Innovation Platform Sustainable Sea and Ocean Solutions ISSS

Our oceans, seas and coastal areas face tremendous challenges caused by the climate crisis, environmental pollution, ecological pressures, human activities and an emotional disconnection.
At the same time, they play a crucial role for energy supply, raw material extraction, climate mitigation and adaptation, let alone our livelihood, wellbeing and the planet’s health.
Our vision is a climate-neutral continent through a completely green-blue transformed economy and society in 2050. Our mission is the responsible utilization of our oceans, to harness their potential and create additional value and future-proof jobs in the European marine and maritime sectors. Our goal is to develop and master innovative technologies for a sustainable blue economy to boost the European Green Deal and facilitate an internationally competitive European maritime industry.
ISSS envisions key enabling technologies for cutting-edge technological innovations and solutions for sea, ocean and subsea activities. To ensure healthy and resilient oceans, we will create shared infrastructures and data platforms through cross-cutting collaboration. Set on the shores of Europe, we will focus on European ocean activities and cross-link relevant national and European initiatives to form an integrated whole together with our industry partners. We aim for the rapid transfer and viable market uptake of our research and innovation activities into industrial applications within the three focus areas Raw Materials and Energy Harvesting, Aquaculture, and Ocean Cleaning in Europe’s sea basins. This will enable safe, cost-effective and sustainable offshore operations and provide reliable and accurate ocean data for better-informed decision-making by policy makers, businesses and investors.
Our objectives are to accelerate the development, application and implementation of new technologies and materials in industrial processes and adaptation within emerging, established and associated blue economy sectors.
By infrastructure investment and the intelligent coupling of existing structures, a research and innovation platform for sea and ocean solutions will be the world’s most efficient innovation provider for applied R&D. To this end, the Innovation Platform Sustainable Sea and Ocean Solutions ISSS addresses the entire value chain of a sustainable Blue Economy.