On September 10th, 2009, TPWind organized a meeting to discuss the development of a project proposal for the 2010 FP7 Infrastructures call for proposals, published by the European Commission on July 30th with deadline on December 3rd, 2009.
The call includes a topic targeting both wind and ocean energy (i.e. topic INFRA-2010-1.1.23), which aims at bringing together EU research infrastructures specialized in offshore energy. The full application package is available here.
The meeting saw the participation of several organizations, belonging to both the wind and ocean energy sectors. The full list of participants is available here.
The European Commission also joined the meeting in order to present the 2010 FP7 Infrastructures call and answer questions from the audience.
During the meeting, the following presentations were delivered:
The 2010 FP7 Infrastructures call (Brigitte Weiss, European Commission - DG RTD)
CRIACIV: infrastructures and project ideas (Luca Facchini)
CENER: infrastructures and project ideas (Felix Avia Aranda)
Forwind: infrastructures and project ideas (Stefan Lochte-Holtgreven)
NAREC: infrastructures and project ideas (Lisa Dodds)
ECN: infrastructures and project ideas (Peter Eecen)
VTT: infrastructures and project ideas (Jaakko Heinonen)
IMIEU: presentation of OKEANOS project (Frank Neumann and Francois Lienard)
UCC: presentation of OceanNet project (Tony Lewis)
Vestavind: The Stadt Test Area in Norway (Stig Svalheim)
Activities and plans for a Norwegian Offshore Wind Energy Infrastructures (Joachim Reuder)
SINTEF: infrastructures and project ideas (John Tande)
OWEMES: infrastructures and project ideas (Maximo Peviani)