38. TROPOS (FP 7): Modular Multi-use Deep Water Offshore Platform Harnessing and Servicing Mediterranean, Subtropical and Tropical Marine and Maritime Resources.
TROPOS is a European collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development, more specifically under the ‘Ocean of Tomorrow’ call OCEAN 2011.1 – Multi-use offshore platforms. The TROPOS Project aims at developing a floating modular multi-use platform system for use in deep waters, with an initial geographic focus on the Mediterranean, Tropical and Sub-Tropical regions, but designed to be flexible enough so as to not be limited in geographic scope. TROPOS gathers 19 partners from 9 countries (Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, France, Norway, Denmark, Greece and Taiwan), under the coordination of PLOCAN (Spain – www.plocan.eu/es).
Budget: 6 726 623,82 euro.
Coordinator: PLOCAN, Spain
Project Website: www.troposplatform.eu
MERMAID, H2OCEAN and TROPOS projects also aim to contribute to European Commission’s Blue Growth long-term strategy, supporting sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors as a whole.