FORCYS; An alternative Floating OffshoRe wind turbine Concept technologY deSign
Project FORCYS – “An alternative Floating OffshoRe wind turbine Concept technologY deSign“ – seeks to offer novel insights, based on physical and computational modelling and analysis, towards to develop, design and promote an alternative floating offshore wind turbine as an innovative energy conversion system that can be used in coastal and offshore locations off the Mediterranean coasts.
Project FORCYS is implemented under the “Greece 2.0, Basic Research Financing Action, Horizontal support of all Sciences” funding framework within “Sub-action 1: Funding New Researchers” scheme and Scientific Area “SA2. Engineering Sciences & Technology” administered by Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.). Programme “Greece 2.0, Basic Research Financing Action” aims at promoting, bottom-up, scientific excellence through funding frontier research projects, possibly intersectoral and interdisciplinary, in cutting-edge fields. The Programme also aims to contribute to the creation of growth prospects for Greece’s economic development and to tackle social and other contemporary challenges. The FORCYS project proposal was evaluated 1st (tied with one proposal) and finally ranked 2nd out of a total of 117 proposals submitted to the “SA2. Engineering Sciences & Technology” scientific area of the call. FORCYS will run for 24 months (2024 and 2025) with an overall budget of €190k mainly allocated to researchers participating in the project.
Project FORCYS responds to the frontier research requirement of the “Greece 2.0, Basic Research Financing Action” Programme by aiming to create new knowledge on a topic that has attracted global attention in past decade and very recently in Greece within the broader context of renewable energy technologies and energy production in marine environment. FORCYS brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts in computational analysis of floating wind turbines, physical and environmental modelling, techno-economic analysis and business key players, seeking to form a Greek “excellence hub” on a key emerging research theme in offshore wind turbines technology.