NTRANS Partner Meeting - 8th January - Oslo Gardermoen
Over 50 NTRANS partners met to give feedback on each of the Research Areas (RA).
During the morning session the four RAs were presented in more detail: research questions, main aims, work packages, expected results after 1, 3, and 8 years, and deliverables. A very active question and answer session followed each presentation.
The four RAs are:
RA 1: Deep decarbonisation and societal changes
RA 2: Accelerating the transition
RA 3: The future energy market
RA 4: Transition pathways
The afternoon session involved groupwork on the RAs. Split into four groups, the partners had the opportunity to raise issues and questions within a smaller group setting.
The day concluded with an update on the User Cases (UC) and Innovation. In October, 6 UCs were presented, these have since been condensed into 3 UCs due to significant overlap with CCS, offshore wind, and hydrogen use in the first three UCs:
UC 1: Building the future societies
UC 2: Renewable power development and its potential uses
UC 3: Radical transition in the transport sector
Ocean Hyway Cluster, Kinn kommune, Vestland fylkeskommune and Saga Fjordbase are user partners within UC 3, having contributed with a maritime pilot proposal – “The role of hydrogen on the West Coast”.
Mark Purkis at the NTRANS opening conference in Trondheim
What next?
Suggestions for Master’s projects were requested from user partners by 29 Feb.
Research Area leaders will take the feedback from the day’s session and use it to best mould the RAs to the requirements of all partners.
If anyone has any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
mark@hubforocean.no
OHC’s role in NTRANS is a link and coordinator between industrial and academic project partners in the Vestland maritime pilot.