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LIVERPOOL CITY REGION LOCAL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP (LCR LEP): ATLANTIC STRATEGY SUBMISSION OF PROJECT IDEAS 15 FEBRUARY 2013

The Liverpool City Region is pleased to respond to the recent call for suggestions for key investments and research priorities for the proposed Atlantic Strategy. Liverpool City Region and its partners will be a key component in the delivery of the European Union Atlantic Strategy, particularly due to its pivotal strategic seaboard location and exceptional mix of Port and associated maritime, business and logistics infrastructure; science, technology, research and innovation and higher education capabilities; business opportunities; offshore wind and tidal assets and pre-eminent cultural offer – perhaps most notably exemplified in through its delivery of European Capital of Culture 2008. Alongside these assets, it has a well established and mature capability for local and international partnership and collaboration. It brings to the Atlantic Strategy its ability to bring together the public, private and educational sectors around clusters of maritime economic activity and existing academic research and teaching excellence in a wide range of maritime and related fields. In particular, we would like to highlight:

Our existing activities in generating business and employment opportunities in the wider maritime, engineering, renewables and transport sectors which provide strong foundations to further enhance the city region’s role as a major international maritime and marine centre through the globally significant opportunities for new shipping and trade routeways which will open up following the completion of the Panama Canal expansion project. Continuing development of our natural assets will add to our contribution to sustainable energy generation and therefore to European and UK low carbon targets;

Our science, technology and learning capabilities will bring forward important developments in marine, maritime and environmental fields, contributing to Europe’s low carbon, climate change and innovation excellence goals and supporting economic growth and social inclusion through innovation. The International Festival of Business 2014, a UK event led by and hosted by the city region, will showcase leading edge technologies and businesses to the world, with a dedicated Marine and Maritime Theme within its 60 day programme;

Our continually evolving cultural offer and visitor infrastructure, such as the Liverpool Cruise Liner facility will make the city region one of Europe’s top destinations for maritime tourism;

The Liverpool City Region is well placed to make an important and substantial contribution to the ambitions of the Atlantic Strategy:

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Liverpool City Region is one of the major centres of population (1.5 mio people) and economic activity on the Atlantic Seaboard. We believe that Atlantic Seaboard cities must and will have a major role to play in the delivery of the Atlantic Strategy.

Liverpool City Region is a major and significant transport node on the Atlantic Seaboard; indeed, Liverpool is the 20th biggest container port in the EU in terms of containers moved and is developing a new deep sea container terminal capable of shipping post Panamax containers. It provides a major port and associated infrastructure, business, employment and research related opportunties.

It is ideally placed as a node for the future development and connectivity between blue/green economic growth. The Low Carbon and Renewables industries are an emerging strength of the city region, which provides the opportunity for providing new jobs for people. We are developing new energy solutions such as off shore renewables and new materials in energy storage (ENERMAT).

It has a proud and long history of maritime transport and industries, providing thousands of employment opportunities for local people. New industries are developing, particularly in relation to renewables, marine engineering and port logistics, based on partnerships between industry, the public sector and higher education institutions.

Due to its location, its higher education institutions and their R&D centres have developed centres of excellence in the marine field – some of international significance - covering areas such as oceanographic data, marine and coastal environmental management, logistics, marine engineering, off shore maritime research expertise. These are further supported by our capabilities in the development of enabling technologies such as advanced materials to support solutions to marine and maritime aspects of the big challenges facing the European Union and indeed the world.

The Liverpool Knowledge Quarter, home to 3 Universities and world leading R&D Centres such as the School of Tropical Medicine as well as marine and environmental sciences Institutes, and Sci-Tech Daresbury, one of the UK’s two Science and Innovation Campuses, both provide the facilities for the development of new research and investment opportunities for business in the marine sphere.

The offer in terms of research, teaching and learning and support to industry within the further and higher education sector in Liverpool City Region is second to none. Examples include the Liverpool Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM), the Liverpool Low Carbon and Superport University Technical College, and the Liverpool University School of Environmental Sciences (which focuses on marine biology and ecology, oceanography and maritime history) and the National Oceanographic Institute. There is further potential through the local FE College network which is actively engaged in supporting this sector and the City Region is

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bidding to be a core centre for the Smart Business Academy – a National Industrial Programme for the development of employer led skills in logistics, transport and supply chains.

Institutions are actively participating or leading a number of EU funded projects in this arena, including ODEMM, MEFEPO, ESaTDOR, TPEA, WEASTFLOWS, InTraDe, which are of relevance to the Atlantic Strategy Research Priorities. There are a number of existing links across the Atlantic.

These innovation capabilities embrace academic research, professional degree courses and training programmes for industry and SMEs. Of particular importance to the Atlantic Strategy are: - Liverpool University’s National Oceanography Centre (formerly the Proudman

Institute) which hosts the British Oceanographic Data Centre, which coordinates two European data projects, EDIOS and EDMED.

- Liverpool John Moores University’s Liverpool Maritime Academy includes the Liverpool Logistics, Offshore and Marine (LOOM) Research Institute – a world leading research unit in marine, offshore and transport fields with the UK’s only 360 degree ship simulator and a wide range of transport modelling and safety decision making capabilities.

The SuperPort concept brings together key maritime infrastructures with a view to develop new global economic opportunities, most notably in relation to Atlantic trade routes. The SuperPort brings together ports, airport, road, rail and logistics assets within a common framework to create 20,000 new jobs through €2bn investments including port, ship canal, cruise liner terminal and multi modal infrastructure. Its collective investment creates the opportunity to take hundreds of millions of HGV road miles off UK roads through a cost and carbon efficient logistics model. It includes the Mersey Gateway Bridge, one of the world’s top 100 infrastructure projects.

Liverpool City Region has identified SuperPort as a key economic driver and has prioritised investment in transport infrastructure in its City Deal with the UK Government.

Liverpool City region is part of the Atlantic Gateway concept which integrates major economic and environmental opportunities across the Liverpool/Manchester axis. The Atlantic Gateway Strategy seeks to generate some 240,000 jobs – 140,000 directly related to its investment programme – on the back of its unique trading position. Crucially it will link Atlantic regions and cities, connecting transport, energy and information networks, linking ports, airports, rail and inland waterways with their hinterlands, enhancing competitiveness and supporting the reduction in the carbon footprint by shifting freight from road to sea.

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Local Partners are already developing a number of project ideas across the five challenges and themes proposed for the Atlantic Strategy. These initial ideas are attached in the Annex to this submission. The present response takes each of the five Atlantic Strategy themes and indicates how these fit with pre-identified LCR priorities (or priority projects). Where possible we have aligned each LCR priority with one or more of the indicative actions previously suggested to the Atlantic forum by the member states. Where this has not been possible for a given LCR priority, we have included it as an additional indicative action under the “policy framework”, “key investment needs” or “key research needs” sub-category of the respective Atlantic Strategy theme. In particular, we are interested in being a part of the proposed Maritime KIC as partners would bring a range of maritime and related expertise and a proven ability to bring together the public, private and educational sectors within a triple helix model. We look forward to discussing this concept with the Atlantic Strategy Forum. We look forward to developing these projects further with you as the Action Plan for the Atlantic Strategy is presented at the seminar in Cork in March.

The Contact Person within the Liverpool City Region is: Mark Basnett Executive Director Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership T: +44 151 227 2727 E: mark.basnett@liverpoollep.org

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Strategy priority 1: implementing the ecosystem approach 1.1. Policy framework 1. Cooperation across Atlantic area between universities, observatories, research, industry to tackle issues at Atlantic scale.

Atlantic Maritime Research and Innovation Hub The Atlantic Maritime Research and Innovation Hub would act as a multidisciplinary vehicle bringing together knowledge and expertise from research institutions and the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Ireland and other countries where appropriate to create a powerful network of maritime collaborators supporting the implementation of the Atlantic Strategy. The hub would act as a focus for maritime research and development concerned with implementing the ecosystem approach, reducing Europe’s carbon footprint, sustainable exploitation of the Atlantic seafloor’s natural resources, and responding to maritime-related threats and emergencies. It would also play a key role in knowledge exchange and maritime enterprise & business development. Hosted by an existing multidisciplinary maritime centre of excellence such as the University of Liverpool, the investment is envisaged as a hub and spoke operation with activities at a range of locations across the Atlantic Strategy Area. Funding of 5m euros per annum over a 5 year period would support an initial establishment phase of research, knowledge exchange and enterprise and business development activities around the core Atlantic Strategy themes. It would aim to support businesses through a range of knowledge exchange services and activities as well as secure 5m euros of additional funding for collaborative research. Lead organisation: University of Liverpool

Port Consortium of Research Universities The establishment of a research consortium of internationally high ranking universities based at major ports tackling the key issues facing such ports. Lead organisation: University of Liverpool 3. Increasing multiple-use of ocean space to support the blue economy (e.g. aquaculture and marine renewable energy), investing in capacity to develop and implement maritime spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management.

Irish Sea Maritime Forum Key objectives include: to provide a broad based forum for all Irish Sea users and provide an opportunity for voices to be heard; to facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building across all administrative areas and sectors about marine planning; to facilitate sharing of data and information; to encourage and maintain political support for transnational partnership working in support of marine planning, with the aim of promoting sustainable development in the Irish Sea region; to facilitate a more coordinated, efficient planning process for transnational issues/projects and good working relationships among Irish Sea partners. University of Liverpool

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1.2. Key investment needs 2. Creation of regional networks for sharing information via an internet platform

Irish Sea Maritime Forum See section 1.1, above, for description.

Other

Coastal Creative Conservation - Using wastes to solve waste problems in Liverpool This project would: i) utilise shell fragments as waste material from coastal sand extraction, and as a by-product from the seafood industry to create flower rich calcareous grasslands; ii) use marine aggregates as a low cost, low nutrient and weed free landscape substrate, conserving valuable topsoil resources and reducing carbon miles; iii) use demolition materials from redevelopment of redundant industries and dereliction along the coast to create biodiverse landscapes; iv) promote tourism and employment through the promotion and management of stunning wildflower landscapes. Lead organisation : Landlife

GreenPrint for Growth Working with social enterprises, Liverpool Vision and Fusion 21 will create a 'Green Corps' to implement direct Green infrastructure projects to enhance the environment of North Liverpool / South Sefton and create a landscape for prosperity to attract private sector investment. Lead organisations : Liverpool Vision / Fusion 21

One of the six main areas of the LCR Deal is to examine how the River Mersey can become the cleanest river in an urban setting by 2045, with the commensurate economic benefits. The first stage of this would be fully meeting the requirements of the Water Framework Directive. The ultimate goal is to make LCR a global centre for water security and quality.

1.3. Key research needs 1. Develop ecosystem approach in fisheries management with multispecies modelling. and 2. Collate information on fish/shellfish population genetics and further increase of knowledge in this field.

Crustacean and fish species projects These include a project for breeding and rearing of at-risk crustacean species for restocking and fisheries recovery programmes. A second project would develop and apply DNA tagging and DNA bar coding of crustacean and fish species for mark and recapture surveys of

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population size, distribution and recovery. Lead organisation: University of Liverpool

4. Researching in food-chain sustainability, seafood and health, recovery or disposal of seafood waste as well as consumer preferences.

Development of sustainable and environmentally responsible approaches to aquaculture of marine species This project would include: recirculation technologies for a low carbon, low impact mechanism for aquaculture; removal of the need for antibiotic use in aquaculture by improved water hygiene protocols; development of sustainable plant based protein sources for fish feed; development of sustainable phytoplankton sources of omega oils for fish feed; replacement and supplementation of coastal/fishing community income by aquaculture; metagenomic approaches to monitoring fish health and disease mechanisms; development of new sensors for assessing water-quality; proteomic approaches of assessment of nutrition in fish and other seafood species. Lead organisation: University of Liverpool

Innovation in Atlantic Fish Supply Chains – Feasibility study on sustainable low carbon and low energy consumption fish supply networks The performance of the seafood supply chain is highly dependent on the location of resources and the cost of production. A large percentage of value-added processing of certain types of fish is located far from the region of capture, e.g. whitefish products such as Atlantic cod fillet. A great challenge faced by the industry is to reduce the financial and environmental cost of the supply chain and provide high quality, low waste fish products to the market and minimizing “fish-miles” and delivering savings in terms of cost and energy. This research will examine the feasibility of increasing the percentage of local processing and supply with different fish species according to resources and market demands. Innovation of supply chain design to reduce waste and costs by increasing responsive/postponed and localized value added processing from raw fish is likely to be highly fruitful in terms of profit and impact. This feasibility study will also investigate models to utilize renewable energy (e.g. utilising energy from coastal tidal and wind farms) by building port centered fish processing chains for local and export markets. It is expected that long distance import of certain processed fish species can be reduced and seafood quality can be improved, reducing the cost and carbon footprint with the identified innovation approaches by assessment and simulation of the supply chain economic and ecological behavior and performance. The research outcome would contribute to both business decision-making in production, logistics and technology management, and government policy making in carbon emission control and infrastructure investment. Lead organisation: University of Liverpool

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Development of sustainable and environmentally responsible approaches to aquaculture, by identifying and mitigating the effects of biofouling Conservative estimates of the cost of biofouling to the European aquaculture industry is consistently between 5% and 10% of production costs. Building on the work of the established, pan-European iBass network, this project aims to focus on biofouling and the Atlantic-facing aquaculture sector in relation to climate change, the increase in biofouling invasions and issues for a sustainable aquaculture industry. Lead organisation: Liverpool John Moores University

5. Supporting research and development in deep-sea aquaculture.

Development of sustainable and environmentally responsible approaches to aquaculture of marine species See section 1.3, above, for description.

7. The assessment and monitoring of environmental impacts and their mitigation

Climate change, carbon and nitrogen cycles in the marine environment of the Atlantic coast Biogeochemical fluxes of carbon in the ocean control its transfer from the atmosphere to the deep sea, where it may remain stored for thousands of years and forms the Earth’s largest carbon reservoir. The vast majority of marine organic matter is produced in the surface of the ocean (ca. first 100 m) by phytoplankton through photosynthesis. Phytoplankton is then grazed mainly by zooplankton, or dies and sinks. Over time, the "rain" of sinking particles rich in carbon remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere (a process known as the biological pump), thus playing an important role in regulating of Earth's climate. However we know surprisingly little about the fate of organic matter as soon as it escapes the first 100m, and how it affects deep sea ecosystems. This is important in understanding the functioning of marine ecosystems and the ultimate fate of carbon in the ocean. This project seeks to identify the origin, fluxes, transformations, and fate of organic matter in the Atlantic aquatic systems. Lead organisation: Liverpool John Moores University Other

Sustainability of mineral extraction and fracking This would include projects for: development of novel sensors and monitoring systems for environmental assessment including the effects of fracking and mineral oil extraction (oil-in-water technologies, heavy metal monitoring); development of substrates for environmental clean-up after industrial processing, mineral extraction, e.g. fracking. Lead organisation : University of Liverpool

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2. Reducing Europe's carbon footprint 2.1. Policy framework 1. Promoting 'Motorways of the Sea' as an alternative to road and rail networks where this is financially viable.

Post-Panamax facility in-river berth at Seaforth Developing a £300m in-river berth at the Port of Liverpool to accommodate Post Panamax, and larger vessels, increasing volume from 700,000 containers per annum in 2002 to 2 million by 2020. The Post-Panamax will strengthen SuperPort’s positioning for trade with Atlantic and Pacific ports, and will have a significant collateral effect on trade with Dublin and Belfast through short sea and coastal services. It will also open up trade routes currently unavailable to the Port of Liverpool due to current capacity constraints. Lead organisation: Peel Ports

Development of Mersey Gateway Port at Port Weston Development of the Langton River Terminal as an additional Roll-on/Roll-off facility for the Mersey creating 150 new jobs and generating £43m of GVA in total by 2020. Lead organisation: Stobart

Langton in-river Roll-on/Roll-off terminal Redeveloping the Mersey Gateway Port (Port Weston) on the Manchester Ship Canal creating 1,400 new jobs and generating £450m of GVA in total by 2020 and expanding the existing Mersey Multimodal Gateway (3MG), creating an additional 4,000 jobs and generating an additional £190m of GVA per annum by 2020. Lead organisation: Peel Ports

Port Consortium of Research Universities See section 1.1, above, for description.

Promoting Motorway of the Sea – Design and Development of Sustainable Port Centric Maritime Logistics Infrastructures, Networks and Technical Solutions One of the major challenges to make the sea a real motorway of shipping transport to markets in a more sustainable manner would be how to set up shipping routes, long or short, to the ports which could best connect hinterland multimodal transport networks and markets with minimum carbon footprints. This project would therefore focus on development of a framework and a set of tools for sustainable and ecologically optimal maritime port centric logistics network development in EU Atlantic coastal region. Priority would be given to: (1) the ports at periphery, or located away from current main shipping routes, due to physical or economic scale constraints. Through study of approaches to collaborative hub development by neighbouring ports, ports at periphery could play a more important role in connecting shipping lines to markets, and replacing long distance road transportation with sea and intermodal transports. Peel Ports Liverpool, Irish and other ports in the region

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connecting the Merseyside SuperPort (the local multimodal network of ports, ship canal, airport, road and rail) will be studied as a key case in particular for an “Atlantic Gateway” through Liverpool and Merseyside region to connect the UK and Ireland markets. (2) feasibility studies of dedicated and resilient services (e.g. consolidation, packaging and other customisation activities) at ports, in particular the ports at periphery like Port of Liverpool, to best utilise green energy from coastal wind farms, so that the market-oriented services at ports can be sustainable enabler of setting up optimal transportation routes as “motorways” by improved capacity and competitiveness. The value added service model will be particularly studied in the Merseyside SuperPort context to best fit the customised cargo services provided by the SuperPort to market needs within and through the Merseyside strategic growth corridor connecting the regional/UK markets and beyond. (3) through assessment of economic and ecologic performance of the port centric shipping motorway networks, how the dedicated services and renewable energy technologies should be developed in terms of volume and locations can be identified as support to policy and infrastructure development. Lead organisation: University of Liverpool

In addition to the projects outlined above, a key strategic priority for Merseyside is development of the Atlantic Gateway. This is a strategic growth corridor linking the SuperPort to Manchester via the Manchester Ship Canal. It is estimated this will require £50bn of investment over 50 years. SuperPort is the collection of LCR’s ports, airport, road, rail and logistics assets, which together comprise strategically important freight capability for the UK and Ireland. More generally, using transport to further economic development is one of the six key areas of the LCR Deal. The goal is for sustainable, socially inclusive transport, serving enterprise zones. Strengthening domestic east-west rail connections across the North of England and ensuring Liverpool is able to benefit from the planned HS2 high-speed rail line are also key elements. All this entails revised governance and funding arrangements for transport in LCR, with greater multi-agency delivery and putting transport at the heart of city-region decision-making.

2. Promoting the development of the renewable marine energy industry and associated electricity grid system.

West Coast Offshore Energy Hub The establishment of an offshore wind manufacturing, installation, operating and maintenance centre in Liverpool City Region serving the Irish Sea installations and wider UK and global offshore installations. Various lead organisations

Alexandra Dock large scale biomass plant Development of a significant biomass plant in Liverpool City Region providing construction jobs, operation and maintenance posts.

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The low-carbon economy is one of the natural economic strengths of the LCR economy and a key element of our Economic Development Strategy. One of the six key areas of the LCR Deal is a low-carbon red-tape-reduction pilot; this aims to reduce the regulatory burden locally so as to encourage offshore wind investment.

2.2. Key investment needs 1. Investment in development of eco-efficient shipyards (construction, repair and ancillary services and ports) to serve the needs of short-sea shipping and new maritime industries.

Promoting Motorway of the Sea – Design and Development of Sustainable Port Centric Maritime Logistics Infrastructures, networks and Technical Solutions See section 1.1, above, for description.

2. Developing investments in port infrastructure and intermodal transport capability (including road and rail connections with their hinterland), as well as increasing efficiency in logistics to make 'Motorways of the Sea' in the Atlantic area more viable.

iPort: Applying computation intelligence technologies to Atlantic ports With the forecast increase of trade in Atlantic region, many major ports in the region are planning/undergoing expansions (e.g. Barcelona, Liverpool, Dublin, Felixtowe, Le Harve). In order to keep up with such infrastructure expansions, port authorities will have to increase the efficiency of their operations. This project aims to provide the expanding ports with intelligent tools to modernise, synchronise and optimise their operations. The improvement of Atlantic inter-regional maritime trade and transport are expected. Beneficiaries include port authorities, ship operators, trading companies, regulatory bodies and local labour markets. Project aims: (1)To develop a set of decision support software systems to be used in optimising the operations of port environments in various tasks: vessels scheduling, automatic guided vehicle allocation/routing, port facility layout, traffic management etc. The systems will be developed using the state-of-the-art optimisation and computation intelligence technologies. (2) To develop a set of risk management software systems to be used in analysing the risks, safety and security of container supply chains, port equipments and vessels. (3) To develop a database system that makes it easier for port operators to: (a) manage port transactions; (b) achieve and access operational data; and (c) review previous operations and create reports. (4) To develop a virtual-reality simulation platform of a next-generation intelligent port. This simulation platform can be used by port operators to evaluate the optimised solutions suggested by the decision-support systems proposed in (1) and (2) above, before applying them to the actual port environments. The new intelligent solutions will be tested in the expanding ports in the region, for example

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Port of Liverpool and Port of Dublin. Lead organisation: Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM), Liverpool John Moores University

Post-Panamax facility in-river berth at Seaforth See section 2.1, above, for description.

Development of Mersey Gateway Port at Port Weston See section 2.1, above, for description.

Langton in-river Roll-on/Roll-off terminal See section 2.1, above, for description.

Port Consortium of Research Universities See section 1.1, above, for description.

Promoting Motorway of the Sea – Design and Development of Sustainable Port Centric Maritime Logistics Infrastructures, networks and Technical Solutions See section 2.1, above, for description.

3. Developing infrastructures and services to support the marine renewable industry in the Atlantic area.

West Coast Offshore Energy Hub See section 2.1, above, for description.

6. Investing in appropriate Atlantic area transport capabilities for short sea and deep sea shipping.

Post-Panamax facility in-river berth at Seaforth See section 2.1, above, for description.

Development of Mersey Gateway Port at Port Weston See section 2.1, above, for description.

Langton in-river Roll-on/Roll-off terminal See section 2.1, above, for description.

Promoting Motorway of the Sea – Design and Development of Sustainable Port Centric Maritime Logistics Infrastructures, networks and Technical Solutions See section 2.1, above, for description.

2.3. Key research needs

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2. Assessing environmental impacts of the offshore renewable energy industry in the Atlantic and developing comprehensive research on marine renewable energy technologies.

Atlantic Maritime Research and Innovation Hub See section 1.1, above, for description.

5. Supporting research on recycling, fuel efficiency and the development of new and innovative technologies in shipping.

A greener freight transport corridor in the Atlantic region This project aims to: (1) Study supply and demand patterns in freight transport between the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. (2) Study risks that could hinder the resilience of the freight supply chain in the Atlantic region. (3) Identify bottlenecks in the chain and develop possible solutions. (4) Investigate inter-modal transport and also scheduling issues in order to achieve a greener freight transport corridor in the Atlantic region. Lead organisation: Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM), Liverpool John Moores University

Mitigation of shipping emissions, and the adaptation of ports in response to climate change Project aims: (1) To develop an optimal solution to maximise ship emissions reductions, while minimising the cost. (2) To identify how port-regions might cope with the predicted climate change impacts. (3) To provide suitable and sustainable measures to the core problems and problem areas in ports. Lead organisation: Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM), Liverpool John Moores University

Sea-Land Flow This project seeks to develop multi-modal planning and scheduling systems to optimise the flow of trade/goods/visitors through port cities. Beneficiaries of this increased flow of goods and human traffic will be port authorities, port-related and local businesses, and logistics services. Lead organisation: Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM), Liverpool John Moores University

Port Consortium of Research Universities See section 1.1, above, for description.

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3. Sustainable exploitation of the Atlantic seafloor's natural resources 3.2. Key investment needs 1. Supporting the development of seabed mining and exploration industry and services, including adapted infrastructure in ports and offshore and the training and development of relevant skills. and 3.3. Key research needs 2. Research supporting the development of deep sea hydrocarbon exploration and mining technologies (minerals, hydrocarbons and rare earths).

Sustainability of mineral extraction and fracking See section 1.3, above, for description.

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4. Responding to threats and emergencies 4.3. Key research needs 1. Improving research on navigational aids, maritime safety and improving monitoring of shipping through the Atlantic area

IGV: Intelligent Guided Vehicle for Atlantic Ports Working with the University of Lille, the project will develop a new intelligent transport system for Atlantic Ports. The University of Lille will develop the physical vehicle, while LOOM at LJMU will develop the scheduling and routing algorithms. The IGV will benefit port authorities, trading companies and local labour markets. Lead organisation: Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM), Liverpool John Moores University

Security Forum for the maritime container supply chain in the Atlantic region This forum aims at investigate the security of container supply chains in the Atlantic region, to allow security-related risks to be managed in a cost-effective way and to provide resilience of supply chains. Beneficiaries include many organisations such as ship operators, port authorities and regulatory bodies. The project aims to: (1) Identify the hazards and threats in maritime container supply chain operations. (2) Investigate regulatory requirements in container transport and identify challenges faced by the stakeholders. (3) Develop solutions for improving maritime container supply chain security, in a cost effective manner. (4) Apply and test the developed solutions by working with the stakeholders. Lead organisation: Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM), Liverpool John Moores University Other

Atlantic Maritime Research and Innovation Hub See section 1.1, above, for description.

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5. Socially inclusive growth 5.1. Policy framework 1. Development of marine education to develop a renewed maritime culture in the Atlantic regions and increase the attractiveness of maritime professions.

The Liverpool Maritime Academy (LMA) The LMA has been delivering professional courses for the maritime industry since 1892. It is an internationally-recognised centre of excellence for maritime education, with a focus on integrated management and communications systems around marine pilotage, maritime English, port safety and security. It has the UK’s only 360° ship handling simulation facilities, which are amongst the most advanced in Europe. This allows marine pilots, ships’ masters and senior navigating officers to develop and practice skills in a realistic, real-time but risk-free environment. This project seeks to adapt the LMA’s suite of professional and advanced programmes to focus on the skills development needs of the Atlantic regional maritime profession. Lead partner: Liverpool John Moores University

How Long is Europe's Atlantic Coast? This project would work with a range of partners to ask schools along Europe’s Atlantic coastline to work together in trying to answer this simple question by measuring and studying their coastline. Lead organisation: Landlife

Two key structural problems the Merseyside economy experiences are significant skills gaps and relatively high unemployment. Empowering local business to create more jobs, tackle skills gaps and raise productivity is one of the six key areas of the LCR Deal. This entails: making the local training offer more demand oriented (more suited to employers’ needs and targeting the right sectors for growth, such as the maritime sector); better coordinating public and private investment; establishing an employer-owned mutual for skills funding; payment by results for skills providers; tackling long-term youth unemployment and encouraging SME job creation.

2. Develop retraining programs for the fishing community to provide them with new skills to participate fully in the emerging blue economy, and to contribute in maritime safety and surveillance activities.

Development of sustainable and environmentally responsible approaches to aquaculture of marine species See section 1.3, above, for description.

3. Improving cooperation between universities, observatories, research institutes and industry on matters underpinning the development of a diverse maritime industrial base.

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Liverpool Low Carbon and SuperPort University Technical College Atlantic exchange Opening in September 2014, this University Technical College (UTC) has the backing of a wide range of local Port- and renewable-related private and public sector organisations. It will combine specialist training in engineering and logistics with an academic curriculum for 14-19 year olds, providing a pathway to apprenticeships in the regional Low Carbon and Port sectors or to higher-level study for a degree qualification. The proposed Atlantic exchange programme will provide opportunities for other Atlantic regions to observe and monitor the potential of this initiative to reduce youth unemployment; and will provide mobility and student exchange opportunities. Lead partner: Liverpool John Moores University

Atlantic Maritime Research and Innovation Hub See section 1.1, above, for description.

5. Protecting and promoting the Atlantic area's cultural heritage.

International Migration Centre The International Migration Centre is a proposed visitor attraction on the city centre waterfront with a focus on the millions of emigrants who arrived in Liverpool from many parts of Europe and left the city for a new life in America, Canada, Australia and other countries, most notably in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and on migration to and from Britain and countries of its former Empire in the 20th century. Lead organisation: Liverpool Vision

Tate Exhibition and Exchange Programme This would entail Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives working together to develop an international exhibition and exchange programme between the two galleries and across the Atlantic to help develop the coastal tourism elements of the strategy, and link two vital areas of the UK Atlantic economy with others round the world. Lead organisations: Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives

Young People’s International Arts & Cultural Festival A biannual Young People’s International Arts & Cultural Festival embedded into the cultural offer of Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium taking place during the summer holidays - 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. Lead organisation: Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium

Atlantic Art A cultural programme led by Liverpool to drive the growth of international cultural tourism to the Atlantic area focussing on Atlantic Art and Atlantic music. Atlantic Art would connect the strong visual arts and literature offering of Liverpool and other strong Atlantic cultural cities – Nantes, Dublin, Cardiff, Glasgow, Belfast – around major outdoor arts festivals, exhibitions and events eg Liverpool Biennial, Estuaire (Nantes). Atlantic Music would use the focus of Liverpool’s impending UNESCO City of Music award to develop a joined up festival of music inspired by the Atlantic. This would take place every second year 2014, 16, 18 etc.

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Lead organisations: Liverpool City Council/cultural organisations eg. Tate Liverpool, RLPO

The visitor economy is one of the natural economic strengths of the LCR economy and a key element of our Economic Development Strategy. LCR has the highest concentration of heritage and cultural assets of any UK city outside London.

6. Develop maritime tourism through support to coastal tourism initiatives, including improved transport access and targeted tourism offers.

The Atlantic Treasure Trail This project would highlight the hidden gems on the Atlantic coast and the coastal paths connecting them. It would identify new beachcombing activities to stimulate public interest and identify a site where a new hidden gem can be created to stimulate tourism for a maritime community in decline. Lead organisation: Landlife

The Mersey Observatory The Mersey Observatory, design by Duggan Morris Architects following an international RIBA competition, will replace the defunct Sefton Radar tower at the mouth of the River Mersey. It will provide a new visitor and education facility focussed on the interpretation of the marine environment and the logistics of worldwide shipping. The 30m observation deck will provide a viewing facility for up to 200 people at any one time, linking the views of the estuary, with shipping data from the Port and information from the Proudman Laboratories. Wind, solar PV and tidal power will be harnessed to make the structure carbon neutral. A spectacular view of Gormley's 'Another Place' statues will combine with the opportunity to link to nearby Crosby marina. Lead organisation: Peel Ports

Everton Park Liverpool Biennial has commissioned world renowned landscape practice James corner Field operations to envision a radical transformation of Everton Park. Utilising the Park's significant assets and it unparalleled city and marine panorama, the area will re-emerge as the 'Parc Guell' of the Liverpool, creating a new tourist attraction focussed on connections to the River Mersey and the coastline. Lead organisations: Liverpool Biennial / Liverpool City Council / Liverpool Vision

Salthouse Dock, Liverpool Surfacing and lighting improvments to land and removal of wall that is acting as a barrier to the waterfront. The project will generate increased visitor numbers, including multiple and repeat visits to the waterfront, stimulate tourism and tourism expenditure benefitting the local and regional economy. Lead organisations: Liverpool City Council as Landowner in conjunction with Gower Street Estates and British Waterways

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Canning Maritime Bridges Liverpool Waterfront This is a key project to maintain links across the waterfront area, improving access from the Pier Head to Albert Dock via Mann Island and the Merseyside Martime Museum. The scheme will complete the connectivity from Princes Dock in the North through to the south dock area incorporating the new musuem at the Pier Head,the Albert Dock, the Arena and Convention centre and the proposed revitalised area at the south docks. Lead organisations: National Museums of Liverpool as lead, supported by Liverpool Vision and British Waterways Board

Waterfront Lighting scheme, Albert Dock, Liverpool Project to animate the Salthouse Dock waterspace and to link the waterfront and map pedestrian routes through the delivery of of an ambitious lighting scheme/project, in the form of Christmas lights and a Festival of Light The project will generate increased visitor numbers, including multiple and repeat visits to the waterfront, stimulate tourism and tourism expenditure benefitting the local and regional economy. Lead organisation: Gower Street Estates

Waterspace Strategy, Liverpool South Docks The Waterspace Strategy identifies a number of projects and activities to revitalise and animate the south docks area and it will extend the tourism and leisure offer from Princes Dock in the north through the Pier Head, Albert Dock and Kings Dock areas to the South Dock. Public sector investment in infrastructure will be required to pump prime private investment in projects. Lead organisation: British Waterways Board

Xtremem Sports centre A project to deliver a multi sport and leisure complex providing a showcase for many forms of extreme sport . To be located within the waterfront area utlising both land and water. The project will add to the mix of attractions on the awatercvront increasing visitor numbers adn spend. It wil also link into schools and FE/HE sectors developing the health benefits of sport. Lead organisation : Venture Xtreme

Maritime and Migration Maritime and Migration – a Liverpool led programme of activities and events which are built around the maritime and migration/ immigration heritage of the Atlantic area to include events such as Atlantic Tall Ships events, development of the Titanic heritage offer, a Migration centre and events programme based in Liverpool, work around Slavery recognition led by Liverpool and Nantes. Lead organisations: Liverpool City Council/cultural organisations eg. Tate Liverpool

Atlantic Cruise A strategy and programme to grow the Atlantic area as a base for cruising based on the successful Baltic Sea model. May initially focus on developing a strategy and identifying and securing key partner destinations Lead organisation: to be identified

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Coastal Creative Conservation - Using wastes to solve waste problems in Liverpool See section 1.2, above, for description.

Tate Exhibition and Exchange Programme See section 5.1, above, for description.

Other

A key challenge for the LCR economy is to close the gap between its economic performance and that of the wider UK. The five natural economic strengths of the LCR economy (and key elements of our Economic Development Strategy) are SuperPort, advanced manufacturing, the low-carbon economy, the knowledge economy and the visitor economy. The City Region has recently made significant changes to its governance structures, establishing a Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), which provides a structure for local business and civic leaders to work together to transform the economy. A key aim in this transformation is creating 100,000 new jobs over the next ten years. The four key structural problems facing our economy are: low business density, significant skills gaps, relatively high unemployment and relatively low productivity. Our manufacturing sector is growing faster than our economy as a whole; manufacturing in LCR needs to be lean and encompass all points in the supply chain; creation of enterprise zones is a clear priority. The six key areas of the LCR Deal are: running an International Business Festival in 2014 (see 5.2 below); a low-carbon red-tape pilot (see 2.1 above); cleaning up the River Mersey (see 1.2 above); empowering businesses to create more jobs, tackle skills gaps and raise productivity (see 5.1 above); harnessing the economic development potential of transport (see 2.1 above); harnessing our science and knowledge assets (see 5.3 below). LCR has put in place an investment framework, which aims better to match public (including EU) and private funding streams to our strategic priorities.

5.2. Key investment needs 1. Promoting and supporting deep-sea aquaculture.

Development of sustainable and environmentally responsible approaches to aquaculture of marine species See section 1.3, above, for description.

Other

Liverpool Atlantic Centre for Export Promotion International Trade Liverpool International Centre for Export Promotion and International Trade will be a highly visible city-centre facility dedicated to raising the profile of international trade and exporting among businesses of all sizes, with a special emphasis on the Atlantic trade which was the historical rationale for Liverpool Chamber’s foundation in 1774. Lead organisation: Liverpool Chamber of Commerce

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One of the six key areas of the LCR Deal is to run, in 2014, a month-long International Business Festival. This will target global growth markets and focus on image, exports, inward investment and tourism. LCR has a history of organising and participating in large, international events and outward-looking initiatives, including hosting Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, participating in the Shanghai Expo, hosting the Global Entrepreneurship Congress and having a Liverpool Embassy in London.

5.3. Key research needs 1. Promoting research on maritime technologies and the development of an appropriate skills base as well as the creation of a network of Atlantic knowledge centres and a 'Marine KIC' (Knowledge and Innovation Centre) to promote research on maritime technologies and the development of an appropriate skills base.

Atlantic Maritime Research and Innovation Hub See section 1.1, above, for description.

Other

One of the six key areas of the LCR Deal is to harness our science and knowledge assets. Growth of knowledge-intensive business growth is twice as fast as that of our economy generally. Merseyside has four universities and the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (one of only two UK centres for “big-scale” science, with over 100 technology companies present on site and a 37% annual growth rate). Finally, the Liverpool Knowledge Quarter is a leading centre for life and physical sciences, biotechnology and R&D.