Project

• Project acronym: BESST
• Project full title: Breakthrough in European Ship and Shipbuilding Technologies
• Grant agreement no.: 233980
• Call ID: FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1
• Start date: 01.09.2009
• End date: 28.02.2013
• Duration of project: 42 months
• Activity code: Sustainable Surface Transport (SST) Strengthening Competitiveness
• Funding Scheme: CP-IP - Large-scale integrating project
• The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 233980

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The Large Scaled Integrating Project BESST "Breakthrough in European Ship and Shipbuilding Technologies" aims to achieve a breakthrough in competitiveness, environmentally friendliness and safety of European built ships. Focusing on passenger ships, ferries and mega-yachts, the results will to a large extend be applicable also to other ships.

A holistic life cycle performance assessment on ship level will guide the technical developments on system level, clustered in System Groups. The results will be integrated in virtual show cases (ship concepts) demonstrating the technical solutions as well as the life cycle impact compared to current designs.