The Maritime Cluster Northern Germany (MCN) promotes and improves cooperation in the North German maritime sector. It creates platforms for dialogue between stakeholders and promotes interfaces to other sectors. The MCN has offices in Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein and cooperates with the local stakeholders. It also assists in the search for innovation partners, advises on incentives and grants and arranges contacts in the maritime sector. About 400 companies and institutions from the areas of business, science and politics are members of the MCN. The MCN coordinates a total of nine specialist groups on innovation management, maritime information and communication technologies, maritime law, maritime economy offshore wind, maritime safety and security, personnel and qualification, ship efficiency, underwater communication as well as yacht and boat building.