Marine South East develops a European consortium exploring marine science opportunities
Marine South East has been working over the past few months to build a framework for collaboration in marine science applications with organisations around the EU. This will be a resource to develop bids for project calls that are soon to be published by the European Commission to action new policies included in the Green Paper on maritime policy.
Submitted for European funding earlier this year the EMSAC proposal (European Marine Science Applications Consortium), was aimed at establishing a framework for long-term collaboration and investment involving key marine industries and the marine science base. Unfortunately despite scoring highly the bid did not secure funding. Building on the earlier proposal and utilising the Europe wide project consortium Marine SE is now in discussion with a wide range of European marine science-base and industry organisations to further develop and broaden the original EMSAC concept.
Once established EMSAC will offer significant benefits:
- Building relationships which can support future trans-national collaborations.
- Accessing a wider range of state-of-the-art expertise than that available in the UK, as a robust basis for future technology road-mapping and research prioritisation.
- Establishing the South East region as a pre-eminent cluster of expertise, capable of adopting a European leadership role in the domain of marine environmental risk.
The consortium will be structured around selected application markets where strong knowledge-driven growth is projected, including:
- Coastal zone management (eg policing of Marine Protected Areas, ecosystem monitoring)
- Shipping and marine operations (eg spill response, navigation risk and route optimisation)
- Offshore energy (eg pipeline and cable operations and maintenance, renewable energy impacts)
If you would like to be kept up to date with these projects email simon@marinesoutheast.co.uk
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