Marintec Grand Prix / MARINE TECH

The Marintec Grand Prix is an area where technologies for "passing on the richness of the oceans to the next generation" are gathered. We not only obtain many marine resources from the ocean, which covers 70% of the earth, but also benefit from its function as a vast carbon sink and temperature regulating region. The ocean used to be a place of business for mostly limited industries such as fisheries, logistics, and shipbuilding, but in recent years, new perspectives on its utilization have emerged, including power generation, mining of mineral resources, seaweed farming for CO2 absorption, and as a place for biodiversity conservation.
In this area, we will encourage collaboration between venture companies that are beginning to move toward solutions to ocean issues and business companies from a variety of industries to create sustainable initiatives that incorporate biodiversity conservation and measures to address climate change into industry.