OCEANERA-NET

OCEANERA-NET

Ocean Energy European Research Area Network

OCEANERA-NET is a European network of national and regional funders and managers of European R&I programs in the field of ocean energy. Ocean energy includes the production of renewable electricity from wave and tidal energy, salinity gradient and ocean thermal energy conversion.

OCEANERA-NET was a European project funded by the European Commission that started in December 2013 with a duration of 4 years. This project was coordinated by Scottish Enterprise, the Regional Economic Development Agency for the Lowlands, Scotland. The OCEANERA-NET consortium included 15 partners from 8 European countries (Belgium, Spain, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal, United Kingdom and Sweden) open to opportunities for collaboration with other European and non-European countries to answer common challenges.

The goal of OCEANERA-NET was to coordinate funding programs across European countries and regions to support ocean energy research and innovation. OCEANERA-NET was one of several initiatives to help address the R&I challenges concerning the role ocean energy can play in contributing to the future goals of renewable energy, economic growth and job creation. OCEANERA-NET worked alongside the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) Joint Ocean Energy Program, Technology Platform and Ocean Energy Forum to develop a common vision and coordinated action plan.

The consortium has agreed on a roadmap of tasks to achieve the implementation of joint activities, such as joint Calls for transnational R&I collaborative projects. OCEANERA-NET launched two joint Calls in October 2014 and February 2016.