The 12 projects, focused on diversification, digitalization and sustainability, propose an investment of 20 million euros, of which 13 will be grants, and involve 26 companies (19 of them SMEs) and 10 autonomous communities.
SOERMAR (Society for the Study of Maritime Resources) leads together with ACLUNAGA, ASIME, Balearic Marine Cluster, MarCA Cluster and Basque Maritime Forum the grouping of the TECNAVAL 2025 project. The cluster, made up of 26 companies, has submitted 12 projects to the Naval Ecosystem PERTE with a budget of 20 million euros, of which 13 will be grants.
TECNAVAL 2025 is a tractor project that facilitates the access of SMEs to the Strategic projects of the Business Fabric Recovery Plan (PERTE), especially to the PERTE of the Naval Ecosystem, an objective that both SOERMAR and the regional clusters have promoted, holding coordination meetings, for more than 6 months, and bringing together technological interests to group companies and present the 12 primary projects belonging to the three blocks that the PERTE of the Naval Ecosystem required: diversification (5), digitalization (3) and sustainability (4).
The diversification block addresses both the design and development of processes that will enable innovation in the manufacture of prototypes for the use of wind as marine renewable energy (Offshore Wind) and the design and development of advanced ships and naval propulsion systems that use fuels from renewable sources (electrification through the use of green renewable energy sources), reducing the environmental footprint of ships to zero.
The tractor project of the digitalization block seeks to undertake new methods of production organization, through the implementation of advanced technologies and standards of serial manufacturing to the naval sector and to carry out the implementation of automation and robotization technology in the current welding processes, through motion tracking technologies and the application of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as new technologies that optimize production processes.
As regards the sustainability block, it focuses on the search for innovative technologies related to the reduction of the environmental footprint and impact of the naval sector, such as CO2 capture for implementation on board ships, new eco-designs based on the principles of circular economy for application to river navigation, new sustainable developments based on the use of robotics to improve the energy efficiency of marine heavy machinery and the sustainable and emission-free production of marine resources through the combined implementation of automation, sonorization and Blue Economy principles.
“The aim of all these projects is to revolutionize the marine sector to achieve technological evolution through the application of new and innovative technologies. Technologies that will also be applicable to the entire auxiliary industry, with a special participation of SMEs, which will achieve decarbonization and achieve zero emissions by 2050 and that are based on the fundamental principles of the Circular Economy and Industry 4.0“, summarizes Eva Novoa, general manager of SOERMAR.
The autonomous communities participating in the project are: Andalusia, Asturias, Cantabria, Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Community of Valencia, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Basque Country and the autonomous city of Ceuta.
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