Project Objective

The maritime industry has become increasingly reactive to short-term pressures in the market place. With actual survival becoming the focal point of life and decisions, almost no stakeholders in the marine transport industry have energy for long-term thinking. In combination with ever-increasing globalization – or virtualization – the marine industry has developed the urgent need for a European Virtual Maritime Institute that will provide long term focus for strategic policy and business decisions; will provide methodologies for creating medium and long- term scenarios; will derive the demand for novel techniques and technology solutions; will support the rapid and efficient delivery of innovative tools and solutions to equip the European Maritime Sector to meet future challenges, and will provide a formal and legal model for other Virtual Institutes.