{"id":1510,"date":"2012-11-23T17:28:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meerverstehen.net\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2020-12-11T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:13:26","slug":"something-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/es-tut-sich-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is happening..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Something is slowly happening in the maritime sector! On 9 November, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) announced that the Bundestag had decided to <a title=\"Press release BMWi 09.11.2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmwi.de\/DE\/Presse\/pressemitteilungen,did=524660.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"...to increase the funds for promoting innovation in German shipbuilding by one million euros. This means that the federal government will provide a total of 13 million euros in 2013 as part of the 'Innovative shipbuilding secures competitive jobs' funding programme...\"<\/a> ready.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One million euros is not a lot for a federal budget of 312.7 billion euros, but we're not complaining. But there's more - on the BMWi homepage we stumble across the \"Industry focus <strong>Maritime<\/strong> Economy\", which surprises us with the following excerpt:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\"A strong, competitive maritime economy is of great overall economic importance for a foreign trade-orientated country like Germany. <em>Maintaining and strengthening Germany as a maritime location is therefore one of the most important goals and fields of action of the German government's maritime policy.<\/em>\"<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><a title=\"Maritime industry focus of the BMWi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmwi.de\/DE\/Themen\/Wirtschaft\/branchenfokus,did=196298.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Sector focus on the maritime industry<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even if we are not (yet) convinced that the topic is as important to the federal government as it is presented here, it is worth reading the brief profile. <strong>Maritime<\/strong> Economy of the BMWi. There you will also find a reference to the\u00a0<em>National Masterplan <strong>Maritime<\/strong> <strong>Technologies<\/strong><\/em>whose aim is to <strong>\"...to increase the presence, perception and competitiveness of German marine technology on national and international markets.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Masterplan is based on the decisions made by the Bundestag in March 2007 and March 2009; the Masterplan itself was presented in July 2011: On 50 pages the <strong>maritime<\/strong> Techniques and <strong>Technologies<\/strong> and the master plan on how to optimise the <strong>maritime<\/strong> sector in Germany economically and technologically. In addition to the necessary networking <strong>more maritime<\/strong> interests, the masterplan formulates the aim of strengthening the maritime sector in society.<br \/>\nYou can read about this on page 21:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I. Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>(6) Improve industry image and public perception<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>An important goal is to raise public awareness of marine technology as a cohesive industry and to position it permanently. Marine technology is of great importance to people in many respects.<\/em> Outstanding technologies are needed in order to utilise the possibilities of the sea sustainably. Emphasising safety, environmental protection and nature conservation in marine technology also leads to greater acceptance. The safe extraction of oil and gas or other raw materials from the sea will only be possible in the coming decades if marine technology develops reliable new technologies. <em>This positive aspect should be more strongly recognised. To showcase the potential of marine technology, it is planned, for example, to utilise the important industry trade fair for maritime technologies, the SMM (Ship, Machine, Marine Technology) in Hamburg, or to examine the introduction of a national marine technology prize.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><a title=\"NMMT as PDF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmwi.de\/DE\/Mediathek\/publikationen,did=431034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Masterplan Maritime Technologies (NMMT), July 2011 as PDF<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That's all?!<br \/>\nAt least on this point, the masterplan falls well short. Anyone who now thinks that there is much more to discuss and possibly criticise about the NMMT than this one point is right. But: The masterplan already contains the important <strong>maritime<\/strong> The aim of this segment, however, is to unite players from politics, business and science with their intentions. <em>Improving public perception<\/em> be. After all, that was one of the three core claims of the masterplan in its introduction. The problem is not (only) the <strong>maritime<\/strong> sector for itself, but rather its <em>Significance and perception in the German economy, politics and society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The very idea of awarding prizes: experts honour high technology from their specialist field - this only guarantees that people will remain among themselves. This does not result in any added value in terms of publicising the topic! Using industry trade fairs such as the SMM to present the potential of marine technology is not a realisation, but a matter of course, a duty and not an optional extra. The sea blindness in society must be attacked, not with <strong>maritime<\/strong> action plans on their own territory to convert their own people! In other words: VW and Siemens, their medium-sized suppliers, the citizens and the politicians they elect must be a <strong>maritime<\/strong> Awareness and interest must be developed, they must be addressed and taken along.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And yet, something is happening: <em>At least there is a master plan!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"National Masterplan for Maritime Technologies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nmmt.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.nmmt.de<br \/>\n<\/a>Homepage of the Coordination Centre of the National Master Plan <strong>Maritime<\/strong> <strong>Technologies<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es tut sich langsam etwas im maritimen Sektor! Am 9. November meldete das Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Wirtschaft und Technologie BMWi, dass der Bundestag beschlossen hat \"...die Mittel f\u00fcr die Innovationsf\u00f6rderung des deutschen Schiffbaus um eine Million Euro zu erh\u00f6hen. Damit stellt der Bund 2013 insgesamt 13 Millionen Euro im Rahmen des F\u00f6rderprogramms 'Innovativer Schiffbau sichert wettbewerbsf\u00e4hige [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33,39],"tags":[148,149,150,151,152,153],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technologie-blog","category-blog","category-sicherheitspolitik-blog","tag-148","tag-bmwi","tag-bundesministerium-fuer-wirtschaft-und-technologie","tag-bundesregierung","tag-maritime-wirtschaft","tag-nationaler-masterplan-maritime-technologien"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}