CMDC6 Call Results

NAOME success in the 6th Clean Maritime Demonstration Call (CMDC6)

The University of Strathclyde’s Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering (NAOME) has secured funding across six projects in the 6th Clean Maritime Demonstration Call (CMDC6).
Together, these awards total £670.5k for NAOME and will run from 1 September 2025 to 31 March 2026.

These projects will deliver feasibility studies and pre-deployment trials that support the UK maritime sector’s transition to net zero, accelerating the development and commercial readiness of clean maritime technologies in partnership with industry.

 

What is CMDC?

The Clean Maritime Demonstration Call (CMDC) is a UK Government initiative (delivered in partnership with Innovate UK under the UK’s wider clean maritime agenda) that invests in the development, demonstration and commercialisation of low- and zero-emission maritime solutions.

  • Purpose: Move promising ideas from lab to market—de-risking technologies via feasibility work and real-world trials.
  • Budget: Up to £30 million in CMDC6.
  • Timeline: September 2025 – March 2026.
  • Target: Significant reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions across shipping and port operations.
  • Scope: Vessels and port infrastructure, including electrification & shore power, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, advanced fuel cells, wind-assisted propulsion, digital optimisation and efficiency interventions.

 

NAOME’s Success

This outcome reinforces NAOME’s role as a UK leader in maritime engineering and technology, delivering research that directly helps industry decarbonise.

NAOME projects funded under CMDC6 (UoS Principal Investigators)

  • CMDC6-Elire — Hydrogen Floating Powerhub – Feasibility Study — PI: David Dai
  • VRIVEN — Virtual Reality-based Immersive Education for Next-Generation Zero-Emission Vessels — PI: Gerasimos Theotokatos
  • CMDC6_PortLCA — CMDC6_PortLCA — PI: Byongug Jeong
  • MARINE-FC — Marine Application Research for Integrated New Energy Fuel Cells — PI: Haibin Wang
  • GREENOFFPORT — Green Renewable Energy for Efficient Networks: Off-grid Facilities for PORTs — PI: Sefer Gunbeyaz
  • CMDC6-ULASH — Underwater laser cleaning of ships’ hulls for maritime sector decarbonisation — PI: Evangelos Boulougouris

 

What this means for students: research-informed teaching

NAOME’s success in CMDC6 keeps our teaching at the forefront of the field. Project findings will:

  • feed directly into modules on decarbonisation of shipping, alternative fuels, port electrification, fuel cells, VR training and vessel efficiency;
  • generate guest lectures, case studies and design challenges with our industry partners;
  • open up UG/PG projects and dissertations aligned to real CMDC problems;
  • create internship and placement opportunities, strengthening graduate employability.

 

Please visit our “Working with Businesses and Organisations” page https://www.strath.ac.uk/engineering/navalarchitectureoceanmarineengineering/workingwithbusinessorganisations/

 

 

For generic enquiries, please contact naome@strath.ac.uk