MARESEC 2026

EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON MARITIME SYSTEMS RESILIENCE AND SECURITY

ADVANCING RESILIENCE, SAFETY, AND SECURITY IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN

JUNE 24-25 2026, BREMERHAVEN

Day 1 – June 24th

Session 3: Ethical & Social Aspects Part 1

12:55 – 13:10 | A Human-Centred Framework for Maritime Education and Training in Coastal Remote Autonomous Ship Operations

Natasya Habibah, National Maritime College of Ireland, Munster TechnologicalUniversity, Ireland

13:10 – 13:25 | (No) Help in Sight? Unmanned Ships and the Duty to Render Assistance at Sea

Jason Halog, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

13:25 – 13:40 | Societal Resilience at the Waterfront: Human and Community Dimensions of Countering Russian Maritime Hybrid Operations in the Euro-Atlantic and Beyond

Marcel Kolb, Nexmaris GmbH & CASSIS – Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies, Germany

13:40 – 13:55 | Artificial Islands, Installations and Structures as
Protection Against Hybrid Attacks

Michael Stadermann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

14:10 – 15:30 Lunch Break / Exhibition

Session 5: Maritime Security Technology Part 2

15:30 – 15:45 | Time Synchronization and Recovery using R-Mode

Malek Ben Larbi, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

15:45 – 16:00 | Baltic Sea VDES R-Mode Testbed

Markus Wirsing, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

16:00 – 16:15 | Towards unmanned vehicle detection using distributed acoustic sensing

Philipp Anhaus, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

16:15 – 16:30 | Improving Underwater Object Detection with Cross-Media Communication

Hanno Gooß, TKMS ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH, Germany

16:30 – 16:50 | Coffee Break

Session 7: Maritime Security Technologies Part 3

16:50 – 17:05 | Enhancing Maritime Situational Awareness through Adaptive Mobile Multi-Sensor Platforms

Christoph Martius, Fraunhofer CML, Germany

17:05 – 17:20 | On Background Subtraction for Target Tracking in Complex Multi-Radar Marine Data Set

Lucas Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

17:20 – 17:35 | Improving Sea Ice Deep‑Learning Models by Refining Training Labels from Ice Services: A Study Using Graph‑Based
Unsupervised Segmentation and Multispectral Landsat‑8 Data
in the Baltic Sea

Stefan Kowalewski, German Aerospace Center | German Remote Sensing Data Center National Ground Segment, Germany

17:35 – 17:50 | Multi-View Estimation of 3D Vessel Positions Using
Scattering Transform

Elisha Lang’At, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

18:00 | Evening event

Day 2 – June 25th

Session 3: Maritime Security Technologies Part 1

9:00 – 9:15 | ENLITOR: A Passive Acoustic Multi-Sensor Network for
Enhanced Situational Awareness in Maritime Infrastructure
Protection

Tobias Ziolkowski, ELAC SONAR, Germany

9:15 – 9:30 | Space-Derived Telemanipulation for Underwater UXO Recovery: Testbed Development for Maritime Security Applications

Annika Schmidt, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

9:30 – 9:45 | Towards a Port Call Optimization IT Ecosystem: Deriving
System Requirements through a Systematic Literature Review

Benjamin Reitz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

9:45 – 10:00 | Higher-Dimensional Quantum Cryptography for Maritime Infrastructures

Thomas Unglaub, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

10:00 – 10:15 | Denshi: An Innovative Wave Energy Buoy for Powering Maritime Protection

Cas Van de Voort, Wave Energy Collective B.V., Netherlands

10:15 – 10:35 | Coffee Break
13:05 – 14:05 | lunch break

Session 4: Crime at Sea

14:05 – 14:20 | Managing Deviance at Sea

Dominic Kudlacek, Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany

14:20 – 14:30 | Environmental Offenses in Maritime Systems

Dominic Kudlacek, Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany

14:35 – 14:50 | Between Regulation and Reality

Dominic Kudlacek, Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany

14:50 – 15:10 | Closing discussion