Bilateral Meetings
- Morning slot (10h-13h)
- Afternoon slot (14h - 17h)
The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the Engineering School of the Universidade de Lisboa is Portugal's main Engineering School with about 7000 undergraduate students and 2000 graduate students. Research activities IST are organized into Research Centres and Institutes. MARETEC is IST's multidisciplinary research centre, coordinated by Prof. Ramiro Neves (www.maretec.org and www.mohid.com). MARETEC’s main activities are numerical modelling applied to aquatic environmental problems, monitoring and data management.
Since 2009, Maretec has invested in operational modelling and nowadays provides daily modelling results for circulation, ecology and waves for the Portuguese Coastal waters and watersheds at different scales (http://forecast.maretec.org). The Maretec research centre is partner of several international working groups as the Ireland-Biscay-Iberia Regional Operational Oceanographic System (IBI-ROOS, http://www.ibi-roos.eu), the ICES Working Group on Operational Oceanographic Products for Fisheries and Environment (WGOOFE, http://groupsites.ices.dk/sites/wgoofe/Pages/default.aspx) and the Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team (COSS-TT, https://www.godae-oceanview.org/science/task-teams/coastal-ocean-and-shelf-seas-tt/) being the host of the next meeting in 2015.
Currently, Maretec is partner in two MRE european projects (Energymare and Turnkey) and it is providing waves, currents and atmospheric forecast to some portuguese companies and evaluating the available energy resource for Portugal but with a technology feasible that could be applied to any other part of the planet. This data is being used to plan design services and operations for MRE.
Country: Portugal
Organization Type: Company, University/Research, Consultant
Organization Size: 11-25
Areas of Activities
Fixed Offshore Wind
Floating Offshore Wind
Tidal and wave energy
Logistics associated to marine energy development
Research Cooperation
Maretec is partner in two MRE european projects (Energymare and Turnkey) and it is providing waves, currents and atmospheric forecast to some portuguese companies and evaluating the available energy resource for Portugal but with a technology feasible that could be applied to any other part of the world.
We are model developers and experts in operational modelling some of our models can be observed in this page (http://forecast.maretec.org/). Our models has been applied worldwide by several institutions as can be seen in this applications map (https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=100668346847265574861.00044592e345863240ab2&ie=UTF8&z=2&dg=feature). Among our group we have native experts that could prepare proposals in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and German.
We are model developers so we are able include any adaptations requested by the clients. We can provide this services as a university for research projects or through an spin-off company - www.actionmodulers.com/- that now has a new division dedicated to operational modelling.
- Research Co-operation
- Technical co-operation
Operational Modelling of currents, waves, atmosphere and watersheds
Operational modelling services could forecast weather and ocean conditions to plan maintenance operations in the devices also complementing any kind of direct observations and also the analisys of longer periods could allow to define the most interesting areas for installation of MRE devices.
- Technical co-operation
- Research Co-operation