Technologies
In collaboration with the relevant stakeholders in research, industry and policy, the joint research activities of the Innovation Platform Sustainable Sea and Ocean Solutions ISSS will focus on the development and qualification of new technologies for autonomous operations, such as communication, navigation and information technologies and material and production technologies for extreme environments, including cross-cutting digitalization techniques.
Such technologies include, for example:
- Sea and ocean robotics and vehicles
- Sea and ocean communications
- Sea and ocean sensors and actuators
- Sea and ocean-robust materials and systems
- Sea and ocean logistics
- Sean and ocean signal processing and data analysis
Collaborative research and partnerships across sectors create scale economies and require a long-term approach to cross-sectoral technological cooperation in R&D to implement robust, reliable and sustainable technologies. The Innovation Platform will interlink existing research infrastructures and establish new ones offshore and onshore, as well as establish joint data platforms across Europe for interdisciplinary research to reduce the risk of costly, unplanned and unnecessarily complex rulings being issued to responsible business operations.
With a strong emphasis on digitalization, innovation activities will focus on the development of:
- New sensors for monitoring physical, chemical and biological parameters
- Robust and reliable power supply for subsea technologies
- Autonomous systems for inspection, intervention, monitoring and control, maintenance and decommissioning
- Technologies for navigation and communication
- Command and control methodologies for subsea navigation, communication, mission adaptation and cooperation
- Technologies for removal of marine pollution and detection and removal of unexploded ordnance
- Technologies for detection and prevention of CO2 and hydrocarbon releases from sediments, e.g., in marine research, and for monitoring technical underwater installations
- New materials for extreme environmental conditions
It will also focus on creating and developing the following research infrastructures (for research and industry):
- European network of research and testing facilities
- European network of multipurpose platforms (e.g., energy harvesting and aquaculture)
- Maritime Data Space and Ocean Internet of Things
- European network for modular sea and ocean robotics
- Satellite network for affordable broadband communication
- Offshore European power grid
- Marine observatory for environmental aspects, including Copernicus and Ocean Research Infrastructures
- Innovative port infrastructure
- Research vessels for rapid response missions
- Civil sea and ocean monitoring network
- Education and training network for sea and ocean technologies