1. The Blue Growth Working Group Goals
To identify research and innovation needs in the area of Blue Growth;
To seek collaboration with stakeholders of other functions of Blue Growth (such as Blue Energy, Blue Food, Marine Mineral Resources, Blue Bio-Technology, Monitoring and Protection) with a view to develop common research and innovation projects and strategies;
Exchange with the Waterborne Transport Working Group, relevant authorities, relevant CSA/SA;
To report to the WATERBONE Support Group, as instructed, in particular on research and innovation content for future calls.
To provide EP and EC officials information on the specific chalenges facing BGWG players
Waterborne Blue Growth Working Group

2. The Blue Growth Working Group Actions
Identification of the research and innovation needs for the H2020 call headlines (June 2014)
Quest for collaboration from non Waterborne TP Blue Growth stakeholders
Position paper : “Blue Growth ‘Technology Bricks’ & Demonstrators For the preparation of offshore pilot project(s) - A Waterborne TP Blue Growth Working Group document, elaborated to support the European Commission DG RTD Blue Growth strategy development.
Waterborne Blue Growth Working Group

3. Blue Growth Working Group Actions
Proposed Roadmap

4. Blue Growth Working Group Challenges
Challenge 1 - Exploration, resource evaluation and monitoring.
The oceans are to date largely unexplored and therefore, before harnessing ocean resources, there is a compelling need to know the location, qualities and quantities of resources.
Challenge 2 - Technologies and engineering for seaborne and subsea activities.
The platform must be economically and environmentally sustainable, clean, safe, reliable, maintainable and self-sufficient (energy, fresh water, waste management …). At the same time, it must be able to deploy, recover, drive, and maintain a lot of equipment and tools required to work at and under the sea.
Challenge 3 - Smart and adaptive materials and structures
These materials and structures are needed to improve the vessel or offshore platform’s ability to operate in ever-changing environments and conditions.

5. Blue Growth Working Group Challenges
Challenge 4 – Specialized ships.
The new activities at sea brings forward the need for new vessels concepts, and more particularly specialised ships able to service these new activities, in heavy and harsh conditions e.g. in the arctic regions. These vessels could be: installation and maintenance vessels for renewable energy conversion, offshore platform deployment vessels, specialised vessels for aquaculture, etc.
Challenge 5 - Environmental baseline and impact assessment.
Another enabler to industrial activities at sea is the capability to set an environmental baseline (where we are now), and to assess the potential impact on the environment of the industrial activities.
Challenge 6 - Acceptability, Regulation and Legal issues.
Existing international regulations dealing with maritime offshore activities are either related to ships or oil and gas platforms. These may not suit the developments in Blue Growth. Through the evolution of sustainable development of the seas by introducing new technologies and operating conditions there will be the need to review and propose laws / regulations to ensure safe operation and level playing field.

6. Message conveyed to several events and conferences:
Conference Oceans of Tomorrow (November 27, 2014)
European Shipping Week Innovation Seminar -  (March 5, 2015)
Promoting Blue growth in Europe - Socialists & Democrats – (April 25, 2015)
JPI 1st Conference - (May 7, 2015 )
Intergroup Seas Rivers Islands and Coastal Areas – (May 12, 2015)
Oceans are planet’s future
The Blue Growth Economy is a major opportunity
for the Maritime Industry
Sea the Outer Space - This is similar to the space odyssey in the second half of the 20th century - a successful story… which is worth replicating
Waterborne Blue Growth Working Group

7. Maritime industries ready to move forward …
An INNOVATIVE APPROACH The « Maritime Engineering & Technology » Community
Business XXX
Specific technology and tools, not marine related
Maritime tech & tools required to bring this activity at sea
Business YYY
Specific technology and tools, not marine related
Maritime tech & tools required to bring this activity at sea
Business
- -
Specific technology and tools, not marine related
Maritime tech & tools required to bring this activity at sea
- - -
Business ZZZ
C O M E T
Community of Maritime Engineering & Technology
Waterborne Blue Growth Working Group

8. 4 enablers in parallel, not sequential:
Cooperation,
not competition…
Exploration, resource evaluation and monitoring (where, and how much);
Environmental baseline and impact assessment;
COMET - the community of Maritime Engineering and technologies - a transversal approach to the development of the required technologies and engineering (including materials, specialised ships, etc.);
Acceptability, Regulation and Legal issues
Large Scale Prototype / Demonstration / Test Base
E.S.S.  European Sea Station
Synergy with actual project (e.g. logistic hub off French Guiana, or deep sea mining in Wallis & Futuna islands)

9. Where the money goes… facts & figures
The European Maritime Industry
can’t do it on its own
Turnover of the European Industry
(Def + Com.)
Space  €6.5bn
Shipbuilding  €23.2bn
Aeronautics  €138.7bn
Car manufacturing  €843.4bn
(Car manuf. R&D Investment €32.3bn)
Annual European effort for Space Engineering & Technologies :
ESA  €4.4bn
Public Research - France
Plea for a
« European priority »
On Sustainable
Blue Growth

11. WATERBORNE – Blue Growth Working Group 2015 Working Group Secretariat
Working Group Secretariat
Pierre Perrocheau (SEA Europe)