Background
The Maritime & Marine Helix was amongst the third tranche of Helix communities launched by Crowdhelix in mid-2018. The Helix is led by the world-leading research-intensive university L-Università ta' Malta.
Scope
The Maritime & Marine Helix provides an Open Innovation platform for experts seeking international collaborators to carry out research and innovation across the following topic areas:
- Blue Growth, and the transition to a circular blue economy
- Pollution & climate change in the ocean, including plastics
- Sustainable use & management of ocean resources
- Development of new materials, feed, & food
- Urban, coastal & maritime spatial planning
- Coastal tourism
- Marine archaeology
- Maritime transport
- Ocean governance
- Ocean economics applied to maritime activities
Due to the cross-cutting nature of the domain, the Maritime & Marine Helix is also closely integrated with the activities of several other Helix communities; including Water, Transport, Materials, & Climate. This integration is also reflected at the EU policy level, with a dedicated “flagging” system for Blue Growth-related funding topics across the Funding & Tenders Portal.
Horizon Europe
The Maritime & Marine Helix is also oriented towards the activities of the Horizon Europe Mission “Healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters”, which aims to develop R&I interventions and impacts across many of the topic areas listed above, whilst raising awareness of their importance among citizens. Crowdhelix intends to align its own activities in support of this endeavour by helping to provide the widest possible access to collaborators across the many sectors involved in the maritime & marine innovation ecosystem globally.
Marine Desoche
“The University of Malta is delighted to spearhead the Maritime & Marine Helix on the Crowdhelix portal. Through this innovative platform we aim to bring people and institutions together to collaborate on aspects such as Blue Economy and Ocean Health”
Organisations
L-Università ta' Malta
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NTNU -
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -
Indigo-Med -
Ca' Foscari University of Venice -
University of Cape Town -
University of Turku -
Middle East Technical University -
University of Haifa -
University College Cork -
University of Leeds -
Møreforsking AS
Projects
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JPI Oceans
