Project
SafeWAVE (Streamlining the Assessment of environmental effects of WAVE energy)
Timescale
36 month project (2020-2023)
Funder
European Commission, EASME – Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Funfing
1,5M€
Project overview
The aim of the SafeWAVE project consists of overcoming non-technological barriers that could hinder the future development of one of the main pillars of the European Union Blue Growth strategy. The project generated with the project will serve to better inform decision-makers and managers on environmental risks, reduce environmental consenting uncertainty, the development of country-specific licensing guidance’s and suitability maps for WE developments based on MSP decision support tools for most of the EU countries in the Atlantic Arch. Project main activities includes.
Partners
AZTI (Project Coordinator, ES), Centro De Energia Offshore Associacao (PT), BiMEP (ES), Asociación Centro Tecnologico Naval y del Mar (ES), Hidromod Modelacao em Engenharia LDA (PT), University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (IE), Ecole Centrale de Nantes (FR), RTSYS (FR), CORPOWER OCEAN AB (SE), WELLO (FI), GEPS TECHNO (FR)
