Last week Cefas released their latest newsletter relating to aquaculture. Seafood Hazards is one of the four interconnected themes contributing to the goals of the Cefas Science and Evidence Strategy through which we aim to maintain and grow the impact of our science, advice, innovation and collaboration. The purpose of the Seafood Hazards theme is […]
Maritime UK is calling on companies and organisations from across the sector to populate a showcase of projects having a positive impact on the decarbonisation of the maritime sector. This is an opportunity to showcase your organisation’s work in Maritime UK’s #NetZeroMaritime Showcase, highlighting its relevance to delivery of the government’s ten-point plan for a […]
The UK’s £500 million Blue Planet Fund supports developing countries to protect the marine environment and reduce poverty. Details The Blue Planet Fund helps developing countries: reduce poverty protect and sustainably manage their marine resources deal with human-generated threats across 4 key themes: biodiversity, climate change, marine pollution and sustainable seafood Blue Planet Fund – […]
A range of different innovation funding calls are currently available which are part of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Calls Cover high power fuel cells, on board power storage for ammonia and hydrogen, preventing methane slip from LNG engines, ammonia engine feasibility, Digital Twin models to enable green ship operation, sustainable fuel deployment, on-board energy […]
The University of Plymouth will be hosting this event during their Research Festival 2021. Fishing nets and other gear account for a significant proportion of plastic pollution in the marine environment, causing harm to habitats and organisms and breaking down into smaller particles until becoming microplastics. Fishing is heavily relied upon for global food production, so how […]
The aim of this competition is to address key research and development opportunities in the UK power electronics, machines, and drives (PEMD) supply chain to support the UK’s drive towards net zero. This is to facilitate UK niche and volume supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in PEMD. By niche supply chain we mean low […]
Maritime UK SW Sponsor, Applied Genomics, based at Brixham Environmental Lab, have developed a sensitive environmental DNA Sampling tool which acts as an early warning system helping maritime ports to detect, monitor and manage invasive non-native marine organisms which potentially threaten the marine environment in ports and their surrounding coastal waters. Invasive non-native species are […]
The Ministry of Defence (MOD), Dorset Council and Dorset LEP have invested in the construction of a new Defence Innovation Centre, at Dorset Innovation Park Enterprise Zone. It will provide 1100 m2 new office space and 450 m2 new workshop space for MOD innovation, collaboration and conferences. The centre will incorporate the Army Battle Lab and will […]
We’d love to invite you to join five-time America’s Cup winner, Olympic gold medallist and SailGP CEO Sir Russell Coutts for a virtual event to discuss the forthcoming Great Britain Grand Prix, hosted by Plymouth this summer. The Great Britain Grand Prix | Plymouth takes place 17-18 July and the forum is designed to […]
Innovation Challenge funding for marine and maritime through the Knowledge Transfer Network Climate control for vessels Non-destructive testing of GRP vessels On behalf of Artemis Technologies 4 challenges suitable for both maritime companies and the wider supply chain these include: Battery systems Collision avoidance and sensor technologies Bio-fouling detection and avoidance Ride-height and actuation sensing