Founded in 1880, Bekaert is a global technology company whose 21 000 employees worldwide together generated € 4.0 billion in consolidated sales in 2024. Recognised as a technology leader in industrial and offshore products, the  company is applying its material science and coating expertise beyond steel to creating new synthetic rope mooring solutions to floating energy transition industries.

Hasselt University is an innovative university which has a pronounced international orientation. It stands for excellence in education, top research in spearhead fields and active commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship. 

KU Leuven is an international community where innovative research forms the basis of all our academic programmes. Across the university, driven researchers and curious students continually gain new insights and use their knowledge to tackle the foremost challenges of our time. The result is cutting-edge research that attracts the foremost minds in academia, engages our diverse student body, and ignites partnerships with industry to benefit society as a whole.

Oxford PV is a leader in perovskite solar technology that integrates with silicon solar cells to improve their performance and reduce costs. We focus exclusively on developing and commercialising a perovskite-based solar technology. Built into solar panels, our tandem solar cells deliver more power per square metre – critical for enabling more affordable clean energy, accelerating the adoption of solar, and addressing the climate crisis.

RWE Offshore Wind is a global energy company for sustainable electricity generation based on offshore wind power. Over the past 20 years, RWE has developed unique expertise in the offshore industry, as its 19 operating wind farms demonstrate. Moreover, this expertise covers the entire value chain from project conceptualisation and development, through to construction, operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms. RWE’s share of these power plants amounts to 3.3 gigawatts in total.

Blunova, an integral part of the Carlo Maresca Group, excels in the construction and management of plants for the production of renewable energy – solar, wind, energy efficiency and green hydrogen.

SolarDuck is a company that develops and deploys offshore floating solar systems for marine and coastal environments. SolarDuck was founded on the belief that solar energy will play a crucial role in future energy production. With land availability constraints rising in growing coastal cities, offshore solar deployment opens a new frontier. With this vision, SolarDuck conducted feasibility analyses in 2019 and was established as a spin-out of Damen Shipyards, the largest Dutch shipbuilder, in mid-2020.

Deltares is a not-for-profit, world-leading, and mission-driven Dutch knowledge institute for water and the subsurface. The unique combination of our knowledge and research, together with our experts, experimental facilities, key technologies, specialised software and data products enables us to advise policymakers and industry and address the challenges the world faces today. We do this from 9 different areas of expertise, including energy transition.

Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) is an accelerator and knowledge centre for offshore renewable energy solutions. As a non-profit organisation, we advance innovation, support market development and further policies for offshore renewable energy development. With this integrated approach, we create multipurpose energy solutions including marine energy, offshore storage and nature-positive designs for a wide variety of use cases.

SINTEF is one of Europe’s largest research institutes, with multidisciplinary expertise within technology, natural sciences and social sciences. SINTEF is an independent foundation which, since 1950, has created innovation through development and research assignments for business and the public sector at home and abroad. SINTEF is represented in this project through its institutes SINTEF Industry and SINTEF Ocean.

WavEC Offshore Renewables is an R&D-based organization dedicated to unlocking the energy transition through the development of engineering solutions and consultancy services to the marine renewable energy sector. Since 2003, WavEC has been supporting marine renewable energy technologies and projects, at distinct stages, from the conceptual design and tank-testing to the licensing, permitting, construction, deployment, and operation stages.

INESC TEC is a private non-profit research association, with Public Interest status, dedicated to scientific research and technological development, technology transfer, advanced consulting and training, and pre-incubation of new technology-based companies. The 13 R&D Centres of INESC TEC are structured in four thematic domains – Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Networked Intelligent Systems, and Power and Energy.

The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) carries out research and develops technology in the field of energy and its production, transformation, transport, distribution and use, with a particular focus on technologies to facilitate transition to a new, more sustainable energy model, especially technologies that promote energy efficiency and savings, and technologies to produce and use clean and renewable energies.

Bridon is a UK-subsidiary of  Bekaert, a global technology company whose 21 000 employees worldwide together generated € 4.0 billion in consolidated sales in 2024. Recognised as a technology leader in industrial and offshore products, Bekaert is applying its material science and coating expertise beyond steel to creating new synthetic rope mooring solutions to floating energy transition industries.