Projects

GreenOffshoreTech project

Implementation period: 2021-04-01 - 2024-01-30

Type: International

Division: The Division of Strategic Research

GreenOffshoreTech project – international and cross-sectorial cooperation to support SMEs in the development of innovative products, processes and services for Green Offshore Production and Transport

Type – H2020 INNOSUP

The aim of the international GreenOffshoreTech project is to support innovation in SMEs and stimulate the development of emerging Blue Economy sectors by enabling the creation of new cross-border and trans-sectoral value chains based on common challenges and using key enabling technologies.

The project envisages the transfer of advanced technologies between 8 sectors and a far-reaching synergy of activities within the sectors: offshore wind, offshore aquaculture, offshore oil and gas, maritime transport, advanced materials, advanced production, environmental technologies, Industry 4.0.

The GreenOffshoreTech consortium will develop and undertake two types of activities  for achieving the project’s objective and will:

• support innovation directly for SMEs through a financial instrument based on a call for proposals for innovative projects in the relevant fields and providing a range of dedicated and tailored business support services for successful SME projects.
• create of an open space/platform, with proposals for virtual and physical tools to link and facilitate cooperation between clusters and SMEs in different sectors, regions and countries during and after the project.

GreenOffshoreTech will support at least 100 SMEs and 100 innovative SME projects aimed at developing new innovative products, processes or services.

The project will involve partners from 7 countries: Norway, Portugal, Latvia, Poland, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Germany and include the following consortium members:

• Mosseregionens Naeringsutvikling AS i Scaberia AS from Norway, Composites United  e.V, CLUSTER MECHTRONIK& AUTOMATION MANAGEMENT GMBH i Maritimes Cluster Norddeutschland e.V  from Germany, FORUM OCEANO – ASSOCIACAO DA ECONOMIA DO MAR from  Portugal, CLEANTECH LATVIA  from Latvia, HIGLANDS & ISLANDS ENTERPRISE  from the United Kingdom, Islenski Sjavarklassin Ehf from Island, Centrum Kooperacji Recyklingu – Not for Profit System sp. Z o.o. i Instytut Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energią Pan from Poland.

Total budget: 5 253 231 euro

Grant funding:  4 998 893 euro

Project Manager: D.Sc. Joanna Kulczycka,  contact: joanna.kulczycka@meeri.pl