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IMEC

Smart Port 2025

Smart Port 2025

2021

Antwerp

Technology

Business design

Cocreation in technology driven topics

IMEC and the University of Antwerp play a crucial role in transferring the knowledge built up in the universities around AI and IoT to the Flemish industry. To enable this knowledge transfer, the so-called 'Coock' projects were started.

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Michael Geelhand de Merxem
Managing Director The Beacon
"The Argonauts are part of the beacon ecosystem since the very start, so they were the natural partner to make our member companies work together on innovative solutions"

Challenge

IMEC and the University of Antwerp asked The Beacon and The Argonauts to facilitate the communication, participation and co-creation activities of the 'Smart Port 2030' project. The Smart port 2030 project has the ambition to transfer technological knowledge around AI and IoT to the port-related and logistics activities and companies in Flanders. The intention is to set up concrete public-private partnerships so that the Flemish industry can take full advantage of the knowledge already available.

This involves knowledge transfer in 3 areas:

  1. Micro level →  within the own company
  2. Macro-level  → within the broader ecosystem of the port
  3. Sustainability → how to use AI to develop more sustainable solutions in the port and logistics environment?

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Michael Geelhand de Merxem

Managing Director The Beacon

"The Argonauts are part of the beacon ecosystem since the very start, so they were the natural partner to make our member companies work together on innovative solutions"

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Grisha Verlinden
Service designer at The Argonauts
"The beacon is our homebase, design thinking our method to make the port ecosystem work together"

Approach & results

The project will run over about 3 years and involves as many ports and companies as possible so that a maximum impact can be realized.

The Argonauts organize inspiration, matchmaking and co-creation sessions on a regular basis. So far, cases of the following companies and organizations have been discussed: Ahlers, Port+, Port of Antwerp, Brabo, CMB.


grisha-verlinden
Grisha Verlinden
Service designer at The Argonauts
"The beacon is our homebase, design thinking our method to make the port ecosystem work together"
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Sint-Pietersvliet 7
2000 Antwerpen

info@theargonauts.eu

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