Led by Portuguese INESC TEC, the project - taking place between 2025 and 2031 - features Fórum Oceano, Cluster do Mar Português, and APDL - Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo (Portugal).
It will also welcome the Norwegian R&D Centre SINTEF OCEAN - the main Norwegian Ocean R&D Centre, with more than 70 years of experience, taking on a mentoring role in the process of setting up INESCTEC.OCEAN.
The Centre of Excellence will focus on promoting scientific advances; creating conditions for greater cooperation between academia, business associations, incubators and accelerators, financing entities and investors; bringing industry and research closer together, boosting innovation and knowledge transfer; leveraging a set of new technological infrastructures and readapting existing ones.
This Centre will address the scientific and technological needs of emerging areas, e.g., offshore renewable energy, environmental impact monitoring and assessment, or aquaculture - with an impact on sectors considered "traditional", like fisheries or harbour and logistics activity.