, including Plymouth, Bristol and Poole. Azets offer the full range of services to businesses and their owners, covering […]