RoOT 2023
Rostock's Ocean Technology Summer School

Contact
Friederike Weith
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This year the RoOT Summer School will take place for the second time. Over a two-week course in September, 16 participants from academia and industry will have the opportunity to gain many insights various interdisciplinary aspects of ocean technology, with a special focus on the five fields of innovation which make up the cluster of the Ocean Technology Campus Rostock:
- Subsea Mobility & Autonomy
- Ocean Lense
- Digital Mission
- Sustainable Ocean Use
- Open Innovation
Specially tailored lectures and exercises will provide the participants with the required know-how to tackle real-world problems within various practical applications both on land and at sea (aboard Rostock's research catamaran Limanda). Participants will develop new approaches to solve problems in the field of ocean technology and to put them into practice. The program will also offer the opportunity to learn about sustainable ocean use and the advantages of open innovation, open source and generally out-of-the-box thinking. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to attend the cluster meeting of the Ocean Technology Campus cluster to present themselves and their work to the partners and members of the Ocean Technology Campus and to build up their network.
This year's RoOT summer school will contain sessions and hands-on exercises organized by the following institutes and companies:
- Chair of Ocean Engineering (University of Rostock)
- Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)
- Thünen Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries
- EvoLogics
- PlanetAI
- COVE – Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship & Stella Maris (Canada)
- more to follow
