| Summary: |
The MARINE project aims to create a Research and Innovation Network for Maritime Incidents in the Atlantic Area, capable of developing and transferring knowledge in this domain. The activities of the MARINE network will embrace the study of the necessary skills and capacities to face an incident during its several stages. On a security or environmental level, maritime incidents can be divided into several sequential stages:
Identify - identify potential incident sources and characterize maritime ecosystems;
Prevent and protect - mitigate potential incident sources; watch and monitor maritime space;
Prepare - allocate and place the necessary means to face any occurrences;
Respond - act whenever an incident occurs, making use of the means and data collected;
Recover - mitigate the consequences resulting from the incident, using the pre-incident characterization as a reference.
In each one of the aforementioned stages it is necessary to decide what to do (actions to perform, data to be collected) and how to do it (which technologies and systems to use). The main goal of the MARINE network is to bring different organizations together with the aim of setting up and boosting a cooperation network capable of promoting the creation and transfer of knowledge and technologies to face these issues.
The project consortium believes that the network to be created will be in the near future a reference network at an international level in the field of maritime incidents. |