More members are joining in the ECOPRODIGY project, with the last addition being DFDS. The ECOPRODIGY project aims to improves eco-efficiency of Baltic Sea region maritime industry through digital solutions. It is funded by Interreg.
The Baltic Sea is one of the busiest, as well as most vulnerable seas. For this reason, shipping in this area is highly regulated, while the industry is under pressure to meet the regulations.
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What is more, society in general is more and more interested on how shipping performs environmentally. The fact is that shipping industry in the Balitc Sea faces strong competition. This leads to the need of producing more value with less resources, waste and pollution.
Here comes ECOPRODIGY. The project addresses both the environmental and economic challenges posed by increasing eco-efficiency at all stages of the vessel lifecycle from design and building to the use, maintenance, stowage as well as conversion processes.
Specifically, ECOPRODIGI provides information regarding key eco-inefficiencies of the industry. Nevertheless, it also develops and pilots digital solutions to better measure, visualise and optimise the industry processes.
ECOPRODIGI also improves the capacity of the maritime industry actors to enhance eco-efficiency in their operations by providing training for the key actors and by designing a digitalisation road map for increasing eco-efficiency
The project believes in the digitalization potential and notes than it remains largely unexploited in the maritime industry. To mitigate this, ECOPRODIGI aspires to enhance the public support for digitalisation by providing policy workshops and recommendations.
The project has started from October 1017 and will last until October 2020. Its total budget amounts to € 4,243, 492, of which € 2,996,231 come from the European Regional Development Fund and 141,125 from Norwegian funding.
Among the key partners of the project we find:
- University of Turku;
- Aalborg University;
- Chalmers University of Technology;
- Danish Maritime;
- DFDS;
- J. Lauritzen.
