About SEUS
SEUS Project
The future of Shipbuilding
Digitalization and computational tools have great potential to generate value for improving the competitiveness of the EU shipbuilding industry. It requires a significant reshaping of existing tools and practices to be exploited successfully. The gains come in the form of increased quality and reduced time required for design, virtual prototyping, estimations of impacts for the use of greening innovative technologies, modularization, flexible data management, interoperability across proprietary tools, cyber security, efficient support for modern robotized fabrication and openness for integration with operational platforms. The future of shipbuilding lies in s marter use of computational tools.
The purpose of the SEUS Project
The main goal of the Smart European Shipbuilding project (SEUS) is to create a Smart Shipbuilding Framework for European shipyards. This is achieved by architecting and developing an integrated platform for a combined and integrated solution incorporating CAE, CAD, CAM, and PDM software and testing it at shipyards. The new platform solution will be built by the best European shipbuilding expertise provided by academic and industrial consortium participants. It intends to develop novel practices for human-centric knowledge management in shipbuilding, the use of NLP, and data-driven AI design elements in the current consensus or intelligent technologies and Industry 5.0.
Innovation in Action
The SEUS consortium’s ambition represents the potential for improvement in the current traditional shipbuilding value chain via process innovation, namely: human-centred Industry 5.0 needs; open standard and interface for shipbuilding data, AI (e.g., automated routines); integration of CAD/CAE/CAM via a PDM smart platform; 2D-3D modularization and data reuse; MRO from the downstream phases of the shipbuilding value chain included in the smart platform and closing the lifecycle loop. In the long term, our ambition is to achieve considerably time saving in engineering, assembly and construction at European shipyards. Additionally, the minimization of gaps in digital information flows and the optimization of work processes present a large area for time and cost optimization, providing significant economic impacts on shipbuilding.
Project overview
An overall project overview is provided in the documents below:
Can European Shipyards be Smarter? A Proposal from the SEUS Project - Gaspar, H.M; Seppäla, L., Koelman, H. and Agis, J. J. G. COMPIT'23 - Drübeck / Germany, 23-25 May 2023.
Best Practices in European Ship Design and Shipbuilding - Bronson, J., Gaspar, H.M. NTNU - Jan. 2024.
Industry 5.0 and Insights for Maritime Industry - Yilmaz, G. NTNU, March 2025,
Pilot Release of Data-Driven Shipbuilding learning solution
19 September 2025
Smart European Shipbuilding (SEUS) Project is pleased to announce the pilot release of the Data-Driven Shipbuilding learning solution, developed by University of Turku, researchers of industrial engineering and management at the department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering in collaboration with the international SEUS team. The training is now available on the DigiCampus platform. It has been designed initially for practitioners and shipbuilding students. Its aim is to encourage learners to integrate digitalisation and data-driven approaches into their daily work. The development of the solution is funded by the European Union.
The learning solution includes short digital learning modules on data-driven shipbuilding for engineers, designers, supervisors, and managers across the shipbuilding industry. Each participant can explore the modules most relevant to their role and interests. There is no requirement to complete the entire course. By engaging with the modules, learners will increase their awareness of data-driven tools, explore practical working examples, and understand how digitalisation can support greater efficiency and innovation in ship design and construction.
This training has been carefully developed to meet the needs of practitioners. The content was shaped through interviews with professionals, evaluated through subject-matter expert reviews, and refined through repeated testing to ensure relevance and effectiveness.
To access the course, log in to DigiCampus, using your Google account (or a Finnish university account). Search for “SEUS/MOOC: Data-Driven Shipbuilding” in the MOOC platform and enrol using the key: SEUS-Learning.
As this is the pilot version, we greatly value your feedback. At the end of each module, you will be invited to complete a short survey to share your experiences and suggestions. Your input will directly contribute to further improving the learning material. Upon completing any module, you will also be able to download your personalised certificate of completion.
Contact persons:
Post-doctoral researcher Zeynep Tacgin, zeynep.tacginsimsek@utu.fi
Professor Miia Martinsuo, miia.martinsuo@utu.fi
University of Turku, Industrial Engineering and Management
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) EU programme under grant agreement No 101096224.
This website reflects only the author's view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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The fifth workshop for the SEUS (Smart European Shipbuilding) EU Project was held in Spain in November 05-06 2025.
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Contact
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Ivana Celik Aarvelta Researcher
+47-70161229 ivana.c.aarvelta@ntnu.no Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering -
Henrique Murilo Gaspar Professor
+47-70161247 henrique.gaspar@ntnu.no Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering -
Magnhild Kopperstad Wolff Head of Office
+47-70161560 +4748225391 makw@ntnu.no Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering
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