Description du projet
Le Portugal s’intéresse de près à l’énergie éolienne offshore
L’énergie éolienne offshore est un secteur industriel émergent au Portugal. Continuer à développer ce secteur permettrait de couvrir 25 % des besoins annuels du pays en électricité, de stimuler les exportations et de créer des emplois. La stratégie industrielle pour les énergies renouvelables marines (EI-ERO) récemment approuvée par le gouvernement a pour ambition de développer les capacités portugaises en matière d’énergie éolienne offshore. Le projet TWIND, financé par l’UE, s’est donné pour objectif d’établir un réseau de scientifiques et de formateurs spécialisés dans les énergies renouvelables offshore, afin de soutenir ce secteur en plein essor au Portugal. Le projet sera mené par l’institut portugais WavEC, en coordination avec des partenaires spécialisés en Espagne, aux Pays-Bas et au Royaume-Uni.
Objectif
The Portuguese Government has approved the Industrial Strategy for Ocean Renewable Energies (EI-ERO) with the aim of developing the country’s offshore wind potential. According to EI-ERO, offshore renewable energies have the potential to supply 25% of the electricity consumed annually in Portugal and create a new export chain in these new technologies. The government envisages that potential exports in this field could increase up to ten times the current employment in the active sectors, with the greatest potential for exports seen in the development of the floating wind technology.
The overall objective of TWIND is to create a network of excellence that will dynamize a pool of specialized research professionals and trainers in the domain of offshore wind energy to support an emerging industry in Portugal in a field with a very strong anticipated growth and no dedicated existing training curriculum.
WavEC will be the pivot research institution of the low performing Member State (Portugal) coordinating efforts with internationally-leading counterparts at the EU level (Spain, UK and The Netherlands) and enhancing its excellence and innovation capacity through the exchange of knowledge with these leading research organizations. The combining capabilities of partners will open the grounds to exploit existing research results and invest in developing more knowledge.
These objectives will be fulfilled through a set of strategic activities well-structured throughout the project including specific training programmes on thematic topics, short-term scientific meetings, long-term staff visits, networking meetings, attendance to relevant conferences in the field, knowledge transfer workshops with stakeholders and an annual event.
The networking activities and exchange of knowledge will stimulate research activities and highly qualified services that impact the economy and the society, thus benefitting not only WavEC and the partner organisations, but in general Portugal.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.4.b. - Twinning of research institutions Main Programme
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Régime de financement
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinateur
1350-352 LISBOA
Portugal
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.