Open Call
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Introduction
MARTEC opens a trans-national call from 3. - 31.05.2010 for collaborative research projects in different areas of maritime technologies. This call is initiated by partner institutions from eight European countries from the ERA-NET MARTEC consortium. Each country has own national maritime programmes and the financial support will be awarded by the national funding institutions for project duration of up to 36 months. Priority funding is for projects which include at least two independent industrial participants from two partner countries.
Only projects, which receive funds from at least two countries, will be supported by MARTEC.
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Call Flyer
Next steps - time table and procedures
A one stage application procedure will be implemented by this call. Consortia should send only the MARTEC proposal form, in addition to any further information required by the relevant national funding institution (see specific regulations). Proposals will be pre-checked on national level and finaly evaluated at international level.
| Time table | |||
| Date | Action | ||
| February 2010 | publication of common call | ||
| 3. - 31. May 2010 |  | upload of full proposals to MARTEC web page | |
| Summer 2010 | evaluation of full proposals by international experts | ||
| Sep. 2010 | common evaluation and ranking | ||
| Oct. - Dec. 2010 | funding decision; contract negotiations | ||
| Jan. 2011 | start of high ranked projects | ||
1. The different areas of maritime technologies
This announcement represents the second MARTEC call and it is meant to establish transnational collaborative research projects in eight European countries on maritime technology areas within:
- Shipbuilding
(new ship types, structures, ship design and construction, production processes and technology) - Ship and port operation
(vessel traffic services, manoeuvring, cargo handling, waste & ballast water facilities) - Maritime equipment and services
(bridge systems, information and communication technologies, telematic applications, engine and propulsion systems, automation systems, cargo handling, maintenance) - Inland water and intermodal transport
(shipbuilding, maritime equipment and services, ship and port operation, transport chains, hinterland connections, short sea shipping, traffic management, transport logistics, intermodality, interoperability) - Offshore industry/offshore technology
(new structures, design and construction, production processes and technology, equipment and services, maintenance and decommissioning of offshore structures, offshore operations, underwater process technology, underwater technology, underwater robotics (AUV, ROV)) - Offshore structures for renewable energy
(water power (wave, tidal and current energy technology), wind power (wind energy technology, installation technologywater power (wave, tidal and current energy technology), wind power (wind energy technology, installation technology) - Polar technology
(arctic sea transport, shipbuilding, equipment and services for polar regions, operation of ships, offshore structures) - Fishing/aquaculture
(development of platforms and devices, fish farms in open sea, new generation of fish-farms, teledetection, applications for analysis’s, information and communication technologies, automation and monitoring)
There are also additional topics, which can be included in several priority areas.
- Safety and security
ship safety (collision, grounding, evacuation, fire safety, search and rescue, manoeuvring, cargo handling and lashing, tracking and tracing, first aid), Ship and port security (preventive measures against terrorism, piracy) - Environmental impact
(reduction and improvement of the efficiency of fuel and energy consumption, anti fouling, ballast water handling, wash waves, waste management, recycling, monitoring, reduction of emission, prevention of contamination, noise and vibration) - Human elements
(training aspects, education, improvement of working conditions, intellectual property rights (IPR))
2. The funding organisations
The research projects initiated by this call can be financed by the following funding organisations from the ERA-NET MARTEC consortium:
- Denmark – Danish Maritime Fund (not a MARTEC partner)
- Denmark – Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (not a MARTEC partner)
- Finland – Tekes, the National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES)
- France – Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea (MEEDDM)
- Germany – Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
- Norway – Research Council of Norway (RCN)
- Poland – National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)
- Spain – Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
- Sweden – The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
Participants from these countries can be funded by the aforementioned national funding organisations according to their respective national rules. The MARTEC call is a call with a limited number of projects (e.g. pilot call with 4 and second call with 7 funded projects).
3. MARTEC Call Documents
Call Text
The call text comprises the call preamble, time schedule and the common regulations. The regulations within this document are the same in all involved countries.
Download Call text (common regulations)
Proposal Form
The proposal form has to be completed in English and requires some project information (e.g. project summary, brief project description, state of the art in R&D, technological foreseen, etc.) The proposal form can be downloaded from the MARTEC website. Registered project coordinators have to upload the completed form to the MARTEC website. It has to be submitted by 31 May 2010 (17:00 CET).
Download proposal form (common form) Download manual - The electronically submission
National regulations
The specific regulations are individual according to the national funding rules and only related to potential applicants from the respective countries. The call will be published within a limited time period (February – 31 May, 2010) in all involved countries. Please consult your national contact person (below) for further details.
Download national-regulations (see under the related country in table below)
4. National Regulations and Contact Persons
| National Contact Person | National Regulations |
| France | |
Mr. Patrick Vidal (MEEDDM) | contact Mr. Vidal |
| Norway | |
| Mr. Sigurd Falch (RCN) Email: SF@RCN.NO Phone: +47 22 03 73 02 | National regulations |
| Germany | |
| Mr. Ralf Fiedler (PtJ) Email: r.fiedler@fz-juelich.de Phone: +49 381 5197-282 | National regulations |
| Denmark | |
| Mr. Mogens Schrĝder Bech (DMA) Email: MB@dma.dk Phone: +45 39 17 45 01 | contact Mr. Bech |
| Finland | |
Ms. Merja Salmi-Lindgren (AFMI) Phone: +35 89 19 23 38 5 | Lindgren |
| Poland | |
| Mr. Jakub Sypieñ (NCBiR) Email: sypien@ncbir.pl Phone: +48 51 50 61 53 9 | contact Mr. Sypieñ |
| Spain | |
| Mr. Carlos Sánchez Lafuente (INNOVAMAR) Email: csanchez@innovamar.org Phone: +34 91 74 72 11 6 | National regulations |
| Sweden | |
| Mr. Per Ekberg (SMA) Email: Per.Ekberg@Sjofartsverket.se Phone: +46 11 19 13 72 | contact Mr. Ekberg |
