The Waterborne Technology Partnership, an industry-oriented Technology Platform to establish a continuous dialogue between all waterborne stakeholders, has published its new Strategic Research Agenda for the European waterborne sector. It encompasses objectives across the transformation of waterborne transport, technology leadership in blue economy sectors.

For the first time, the Research Agenda recognises the importance of recreational boating and nautical tourism, emphasising Europe's world-leading position in building of recreational boats and the importance of public investment in R&D to support the sustainability transition, and marina infrastructure.

This inclusion will give a boost to the sector, and support EBI's activities at EU level to ensure greater funding support to the recreational boating industry. The full Strategic Research Agenda can be found here.