H2020 Funding for Blue Growth and Transport for Maritime Sector
H2020 is an EU Research and Innovation programme with funding available up until to 2020. It aims to promote excellent science, industrial leadership and tackle many societal challenges.
Blue Growth is part of the Horizon 2020 agenda and has a number of objectives that are relevant to marine businesses:
* Demonstrate the innovative potential of the Oceans by bringing technology to market - test, demonstrate, scale-up and bring to the market innovative, sustainable technologies, products and services while respecting marine ecosystems
* Foster innovation and business opportunities for rural and coastal areas through new approaches and business models
There are several topics currently open for submission.
Further details can be found in the article -
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/h2020-support-blue-growth-transport-maritime-sector-ian-holmes?trk=mp-author-card
These include;
* Specialised vessel concepts for more efficient
* Multi-use of the oceans marine space, offshore and near-shore: Enabling technologies
* Blue green innovation for clean coasts & seas
* Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood
* Innovations for energy efficiency and emission control in waterborne transport
* Complex and value-added specialised vessels
* Designing "The Port of the future"
Help and advice on H2020 projects and application is available for free from the UK NCP service
Horizon 2020 UK website http://www.h2020uk.org
The National Contact Point for Blue Growth is Ian Holmes
ian.holmes@innovateuk.gov.uk
Twitter @UKH2020_Sustain
The National Contact Point for Transport is Louise Mothersole Louise.Mothersole@innovateuk.gov.uk Twitter @NCP_Transport
What about Brexit?
The UK government has provided reassurance to UK participants of the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme with a commitment to safeguard funding for research and innovation projects.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/european-union-funding
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