The Maritime Safety programme focuses on research, development and demonstration in the maritime safety field. The programme aims to contribute to the dissemination, utilisation and application of scientific and practical results in products, processes, services, the work organisation, the work environment and regulatory frameworks in the field of maritime safety. It should also contribute to a more intensive exchange of knowledge and the development of new networks between different fields of research and between researchers and other players in the shipping sector.
Calls for applications for project funds are directed at universities, colleges, institutes, companies and organisations in the public sector and relate to both the long-term development of knowledge on maritime safety and the more practical application of existing and new knowledge and experience.
Alongside the Maritime Safety programme, VINNOVA also has a special assignment in the field that concerns studies relating to the loss of the car and passenger ferry “Estonia” in 1994.
