FEDER - SINAY - AIMS PROJECT
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SINAY
AIMS is a collaborative project between two Norman SMEs, SINAY and SoyHuCe and the GREYC laboratory at the University of Caen. It is a project certified by the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique. AIMS was also the winner of the SME-Biodiversity Initiative call for projects from ADEME and the General Investment Commission. In this context, a first co-financing was allocated for part of SINAY's tasks. This request for FEDER co-financing aims to finance the other project partners and finance the SINAY tasks not supported by ADEME. AIMS is at the TRL6 development stage, and is therefore very close to its market. At the European Union level, a study on blue growth commissioned by DG/MARE (2012) estimated the value of the environmental studies market in all of its applications (MRE, port development, oil and gas industry, marine protected areas, etc.) at €4 billion per year, with an increasing trend and an estimated expansion potential of 5%. 6 (1 being the lowest potential and 6 the strongest). In the context of Normandy alone, with its 3 wind farm projects, 2 tidal turbine pilot farms, its 3 Large Maritime Ports, its 510 fishing vessels, its network of marine protected areas, this market represents more than 30 million euros. The problems encountered in this market are linked to the diversity and volume of data. This raises issues such as collection, storage, calculation capacity, standardization of methods of analysis, evaluation and interpretation of results. From a logistical and economic point of view, this translates into heavy and sometimes rather artisanal field logistics, and high implementation costs. Indeed, according to the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, “the data collected during campaigns can stimulate knowledge and innovation as long as engineers and scientists manage to find the means to collect, disseminate, merge and exploit this data efficiently and quickly. At present, this is generally not the case.  The AIMS project aims to provide an adequate response to the issues described above, by offering an innovative approach to effectively integrate the collection, storage, processing and visualization of marine data. The project consists of developing a turnkey integrated technological solution associated with a range of innovative services. The offers are intended to be applied to different areas linked to the sustainable management of blue growth. AIMS is therefore made up of two main pillars. A product integrating a network of data acquisition systems, a storage and calculation platform, a bank of algorithms for analyzing noise levels and the associated environmental risk A range of services, such as the deployment and maintenance of acquisition systems, storage and calculation, training, and the carrying out of studies on the marine environment. With this disruptive offer, it is envisaged to generate by 2020 a turnover of 6.8 million euros (22% of the market Normand), to create 16 jobs in the region and maintain 20.
Smarter Europe / Research and innovation / Technology transfer and university-enterprise cooperation primarily benefiting SMEs