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MAREXPO

Transeuropean Information Dissemination on Maritime Industry Related ICT Projects
ESPRIT 4: 26043 (08/97 - 02/99)
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General Information:

MAREXPO is committed to the dissemination of maritime research, technology and development (RTD) especially those achieved under the European Unions information technology programme (ESPRIT) and to the building of the Maritime Information Society. It will improve awareness of information and communication technology (ICT) and its potential to improve the industry's competitiveness in different maritime business processes. MAREXPO supports the Commission’s RTD programmes and stimulates the rapid take-up and implementation of IT-RTD results in industry, particularly by SMEs. MAREXPO thus supports and provides added value to the Commission’s activities on RTD and on the implementation of results. Additionally, mechanisms, activities and ser-vices offered by the Commission’s Maritime Task Force (MTF), and by industrial and regional organisations (COREDES, AMRIE) become more transparent to the entire maritime industry.

The basic objectives of MAREXPO are:

  • Increase awareness of European research programmes (especially ESPRIT) through active information of maritime projects performed under their auspices.
  • Broaden the basis and thus improving awareness of Information and Communication Technologies and its relevance and potential for maritime industry's competitiveness, and more generally for building the Information Society
  • To trigger interest in companies to benefit from available project results, to increase European collaboration and to become actively involved in future activities.
  • To support relevant instances in the Commission for cross-departmental co-ordination and to consolidate the current dialogue between industry and commission.
  • To contribute to the image creating process for the high technology sector maritime industry.

To achieve these objectives, the MAREXPO consortium, consisting of eight leading companies from the most relevant sectors in maritime industry with significant experience from more than 30 successful European research projects, performs the work in three major workpackages. One workpackage works on the preparation of major show-materials and show-pieces (brochures, multimedia presentations, physical demonstrators). Second, MAREXPO is represented on 12 major fairs and conferences on three continents in six countries. As a final workpackage MAREXPO culminates in a participation of MAREXPO at EXPO /98 in Lisbon, Portugal with the motto The Oceans, a Heritage for the Future. To further distribute knowledge and materials, MAREXPO offers co-operation and show-materials to complementary dissemination activities sponsored by other sources.

More info:
http://www.balance-bremen.de/marexpo/
Project page on Cordis

Contact:
 JOACHIM BRODDA
BALANCE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING
Contrescarpe 33
D-28203 Bremen - Germany
Tel: +49-421-33517 33 Fax: +49-421-33517 11

Email: joachim.brodda@balance-bremen.de

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