Event Description

Maritime Research Alliance Research Festival 2025

GRAND CHALLENGES, SECTORAL TRANSITION, AND THE ROLE OF RESEARCH

On 15 & 16 May 2025 Maritime Research Alliance is organizing a 2-days research festival at University of Southern Denmark in Odense. 

Day 1 is for everyone with an interest in maritime research. During the day, maritime researchers from all over Denmark will present their ongoing research activities. This will be combined with panel debates with experts from the maritime research community on hot topics such green transition, geopolitics and digitalization. In the afternoon we will celebrate the 5 years anniversary of Maritime Research Alliance followed by a conference dinner.

Day 2 is an internal network day. Participation in this day is reserved for maritime researchers. Throughout the day we will focus on cross disciplinary and cross institutional reseach collaboration and funding opportunities.

Participation is free for everyone (participants as well as presenters)

We hope to see you on one or both days.

PROGRAM 15 May 2025:

Grand challenges, sectoral transition, and the role of research

9.00 - 9.30       Registration and light breakfast

9:30 - 9:50       Welcome by Thomas Roslyng Olesen (MRA)

9.50 - 10.00     Introduction by Charlotte Harder (Shippingwatch)

10.00-10.30    Keynote speak by Marc Levinson

10.30-11.15    Poster session

11.15-12.15    Panel 1 Geopolitics 

12.15-13.15    Lunch

13.15-14.15    Panel 2: Bio-diversity and the green transition  

14.15-15.00    Poster session

15.00-16.00    Panel 3: Digitalization and AI 

16.00-16.15    Concluding remarks

16.15-17.30    MRA 5 years reception: Drinks, snacks and music

17.30-             Conference Dinner

PROGRAM 16 May 2025 (internal day for maritime researchers): 

Grand challenges, research collaboration, and research funding

9.00 -9.30        Registration and light breakfast

9.30-9.40         Welcome by Thomas Roslyng Olesen (MRA)

9.40-10.10       Funding pitches

10.10-11.30     Breakout sessions (theme based)

11.30-12.30     Lunch

12.30-14.15     Project development with funds

14.14-14.45     Networking

14.45-15.00     Sum up and thank you

At the poster sessions you can meet:

Agnieszka Nowinska and Gisele Msann (Aalborg University Business School) presenting "AI disruption in chartering"

Agnieszka Sivertsen and Line Reinhardt (Roskilde University) presenting "Stowage Algorithms and AI for Energy Efficient Liner Shipping"

Annette Skovsted Hansen (Aarhus University) presenting: "Port Effectiveness and Public-Private Cooperation - a research project about Denmark and Ghana"

Asli Arda (University of Copenhagen) presenting "Digital Pilotage"

Aurelian Dodis (SDU) presenting "Predictive maintenance and condition monitoring for marine combustion engines"

Casper Aaskov Drangsfeldt (SDU) presenting "A probabilistic machine learning framework for vibration-based structural health monitoring of ship gearboxes subjected to variable operational conditions"

Casper Raahede (Aarhus Maskinmesterskole) presenting "Alarms onboard ships"

Elma Ramic (SDU) presenting "Motion Sickness Among Wind Turbine Technicians Onboard Smaller Working Vessels"

Henrik Sornn-Friese (CBS) presenting "Port Innovation for the green transition"

Janne Fritt-Rasmussen (AU) Environmental risk related to climate-neutral fuels in the shipping industry"

Jonas Palmgren (SDU) presenting "Definition of optimum Electrical load balance"

Julia Pahl (SDU) presenting "The MISSION Project"

Kate Markhvida (CBS) presenting "Why does collaboration fail? Learnings from TradeLens in container shipping"

Komeyl Baghizadeh (SDU) presenting "Data-driven optimization od vessel operations for offshore windfarm maintenance"

Kristina Siig (SDU presenting"Blue Security in the Baltic"

Lisa Froholdt (SDU) presenting "If Popeye can do it, can Olive too? A case study of diversity at sea in the cargo segment"

Luisa Giuliani (DTU) presenting "Vessel safety against vehicle fires"

Martin Jes Iversen (CBS) presenting "The great integration - maritime digitalizationand strategy

Michael Barfoed (DTU) presenting "Transforming portsinto sustainable energy transition hubs: A technical review of renewable energy systems integration and alternative fuels"

Michele Acciaro (CBS) presenting "Managing biodiversity in the port sector - experiences from three world ports"

Petar Sofev (CBS) presenting "Stakeholder dynamics in port cities"

And many more...