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
PLOCAN participated in the 9th edition of FIMAR, which took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and was visited by more than 40.000 people, with the Educational Marine Robotics initiative EDUROVs. This initiative, funded by the Cabildo (Island Government) of Gran Canaria and the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation, proposes the construction of ROVs (Remotely Operated
The final event of the ‘PrimROV: sea, science and robotics in Primary Education’ programme took place in the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, with the participation of 270 students from nine schools of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Tenerife. During the event the participants presented their own designs of teleoperated robotic vessels, which were
As partner and work package leader of the JONAS Project, Eric Delory atended the kick-off meeting held in Vilanova i la Geltrù (Barcelona) on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2019. JONAS aims to address the risks of acoustic pressures on biodiversity, focusing on sensitive receptor species in the North Atlantic, by streamlining ocean noise
The €2.5 million Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) project is pleased to announce the 1st call for applications. Funded by Interreg Atlantic Area, the Blue-GIFT project is a coordinated ocean energy technology demonstration programme encouraging longer-term demonstration and technology de-risking across the Atlantic Area regions. The 1st call offers support package vouchers to
The role of ocean renewable energy as an alternative energy source for islands and remote coastal location will be discussed at a specific workshop in Hawaii on the 3rd of May. This workshop will look at the opportunities and barriers to local adoption of ocean renewable energy in islands communities and remote costal locations of
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) leads the European project FLOTANT which objective is to develop an innovative, integrated, Floating Offshore Wind solution, optimized for deep waters (100-600m) and to sustain a 10+MW wind turbine generator. The technical coordination of the FLOTANT project is supported by the COBRA Group, a global benchmark with
PLOCAN participated on behalf of the European project AtlantOS in Ocean Business 2019, the hands-on ocean technology exhibition and training forum, celebrated during the 9th, 10th and 11th April 2019 at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), in Southampton, UK. With over 5000 visitors from more than 65 countries and more than 360 international exhibitors, over
The fourth General Assembly of partners of the European iFADO (Innovation in the Framework of the Atlantic Deep Ocean) Project, designed mainly to detect and cover the gaps in existing observation in the framework of the Atlantic Deep Ocean, was held in the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), in Southampton, UK. Under the co-ordination of the
The Canary Island Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) has been awarded the Navigare Mare 2019 prize in the V Excellens Mare Prizes 2019, granted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (pwc) to acknowledge the merit and excellence of entities and people who do an outstanding job in the sustainable development of marine maritime activities. The reason for awarding the prize to
The Portuguese Hydrographic Institute and PLOCAN launched the Seaglider-1K in the Nazaré Submarine Canyon from the ship NRP Auriga in order to carry out a scientific-technical mission between Portugal and Gran Canaria, separated approximately by 1500 kilometres. The device will be collected in Gran Canaria, after two months of continuous and autonomous navigation. This glider