University College London
Through collaboration with Indonesian universities and fishing communities, this project combines personal passion with professional expertise to improve sea safety.
Impact stories
Inspiring stories showing the impact Lloyd’s Register Foundation projects and partnerships are having around the world.
Our stories
A grant from Lloyd’s Register Foundation has helped to provide modern, fit-for-purpose facilities and a more comfortable environment for cadets and seafarers in Greece’s merchant navy.
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Lloyd's Register Foundation's Heritage and Education Centre is working with CITiZAN to protect England's vulnerable coastline through the history of Lloyd's Register.
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For the last three years, we’ve been supporting the Tall Ships Youth Trust ‘STEM and the Sea’ programme, sending 30 young people a year from disadvantaged backgrounds on ocean-going yacht trips.
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We're supporting The University of Manchester's Equity and Merit Scheme that will help support talented engineers all across the African continent.
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‘Feeding Tomorrow’ is a project with the UK's National Science Museum designed to find the most effective ways of engaging people in food safety issues.
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Lloyd's Register Foundation is funding a research project at the University of Seoul that's improving knowledge of ships performance in adverse sea conditions.
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We’re working with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to offer its Engineering Horizons Bursary to a new generation of aspiring engineers.
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Using additive manufacturing techniques, our Netherlands-based partners MX3D are developing a 12m ‘smart bridge’ that will cross a busy section of the Amsterdam canal system.
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The Lloyd’s Register Foundation Thomas Chapman Scholarships are based at the University of Hull, using the history of Lloyd's Register to enhance safety at sea.
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Lloyd's Register Foundation is supporting the International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) to develop a Pandemic Response Guidance Manual, helping search and rescue continue through the pandemic.
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Hook Marine are the brains behind SeaWise®, a tablet-sized device that monitors the stability of fishing boats in rough sea conditions, giving seafarers for the first time the information they need to protect crews from unnecessary risks.
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To show how the National Maritime Museum’s varied collections still impact on today's oceangoing world, Lloyds Register Foundation is funding a Lloyd’s Register Curator of Maritime Impacts.
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We’re working with a team, led by University College London (UCL), on how ‘makerspaces’ can enable wider, more inclusive participation in science, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
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With help from a Lloyd’s Register Foundation grant, Helm Innovation Ltd is providing a long-awaited safety solution to embarking and disembarking ships.
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We’re supporting the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in an international effort to carry out Pre-normative Research for Safe use of Liquid Hydrogen (PRESLHY).
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We are proud to support Cranfield University’s efforts to develop RECBIT (Real-time Electronic Counterfeit Batch Inspection Technique) - a fast, simple and cheap method of detecting fake electronic components.
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The International Centre for Advanced Safety Studies (ICASS) is opening its internationally significant test facilities to scientists and engineers worldwide, with help from a grant from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
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Lloyd's Register Foundation is funding CEPOLAR, The Centre of Excellence for Scenario-based Risk Management in Polar Waters, in the development of guidelines that assess the risk to shipping in frozen waters.
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Lloyd’s Register Foundation are collaborating with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and academic partners to support education for the next generation of food safety professionals in the developing world.
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Our funding has recently supported the development of Toolbox, a free-to-use app that shares key safety learnings with frontline workers, created by the Energy Institute.
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Lloyd’s Register Foundation is working with partners in the Eastern Mediterranean on a three-year initiative to strengthen a culture of safety among seafarers, the shipping industry and marine communities.
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The Royal Institution’s annual Christmas Lectures are a sparkling feature of the television schedules over the festive season – and since 2016 they’ve been supported by a grant from Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
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By working with partners such as STEM Learning, we are opening doors to high-worth careers for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and minority groups.
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By bringing space travel and STEM resources to the classroom, the National Space Academy is showing tomorrow’s astronauts why the sky is no longer the limit.
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Lloyd’s Register Foundation is working with the Royal Academy of Engineering to support Engineering X, a global collaboration tackling engineering, safety and sustainability problems to create a safer world.
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From improving air quality in cities to building affordable homes faster, our Stimulus Fund with the Open Data Institute is driving innovation in the engineering sector.
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We're working with the Health and Safety Executive to bring together safety data on an unprecedented scale. The Discovering Safety programme is harnessing state-of-the-art AI technology to extract new insight from incident reporting.
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Our work with the 1851 Trust is bringing the treasure trove of marine archives in Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s Heritage and Education Centre (HEC) to a wider audience.
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The award-winning Lloyd’s Register Safety Accelerator is working to make industries safer, by connecting leading companies with cutting-edge digital startups to trial safetytech in live environments.
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Since 2015, Lloyd’s Register Foundation has been helping the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV) inspire and educate Turkey's scientists of the future.
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A treasure trove of data on ships, deep in an archive facility in Woolwich, London, is now freely available to all following a major digitisation project funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
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Since our 2014 ‘Foresight Review’ was published, Lloyd’s Register Foundation has been a leading voice in the transformation that ‘big data’ is bringing to the world of engineering.
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Funded by the Foundation, The Resilience Shift brings policy-makers, resilience practitioners and thought leaders together with the engineering and technical communities to put resilience engineering at the forefront.
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We’re making shipping safer through our grant to HiLo, which uses predictive risk modelling to identify potentially high-impact events and stop disasters in their tracks.
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Since 2015, Lloyd’s Register Foundation has supported the International Consortium on Nanotechnology in a global effort to create a safer, smarter, more interconnected future for humanity.
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As the world wrestles with the unprecedented ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, our work on the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has been in the spotlight.
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Every day, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) takes to the seas around the coastline of Britain to rescue people who need their help. Our funding is giving crews and volunteers the life-saving skills they need - and which any one of us might depend on.
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Our grant has enabled a team of Interferry experts to undertake a scoping study in the Philippines, to identify which measures have been most helpful in strengthening safety in its domestic ferry industry.
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Our grant to Vianair Inc. has helped it create a software platform to help keep aircraft safely separated, reducing emissions, noise pollution and delays while improving safety.
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Our grant to the China Academy of Safety Science and Technology (CASST) in Beijing is helping develop a legal framework, standards and methodology for emergency preparedness and response.
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For the last ten years, we have been helping long-term grant partners TWI Ltd establish a global hub for research into structural integrity, The National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC).
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We’re working with the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS) on a long-term project to drive up cyber security standards on the boards of private companies, particularly shipping companies.
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Our partnership with the University of York in the Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP) is helping ensure autonomous technologies help us rather than harm us.
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A Lloyd’s Register Foundation grant is supporting the Fire Engineering Education for Africa (FEEFA) programme at Stellenbosch University, which is now taking its first generation of masters (MEng) and PhD students through training.
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If a key COVID-19 measure is hand hygiene, what about the three-fifths of the world which doesn’t have safe access to clean water? The International Water Security Network (IWSN) is providing practical help to African communities.
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We’re working with Cardiff University’s Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) to persuade shipping firms to improve conditions for their employees - who may be at sea for up to a year without a break.
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By providing scholarships to the South East Asia Skills Enhancement Programme (SEASEP), we’re giving a new generation of engineers the skills and training they need to further their careers and make their industries safer.
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By supporting the International Maritime Legal Institute (IMLI), we’re helping to develop a formidable network of maritime legal specialists across the world, sharing the same principles and working towards the same goals.
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A grant from Lloyd’s Register Foundation to study the use of blockchain in shipping could lead to cleaner fuels, better conditions for seafarers and fewer fires at sea through safer transport of hazardous materials.
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Fishermen in poor countries face unacceptably high risks of death or life-changing injuries. In Bangladesh, every year over 1,350 fishermen die at sea, in boats without the most basic safety equipment – or even clean drinking water.
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Forested with wind turbines and crowded with congested shipping lanes, can the North Sea also be a sustainable source of seaweed to feed the planet, and can this happen safely?
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Blockchain has the potential to revolutionise many different sectors so we are supporting Maritime Blockchain Labs in exploring how these technologies can transform the assurance and safety of shipping’s critical infrastructure.
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Our Foresight Review on global safety evidence explores the current data we have, how those data sets are used and what the trends and challenges are for the future evidence base for safety.
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Our ten-year relationship with the Pusan National Research Centre has grown its capability and capacity for pioneering marine and offshore research.
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Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage and Education Centre is the custodian of Lloyd’s Register’s unique heritage collection, which contains more than 250 years of ship plans, survey reports, letter books, photograph collections and so much more.
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Since 2013 a Lloyd’s Register Foundation grant has been helping CHIRP Maritime to make working life safer for seafarers across the globe.
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