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The first EU Waterborne Technology Roadmaps are now for open consultation. Maritime CleanTech has a leading role in developing the roadmaps, helping ensure that industry needs and practical innovation priorities are reflected in Europe’s work towards zero-emission waterborne transport.
The roadmaps are developed through collaboration in the EU WaterborneTechnology Platform together with European maritime stakeholders. The roadmapsset out how zero-emission shipping can be deployed in practice through technology development, innovation, and upscaling.
Maritime CleanTech with leading role
In the current roadmap process, Maritime CleanTech has been responsible for leading the development of the technology roadmaps for the ferry and offshore vessel segments.
The roadmaps are important because they identify which technologies need to be developed in Europe in the years ahead, highlighting concrete needs from industry, and contribute to shaping priorities in European research and innovation programmes such as Horizon Europe.
“We would like to thank our many partners for the strong interest and valuable input throughout this process. Their insights are essential to ensure that the roadmaps reflect real industry needs and support solutions that can be implemented in practice,” says Marte Jensen, Project and Funding Manager at Maritime CleanTech
About this consultation
The consultation documents is available from Monday 22 June and will remain open for input for two weeks. The final roadmaps will later be presented to the European Commission during Connecting Europe Days in September.
The Waterborne Technology Platform is consulting the European waterborne sectoron nine Technology Roadmaps implementing the Waterborne Technology Leadership document. The roadmaps cover maritime technology sector, port ecosystems, inland waterway transport, short sea shipping, ferries, cruise, oceangoing shipping, offshore vessels, and the blue economy. Each roadmap sets out a pathway for research,development, innovation, upscaling and deployment to 2035, 2040 and 2050, with the objective of supporting the competitiveness, resilience, sustainability and strategic autonomy of the European waterborne sector.
Purpose of the consultation
The consultation has a confirmatory purpose. Chapter 4 has been developed over three months of sector drafting; this open consultation gives the widerwaterborne community a final opportunity to flag missing elements, propose targeted additions, and indicate expected impacts. Following processing the feedback, a table will be published on how feedback has been integrated in the final version, or not, and if so, why.
Share your input in the open consultation here:
Short SeaShipping Technology Roadmap Open Consultation Survey
Ferrysector Technology Roadmap Open Consultation Survey
InlandWaterway Transport Technology Roadmap Open Consultation Survey
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