The French-Italian Riviera is an exceptional territory where innovation, maritime expertise, and tourism excellence meet. Its ports, businesses, and coastal landscapes make it a formidable testing ground for imagining the boating of tomorrow. Today, the nautical sector faces new challenges: ecological transition, business digitalization, evolving professions, and the development of new uses for pleasure boating.
With NAUTITECH New Generation, we have a common ambition: to make the Mediterranean a laboratory for innovation where businesses, researchers, institutions, and territories cooperate to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more inclusive boating industry.
We aim to strengthen a sometimes fragmented ecosystem by fostering synergies between regional stakeholders around:
. employment and skills;
. training for new generations;
. research and innovation;
. cross-border cooperation;
. business networking;
. economic development of the sector.
We are testing solutions that will support the transformation of the sector through:
. new technologies (AI, IoT, AR, and VR);
. smart port services;
. new tourism experiences;
. business digitalization;
. innovations dedicated to maritime safety;
. new uses for sustainable pleasure boating.
From Cannes to Genoa, including Mandelieu-La Napoule, Théoule-sur-Mer, Corsica, and Sardinia, NAUTITECH New Generation brings together complementary territories sharing a single vision.
Together, we are developing new solutions for boating professionals, experimenting with emerging technologies, and imagining innovative services that meet tomorrow’s economic, environmental, and societal challenges.
Because the greatest innovations are born from cooperation, the project fosters exchanges between businesses, institutions, research centers, and public stakeholders to create an exemplary Mediterranean boating sector.
This pillar supports the economic development of the sector by strengthening ties between businesses and territories.
Its primary actions:
This pillar is dedicated to digital innovation and skill development for businesses in the sector.
This pillar places sustainable development and biodiversity at the heart of discussions to build a more responsible boating industry.
Its primary actions:
More than just a European project, NAUTITECH New Generation is a collective initiative led by partners committed to a single ambition: to foster a more sustainable, more connected, and more innovative boating industry.
By bringing together businesses, researchers, institutions, and territories, we are choosing useful innovation, designed to meet tomorrow’s environmental, economic, and societal challenges.
The boating of the future is being invented today, in the heart of the Mediterranean.
