MARIN introduces new strategic plan: Oceans of Opportunities
Conference/JournalMARIN Report 145
Date5 Dec 2025
With its centenary on the horizon, MARIN is set to introduce a new Strategic Plan: Oceans of opportunities, ensuring that it can continue to be an independent maritime research institute and a centre of excellence for knowledge and innovation for its clients worldwide.
Being introduced in the context of an uncertain geopolitical climate and with the world facing major global challenges such as climate change, the energy transition and digitalisation, the new strategy outlines what MARIN stands for and what it wants to achieve together with the sector by 2032.
Being introduced in the context of an uncertain geopolitical climate and with the world facing major global challenges such as climate change, the energy transition and digitalisation, the new strategy outlines what MARIN stands for and what it wants to achieve together with the sector by 2032.
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Olaf Waals
president
Hannes Bogaert
vice president
Sustainable, secure, and safe!
Ultimately, MARIN continues to be an independent knowledge institute with a strong focus on the future of the maritime sector. It will address three main tasks: developing, applying, and disseminating knowledge to solve societal questions and support government tasks and policy; empowering the innovative strength and competitive position for the maritime sector as a whole and specifically for EU and the Netherlands, and managing our strategic research facilities that are unique in the world.
Five measurable goals for each are of our value chain