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    STRONGMAR gathers stakeholders in Matosinhos

    The first meeting of the stakeholders of the STRONGMAR project was held on 14 November at the facilities of the Port of Leixões Cruise Terminal, in Matosinhos. This meeting was held at the Marinetech 2017 event, promoted by the Hydrographic Institute and CIIMAR, which took place at the mentioned facilities on 14, 15 and 16 November.

    06th December 2017

    The session featured a demonstration of marine technologies, which took place on 15 November at the Cruise Terminal Marina. It included INESC TEC technologies such as autonomous vehicles and other equipment, through the following projects: !Vamos¡, MarinEye e SpilLess.

    Themed "Observatories and Monitoring Networks", Marinetech 2017 aimed to present innovations in the field of marine technology through a parallel agenda of discussion panels, informal meetings and presentation of technologies capable of modernising, supporting and increasing the flexibility of comprehensive on-site observation networks for all sectors of maritime activity. The event had the participation of instrumentation manufacturers, system and software designers and end users.

    Instrumentation laboratories, concessionaires, researchers from different fields of marine sciences, marine economy operators and other economic agents directly and indirectly interested in the marine environment were invited to share experiences, accomplishments, setbacks, criticisms, desires and development perspectives.

    Led by the Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CRAS) of INESC TEC, STRONGMAR is a scientific and technological capacity building project related to the sea, which was created thanks to a collaboration between INESC TEC and CINTAL (Centre for Technological Research of Algarve). This project aims to build scientific, technological and economic capacity for a national research group, with the collaboration of top foreign partners such as the Universitat de Girona, the University of Aberdeen, the Heriot-Watt University and the NATO Science & Technology Organisation.

    Scheduled to end on 31 December 2018, the project, led by INESC TEC, is fully funded by the European Union (EU) under the EU’s Community Framework Programme for Research and Innovation of Horizon 2020.