Programme

3rd

JUNE 2025, Tuesday
Welcome reception at Maritime Robotics venue from 18:30

4th

JUNE 2025, Wednesday
07:30
Morning run - starts in front of  Pirbadet (close to Rockheim)
8:30
REGISTRATION OPEN - Good morning coffee
08:50-09:00
WELCOME
Antonio Vasilijevic / Martin Ludvigsen, NTNU
09:00-10:30
Session 1: Keynote Speaker Session - Chair: Martin Ludvigsen, NTNU IMT
09:00-10:30

ERC AdG CRÈME: Articulated Marine Robots - Kristin Y. Pettersen, Professor NTNU ITK, Norway

United they Stand: the Beauty and Power of Cooperative Marine Robots ("Inspiring" EU projects: MORPH, WiMUST, ECOBOTICS, RAMONES) - António M. Pascoal, Professor IST, Lisbon Portugal   

Underwater perception at CIRS (DeeperSense – Deep-Learning for Multimodal Sensor Fusion, H2020) - Nuno Gracias, Associate Professor University of Girona, Spain

10:30-11:00
Coffee break, Networking and Poster session 
11:00-12:30
Session 2: Innovation and industry Session - Chair: Linda Cathrine Hald, Ocean Autonomy Cluster
11:00-11:15

Research and researcher driven innovation - Asgeir J. Sørensen, Professor NTNU IMT

11:15-12:30

Industrial project and company presentations (10 minutes each + Q&A)

MARITIME ROBOTICS AS (Norway) – Autonomous Navigation Systems & Uncrewed Surface Vessels; and the project SMAUG (Smart Maritime and Underwater Guardian)

BLUEYE (Norway) - Professional, portable and versatile underwater drones and the project BUGWRIGHT2 - Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls

EVOLOGICS GMBH (Germany) - Underwater Communication, Acoustic Positioning, Robotics Technologies and EU- funded projects

Company presentations (5 minutes each + Q&A)

CLEAN SEA SOLUTIONS (Norway) -Autonomous marine cleanup & real-time impact tracking

F & Z SOLUTIONS (Norway) - Lightweight, portable surface drone

WATER LINKED AS (Norway) -Autonomy with Disruptive Underwater Sensors

OCEAN ACCESS (Norway) - Into the Water Column: A Submersible Buoy for Smarter Ocean Monitoring

12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:00-14:00
Session 3:
  • Demonstrations: Blueye, Clean Sea Solutions, F&Z Solutions, Maritime Robotics, Ocean Access, Waterlinked, NTNU (milliAmpere)
  • MIR poster session
13:00-14:00

  • Student poster session

  • Technology demonstration (Brattøra)

14:00-15:10
Session 4: Research and Innovation Action Session. Chairs: Linda Cathrine Hald, Ocean Autonomy Cluster and Antonio Vasilijevic, NTNU
14:00-15:10

Company presentations (5 minutes each + Q&A)

KONGSBERG DISCOVERY (Norway) - Advancing Technology for the Whole Ocean Space

DEVELOGIC (Germany) - Underwater communication, monitoring, and data acquisition systems for marine applications

IN2 GROUP (Croatia) - Digitalization, smart ports and IoT

FAMELINE ENERGY (Cyprus) - Rental, consultancy and training for energy sector

Project presentations (10 minutes each + Q&A)

ONE-BLUE - Integrated approach to assess the levels and impact of conaminants of emerging concern on BLUE health and biodiversity modulated by climate change drivers and                                                                     SEACLEAR2.0 Scalable Full-cycle Marine Litter Remediation in the Mediterranean: Robotic and Participatory Solutions. Ivana Palunko, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia

Competence Centre of Sustainability Robotics (Related projects: ProteusDrone and DroneHub). Mirko Kovac, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

TRIDENT - Technology based impact assessment tool for sustainable, transparent Deep sea mining exploration and exploitation. Georgios Salavasidis, National Oceanography Centre, UK 

15:10-15:30
Coffee break, Networking and Poster session 
15:30-17:00
Session 5: Divers EU-funded projects. Chair: Fausto Ferreira, FER University of Zagreb  
15:30-17:00
Project presentations (10 minutes each+ Q&A)

RAMONES - Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems. David Cabecinhas.  IST University of Lisbon, Portugal

FAITH - Fostering Artificial Intelligence Trust for Humans towards the optimization of trustworthiness through large-scale pilots in critical domains. Alberto Topini, University of Florence, Italy

AEROSUB - Automated Inspection Robots for Surface, Aerial and Underwater Substructures. Edin Omerdic, University of Limerick, Ireland

CLIMAREST - Coastal Climate Resilience and Marine Restoration Tools for the Arctic Atlantic basin. Ida Beathe Øverjordet, Sintef Ocean, Norway

NETTAG+ - Preventing, avoiding and mitigating environmental impacts of fishing gears and associated marine litter. Ana Paula Lima, INESC TEC, Portugal

BRIGANTINE - Chemico-physical and multispectral Data fusion for Adriatic sea monitoring by autonomous vessel (Interreg), Luca Gemolotto, University of Udine, Italy

ILIAD - A data-intensive, cost-effective Digital Twin of the Ocean, Antonio Vasilijevic, NTNU Norway

17:00
TBD: VISIT TO AUR-Lab / Trondheim guided tour 
17:00
END OF DAY ONE
19:00
EMRA INFORMAL DINNER (to be booked in your registration form)

 

5th

JUNE 2025, Thursday
07:30
Morning run - starts in front of  Pirbadet (close to Rockheim)
08:45
Good Morning Coffee
09:00-10:30
Session 6: Widening Horizon Europe & Centres of Excellence. Chair: Ioannis Kyriakides, CMMI
09:00-10:30
Project presentations  (10 minutes each + Q&A) 

MARBLE  - Centre of Excellence in Maritime Robotics and Technologies for Sustainable Blue Economy. Nikola Miskovic, CoE Marble, Croatia

INESCTEC.OCEAN Centre of Excellence in Ocean Research and Engineering. José Almeida, INESC TEC, Portugal 

CMMI – MaRITeC-X Marine and Maritime Research, Innovation, Technology Centre of Excellence. Ioannis Kyriakides CMMI Cyprus

SeaTecHub - Excellence Hub on Eco-Innovative Technologies for Healthy and Productive Seas. Alberto Sposito, CMMI Cyprus

UWIN-LABUST - ERA Chair in Internet of Underwater Things. Roee Diamanti, University of Zagreb, Croatia

MONUSEN - MONtenegrin center for Underwater SEnsor Networks. Slavica Tomovic and Igor Radusinovic, University of Montenegro

LORELEI-X Long-endurance cooperative Robotic tEchnologies for Localisation of targets during Emergency Incidents. Ashok Kumar, CMMI Cyprus

MSP4Growth - An intelligent Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning system to support Blue Economy Sectors. (NextGenerationEU) Charis Petsas, GeoImaging

10:30-11:00

Coffee break and Networking

11:00-12:30
Session 7: Widening Horizon Europe & European Research and Education Alliance. Chair: Massimo Caccia, CNR
11:00-12:30

EU Widening actions, the Horizon Europe Work programme 2025:

Adeline Kroll, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, Policy Officer, RTD.A2 (unit "ERA Spreading Excellence and Research Careers")

  • Introduction, overview of Horizon Europe Work Programme 25, and potential lines for Work Programmes 26 and 27 (10min + 5min Q/A)

  • Engagement in Horizon Europe via the Hop-on Mechanism (10min + 5min Q/A)

  • European Excellence Initiative - EEI (15min + 10min Q/A) 

 

EOREA - The European Ocean Research and Education Alliance.  Introduction of Marine Robotics as a new Collaborative Research and Education Programmes (CREP) and discussion, Elena Paifelman and Massimo Caccia, CNR, Italy

12:30-13:30
Lunch
  
13:30
END OF DAY TWO 
or alternatively transfer to Trondhjem Biological Station – for Joint Master in Marine and Maritime Intelligent Robotics (MIR) Competition
14:00
MIR students - Marine Robotics Championship
15:30
MIR championship closing ceremony
16:00
DEFINITIVE END OF DAY TWO