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Elaine Buck, Technical Manager of EMEC presented the BlueGIFT project at the WavEC Seminar 2019 on the 04th of December 2019, in Lisbon, Portugal. Presentations and videos available on WavEC website.

Blue-GIFT supports nine ocean energy companies to trial and validate their technologies. The first call for applications of the €2.5 million Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) project ended in September with a successful outcome for nine companies. Funded...

Blue-GIFT project has been presented at the SEANERGY 2019 event that took place on the 6th of June 2019 in Dunkerque, France. Our partners SEENOAH, BIMEP and CENTRALE NANTES were the speakers of the pitch event and presented the first...

Blue-GIFT partners attend the project Steering Committee Meeting in Bilbao on the 23rd and 24th of May 2019. The first steps of the project have been discussed as well as plans for the coming months.

The project consortium, which includes four test sites in the AA region is happy to announce the 1^st Call for Applications for access to test sites to perform tests and validation of marine renewable energy technologies. The applications received will be checked for eligibility, evaluated by a User Selection Board and, if successful, granted aid to access the test site of the users’ choice by means of a Support Package Voucher.

A €2.5 million project has been approved by Interreg Atlantic Area which will support ocean energy demonstration throughout the Atlantic Arc. The 36-month Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) project will implement a coordinated ocean energy technology demonstration programme that encourages longer term demonstration and technology de-risking across the Atlantic Arc regions. Blue-GIFT will leverage the skills, processes and expertise developed in the Interreg NWE FORESEA programme to drive forward the marine energy sector in the Atlantic Arc.