Lloyd’s Register Foundation has announced a £15 million funding call as part of its new 2024-2029 strategy, calling for proposals that will help enhance maritime safety.
The call is focused on projects across three interconnected priority areas.
The first is ‘Safer maritime systems’, which will look at reducing and preventing harm for those working in growing maritime economies, as well as ensuring everyone across the maritime system is motivated to work together towards an ocean economy that keeps people safer on land and at sea.
The second is ‘Safer, sustainable infrastructure’, focused on developing new technologies and methodologies that can be used safely within broader engineering practices, without causing harm elsewhere, so critical infrastructure remains resilient and fit for purpose to meet the changing needs of society and a changing climate.
The third priority area is ‘Skilled people for safer engineering’, looking at the development of safety skills knowledge, leadership, and processes where they are most needed, as well as increasing the number and diversity of engineers, and those in engineering-related professions, especially in sectors and geographies where we can have the most impact.
Through this latest funding call, the Foundation is keen to scale its impact while being led by local voices, particularly in low and middle-income countries, building strong partnerships and commissioning new evidence and data to increase understanding of safety across the priority areas.
“Our mission as a global charity is to engineer a safer world. Protecting people from harm, ensuring infrastructure is safer and more resilient, and supporting initiatives that build capacity, capability and understanding in the engineering workforce remain the driving force behind everything we do,” said Tim Slingsby, Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s Director of Skills and Education.
“This new funding call matches the scale and ambition of our new five-year strategy. It gives us the opportunity to form new partnerships and coalitions with local organisations, government bodies, NGOs, and academic institutions and drive impact on a truly global scale.”
