The European Union and Iceland have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation on fisheries and ocean affairs. The MoU establishes a framework for deeper and broader cooperation between the EU and Iceland on key priorities.
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The WEDUSEA partnership project aimed at large-scale wave energy commercialization has received formal go-ahead from the European Union.
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The European Council and Parliament came to an informal agreement in March 2023 that the FuelEU Maritime will come into force from January 1, 2025. This regulatory news brief provides a preliminary introduction to the Maritime FuelEU Regulation.
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MARIN has successfully initiated Optiwise, an EU-funded research and innovation project aiming to improve and demonstrate energy savings using wind propulsion and hydrodynamic improvements in propulsion.
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Fugro is participating in an EU co-funded research and innovation project to develop a remote solution for global satellite-derived seafloor mapping. The three-year project, named “4S” (Satellite Seafloor Survey Suite), will develop an online cloud-based solution that will use highly automated Earth-observation algorithms and workflows to remotely map and monitor seafloor habitats, morphology and shallow-water bathymetry. Fugro will lead the
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The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project has launched its second call. The project has also awarded recommendations of support to 12 offshore renewable energy projects under its first call, which closed in July 2019. The high number of successful applicants shows the growing demand for, and readiness to, testing innovative offshore renewable technologies at sea. Funded by Interreg North-West Europe, Ocean
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