05 February 2025 - 5th Cross-Cluster Conference Hydrogen, Hamburg
The maritime industry is at the centre of global efforts to decarbonise. Hamburg has set itself ambitious climate targets and is actively driving the development of a regional hydrogen economy. Alternative hydrogen-based fuels such as methanol and ammonia play a key role on the road to emission-free shipping.
But how can we ensure that these fuels are available in the right quantity and quality? What are the procurement challenges and what will the maritime supply chain of the future look like? These and other questions are at the centre of our 5th Cross-Cluster Conference Hydrogen.
17 February 2025 - 27th Kiel Marketplace: Coastal protection of the future, Kiel
The storm surge of the century in October 2023 caused enormous damage to the Baltic Sea coast and its residents. Dykes broke, 5,600 hectares of land and several towns were flooded. The damage has now largely been repaired, but is that enough?
Due to climate change, extreme events such as storm surges are becoming more frequent, which is why previous protection concepts need to be reconsidered. In addition to raising dykes, their relocation is also being discussed in order to achieve greater safety for Schleswig-Holstein's coasts and their residents through natural coastal protection.
18 February 2025 - Meet & Greet with the MCN Board of Directors in Bremen
The Bremen office of the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany is pleased to invite you once again to a Meet & Greet with the MCN Board of Directors. The event will take place as part of the board meeting and offers you the opportunity to talk to the board and the Bremen office and find out about their work.
The event will take place on the premises of SAACKE GmbH, which will introduce itself, offer a guided tour of the technology centre and present selected exhibits. The tour will be followed by a get-together.
19 February 2025 - ESG - everything easy? Hamburg
The Maritime Law Section of the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany (MCN) invites you to a specialist group meeting. The speakers will present relevant ESG regulations and provide an insight into practice. The four keynote speeches will therefore focus on "Environmental Social Governance", a topic that small and medium-sized companies in particular have largely been able to avoid to date. We will look together at whether this is still possible and what requirements larger companies have of business partners - with exciting insights from the field, exclusively provided by two shipping companies and a classification society.
21 February 2025 - Maritime Breakfast MV, Rostock
The maritime breakfast: The series of events organised by the MCN in MV in the "Haus der Schiffahrt" at Reederei Laeisz G.m.b.H. in Rostock is a quarterly meeting to discuss maritime topics. A short keynote speech sets the mood for the topic, which can then be discussed over breakfast. The focus is on networking and thematic exchange.
25 February 2025 - Virtual regulars' table of the Personnel and Qualification specialist group, online
The virtual regulars' table takes place monthly and is intended to provide a framework for networking, exchanging views on current topics relating to personnel and qualification, and planning joint activities.
Registration is not required.
03 March 2025 - Kick-off event for the MCN Cup 2025, online
For the third time, the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany (MCN) is awarding the MCN Cup in four categories, thereby contributing to the promotion of Innovation and transformation approaches in the maritime industry with. The aim is to stimulate innovative solutions, make these solutions and their developers more visible and thus accelerate the transformation process and technology transfer.
To mark the start of the submission phase, we cordially invite you to the virtual kick-off event of this year's competition. Here we present the prize categories, the conditions of participation and the jury members and answer all your questions about the MCN Cup.
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And don't forget, this year's Maritime Convention is taking place in Berlin on 12 November. However, participation is by invitation only, and the event is already fully booked.