Yesterday, 25th April 2018 the Monitoring Committee of the South Baltic Programme 2014-2020 approved among other 10 applications also the main application submitted by Hochschule Wismar (European Project Center Team) on 20th December 2017.
The key aim of the project is to support small ports in the new fast growing industrial trend – industrial and softer informational digitalisation, allowing them to improve their cargo and other transport services by adopting the new powerful trends coming from industry (Block Chain, Big Data management and their spill-overs on the small ports). The project will improve technical, ICT (focus on Industry 4.0 and new digitalisation trends, incl. Block Chain and other state-of-art technologies for ports) and strategic management capacity of small ports.
The planned project kick-start is 1st July 2018.
Planned project budget – ca. EUR 2 million.
Project Director – Prof. Dr. Gunnar Prause.
The application author and main project manager – Laima Gerlitz.
This project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF, 85%). The main project partners are seaports, academic institutions and research centres as well as business intermediaries from Klaipeda (Lithuania), Gdansk (Poland), Sweden (Karlshamn and Karlskrona) and Germany (Wismar, Rostock).
The project is also supported by a number of the Associated Partners – ports, policy institutions and intermediaries.
More information will follow soon.
More on the South Baltic Programme – here