Workshop on Offshore Renewable Energy

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The workshop presented success stories, information and funding options for project coordinators to consider with the objective of establishing synergies and stimulate potential cooperation in the field of offshore renewable energy.

This workshop explored exchange of information, synergies and clustering between offshore renewable energy projects, funded by both the EMFF/EMFAF and other funding programmes. Its main goal was to establish a framework to foster information exchange, networking and cooperation across projects and beneficiaries.

The EMFF has funded 14 projects dealing with offshore renewable energy:

Project name	Start date	End date	Total budget in €	EU contribution in €
North Sea Solutions for Innovation in Corrosion for Energy (NeSSIE)	01/05/2017	30/04/2019	845,855	676,684
Enabling Technologies and Roadmaps for Offshore Platform Innovation (ENTROPI)	01/04/2017	31/03/2019	743,890	595,114
Strategic Environmental Assessment of Wave energy technologies (Sea WAVE)	01/11/2018	31/12/2021	956,763	764,646
Wave Energy in Southern Europe (WESE)	01/11/2018	31/10/2021	929,606	743,687
Leading Edge Advanced Protection using novel thermoplastic materials and processes for offshore Wind turbine blades (LEAPWind)	01/01/2019	31/12/2020	1,502,103	988,067
VPS for Tidal Turbine Generators (VPSTTG)	01/01/2019	31/12/2020	1,527,594	992,937
Offshore Robotic Wind Turbine Blade Care System (Aerones)	01/10/2020	30/09/2023	2,494,459	1,746,121
Auxiliary Towable Operation and Maintenance System for Offshore Wind Towers (ATOMS)	01/09/2020	31/08/2022	3,545,109	2,481,576
Digitalization Of Critical Components in OFFshore wind turbines (DOCC-OFF)	01/11/2019	31/10/2021	1,001,736	651,127
Floating Solar Energy mooRing: Innovative mooring solutions for floating solar energy (FreSher)	01/11/2019	30/04/2022	1,091,402	709,409
Streamlining the Assessment of environmental efFEcts of WAVE energy (SafeWave)	01/10/2020	30/09/2023	1,893,370	1,514,696
Engineering and upscaling of new floating renewable wind energy platform (SATHScale)	01/11/2020	31/10/2023	3,456,062	2,418,896
Sustainable Innovation in la Martinique: BIOfouling Solution for clean Energy (SIMBIOSE)	01/11/2019	31/10/2022	1,300,927	845,603
WaveRoller Wave Farm Scale-Up – Preparing to deploy the world’s first commercial wave energy farm (WaveFarm)	01/11/2020	31/10/2023	3,556,064	2,489,244

Further, one more project, ESENSE, albeit not focusing primarily on energy, is dealing with survey, inspection, maintenance and repair of offshore infrastructure, also including renewable energy facilities.

Based on the experience gained thus far, it seems that not all EMFF-project beneficiaries are determined to seek cooperation with other projects. In fact, carrying out projects in silos is far from being ideal to advance the blue economy and to achieve the sea-basin strategies objectives. However, previous experience shows that there is ample room for cooperation between project beneficiaries.

The workshop took place online on 4 October 2022 from 10:00 to 13:00 CET.