• Develop innovate technical solutions which significantly improve the evacuation time, safety and efficiency in large cruise ships and future structures
• Provide a technical basis and proposals for the revision of relevant IMO safety regulations
• Develop and demonstrate an intuitive evacuation system that is largely automated and fail safe so that it is operable without significant training
• Enable the timely evacuation of large numbers of persons from a wide demographic range in adverse conditions
• Facilitate common science-based understanding and a global approach to marine safety through cooperation with important shipping nations