Press Release: Safer cruise ships thanks to EU-funded research

The European Commission announced on the 8 August 2014 that thanks to EU-funded research, evacuating large passenger ships could be even smoother and safer in future. EU-funded researchers are also helping to design more stable cruise ships and ferries.

The three-year LYNCEUS project, which ends in early 2015, is demonstrating how low-power wireless technologies can help localise and track people onboard ships, providing information in cases of evacuation.

The GOALDS project, which ended in 2012, created new designs for large cruise vessels to increase their safety in case of a collision or grounding.

Both projects received funding under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (2007-2013)

• Primary Source

Website: Lynceus Project http://www.lynceus-project.eu/

European Commission: DG Research & Innovation: Horizon 2020 http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

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