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title: Federal Minister Stark-Watzinger praises north.io project Marispace-X
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# Federal Minister Stark-Watzinger praises north.io project Marispace-X
[Krueger](https://news.north.io/en/author/krueger) May 2, 2022
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[Germany's Federal Research Minister Stark-Watzinger](https://www.bmbf.de/bmbf/de/ueber-uns/die-leitung-des-hauses/bettina-stark-watzinger/bettina-stark-watzinger.html) visited the north.io team in Kiel this week to learn more about the Gaia-X project [Marispace-X](http://www.marispacex.com). The Minister was accompanied by [MP Gyde Jensen](https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/J/jensen_gyde-857518). They were welcomed by Marispace-X project coordinator Jann Wendt on the premises of [north.io GmbH](https://north.io/).
Marispace-X makes important contribution to sustainability goals
In a one-hour exchange, Mr. Wendt gave his guests an in-depth insight into the 15 million euro project and in particular the new possibilities that a cross-domain virtual space for all available maritime data can offer users from business, science, authorities or NGOs in the future.
The focus was on the four application-oriented pilot projects that the consortium is jointly driving forward, on data exchange in infrastructure projects such as offshore wind farms and on the data-based and AI-supported search for old munitions in the North and Baltic Seas, the optimised cultivation of seagrass meadows as a natural CO2 store, through to the Internet-of-Underwater-Things.
Federal Research Minister Stark-Watzinger was impressed at the end of the talk and praised the strong application, economic and environmental orientation of Marispace-X, seeing it as a good example of "*how digitally-supported innovation from research-strong SMEs makes an important contribution to our sustainability goals, which also coincide with the 2030 Agenda*".
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Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Federal Research Minister; Jann Wendt, CEO of north.io.
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