The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) convenes the 16th edition of the Glider School, an international reference training forum in ocean-glider technology, to be held from October 19th to 23rd 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
The director of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, Octavio Llinás, has announced during the commemorative meeting of the 25th anniversary of ESTOC that José Joaquín Hernández Brito (Executive Board Member / CEO of AIR Centre) will fill the position of director of PLOCAN in January 2020. José Joaquín Hernández Brito holds a first
The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (COCI) visited the offshore platform of PLOCAN accompanied by the director of PLOCAN, Octavio Llinás. The visit took place during the annual meeting where the Committee provides advice on the scientific and technical activities of PLOCAN. During the visit, Dr. Alicia Lavín, Prof. Gerold Wefer, Prof. Christopher Barnes and
The partners of the ‘Consolidation of the Central Atlantic Alliance for the competitiveness of SMEs in the blue economy’ (SmartBlueF) project attended to the Kick-off Meeting at the Cámara de Comercio do Norte in Mindelo. During the meeting the attendees presented their entities and they delved into the knowledge of the project. They examined the
PLOCAN participated with the EDUROVs Marine Robotics Educational Initiative in the Mini Fair of Gran Canaria, which is included in the Science & Innovations Weeks 2019 in the Canary Islands, which are organised by the Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society (ACIISI) of the Government of the Canary Islands. The event took place
A Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle, from the PLOCAN fleet, has been put into operation in waters near Faial Island in Azores for a monitoring mission within the framework of the European project “Innovation in the Deep Atlantic Ocean Framework (iFADO )” where it will sail almost a thousand nautical miles to the island of
The Consular Body of the Canary Islands attended to the talk given by the director of PLOCAN, Octavio Llinás, at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands in order to disseminate the activities developed by PLOCAN and to inform about the specific actions that are developed with some countries that were represented by the consuls
Students of Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree at the School of Industrial and Civil Engineering (EIIC) of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), together with their professor in Electronic Instrumentation, have visited the PLOCAN Consortium onshore headquarters. The visit is part of the training content of the master’s degree aiming to show students
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The ‘EDUROVs in Macaronesia’ initiative has started within the framework of the Blue Growth pilot project included in the RIS3_NET (Interregional Co-operation for the Intelligent Growth of the MAC Regions) project and the activities for promoting the Macaronesian R&D&I related to the Blue Growth Strategy of the European Commission. EDUROVs Macaronesia is included in the
The INTERREG project known as MARCET starts its second phase with the development of various scientific and technological research studies in order to evaluate and analyse during the next three years the human activity impact on the marine protected areas of the Macaronesian Atlantic using cetaceans as bioindicators of the marine environmental quality of the