As Morski writes, “How can robots clean up our mess?” was the topic of an online lecture organised by the Fraunhofer Centre for Maritime Logistics and Services from Germany, which presented the innovative and forward-thinking SeaClear project. The project is being partly implemented down in the extreme south of Dalmatia, more precisely in Dubrovnik-Neretva County.
The Seaclear project, its actual full title being “The search, identification and collection of marine litter with autonomous robots”, aims to develop autonomous robots for cleaning waste from the Adriatic seabed and is funded in one hundred percent by HORIZON 2020.
More than six million kuna for the area of Dubrovnik-Neretva County has been secured through this praiseworthy project, and the DUNEA Regional Agency and the University of Dubrovnik are currently the only Croatian partners.
The Croatian Adriatic seabed is unfortunately often the victim of human carelessness, and the area around the island of Lokrum and the Mali Ston bay, which is a very important area from the mariculture sector, were chosen as the pilot area, while the third location is the port of Hamburg over in the country of the project´s conception – Germany.
In addition to the DUNEA Regional Agency, an expert team of the University of Dubrovnik will also participate in this important partnership, as it has all the competencies for this demanding role when it comes to developing innovative solutions to the problem of waste removal from the Adriatic seabed.
The partnership also includes some of the world’s most famous organisations that will deliver proven hardware and four academic institutions with complementary expertise in underwater and air robotics, sensors, mapping and control. The project is worth a total of 37,099,342.50 kuna, and will be implemented from now until December 2023.
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