HomePORT: Creating a real-life testing ground in the Port of Hamburg

The port faces various challenges ranging from competitiveness and environmental concerns to growing demands for innovative port management practices. In order to meet these challenges and to promote product innovation made in Hamburg, a free space to try out innovative and hardware-heavy products under real conditions is needed. Transformative co-design with participation of citizens, ambitious port actors, science, and start-upsis key. Learn more about how homePORT comes to meet these requirements by designating and providing for test areas, “maker space”, and an overarching community in the heart of the port to serve as a maritime real labo5ratory. In this presentation hear their story about challenges and learnings.