Welcome to the wavetrain2 project homepage

The wavetrain2 project (www.wavetrain2.eu) is a multinational Initial Training Network (ITN) funded under the FP7-People program, in order to face the wide range of challenges that industrial-scale wave energy implementation faces in the near future, focusing on technical issues, from hydrodynamic and PTO (Power Take-Off) design, to instrumentation issues and energy storage and cost reduction show to be critical for successful deployment. On the other hand, also non-technical “barriers”, typically less tangible difficulties related to legal issues (licensing, conflicts of use, EIA procedures, grid connection, regional differences) and the non-sufficient representation of socio-economic benefits of the sector, will be dealt with, as they are seen as a major obstacle for fast implementation on a European scale. The network consists of 13 European partner institutions and 17 associated entities, from research units and device developers to project developers and consultants.

Partners 

1 - Wave Energy Centre - Centro de Energia das Ondas (WavEC - Portugal)
2- Instituto Superior Técnico (IST - Portugal)
3 - Queen’s University Belfast (QUB - United Kingdom)
4 - The University of Edingurgh (UEDIN- United Kingdom)
5 - Wave Dragon Ltd. (WD- United Kingdom)
6 - Aalborg Universiteit (AAU - Denmark)
7 - SPOK APS (SPOK - Denmark)
8 - Tecbhische Universiteir (TUDelft - The Netherlands)
9 - AWS Ocean Energy Ltd (AWS - United Kingdom)
10 - Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN - France)
11 - University College Cork (UCC_HMRC - Ireland)
12 - Norges Teknisk - Naturvitenskapelige (NTNU - Norway)
13 - Fundacion Robotiker (TECNALIA-RBTK- Spain)

Associated Partner

1 - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação, I.P (INETI - Portugal)
2 - EDP - Energias de Portugal (EDP - Portugal)
3 - EFACEC Sistemas de Electrónica, SA (Efacec - Portugal)
4 - Kymaner Lda. (Kymaner - Portugal)
5 - Martifer Equipamentos para Energia SA (Martifer - Portugal)
6 - Norvento Enerxia (Norvento - Spain)
7 - Auamarine Ltd (Aqua - United Kingdom)
8 - Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC - Spain)
9 - Swansea University (SwanU - United Kingdom)
10 - WAVEenergy AS (WaveSSG - Norway)
11 - Second University of Naples (SUN - Italy)
12 - Teamwork Technology BV (TT - The Netherlands)
13 - Saipem SA (Saimpem - France)
14 - Ocean Energy Ltd. (OE - Ireland)
15 - Fred Olsen Ltd (FO - Norway)
16 - Ente Vasco de la Energia (EVE - Spain)
17 - Garrad Hassan and Partners Ltd (GH - United Kingdom)