Maritime Lighthouse Project during the Digital Week

The Digital Week Kiel, an event in the North of Germany, is a hotspot for digital topics, trend radar and knowledge cloud. During the #DiWo23, Kiel University will take part alongside with the Kiel-based company north.io from 7th to 13th May 2023. "After winning the last Schleswig-Holstein Digitalization Award, our participation in the Digital Week Kiel is a natural home game, because the digitalization of the ocean is one of the topics of our time," says Jann Wendt (36), CEO of north.io GmbH, initiator of Marispace-X and alumnus of Kiel University.

How can we help find and recover munitions hidden in the sea? What are the future opportunities for students in the field of maritime digitization? How does the maritime digitalization project Marispace-X contribute to the energy transition? What are the advantages of the European cloud project Gaia-X for the future of our maritime data? Environmental geographer Wendt will answer these questions together with Natascha Oppelt, professor at Kiel University, on May 11 from 4:30 to 5:30 pm in the rooms of north.io GmbH in the Wissenschaftspark (Einsteinstrasse 1, 24118 Kiel). They will also provide insights into their use cases "Biological Climate Protection" and "Munitions in the Sea", which Oppelt and Wendt are leading.

"As a research-oriented company, the contact with science is very important to us. In order for Schleswig-Holstein to remain at the forefront of maritime digitalization, we depend on the exchange with universities, but also on young talent from universities," says Wendt. "Because satellite-based research of seagrass meadows, for example, generates large amounts of data, we need projects like Marispace-X. This is the only way we can meaningfully assess the potential of biological climate protection. In order to mitigate climate change, we now have to link both technical and natural processes", adds Oppelt, who is head the Earth Observation and Modeling (EOM) working group at the Institute of Geography at Kiel University and is participating in the Digital Week event together with Professor Matthias Renz from the Institute of Computer Science at Kiel University. Both researchers are involved in the priority research area of Kiel University, Kiel Marine Science (KMS).

After the talk, there will be a get-together with the project partners to discuss Marispace-X, data spaces and future opportunities, and to get to each other. The event is free of charge and in German.