Pollution and Incident Control

The new draft EU Horizon Europe has a research and innovation (RIA) action entitled "Controlling infection on large passenger ships" (Topic HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-12). The expected results of this action are given below:

For our third ARCSAR Innovation and Knowledge Exchange event we will be concentrating on innovations in training and education. 

Cruise ships might be the first on scene when there is an oil spill in the Arctic. How can they be equipped to be an oil spill response asset.

There is a challenge originiating from the need for prevention measures and protocol for dealing with fire on a nuclear vessel.

There is a challenge in pollution incident data sharing for the further definition of acceptable response times.

There is a challenge to improve pollution risk and incident data sharing and analysis.

There is a need for research into the effects of a nuclear incident in the Arctic.

There is a challenge for the classification of Arctic pollutants and their consequences.

There is a need for research to understand Arctic pollution and how to respond to it, with a specific challenge for a skills assessment of new competences needed to deal with Arctic pollution incidents. This challenge can also be categorised with Personnel, Education and Training.