Current projects and plans
Below you will find an overview of the current projects and contracts awarded by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), by subject area:
Projects and plans by topic
Support maritime shipping and maritime economy
| Projects | Duration | Description (German) |
|---|
4D-SVP
Improved method for determining spatio-temporal resolved waterborne sound velocity profiles | 2019 - 2021 | Project |
EASE
AI-based assistance for forensic investigations at sea | 2019 - 2022 | Project
Website |
ProWaS
Pilot Project Climate and Water Projection Service for Waterways and Shipping | 2017 - 2021 | Project
Website |
Strengthen maritime safety and environmental protection
| Projects | Duration | Description (German) |
|---|
ACTRESS
Architecture and Testbed for Realtime Safe and Secure Services
| 2017 - 2020 | Project
Website |
BeJamDetect
Galileo GPS Jamming and Spoofing Detection. Location and interference suppression for governmental users | 2019 - 2021 | Contract awarded |
BU-EBP
Accompanying study for the Experience Building Phase of the Ballast Water Convention
| 2018 - 2022 | Project |
BZero
Periodically unattended ship's bridge | 2019 - 2022 | Project |
COMPLETE
Completing management options in the Baltic Sea Region to reduce risk of invasive species introduction by shipping | 2017 - 2020 | Project
Website |
ImpEx
Environmental Impacts of Exhaust gas cleaning systems for the reduction of SOx on ships | 2020 - 2023 | Project |
R-Mode Baltic
Ranging Mode for the Baltic Sea | 2017 - 2020 | Project
Website |
SEAIR
Impact of shipping emissions on air quality and deposition in (German) marine and coastal areas (HZG) | 2019 - 2021 | Contract awarded |
Promote sustainable use of the sea
| Projects | Duration | Description (German) |
|---|
ANKER
Approaches to cost reduction in the collection of monitoring data for offshore projects, development of the central specialist information network for environmental assessments | 2016 - 2020 | Project
Website |
BeMo III
Assessment approaches for sound monitoring and environmental testing | 2019 - 2022 | Contract awarded |
FINO (Phase 5)
Operation and expansion of the FINO database, continuation of oceanographic measurement operations FINO1, FINO2 and FINO3 | 2018 - 2021 | Project
Website |
MARLIN II
Assessment approaches for ecological monitoring from the implementation of the WindSeeG, the Ballast Water Convention and the MSRL at the BSH | 2020 - 2022 | Contract awarded |
Modelling effects offshore WEA
("DeMoBird", "CPOD", "FaunaGuard")
Modelling and assessment of possible cumulative effects of the construction and operation of offshore wind farms | 2017 - 2020 | "CPOD"
"FaunaGuard" |
MultiBird III
Scientific analyses of the offshore occurrence of migratory birds using an integrated database of monitoring and research data from a multi sensor system | 2019 - 2022 | Contract awarded |
NorthSEE
A North Sea Perspective on Shipping, Energy and Environmental Aspects in Maritime Spatial Planning
| 2016 - 2021 | Project
Website |
OffChEm
Possible impacts on the marine environment and their assessment | 2017 - 2021 | Contract awarded
Website |
OpenRAVE
Acquisition and analysis of load, logistics and lifetime relevant data of offshore wind turbines
| 2020 - 2025 | Project
Website |
SEBAMO
Development of a seismic soil model of the German North Sea in the area of designated wind farm areas based on high-resolution multi-channel seismic data of the University of Bremen | 2017 - 2020 | Contract awarded |
Continuity of measurements
| Projects | Duration | Description (German) |
|---|
EA-RISE (Euro-Argo RISE)
Euro-Argo Research Infrastructure Sustainability and Enhancement | 2019 - 2022 | Project
Website |
MoBo
Development of a monitoring buoy, focus on oceanographic measurement technology and its testing | 2016 - 2020 | Project
Webseite |
MOCCA
Monitoring the Oceans and Climate Change with Argo | 2017 - 2020 | Project
Webseite |
TMCO 2.0 - DArgo2025, C-Scope
Towards Marine Carbon Observation 2.0
| 2020 - 2023 | Project |
Provide competent information on the state of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
| Projects | Duration | Description (German) |
|---|
AstraDa
Preparation of a stratigraphic database for use in high-resolution and regionalised morphodynamic simulation models | 2019 - 2022 | Project
Website |
CMEMS Copernicus (Phase 2)
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service
| 2015 - 2021 | Service
Website |
EasyGSH-Deutsche Bucht
Generation of application-oriented synoptic reference data on geomorphology, sedimentology and hydrodynamics in the German Bight | 2017 - 2020 | Project
Website |
EMODNet HRSM (Phase 1 und 2)
High Resolution Seabed Mapping | 2016 - 2020 | Project
Website |
Evaluation of pH measurements
Evaluation and operationalisation of spectrophotometric pH measurement for monitoring marine acidification in the Baltic Sea | 2019 - 2022 | Contract awarded |
JOMOPANS
Joint Monitoring Programme for Ambient Noise in the North Sea | 2018 - 2020 | Project
Website |
SCIPPER
Shipping contributions to inland pollution push for the enforcement of regulations | 2019 - 2022 | Project
Website |
SeaDataCloud
Multidisciplinary Data Centers for Access and Marine Data Management | 2016 - 2020 | Project
Website |
Sediment mapping AWZ-III
Area-wide high-resolution sediment mapping of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea and Baltic Sea (Phase 3) | 2017 - 2020 | Project
Website |
SOUND Mapping
Standards, Tools and Visualization
| 2018 - 2020 | Project
Website |
TRUSTED
Towards fiducial reference measurements of seasurface temperature by European drifters | 2018 - 2021 | Project
Website |
Projects
As part of its R&D activities, BSH works on major research projects, so-called R&D projects. These are often projects funded by third parties. These third-party-funded projects are usually multi-year collaborative projects that are carried out as part of a consortium, i.e. with suitable national and international project partners.
Awarding of contracts
The BSH also awards R&D contracts to third parties from its own budget or on behalf of the BMVI and other departments. These contracts can be awarded within the framework of projects. The aim is to contribute to a better and more efficient performance of the BSH's specialist tasks through new research and development approaches or innovative analysis methods.
