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Visions’ Academic Contest Loop 4
targets to
increase the competitive advantage
of the European shipbuilding industry
by creating
innovative concept ideas
based on future business market scenarios.
A market segmentation in five business areas
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BA1: Maritime Tourism/Leisure
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BA2: Short Sea Shipping
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BA3: Inland Shipping
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BA4: Deep Sea Shipping
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BA5: Floating Structures
has been performed, helping us to better analyse and understand market forecasts.
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The aim of the Visionary Concepts competition is to generate innovative concept ideas for
vessels and floating structures to meet the long term market and society needs. The competition
is being organised by WEGEMT as part of the Network of Excellence VISIONS (Visionary Concepts for
Ships and Floating Structures) and will be repeated annually. The most interesting ideas will be
validated by experts and presented to the Industry. The best 3 will be awarded with a prize sponsored
by the European Shipbuilding Industry
VISIONS is a project funded by the European Union which is tasked with generating and
assessing visionary concept outlines for vessels and floating structures which may be brought
to the market in the next 10 to 20 years. The participation in the competition and the related
work are not funded.
Objectives
The primary objective of the competition is to encourage the development of more innovative concept
ideas for vessels and floating structures and to identify the technological advances that will be
required to realize these concepts. More specifically the participant will have to address issues like:
- How to increase market volume
- How to increase European market share
- How to minimize production costs or / and operation costs.
- How to increase flexibility.
- How to minimize life cycle cost.
- How to use old or new technology successfully applied in other branches but not yet in shipbuilding industries, for achieving the goals described above.
- Think in categories of Systems-Solutions and Systems-Optimisation instead of single Products even if the contribution considers just components.
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Registration
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The registration proceeds in 3 steps:
- Team leader applies for registration.
- Mr. George Smyrnakis (George.Smyrnakis@newcastle.ac.uk) checks the eligibility of the applicant.
- Team member can register.
"Instructions on How to Register" - please download here.
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The scheduled deadlines for the Visions 2009 Academic Competition are the following
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| Official start date for the contest |
15 - 10 - 2008 |
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| End of registration period/ abstract submission deadline |
30 - 01 - 2009 |
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| Final version submission deadline |
30 - 05 - 2009 |
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| Announcement of short listed ideas |
0ctober 2009 |
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| CESA awards / Industry presentation |
December 2009 |
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Prizes
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The first runner up will receive an overall winner’s certificate and a prize of €5000.00.
A certificate and a prize of €3000.00 and €2000.00 will also be available for second and third places respectively.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
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Question:
Hi
I have a problem. I am not using a Windows based computer system and I am having difficulties with opening the word document (.doc) templates.
What am I supposed to do?
Answer:
If anyone has any problems with opening the word documents please contact Mr. George Smyrnakis (george.smyrnakis@ncl.ac.uk) who will be able to support you with alternavive file formats of the template (i.e. .rtf etc)
Last update: 2006-10-25 08:51:04
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Question:
Hi!
In the extended draft description there is a item adressing sources of additional information.
Are we to write this as an ordinary reference list, which then will be of considerate length, or is there another way?
Kind regards
Ship of tomorrow
Answer:
Indeed, it is a reference list (where it is needed).
Last update: 2006-10-25 08:55:14
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Question:
Hi.
I unfortunately registered my team twice. Once as a contest participant, then as a visitor changing to a contest participant. My team members have registered using the team code to the latter team.
How should we go about to register the team members? Just register them again on this team code?
Answer:
It is recommended to deleted one of the accounts as well as one of the teams. To clarify this issue in detail please contact the webmaster Michal Czaplinski (michal@bal.eu)
Last update: 2006-12-20 09:02:54
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Question:
who can see my ideas / questions?
- my team?
- my team and webmaster?
- other teams?
- the whole world?
Answer:
The registered ideas are kept anonymously. Only the representives of WEGEMT and IMAWIS have full access to the whole information package. Furthermore the idea (without any relation to the authors-teams) is available for the consortium members of the VISIONS project. During the evaluation the chosen ideas will be also available for registered and selected experts.
The ideas are not available for other contest participants and visitors
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