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PORTUGAL

Ana Brito e Melo & Antonio Falcão WavEC & Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

 

2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore
CENTEC/IST organized the 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, which took place in Lisbon on 24-26 October 2016. 103 papers where presented. The proceedings were published by CRC Press.


WavEC Annual Seminar
WavEC, the Embassy of Finland in Lisbon, Machine Technology Centre Turku, Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland, organised together a seminar on marine renewable energies on the 26th October 2016. The event had 212 participants and counted with the presence of the Portuguese Minister of Sea. The seminar focused on the following four topics:

  • Synergies between different blue growth activities and enabling technologies at the sea;
     
  • Company cases on marine renewable energies solutions;
     
  • The future of marine renewable energies;
     
  • Blue collaboration between Portugal and Finland.

Presentations are available at WavEC’s website: http://www.wavec.org/en/events/wavec_seminar_2016
Further, a B2B event on marine renewable energies was held in Lisbon on 27th October organised in partnership between WavEC and the Embassy of Finland in Lisbon.


EUREC master course
IST and WavEC have been involved, since 2013, in the EUREC master course in Renewable Energy, offering a one-semester specialization in ocean energy. This took place from February to May 2016.