Maritime Accelerator Cohort Announced

The maritime & ports sector is the gateway to some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, and presents innovation opportunities to deliver sustainable, equitable growth for our communities and economies.

The Maritime Accelerator has been announced, a brand-new, challenge-led programme powered by Connected Places Catapult and supported by several industry and academic partners. Its aim is to provide each of the selected SMEs with a programme tailored to their specific needs to help them maximise their commercial engagement. This will include modules focusing on investment readiness, business modelling, customer profiling, and enterprise selling.

The accelerator is supported by several industry and academic partners who took an active role in defining programme challenge areas: data, infrastructure and decarbonisation. They also took part in the cohort selection process, ensuring the programme focuses on significant sector challenges and de-risking innovation in the marketplace.

The strategic programme partners are DP World, National Oceanography Centre, National Shipbuilding Office, Port of Tyne, Serco, University of Plymouth

Congratulations to our members Ecomar Propulsion, OceanWise and Zizo for being selected.

Over the next five months, the cohort will receive business development, investment readiness and technical support from Connected Places Catapult along with expertise from the programme partners and opportunity to explore trials with them where applicable. The programme will culminate with a Showcase Event in early March 2023.

Read more here.