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Final event in Gorinchem

๐ŸŒŸ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ฉ๐—œ๐— ๐—ข๐—ฉ๐—˜ ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—š๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ. ๐ŸŒŸ We had the pleasure of hosting an informative lunch where stakeholders enjoyed presentations ...

Preparing for the final event

๐Ÿšข Walk the walk, talk the talk! Putting the MOVE from NOVIMOVE into action, the DST - Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems team is gearing up for ...

Upper-Rhine stakeholder session

Sophie-E. Martens of DST - Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems and prof. Edwin van Hassel of the University of Antwerp did an outstanding job today, presenting the ...

Antwerp stakeholder session

On the 15th of May, Cyril Alias and Jonas zum Felde (both from DST) presented their conclusions on the topic of the Mobile Modular Terminal at the Port of Antwerp ...

At the TRA in Dublin

Today, a part of the NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways team is present at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) in Dublin. The TRA is widely appreciated as one of ...

Final event 28th of May – invitation

๐Ÿšค ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐Œ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐”๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐Ž๐•๐ˆ๐Œ๐Ž๐•๐„ ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐…๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ! ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Date: May 28th ๐Ÿ“ Location: Gorinchem, with an integrated visit to the Maritime Industry Fair ๐Ÿ”— Registration: www.novimove.eu/final We ...

Basel stakeholder session invitation

๐Ÿš€ ๐—๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—จ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ฉ๐—œ๐— ๐—ข๐—ฉ๐—˜ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ โ€“ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—œ๐—ป๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜! ๐Ÿšข ๐Ÿ“… Date: Friday, May 17th ๐Ÿ“ Location: Port of Switzerland, Basel (online participation possible) ๐Ÿ•™ Time: ...

Demonstrating the Smart Scheduling System

๐Ÿ“ฝ The NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways project has shown significant progress in Antwerp during the recent demonstration session at SEAFAR recently. Enhancements in inland waterway navigation include more ...

Demonstrating new vessel concepts

๐Ÿš€ Exciting Milestone Alert in Sustainable Waterway Transport! ๐Ÿš€ We recently celebrated a significant milestone in the NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways project, a visionary initiative funded by the ...

General Assembly in Antwerp

The NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways team convened today for our General Assembly in Antwerp, and we are pleased to share a brief update on our proceedings. As we ...

8th Green Shipping Summit in Rotterdam

This week, Charis Christodoulou and Arwen Korteweg introduced NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways at the 8th Green Shipping Summit in Rotterdam. Centred around the theme โ€œDecarbonisation in Practice: Exploring ...

Testing of the NOVIMOVE Serious Game

The NOVIMOVE Serious Game has recently been thoroughly tested. The purpose of this game is to implement potential innovations, as researched by the NOVIMOVE team, in a virtual reality environment ...

Containertrends 2023

A NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways delegation consisting of Edwin van Hassel, University of Antwerp, Cyril Alias from DST - Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems and ...

Bengt Ramne explains the Mobile Terminal

Erwin van der Linden took the camera and brought a visit to Bengt Ramne, managing director of Scandinaos in Gothenburg. Bengt Ramne is the fouding father of the Mobile Modular ...

Waterborne Days

A look back at two very successful #WaterborneDays in Brussels in September 2023, organised by WaterborneTP, Burson Cohn & Wolfe and the WATERBORNE TRANSPORT lasting INNOVATION-project. Many opportunities were offered ...

Video update #8: A visit to Systems Navigators

This NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways video news update features Eva Christopoulou and Ivo Majoor, both simulation consultants at Systems Navigator. This update shows the important work that these ...

Video update #7 – General Assembly meeting in Basel

๐ŸŒŸ Video Update! ๐ŸŒŸ In May, the NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways team had the pleasure of gathering in #Basel for our 6th General Assembly. It was a crucial ...

Video update #6 – PhD title for Peter Shobayo

๐ŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Peter Shobayo, a talented researcher involved in the NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways project and working for the University of Antwerp at the Department of Transport ...

Article featuring NOVIMOVE on fluctuating water levels

The water levels on the major rivers are becoming increasingly unpredictable. Climate change reduces the stability of the supply of meltwater from the mountains. In combination with long periods of ...

NOVIMOVE at the Maritime Innovation Platform

On the 28th of March, NOVIMOVE is present during the Maritime Innovation Platform in the Energiehuis in Dordrecht. Our stand ws frequently visited by those who want to find out ...

NOVIMOVE at IWT week in Brussels

Last week, professor Rudy Negenborn (TU Delft) presented the NOVIMOVE project state of play during the IWT Week. Scheduled to take part on the second day of this week dedicated ...

Serious game explained

A explanatory animation has been created to introduce the upcoming NOVIMOVE Serious Game. Due date for release of the game is autumn 2023. The game is currently being finalized under ...

Video update #5: Smart Shipping Event

Watch this video about the NOVIMOVE team during the Smart Shipping Event in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht 2022 session ...

Pictures from the Smart Shipping Event 2022

The NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways team members Rudy Negenborn, Edwin van Hassel and Louis-Robert Cool together with Michel van Dijk had an interesting panel discussion during the Smart ...

Video update #4: Transport Research Arena

Watch science in action with this event movie shot during the Transport Research Arena in Lisbon! ...

NOVIMOVE team at the TRA

Looking back at a very successful appearance of the NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways team during the #TRA2022 in Lisbon! Thanks to Benjamin Friedhoff, Cyril Alias and Peter Shobayo ...

Building crosslinks

On the 20th of October, NOVIMOVE CEO prof. dr. Rudy Negenborn was invited to address the PLATINA3 inland waterway professional policy community on the challenge of automation in inland navigation ...

Visit to Verkeerspost Nijmegen

Members of the NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways work package concerning the development of Smart River Navigation solutions visited โ€˜Verkeerspost Nijmegenโ€™. At this place, professionals from Rijkswaterstaat monitor and ...

Work package meeting in the laboratory

Beginning of June, members of the NOVIMOVE work package on new vessel designs met in-person and took the opportunity to analyse the vessel configuration used for the model scale tests ...

Scientific publications repository on Zenodo

For the dissemination of academic publications within the NOVIMOVE context, a dedicated community on Zenodo has been created. Zenodo is a general-purpose, open-access repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program ...

Video update #3: model scale test at DST

Watch the video update on model scale tests at DST featuring naval architect Sophie-Elizabeth Martens ...

Midterm conference in Duisburg

On the 2nd of June the midterm conference took place in Duisburg. It was a special occassion since it was the first time project partners and external stakeholders were able ...

NOVIMOVE at the Maritime Industry Fair

The NOVIMOVE project was present at the Maritime Industry Fair in Gorinchem. This fair is considered to be the largest IWT related fair in the Netherlands. After two years of ...

2nd of June 2022: Let’s meet in Duisburg!

On Thursday afternoon the 2nd of June, our team will be organizing the midterm conference at the Wyndham Hotel in Duisburg, starting with a 12.00h lunch. Here you can physically ...

Transport Modelling Stakeholder Workshop 25th of April 2022

The NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways project partners are looking forwards to discussing some recent research findings in the upcoming Transport Modelling Stakeholder Meeting on the 25th of April ...

NOVIMOVE video update #2 – At the IAME conference in Rotterdam

Please enjoy our NOVIMOVE - smart & sustainable waterways second video update, shot at the recently held conference organised by the International Association of Martime Economists in Rotterdam.What does bringing ...

Moving through the water!

From paper to practice: Technical University of Delft's Peter Poot is taking NOVIMOVE vessel concepts for adding buoyancy to inland vessels to the next level! Several concepts are currently researched ...

Call for papers

NOVIMOVEs professor Edwin van Hassel, University of Antwerp and assistant professor Bilge Atasoy, TU Delft will be guest editors of the upcoming EEE OJ-ITS Special Issue on Innovations to improve ...

Going East

On the 7th of December the NOVIMOVE project was introduced by Erwin van der Linden at the 2nd Workshop on container liner services organised by the Dionysus project - integrating ...

NOVIMOVE at IAME conference

NOVIMOVEs Danitsja van Heusden- van Winden conducted a series of interviews today at the IAME 2021 conference on Maritime Economics in Rotterdam. She will be collecting good stories on academic ...

Read the third NOVIMOVE news update

In this newsletter you will read more on the Smart Navigation System and the Dynamic Planning for the operation of bridges and locks, featuring Ali MOhamoud (TNO), Paul Rysiavets (CoVadem) ...

Rudy Negenborn appointed member of Advisory Board PLATINA3

Prof. dr. Rudy Negenborn, scientific project coordinator of H2020 funded IWT innovation project NOVIMOVE, is appointed member of the Advisory Board of PLATINA3, the European policy platform for Inland Waterway ...

Horizon Projects meeting 8th of March

On the 8th of March a Horizon project coordinators meeting took place. Based on crosslinks identified by the NOVIMOVE team, this initiative aimed to strengthen the ties with collegue project ...

New staff added to the NOVIMOVE team

The NOVIMOVE consortium welcomes new research members recently added to the team. From Imed-ID Lab Miha Sajko will develop a short-term voyage plan predictor component and scheduling algorithms for optimizing ...

Read the second issue of NOVIMOVE NEWS

Below in the pdf file reader youโ€™ll find the second issue of NOVIMOVE NEWS that has been released recently, featuring professor Edwin van Hassel (University of Antwerp) and Menno Menist ...

Watch the first NOVIMOVE video update

Meet some of the leaders of the NOVIMOVE-project in the first video update! Hear them explaining the goals of this HORIZON2020 EU funded innovation project, aiming to improve inland waterways ...

Read the first issue of NOVIMOVE NEWS

Below in the pdf file reader you'll find the very first issue of NOVIMOVE NEWS that has been released recently, featuring professor Rudy Negenborn explaining the project ambitions and objectives ...

Let’s get moving!

On Friday 19th of June the official kick-off of the project NOVIMOVE took place. More than 70 people from 21 partner organisations gathered online in a General Assembly to discuss ...
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