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PLOCAN announces the 15th Glider School edition
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) convenes the 15th edition of the Glider School, an international reference training forum in ocean-glider technology, to be held from October 20th to 24th in Telde, Gran Canaria. The period application submission is already open until June 30th. More information through the event website http://www.gliderschool.eu. The didactic
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PLOCAN joins the Autonomous Ship Expo & Conference 2024
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has joined the 2024’s edition of the Autonomous Ship Expo & Conference, an international leading forum for the unmanned maritime navigation sector, held in Amsterdam within the framework of the Electric & Hybrid Marine Expo 2024, with an approximate final balance of 2,500 attendees, 150 speakers and
PLOCAN co-organises the Technological Innovation and Industry sessions during the JERICO-S3 2024 General Assembly in Brest
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) organized the technological innovation session at the recent JERICO-S3 2024 General Assembly. Held from April 18 to 21 in Brest, France, the event brought together experts and representatives from major European coastal research infrastructures. Eric Delory, PLOCAN’s representative and leader of Work Package 7 (WP7) on Technological
VI final event of the program ‘PrimROV: sea, science and robotics in Primary School’
The facilities of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands in Taliarte welcomed almost a hundred participants on the occasion of the VI final event of the program ‘PrimROV: sea, science and robotics in Primary’ whose main objective is to promote and encourage scientific-technical vocations in children at an early age. During the 2023-2024 school
XII EDUROVs final event: PLOCAN’s Educational Marine Robotics workshop
The onshore facilities of the Oceanic Platform Consortium of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) hosted the exhibition of the prototypes developed in the 12th edition of the Educational Marine Robotics Workshop (EDUROVs), in which seventeen schools in the Canary Islands took part. Eighty students from 10 secondary schools, 3 from Fuerteventura: IES Gran Tarajal, IES Vigán,
EDUROVs and Renewable Energy and Hydrogen at FIMAR 2024
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands participated in the 13th edition of the International Marine Fair, held at the Sanapú dock in the port of Las Palmas, which attracted more than 15,000 visitors, as it is an event that brings together important sectors of the blue economy, nautical sport, research and science. At the
PLOCAN contribution to the IUGC2024 international conference on glider technologies
The headquarters of the Voice of the Ocean (VOTO) Foundation in Gothenburg (Sweden) hosts the biannual international conference on autonomous marine glider technologies (from English, glider), under the name IUGC2024, with the attendance of nearly 200 delegates representing user groups and operators worldwide, and the leading manufacturers of this type of cutting-edge ocean-observing systems. The
PLOCAN at the Annual General Assembly of the European Ocean Observing System, EuroGOOS
The European Ocean Observing System EuroGOOS, an association of national government agencies, research institutions and private companies committed to oceanography in the context of the Global Intergovernmental Ocean Observing System (GOOS), has held its annual general assembly of members, which has taken place at the headquarters of the Hydrographic Institute of Portugal in Lisbon. EuroGOOS
The Secretary General for Research meets with scientists and technicians from PLOCAN
The Secretary General for Research of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Eva Ortega Paíno, met with the scientific and technical staff of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands following the meeting of the ICTS Strategic Council. The Government of the Canary Islands and the State held the fifty-second meeting of the PLOCAN
The educational boat “El Hierro Mar Salitre y Lava” arrives at a beach in Nicaragua after 342 sailing days.
The educational boat Ifado IV El Hierro Mar Salitre y Lava iFADO-IV El Hierro Mar Salitre y Lava has arrived at a large remote beach on the East coast of Nicaragua, near the Bay of Pearls on the Mosquito Coast, to end the longest and most eventful voyage of an educational boat launched into the
PLOCAN at the Educational Leisure Meeting ‘Inmersive journey to our marine ecosystems’.
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands has participated in the Educational Leisure Meeting ‘Immersive Journey to Our Marine Ecosystems’ on the occasion of the Miniferias Programme for Science and Innovation in the Canary Islands 2024, organised by the Regional Ministry of Universities, Science and Innovation and Culture of the Canary Islands Government, through the