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The Commonwealth
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries. It is home to 2.5 billion people, and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. 32 member countries are small states, including many island nations. The member governments have agreed to shared goals like development, democracy and peace.
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Connected Places Catapult
Connected Places Catapult provides impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
Catapult connects businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. It runs technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and eliminate carbon.
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Global Association for Transition Engineering
The Global Association for Transition Engineering (GATE) provides a membership and support network, a platform for carrying out research, teaching and certification and a forum for communicating successful projects that rapidly reduce fossil fuel use and manage restricted production of these valuable resources over the long term.
The mission of Transition Engineers is to create innovations that disrupt the business as usual course, effectively manage the risks of un-sustainable resource use and destructive environmental impacts by carrying out shift projects for existing engineered systems and existing businesses and organizations. Shift projects achieve the COP21 Paris Agreement requirement of 80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
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History & Policy
History & Policy (H&P) promotes better public policy through a greater understanding of history. H&P is a national network of 500+ academic historians and an independent forum for the expression of historical perspectives on today’s policy issues.
H&P publishes high-quality historical research freely accessible online and creates opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
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International Congress of Maritime Museums
The International Congress of Maritime Museums (ICMM) is a service provider for maritime museum professionals. ICMM provides a focal point of contact and professional help for museums large and small. ICMM offers technical assistance on ship and boat preservation; opportunities to exchange collections or staff; loan exhibitions; planning, research, educational programming, and public relations; and procurement of supplies for maritime preservation projects.
ICMM brings maritime museum professionals together from all over the world for regular conferences, creating a strong network of maritime museums and people. We are talking with the ICMM to see how we can work together to further our shared aims.
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Maritime Digital Hub
Maritime Digital Hub is a not-for-profit open knowledge community focused on democratising the tools, expertise, and skills required on the journey to build a more socially responsible and sustainable future for all.
Its goal is to continue to build a trusted network where efforts are shared, recognised, and rewarded fairly, inspiring current and future generations to help deliver on the clean, digital, and safe ambitions of the sector.
This ambition is achieved through unique collaborations with academia and research, and alignment with the maritime and technology sectors.
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Museum of London Archaeology
Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) is an experienced and innovative archaeology and built heritage practice providing independent, professional heritage advice and services for over 40 years across the UK and internationally on schemes both large and small. MOLA's commercial services are designed to help development, infrastructure and construction sector clients to meet their planning process requirements swiftly and expertly, with the certainty and value they need.
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Ocean Decade Heritage Network
The Ocean Decade Heritage Network has the dual aims of raising awareness in the cultural heritage community about the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 and coordinating a targeted global response from the community to improve the integration of cultural heritage within the marine sciences during the Decade’s implementation.
The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme aims to assist and support cultural heritage stakeholders enact a paradigm shift through their proposed Decade Actions (programmes, projects, and activities).
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SCAPE Trust
For over two decades, the SCAPE Trust has been investigating the threatened heritage of Scotland’s coast. Established in 2000, the educational charity works closely with Historic Environment Scotland, regional heritage mangers and the University of St Andrews to record and take action at sites threatened by decay, coastal processes and climate change. Central to their work has been the forging of a close relationship with community groups and individuals all around the coast. Their pioneering citizen science approach has included the creation of a heritage recording app for coastal sites and the co-design of practical projects with local groups. Their approach has inspired similar approaches around the world, and team members regularly share knowledge through talks, conferences, publications and media appearances.
SCAPE investigates changes at the coast, recording sites that may be at risk and prioritising action. Practical projects with community groups have included detailed surveys, excavations, site relocation, creating digital 3D models, film making and creating interpretation for museums and heritage centres. At the heart of all their work is partnership working and they make the results of all their work accessible to heritage managers and the public.
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The Ocean Foundation
The Ocean Foundation is the only community foundation for the ocean dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments, and will work with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre to engage a range of ocean health stakeholders with the simple message, “If it’s not safe, it’s not sustainable”.
The Ocean Foundation (TOF) and LRF HEC will collaborate to support good choices by policy makers, investors and by wider consumers, raising general awareness and creating good ocean citizens. Ocean citizens understand and act on rights and responsibilities towards a safe and sustainable ocean. TOF will work closely with the LRF HEC to maximise opportunities presented by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainability and to highlight the importance of ocean heritage (natural and cultural). The LRF HEC and TOF will work together to set a new programme in motion – Learning From the Past. This will embed the importance of a historical perspective in finding solutions to contemporary challenges connected to ocean safety,conservation and sustainable use.
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Unpath'd Waters
Unpath’d Waters is a ground-breaking 3-year research project that aims to unite the UK’s maritime collections, aiming to increase interaction with the UK’s maritime heritage by making it easier to research and easier for the public to discover and share stories in new ways.
Records, maps and objects are scattered across hundreds of different archives, museums, libraries and galleries. Unpath’d Waters will develop new ways of making information across these different collections easy to search and find. This will help everyone – from researchers asking new questions to members of the public having direct access to records. This will encourage more experts from all disciplines to use maritime collections in their own work.