EUROPEAN PROJECTS

The Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) is a coordinated ocean energy technology demonstration programme encouraging longer-term demonstration and technology de-risking across the Atlantic Area regions.This €2.5 million project is funded by Interreg Atlantic Area.

LiftWEC involves the development of a new wave energy converter whose main interface with waves is via hydrodynamic lifting forces.

CoQuake offers an innovative methodology for controlling the inevitable natural phenomenon of earthquakes, opening up a new field and line of research in earthquake mechanics and engineering.

The Ocean Power Innovation Network (OPIN) is a European collaborative network that aims to accelerate the growth of the Offshore Renewable Energy sector and its supply chains.

The aim of the SafeWAVE project consists in overcoming non-technological barriers that could hinder the future development of one of the main pillars of the EU Blue Growth strategy.

Floatech aims to boost the technical maturity and cost-competitiveness of floating offshore wind energy.

FLOAting Wind Energy netwoRk (FLOAWER) is an Innovative Training Network (ITN), a European project that brings together leading academics and industry leaders in the offshore wind industry, and floating wind turbines in particular.

The aim of GRRIP is to draw up an interdisciplinary call for marine-related projects, and to select and evaluate research projects that take significant account of "Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)" practices.

MaRINET2 aims to help industry accelerate the development of offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure by opening up access to 57 test facilities across 13 European countries. Those facilities include the hydrodynamics and ocean engineering tank and the SEMREV offshore test site, both run by LHEEA, Centrale Nantes.

The FORESEA project aims to help bring ocean energy technologies to market by providing access to northwestern Europe’s world-leading network of test centres.

POSYTYF (POwering SYstem flexibiliTY in the Future through RES) aims to further the integration of renewable energy sources into the electric power system by developing the concept of a Dynamic Virtual Power Plant (DVPP).

The new Interreg NWE Ocean DEMO project was launched in January 2019. It provides funding to test sites to facilitate access for developers of marine renewable energy technologies to test their products or services in real-life conditions.

NextFloat aims to pave the way for the competitive and industrial deployment of floating wind energy, specifically through the deployment of a 6MW floating wind turbine prototype in the French Mediterranean Sea, in order to demonstrate on a relevant scale an innovative design for a floating platform integrated downwind.

The Marine Energy Alliance aims to progress the combined technical and commercial maturity level of 40 SMEs by delivering a suite of bespoke integrated technical and commercial services.