Syke offers solutions to the sustainability transformation through collaboration, with strong expertise and independent information on global phenomena such as climate change, biodiversity loss, overconsumption, pollution, and eutrophication.

The competence network OceanTechnologies@Fraunhofer is a group of Fraunhofer institutes who have bundled their know-how to be able to develop innovative technologies such as subsea vehicles, monitoring stations for aquaculture facilities or detection systems for explosives to help bring forward a more sustainable future.

The “Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum Fachhochschule Kiel GmbH”, briefly called FuE-Zentrum FH Kiel GmbH, is a private corporation being engaged in the transfer of technology between research institutions and commercial enterprises. Purpose of the FuE-GmbH is marketing of the know-how of the University of Applied Science Kiel and other universities in Schleswig-Holstein and transfer of technology between universities and commercial enterprises. Also, the practice relation of teaching shall increase and the graduate students shall be fully integrated into joint projects, and hence, shall be bring into close contact to companies. The FuE-GmbH is specialized in three domains, which allow effectively support of the clients and to match their specific requirements: Services in testing and measuring, transfer projects and services in raising third-party funding. The competence combined with the extensive technical equipment of the University of Applied Science Kiel and the excellence of more than 150 professors is available to the clients. When needed, the FuE-GmbH utilize their large network to other universities and research institutions to fulfil the demands of the clients.

The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is an independent institute, and Norway’s premier research community in a series of topics related to water. NIVA’s main tasks besides research are environmental monitoring, assessment, consultancy, and problem solving for decision makers in both the public and private sectors. We work locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. We are experts on ecosystems in both freshwater and marine environments, from mountains, via lakes and rivers, to fjords, coasts and oceans.

University of Tartu is the biggest and most prestigious classical university in Estonia. It was established by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1632, thus being one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe. The Estonian Marine Institute of the university has a mission to enhance the knowledge and understanding on the functioning of the Baltic Sea ecosystem and to seek scientific and management solutions in order to improve environmental quality and the sustainability of ecosystem services. Research is focusing on marine biology and biodiversity, sustainable use of marine ecosystem services including the fishery resources, environmental safety of maritime transport, maritime spatial planning as a tool for practical implementation of the ecosystem-based approach.

Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH) in Stockholm is the largest, oldest and most international technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education capacity at university level is provided by KTH. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all the branches of engineering and includes architecture, industrial management and urban planning. Industrial Ecology at KTH has played a key role in the SUBMARINER project and is also a founding member of the Network. Associate professor Fredrik Gröndahl was responsible for the work with cultivation and harvest of macroalgae biomass in the Baltic.