News & Events
CoE MARBLE Presented at Winkler 2025
At the 11th International Conference on Marine Technology – Winkler 2025, held November 20-21 at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Igor Kvasić delivered a plenary presentation titled “CoE MARBLE – Centre of Excellence in Maritime Robotics and Technologies for Sustainable Blue Economy.”
Barbara Arbanas Ferreira’s appearance on Prometej (HRT)
Barbara Arbanas Ferreira was a guest on the television program Prometej on HRT – Croatian Radio Television on November 5, 2025, where she discussed maritime technologies, robotics, the MARBLE project and research center, as well as the team’s pilot sites and testing infrastructure.
ERAT 2025 European Robotics & Automation Talks
Barbara Arbanas Ferreira participated in ERAT 2025 – European Robotics & Automation Talks on November 10. She delivered a 15-minute presentation as part of Session 3: “Croatian SEALs: Robot Autonomy on Sea, Air and Land.” In her talk, Barbara shared insights from the MBZIRC competition experience, as well as an
MoU signed between CoE MARBLE, CMMI and INESCTEC.OCEAN
The Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), CoE MARBLE and INESCTEC.OCEAN – Centre of Excellence in Ocean Research and Engineering, leading research and innovation centres for the blue economy, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the 17th International Interdisciplinary Field Workshop of Maritime Robotics and
Barbara Arbanas Ferreira awarded the 2025 Danubius Young Scientist Award!
COE Marble is proud to announce that our colleague Barbara Arbanas Ferreira has been awarded the 2025 Danubius Young Scientist Award!
4th Teaming Club Conference
The 4th Teaming Club Conference (October 15–17, 2025, at BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal) featured CoE MARBLE as one of the selected Teaming projects in the “Hi Teaming Club! #1” session on Day 2 (October 16).
EUSIPCO 2025
MARBLE’s Senior Researcher Roee Diamant attended the 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025) in Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Italy, September 8-12, 2025
Kutina Days of Science and Arts 2025
Barbara Arbanas Ferreira participated in Kutina Days of Science and Arts 2025 (October 16-17), held at her former High School Tin Ujević.
Meeting G2 Croatia
During the MEETING G2.11 Croatia (October 17-18, 2025), an inspiring event connecting innovators and the Croatian diaspora that took place in Novska, at PISMO powered by A1, our Barbara Arbanas Ferreira joined the panel “Dronovi i roboti – i na nebu i na zemlji”.
MetroSea 2025
Barbara Arbanas Ferreira and Fausto Ferreira participated in MetroSea conference in beautiful Genova, Italy (October 8-10). Barbara presented one of the latest MARBLE papers A Brief Survey on the Integration of Large Language Models with Marine Robotic Systems, co-authored with Đula Nađ, Fausto Ferreira and Massimo Caccia (CNR).
Nadir Kapetanović and Igor Kvasić at Yacht Design Forum
MARBLE Head of Engineering and Research Infrastructure Nadir Kapetanović and researcher Igor Kvasić participated in one of the events of the three-day Yacht Design Forum organized by Tecnoservizi SRL that took place September 25-27, 2025.
ADRF 2025: MARBLE Workshop
On September 23, 2025, our Acting Head of Research Department Barbara Arbanas Ferreira co-organized MARBLE workshop “AI-Enabled Robotic Solutions for Critical Maritime Infrastructure: Inspection, Maintenance, and Security” at AI, Data, Robotics Forum (ADRF 2025) in Stavanger, Norway.
MARBLE Project’s 5th Supervisory Board Meeting: Strategic Planning and Pilot Site Visits in Šibenik
The MARBLE team, project partners, and Advisory Board members convened in Šibenik from September 30 to October 2 for the 5th Supervisory Board meeting and strategic planning session.
Đula Nađ at IFAC CAMS 2025
Asst. Prof. Đula Nađ participated in the 16th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics and Vehicles (CAMS 2025), held in Wuhan, China, from August 25–28, 2025.
EMRA’25 Proceedings
At the OCEANS 2025 conference held in Brest, France, June 16-19, Fausto Ferreira and Nadir Kapetanović together with UNIZG-FER LABUST members attended the programme, participated in the exposition and presented the papers.
Events
Invited lecture by dr. Rui Seabra
CoE MARBLE is inviting you a lecture “Monitoring temperature from rocky shores for decades and over an entire ocean: technological and logistical implications” by Dr. Rui Seabra that is taking place on Tuesday, December 16th, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. at
Invited lecture by Prof. Karl von Ellenrieder
CoE MARBLE is inviting you a lecture “Sliding mode observers for the acoustically-aided inertial navigation of underwater vehicles” by Prof. Karl von Ellenrieder, Professor of Automation with the Faculty of Engineering, at the Libera Università di Bolzano (Italy).