During the last year of the DTOceanPlus project, actions were exclusively dedicated to promoting a deeper understanding of the design tools, aiming to engage with target groups to facilitate adoption and usage of the DTOcean+ software and influence decision-making authorities, lobbies, policymakers regarding the uptake of the suite. The number of visits per month to the project website is on average of 1,418, remaining far above the initial objective of 300. Twitter and LinkedIn members who viewed project updates every month are significantly above the objective of 500. Activities related to mainstream media are very efficient thanks to the magazines and the newspapers channels. Several studies carried out during the project have been or will be published in recognised open access scientific journals. The datasets, also deposited in open access, will be very useful to technology and project developers. The partners mobilised strongly to promote the developments carried out in the DTOceanPlus project at international conferences. The number of presentations, posters and oral communications is beyond the objectives. The valorisation of the project results at virtual fairs proved to be not very efficient, and most of the trade fairs have been cancelled or postponed.

Partners of the project: Tecnalia, The University of Edinburgh, Energy Systems Catapult, Wave Energy Scotland, France Energies Marines, WavEC Offshore Renewables, Aalborg University, EDF, Enel Green Power, Naval Energies, Bureau Veritas, IDOM, Nova Innovation, CorPower Ocean, Open Cascade, EDP, Orbital Marine Power, Sabella.

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 785921.