‘Future Seawork’ to be launched at 25th event
An initiative to accelerate inventions from the next generation of maritime innovators will be launched at this year’s Seawork.
University students will get the chance to see their ideas presented in the Innovations Showcase, among other benefits, if their entries are selected.
Three winners will be announced at the European Commercial Marine awards at Seawork; their work will be promoted in Maritime Journal and on seawork.com; and they will be mentored by a senior figure in commercial marine.
The only stipulation is that their project has commercial potential.
To launch the initiative this year, Maritime Research and Innovation UK (MarRI-UK) put forward five projects that were whittled down to three winners by a judging panel.
The winners are Kaja Gorska from the University of Strathclyde with her project Data Fusion for State Estimation of Autonomous Surface Vehicles; Rohan Jha from the University of Southampton with his project Propeller Optimisation Using a Combined ML-ROM Approach; and Silvia Calvo Benthem from the university of Southampton with her project Decarbonising Tugboats in Southampton Harbour.
The launch of Future Seawork will take place at the European Commercial Marine Awards on the evening of Tuesday 11 June, at Seawork.
