Objectives
- To continue developing and strengthening links and synergy within each TA and to ensure effective integration among the areas, facilitating concurrent engineering practices whilst accounting for the requirements dictated by the evolution of ship design and operation.
- To pursue systematic monitoring, review, analysis and transfer of technological developments within each TA in support of risk-based methodologies and design integrative processes.
- To synchronise research effort through scheduling of the pertinent but diverse research activities involved in the RTD projects, through purposely organised meetings and workshops and through appropriate dissemination and knowledge transfer, to take full advantage of the overlaps and synergies among projects to target and exploit deliverables maximally.
- To identify and integrate relevant trans-network research activities, to ensure optimal utilisation and management of existing and emerging resources and capabilities.
- In this respect, to maintain and support a research direction that is clear enough and well suited to the targeted objectives of the industry and the priorities and contents of Maritime Industry RDCG Master Plan and to offer recommendations for updating the latter, as required.
- To
retain emphasis on the generic nature of the formalism to ascertain
capability of application to all safety-critical vessels (e.g. LNG/LPG,
fishing vessels, tankers, bulk carriers, high speed craft, containerships,
new concepts) whilst accounting for wider aspects of ship safety (e.g.,
life-cycle issues, environment, operation, management, production, human
factors engineering, legislation).
- To
facilitate the formation of a European Research Area on the basic underlying
philosophy of "Design for Safety".