What is  PortLab Cartagena?

WHAT IS CARTAGENA’S PORTLAB?

It is a space capable of hosting an innovation ecosystem in the fields of the logistics, industrial and port system. PortLab will enable developing and testing emerging solutions in these areas. Moreover, it will facilitate, accelerate, and encourage the port community to develop innovative projects. The aim is to promote collaboration, access, and generation of scientific and technologically innovative knowledge within the Port of Cartagena’s innovation framework

Its goal is to carry out the necessary actions to position the Port as an innovative ecosystem at local, national, and European level. PortLab’s ecosystem will not be limited to port operators, as it aims to increasingly connect the city of Cartagena with its port. PortLab will involve the citizens in the activities and actions executed in the port, so as to make the Port of Cartagena part of the city’s dynamic..

PORTLAB’S VALUES AND STRENGTHS

  • It is a unique and different space, a benchmark in competitiveness and profitability.
  • It is technology, industry, and development. Innovative and digitalised port environment.
  • It promotes logistic, industrial and transport innovation.
  • It is an economic engine of the Region of Murcia; it has a great potential for development and is a source of opportunities.
  • It is a modern, successful, dynamic space that generates innovative activity.
  • It is a union of those who work facing the sea.
  • It works for the common good, for its environment and for its citizens.
  • It is in the hands, heads, and hearts of its workers. People are the backbone of the Port.

Lines of Action

  • Promotion of relevant projects to the Port.
  • Contribution to the digital transformation and sustainability of the logistics-port sector, through collaboration between companies, startups, research centres and public administrations.
  • Project funding by specific tools such as the Ports 4.0 call for proposals and other generic funding tools that we can help you manage.
  • Attention to doubts and queries about any aspect of PortLab.
  • Promotion of events and training sessions.

PORTS 4.0 FUNDING

The Ports 4.0 capital fund is the corporate open innovation model adopted by Puertos del Estado and the Spanish Port Authorities to attract, support and facilitate the application of talent and entrepreneurship to the Spanish public and private port-logistics sector in the context of the 4th industrial revolution.

The purpose of the grants is to activate public and private investment in innovation for the transformation and strengthening of the technological capabilities of the transport, logistics and ports sector. In addition, it aims to promote the generation and application of new knowledge and disruptive technologies, new uses of existing technologies not yet applied to the port logistics sector. Moreover, Ports 4.0 seeks to foster applied research activities that generate added value for the port-logistics community, through business projects

 

BENEFICIARIES

The grants are aimed at all national and international entrepreneurs and companies with innovative ideas or projects. They need to be capable of improving the efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability of the port-logistics sector and, in general, of trade. Furthermore, they need to have the capacity for development and growth in the market through business projects, including intra-entrepreneurship in the working environment of the Port Authorities and State Ports.

Ports 4.0 call is aimed at the implementation of new ideas or projects that develop new technologies, introduce innovative products, services or processes in the market, or, improve existing ones with direct application in the logistics-port ecosystem or others related to it, linked to ports of general interest or to the different links in the logistics chain.

All phases of the innovation process are financed (ideation, validation, acceleration, prototyping, and growth). Ports 4.0 is not only associated with clearly disruptive new technologies, but also with the development of new, more efficient processes and business models based on the verticals of the 4.0 economy (Big Data, IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Additive Printing, Robotics, Automation, Analytics, etc.).

FUNDING CALLS FOR PROPOSALS

Kit Digital

Kit Digital
This Call aims at improving the competitiveness and the level of digital maturity of companies and self-employed persons in Segment III, medium-sized companies and companies in Segments IV (between 50 and less than 100 employees) and Segment V (between 100 and less than 250 employees).
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Kit Consulting

Kit Consulting
The aim of the programme is to support the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises by granting aid for the contracting of consultancy services included in the Programme's Catalogue of Consultancy Services.
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