EU funding for cross-border collaboration

Ocean Energy ERA-NET is inviting joint calls for collaborative research and innovation projects on wave, and tidal, as well as salinity and thermal gradient technologies. The funding is available to both industry and academia: http://www.oceaneranet.eu/pages/joint-calls-8.html. The deadline for the first call is 18 December 2014: http://www.oceaneranet.eu/News/first-oceanera-net-joint-call-2014-now-open-62.html. Topics include design and development of devices and components, sea trials, development of design tools and standards, and work aimed at improving reliability, survivability, cost of energy and environmental impacts.