Research Centre Centre for Maritime and Marine Research

Centre for Maritime and Marine Research is an interdisciplinary research center focusing on research and solutions for the maritime and marine area. The centre not only focusses on research in the area but also on outreach creating a link between students and researchers and the maritime and marine area.

Vision

The vision of the Centre for Maritime and Marine Research is to ensure a green, sustainable and innovative maritime and marine environment in the future. The center for maritime and marine research is to offer interdisciplinary research in line with RUCs strategic aims. The centre will be working across a broad spectrum of highly relevant research areas and education aspects ensuring collaboration with different external stakeholders in the maritime and marine sector including private companies and organizations, public institutions and NGOs.

The purpose of Centre for Maritime and Marine Research is to strengthen:

Collaboration with external parties in the maritime and marine area.
Student project activities within in the maritime and marine area through collaboration with external partners.
Research with in the area of maritime and marine area
RUCs position within the maritime and marine sector
Interdisciplinary research and externally funded projects within the maritime and marine area.

Focus

Centre for Maritime and Marine Research focusses on ensuring a sustainable, green and innovative maritime and marine area with focus on the following UN sustainable development goals:

SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth
SDG 9 Industry innovation and infrastructure
SDG 13 Climate action
SDG 14 Life below water

The aim is to ensure a healthy marine environment and industry ensuring a sustainable business with newest knowledge to ensure a 50% reduction of CO2 emissions by the maritime industry, which is the ambitious target, set by the International Maritime Organization.

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Contact

Line Reinhardt, Research Centre Leader // Associate Professor // liner@ruc.dk

Researches

Members of Centre for Maritime and Marine Research from Roskilde University
The Centre for Maritime and Marine Research participates in a number of research projects. Among them are:

RoRoGreen

The ROROGreen project will help to reduce the CO2 emissions within RORO shipping by developing digital tools to make loading and unloading of RoRo ships more efficient (it has been shown that this can result in a CO2 reduction of between 5% and 20%). The total grant is 9 million, of which RUC's share is 2.2 million. The grant comes from the Innovation Fund Denmark's Grand Solutions 2020 -2024. Collaborating partners are DFDS, Kockumation (loading software for vessels), Lorenz technologies (Drones for harbors), SDU and DTU.

MarinePlastic - The Danish center for research in marine plastic pollution

MarinePlastic works with plastic pollution from several angles. Among other things, the researchers will gather knowledge about the types, causes, extent, spread, decomposition and environmental consequences of the plastic pollution. It spans from abandoned fishing nets and waste to microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine environment. Collaborators are AAU, DTU, AU and the National Museum. The center is supported by the Velux Foundation.

Find the research projects at the Roskilde University Research Portal.