Visionary Concepts for vessels and floating structures - VISIONS
VISIONS is an EU FP6 (EU Framework Programme 6) Network of Excellence. It is a pre-competitive network initiative of the European shipbuilding industry, together with the European maritime universities and leading research institutes. It implements an annual creative process for the definition and validation of visionary concept ideas for vessels and floating structures. Answering to professional market and society scenarios for the next 5-15 years, VISIONS is a “Think Tank” for product ideas with medium to long term commercialisation perspective.
The European Maritime VISIONS Network is covering 5 market oriented Business Areas:
- Maritime Tourism/Leisure
- Short Sea Shipping
- Inland Shipping
- Deep Sea Shipping
- Floating Infrastructures
and horizontally in 7 Expertise Fields:
- Market / Society Needs
- Technical Feasibility / Design
- Production
- Equipment / Systems
- Operation / Security
- Infrastructure / Logistics
- Safety / Environment
SSPA is the expert of Infrastructure/Logistics.
VISIONS started 1st of April 2005 and continues during 3.5 years. More information is available at the Project Website: