EUMarineRobots: The “Oprah” of Marine Robotics
The marine-robotics industry is growing rapidly and is a crucial high-value/high-cost sector with considerable entry barriers to R&D. Currently, Europe leads in many aspects of maritime, but lacks well integrated and coordinated oceanic robotic infrastructure or presence. It’s in this challenging environment that EUMarineRobots (EUMR) emerges.
The main objective of the EUMR project is to open up key national and regional marine robotics research infrastructures (RIs) to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, ensuring their optimal use and joint development to establish a world-class marine robotics integrated infrastructure.
The EUMR consortium comprises 15 partners from 10 countries who, collectively, can deploy a comprehensive portfolio of marine robotic assets with required associated support assets and expertise.
Our proposal is to build a network of marine robotics to help ensure that the EU remains a world-leader in ocean science and engineering, with a thriving maritime industry.
To do so we will, among other activities, have a series of Trans-national access activities (TNA) with the focus of: providing a coherent framework for stakeholders to gain access to both the “standard” and the “developing” capacities of the RI; providing access to appropriate levels of training and best-practices, to build sustainability by educating the next generation of practitioners; providing access to experimental activities proposed by external partners or use-cases that are chosen to provide a broad cross-section of experimental opportunities for end-users.