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Our monthly newsletter is focussed on delivering funding, skills, innovation and business opportunities. We have been producing our newsletter for 8 years and now have over 3,500 subscribers. The newsletter forms an excellent means to communicate for our Strategic Partners and Sponsors.  If you would like to contribute news contact marketing@maritimeuksw.org. 

Newsletter | August 2026

Driving Innovation & Collaboration Across the South West | News, Events & Funding Opportunities

What’s in this month’s newsletter:

  • Maritime UK South West joins the Global Maritime Regions Network
  • Have your say on the new Global Autonomy Cluster (deadline 04/08)
  • Appledore Maritime Innovation Centre marketing particulars now available
  • DBT develops investor network to support UK maritime innovation
  • At-sea Capability Testing for Offshore Renewables (ACTOR) facility
  • New Strategic Research Agenda Report published
  • Ministry of Defence publishes new Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Action Plan
  • Nature-Inclusive Design: What Does Good Look Like?
  • Plymouth and South Devon Freeport – Spotlight Piece
  • ACUA Ocean and Teledyne FLIR Defense Complete UKDI Funded Demonstration of an Integrated Tethered UAS and Uncrewed Surface Vessel Capability
  • Funding and Opportunities
  • Plymouth-based MLA College strengthens UK–India maritime education partnership
  • UK Submarine Enterprise Conference 2026
  • Solus Marine: Evolving Risks: Carriage of Electrical Vehicles (EVs)
  • Marine autonomy startups: a new pathway to investor-ready capital
  • Birthday Honours 2027 round is now open for nominations
  • Future Maritime Accelerator Programme applications now open
  • Strategic Technologies Investment Conference 2026 (South West) – British Business Bank partnering with SWRDSC
  • Follow MUKSW on LinkedIn 
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Newsletter | July 2026

Driving Innovation & Collaboration Across the South West | News, Events & Funding Opportunities

What’s in this month’s newsletter:

  • Ocean Tech Expo – thank you!

  • Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult to host AMTecH (Advanced Marine Technology Hub) virtual workshop (Wednesday 29 July)

  • Plymouth and South Devon Freeport – Beaumont Way employment units complete and open for occupation at Langage now

  • MUKSW welcomes Simpkins Edwards as newest sponsor

  • MUKSW Sponsor GW-Shift July updates

  • MSubs awarded trials contract for XV Excalibur

  • Smart Sound Connect Subsurface extends UK’s premier marine autonomy testbed beneath the ocean surface

  • University of Plymouth secures up to £7 million to boost defence-related skills

  • Funding and opportunities

  • DBT develops investor network to support UK maritime innovation

  • Solis Marine Crane Engineering Services: Introduction to Crane Incident Investigation

  • ACUA Ocean’s USV PIONEER completes over 100 hours of continuous multi-domain data harvesting

  • Inductive Power Projection launch new website

  • UK Submarine Enterprise Conference 2026

  • Marine autonomy startups: a new pathway to investor-ready capital immersive technology within Maritime Training

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Newsletter | June 2026

Driving Innovation & Collaboration Across the South West | News, Events & Funding Opportunities

What’s in this month’s newsletter:

  • There are just two weeks to go until Ocean Tech Expo (17th and 18th June)!

  • MUKSW celebrates International Women in Maritime Day and launches the MUKSW Women in Maritime Network

  • Smart Sound Demo Day, Tuesday 16th June, 9am-4pm, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

  • University of Plymouth proud to sponsor and host Ocean Tech Expo 2026

  • MUKSW Partner MSubs announced as Gold Sponsor of Ocean Tech Expo

  • Powering the UK’s ocean economy: Innovation, investment, and opportunity in the Great South West

  • Ocean Tech Expo Gold Sponsor Teledyne Marine – from Capability to Context: Why Partnership Is Accelerating Maritime Autonomy

  • SeaRegs recognised with FLOWmark® for courses aligned to offshore wind careers

  • MUKSW Partner Seiche Leads Pioneering Pilot Study to Assess Offshore Piling Noise Limits

  • MUKSW Sponsor Solis Marine Completed Scalable Multi-Pollutant Emission Management System Study – CMDC6

  • From Engineer to Engineering Manager, Navigating the Mid-Career Transition – MLA College live webinar, Thursday 4th June, 12.30-1.30PM

  • MUKSW Sponsor GW-Shift June updates

  • Funding and opportunities

  • University of Plymouth, Odesa National Maritime University and Kilo Solutions Launch VR Research Partnership to quantify the efficacy of immersive technology within Maritime Training

  • ELIRE Maritime & CMDC6 Consortium Partners Validate World-First Grid-Independent Hydrogen Power Hub, Redefining Maritime Energy Infrastructure

  • SDO Associates Launches Uncrewed Systems Network in UK

  • SMI + The Workboat Association: Meet the Buyer Event at Seawork

  • MarRI-UK Webinar to Explore the Future of Autonomous Subsea Robotics

  • Optima Electric Yachts seeks new ownership to implement strategic growth plans

  • Clean Maritime Assembly 2026, Wednesday 24 June-Thursday 25 June, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University

  • Maine Maritime Academy Takes Bridge Training to Sea with VIAB Deployment Aboard State of Maine

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