• Vigo, Spain
• Campus do Mar of the Universidade de of Vigo
• Juny 16th, 18th, 2021
• martech-workshop.org
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• This year begins the so-called Decade of the Oceans, promoted by the United Nations with the slogan "The Science we need for the oceans we want".
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• Based on the premise that global investment in marine science research is insufficient, the main objective is to promote scientific advances in this field that support a sustainable management of the oceans, promoting a greater and more efficient flow of information between different regions or interest groups.
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• These developments will seek to resolve issues ranging from the identification of sources of pollution, the mapping of marine ecosystems or the food supply. All these new discoveries go through a better capacity for understanding the ocean and its behaviour and, therefore, through the development of increasingly advanced and precise measurement technologies.
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• As set out in the World Ocean Science Report 2020, the access to the technical infrastructure needed for marine science remains unevenly distributed, so the development of low-cost technologies will also allow for the transfer of ocean technology to less developed areas.
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• Linked to this technological development, promoting open access to ocean data, considering these a common good of society, will be another key aspect of the next decade.
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• Spain is already betting on this strategy through the European recovery funds. And Galicia leads one of the proposals in marine sciences focused on new technologies for observing the marine environment.
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• In this context, the MARTECH 2021 workshop, co-organized by the Campus do Mar of the Universidade de of Vigo and the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, responds to the most current needs in the marine field. This conference is a meeting point between different professionals in marine technologies, where they can share experience, knowledge, data and information and capabilities of this scientific community.
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• Welcome to MARTECH 2021
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• Ana Bernabeu
• Chairwoman of the Organizing Committee
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