Technology, innovation and collaborative research are funded generously in MV. In addition, new asset acquisition and production costs are subsidized. The state can provide up to 45% towards  establishing a business facility. As a full-service provider, we support you in applying for subsidies from MV and the EU. Please do not hesitate to ask us.

Rostock University of Applied Sciences

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture with versatile courses of study forms a powerful focus for practice-oriented engineering education. Its research areas include energy and fluid dynamics, maritime systems, mechatronics and propulsion technology as well as applied mechanics and materials engineering.

The Chair of Marine Engineering was established on October 1, 1992. It emerged from the Chair of Fishery Engineering founded in 1968. The University of Rostock is one of the oldest teaching and research institutions in the field of marine engineering in Germany. Teaching is mainly on theoretical and experimental methods for the design of floating and moored offshore systems as well as unmanned underwater vehicles and systems. In its application-oriented basic research, the Chair of Marine Engineering looks primarily at the development, validation and application of theoretical and experimental methods for the reliable prediction of loads, motions and deformation in a wide variety of marine engineering structures. To help ensure a guaranteed service life for underwater systems, experimental analyses of material aging of polymer materials under marine service conditions are also part of the research portfolio.

Wismar University of Applied Sciences

Wismar University of Applied Sciences has a degree program in Maritime, Systems Engineering and Logistics (SAL). Academic education has been offered on the Warnemünde campus since 1952, including internationally recognized maritime education since 1969. Plant and supply engineering, traffic operations/logistics, and electrical engineering for shipbuilding are also taught at SAL.

Since 2011, the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany has been promoting the networking of the various players in the maritime industry. Since January 2015, the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been a member of this alliance and actively supports the networking in the maritime industry.

Forschungsverbund Mecklenburg-Vorpommern research network

Since 1995, Forschungsverbund Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. has been supporting companies and research with effective programs, selected network partners, research know-how and practical project experience for transferring product ideas via technology and financing checks to market success.

RIC MAZA MV e. V.

RIC MAZA MV e. V. is an alliance of regional companies from the medium-sized maritime industry as well as associated engineering, industry-related research, education and training, and relevant departments from the universities in the state of MV. In addition to exchange, know-how transfer and representation of interests, goal-oriented interdisciplinary cooperation takes place in five subject-specific project groups.

Subsea Monitoring Network e. V.

The Subsea Monitoring Network e. V. is a leading business network for subsea technologies in Germany and a nationwide contact for marine research and technology. It supports  the Ocean Technology Campus in Rostock. SMN is a platform for the entire value chain of the industry and works to strengthen it through active lobbying, networking, and the bundling of information and know-how. The network for underwater technologies is available to answer questions about technology developments or testing, paving the way for contact with industry companies, universities, research institutions, testing opportunities or test fields and politics.

The maritime industry is very important in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Proximity to the coast and its many ports have made it the location for pioneering work in ship and boat building.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has numerous projects and institutes creating real solutions for the maritime industry of tomorrow. These include the Fraunhofer Application Center for Large Structures in Production Engineering in Rostock. Based on applied research, concepts for product and process innovations for many future industries such as shipbuilding and steel construction are realized within the framework of research and development projects with cooperation partners from industry.

The Institute for Innovative Ship Simulation and Maritime Systems (ISSIMS) in Wismar conducts research in the specialist field of simulation in maritime systems. The focus of its research is on making processes and procedures in shipping safer and more efficient.

In the future, the OTC project with its test field, the Digital Ocean Lab, will regularly research new technologies under real conditions. The Fraunhofer Institute has won a wide variety of partners from industry and research for the project. The interdisciplinary Fraunhofer research group develops forward-looking marine technology and new solutions for the sustainable use of the oceans. As a cross-institute research network for underwater technology, the Smart Ocean Technologies research group operates in the Ocean Technology Campus, Rostock.

At the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, the focus is on marine research. There the most diverse habitats of the Baltic Sea are studied and analyzed.

MV’s maritime industry looks back on a long tradition and looks ahead to the future

• 13 port locations along 237 miles (381 km) of outer coastline
• good transport infrastructure (road, rail, air and sea)
• available land close to ports
• convenient authorities and agencies
• competent advice for your investment project