News & Events

MARBLE Officially Joins ARTEMIS Project Consortium to Advance Maritime Autonomy
MARBLE is pleased to announce the formal signing of the partnership agreement for the ARTEMIS project. Joining a high-caliber consortium of academic and industrial leaders, including Iskra Shipyard and other prominent European partners, MARBLE will play a pivotal role in driving the digital and green transition of the maritime

Women Ocean Champions
Our Head of Research Barbara Arbanas Ferreira is featured in the newly launched book “Women Ocean Champions: Stories of Women Shaping the EU Blue Economy,” an initiative by the EU-funded WIN-BIG project.

Best Paper Award for MARBLE – ERF 2026
MARBLE team, led by Barbara Arbanas Ferreira and Fausto Ferreira, marked a significant presence at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2026 held March 23-27 in Stavanger, Norway.

MARBLE Project Partner Neven Cukrov Appointed to UN Group of Experts
We are proud to announce that our project partner, Mr. Neven Cukrov, Senior Scientist at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), has been officially nominated to the United Nations Group of Experts.


AI Summit 2026
Our Acting Head of Research Support Office Fausto Ferreira participated as a featured panelist at the AI summit 2026 that took place March 19-21 in Budapest, Hungary.

CoE MARBLE at Oceanology International 2026
On March 11, 2026, our ERI department paid a high-impact visit to Oceanology International 2026 in London to accelerate the project’s integration into the global maritime market.

International Symposium in Split: Centers of Excellence as Engines of Innovation and Industry Collaboration
The international symposium “Centers of Excellence: Sources of Innovation, Technology Transfer, and Cooperation with Industry,” held on Monday, March 16, at the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS) in Split.

MARBLE Visits NTNU AURLab for MORE Workshop in Trondheim
MARBLE researchers visited NTNU’s AUR Lab in Trondheim, Norway, to participate in the MORE – Maritime Organizational Robotics Environment Workshop.

MARBLE 4th project meeting (Zagreb, Croatia)
On March 3, 2026, CoE MARBLE project team concluded a successful 4th project meeting in the premises of the CoE MARBLE headquarters.

Next Innovation Road 2026
Anđelko Katalenić, our Director for Business, presented MARBLE at the “Next Innovation Road 2026: Digitalization between Sea and Space” event held on March 3, 2026.

Invited talk by Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana
On February 27, 2026, CoE MARBLE together with LABUST (UNIZG-FER) organized a talk “Beaked whale (Ziphiidae) foraging along Australia’s Northwest Shelf” held by Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana.

CoE MARBLE Expands Innovation Network with Three Major Strategic Partnerships
CoE MARBLE is proud to announce the simultaneous formalization of three strategic partnerships with international industry and research leaders: CNR- INM (Italy), Naval Group (France), and SeaCras (Croatia).

The Future of Brodarski Institut Heritage: Roundtable at the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla
The Technical Museum Nikola Tesla hosted a prominent roundtable titled “The Future of the Heritage of the Brodarski Institut in Zagreb” on February 18, 2026.

CoE MARBLE Co-Organizes FER-WIN Conference
On February 5, 2026, the Gray Hall at UNIZG-FER hosted the scientific conference FER WIN – Women in Innovation.
Events

Invited lecture by Dr. Slaven Šteković
We are inviting you to a lecture “From Discovery to Impact: What it takes to move Science beyond the Lab” by Dr. Slaven Šteković, MBA.
