West Normandy Marine Energy (WNME) and the Regional Mission for Innovation and Economic Development Action (MIRIADE) have announced the creation of a Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) Research and Innovation Network in Basse-Normandie.
This network gathers 21 research and innovation organizations of Basse-Normandie, to reinforce relations between the industry’s decision-makers and regional SMEs and laboratories to encourage collaborative projects for MRE.
The network will focus on a total of ten topics based on four main fields of expertise: Installations and environmental impact: knowledge and modeling; Materials: design, optimization, performance, robustness; Energy production and storage: modeling and simulation; and MRE acceptance: analysis, regulations, modeling
As part of MIRIADE’s management of a Technical Committee on Research and Innovation, regular meetings have been organized from the outset to bring together Basse-Normandie laboratories and industry players. The meetings led to the publication of a "Directory of research expertise in Basse-Normandie," which lists all of the Basse-Normandie organizations and projects involved with topics related to Marine Renewable Energy.
The agreement to establish an MRE Research and Innovation Network represents an additional step towards organizing research expertise to strengthen the ties between the industry and laboratories, as a logical continuation of actions already carried out.
