BLUEWEEK 2024 Programme
Monday, April 8th, 2024
JIPs, EU projects or Association meetings (Project members only meeting)
14.00 – 18.00
Top Tier JIP: Project meeting
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Ocean Energy & Blue Life Seminars
in collaboration with eMSP NBSR and the European Blue Forum
chair: Floor Spaargaren , Erik-Jan de Ridder, Chris Mc Dougall (European Blue Forum)
OCEAN ENERGY & BLUE LIFE SEMINARS
9.00
Welcome words & agenda of the day
Multi-source energy parks: Integrating floating solar in a wind farm in the French Mediterranean.
Sarah Kluge, Project Manager, Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC)
Regenerating the ocean and driving defossilisation by cultivating seaweed to create bio-based energy, fertilizer and materials.
Natasha Yamamura, CEO, Algae Scope
Reaching Sustainability Goals from the Venice Laguna.
Francesco Suzzi, Co-founder, Sea the Change
Reduction of Underwater Radiated Noise: Making Ships Quieter and more Efficient.
Frans Hendrik Lafeber, Senior Project Manager, MARIN
10.50 – 11.20
Coffee break
Operational insights on major components replacement for floating wind.
Ilmas Bayati, Head of Floating Wind & Advanced Programs, PEAK Wind
Oristano CAP, unlocking floating wind in the Mediterranean Sea.
Eugenio di Belgiojoso, Oristano CAP srl, a Seawind Ocean Technology Holding subsidiary
Road2SID: Roadmap to synergy in Design
Floor Spaargaren, Project Manager, MARIN
Maritime Transport, sustainability and future issues in the Northern Adriatic Sea
Sebastiano Carrer, Head of Environment and Territory Department, Thetys SPA
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.10
Opening words afternoon session
Floor Spaargaren, MARIN
14.10 – 14.30
European Blue Forum position paper and panel discussion: What do want from European Seas by 2030, and are we asking too much?
Chris Mc Dougall, European Blue Forum
14.30 – 14.50
Policy brief Sustainable Blue Economy and Multi-use, opportunities for food and nature
Nathalie Scheidegger, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
14.50 – 15.30
Panel discussion
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
Workshop sessions
Workshop 1 – Identify opportunities & bottlenecks.
Opportunities and challenges will be identified for the transition towards a sustainable blue economy at the Adriatic Sea. The energy transition, sustainable food production and nature conservation will be considered.
Workshop 2 – Actions & Prioritizing
The identified opportunities and challenges will be translated to required actions to benefit from opportunities and overcome challenges. Lastly the identified actions will be prioritized resulting in a roadmap for the Adriatic Sea to transition to a fully sustainable blue future.
18.00
WELL-DESERVED NETWORK DRINKS
JIP meetings (Project members only meeting) – lunch at same time than Seminar
9.00 – 18.00
Top-Tier Joint Industry Project: project meeting
9.00 – 13.00
FC-series Joint Industry Project: Closing meeting
14.00 – 18.00
Tripping Joint Industry Project: Potential members, informative meeting
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
9.00 – 13.00
Blue Forum & Vessel Operator Forum
chair: Guilhem Gaillarde & Patrick Hooijmans & Enrico Della Valentina
BLUE FORUM & VESSEL OPERATORS FORUM
9.00
Opening Blue Forum: city of Venezia
9.15 – 10.15
Session 1: Local & global operations, similar challenges but alternative needs and solutions
The Waterborne Transport in Venice and ACTV plans for the Future of Sustainable Mobility in Venice
Gianluca Cuzzolini, COO, ACTV
Siemens Gamesa: Offshore Service Fleet Decarbonisation Initiatives
Sophia Brans, Naval Architect, Siemens Gamesa
Regional and fleet Energy Transition: NEEDS, a techno-economical scenario Simulation Model
Antoine Bedos, Project Manager, MARIN
10.15 – 11.15
Session 2: Disruption, Revolution or Adaptation?
Project VELA: How does Wind Propulsion Opens New Design Spaces?
Tanguy Leterrier, Project Lead, VPLP
LIFE OCEAN – the first superyacht with green methanol on board
Federico Tocchi, San Lorenzo R&D Department
Challenges when Converting to Methanol
Remi Menard, Lead Naval Architect, CMA Ships
11.15 – 11.45
BREAK
11.45 – 13.15
Session 3: Heritage, Environment, community and the pathway to protect them
Air pollution from ships in Mediterranean port cities: Next steps towards zero-emission shipping ?
Kare Press-Kristensen, Senior Advisor, project LIFE4MECA, Green Global Future
Investments for the realisation of a Cold Ironing system as part of the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority (AdSP MAS) actions
Antonella Scardino, Secretary General, Noth Adriatic Sea Port authority – Ports of Venice and Chioggia
What does a fossil fuel free Sustainable Blue Economy look like, and how can we as a community support the transition?
Chris Mc Dougall, Associate Director, Atkins Realis
Short Pitch presentations of upcoming JIP’s initiatives:
Alert JIP / STA 2.0 JIP / WISP 3 JIP / Blue Route initiative
Annoucement BlueWeek2025 and flag exchange with Venezia
JIP meetings (Project members only meeting) – parallel session to the seminar
9.00 – 13.00
Tripping Joint Industry Project: Project kick-off (members only)
13.15 – 14.15
LUNCH
14.15 – 18.00
MOSE PRESENTATION AND SITE VISIT
14.15
The Mose: a technological and innovative defence system
Dario Berti, Consorzio Venezia Nuova
15.00 – 18.00
Site visit: MOSE (for participants of Forum and JIP meeting)
Departure by boat to the artificial island of Bocca del Lido, from the seminar’s location
19.30 – …
Cordial invitation extended by VELA:
BlueWeek participants are invited for an exquisite dinner at the Casino Di Venezia, on the Grand Canal in Ca’ Vendramin Calergi (ACTV waterbus stop San Marcuola)
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
Natural Propulsion & Zero Emission seminars
chair: Rogier Eggers / Gavin Allwright (IWSA) & Christian Veldhuis
9.00 – 13.00
NATURAL PROPULSION SEMINAR
Simulation of A Novel High Thrust Stationary Wind Sail Enabled by CoFlow JetCoflow JetLift
Gecheng Zha, CEO, Coflow Jet Lift
Canopée: from design to sea trials and early days performance assessment
Brendan Guillouzuic, Performance Prediction and analysis Manager, AYRO
Aero Sail System (Universal Antomated Sails)
Erik Sifrer, Author / co-Owner & Creative Director, Mides Design
Stability study of a wind assisted ship equipped with anti-heeling tanks
Nicolas Bathfield, Project Manager, Stena Teknik
High Fidelity Modeling’s Role for WASP systems Enhanced Power Performance Predictions and Fuel Savings in route
David Bujeda, I+D Engineer / Developer, Caponetto-Hueber
Creating a combined propulsion and hydro generation system for sailing yacht ‘project Zero’
John Huisman, Senior Project Manager, MARIN
BREAK
Power Saving Predictions in Wind Assisted Ships – EEDI, ITTC and beyond
Sofia Werner, Lead Researcher Wind Powered Ships
Optimising Wing Sails: Smart Green Shipping ‘s new FastRoute weather routing software
James Mason, Data Scientist, Smart Green Shipping
Does Wind Propulsion have an impact on economy of Scale
Alexandre Bellot, Project Coordinator, LMG Marin
13.00 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 17.40
ZERO EMISSION SEMINAR
14.00 – 15.40
Session 1: Energy saving and power & energy system solutions
NepAir: an ALS system coupled to the air exhaust of PAC H2 systems
Clement Rousset, Co-founder & Head of engineering, Neptech
First Results of Horizon Europe Action SYNERGETICS: lessons learned from our Pilot Database
Niels Kreukniet, Project Manager, EICB
Methanol and Ammonia ICE developments
Kaj Portin, General Manager Sustainable Fuels & Decarbonisation, Wartsila
Alternative Marine Fuels: which fits more
Andrea Cogliolo, Marine Excellence Centre Senior Director, RINA
Challenges in sustainable Power, Propulsion and Energy systems design: assessment and verification of requirements in an early design phase & Case study of a Hydrographic Survey Vessel.
Gianluca Giurco, Project Manager Marine Power Systems, MARIN
15.40 – 16.10
BREAK
16.10 – 17.30
Session 2: Towards zero emission in Venice
Hull optimisation of a hybrid-electric vessel for Venice urban waterways
Germano Degan, Chief Technology Officer, Green VENErgy
Exploring waterbus hybridization with dynamic programming
Federico Miretti, Research Fellow, Politecnico di Torino
Analyzing Operating Data to Design Hybrid Systems for Optimal Efficiency – Venice case study
Andrea Vianello, Mechatronic Engineer, Vulkan
Electrifying Power & Energy Systems in Waterborne Transport
Gianmarco Teso, Co-founder / Naval Architect and Marine Engineer, Sea Green Engineering
17.30 – 17.40
Closure
17.40
WELL-DESERVED NETWORK DRINKS
Friday, April 12th, 2024
JIPs, EU projects or Association meetings (Project members only meeting)
9.00 – 11.00
INTERNATIONAL WINDSHIP ASSOCIATION members meeting
11.00 – 13.00
NEEDS user-group: Information workshop and possible way forward
11.00 – 13.00
WISP 2 Joint Industry Project: Closing meeting
14.00 – 17.00
WISP 3 Joint Industry Project: Kick-Off meeting
