Empowering the Sustainable Port - a preparation project

Purpose and goal:

The overall aim of the project has been to create conditions for sustainable competitive Swedish port ecosystem to support Swedish industry. Through a variety of meetings and workshops, the project has prepared a larger system-oriented gathering of forces towards sustainable ports where conditions have been created to establish an innovation arena with a primary aim to support the Swedish port industry, i.e. the port, its stakeholders and technology/service providers.

Expected results and effects:

Based on Swedish ports´ concept and roadmap for the sustainable port, the project has created the conditions for Vinnova to be able to launch a call for proposals for system demonstrators aimed at Sweden´s ports and its ecosystem. Approach and implementation: The project has:

-Specified how the mission-oriented way of working with the associated system demonstrator is suitable for Swedish ports to respond to the demands for increased sustainability. -Identified and anchored various system demonstrator initiatives for the sustainable port

-Identified the central role as a collaboration arena, based on the Lighthouse-based initiatives focus group ports and I.hamn, to maintain and develop collaboration around port development