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OTHER RELEVANT NATIONAL EVENTS

• The Wave Energy Basque Country group supported the organization of the Ocean Energy Europe 2018 conference in Edinburgh with a gold sponsorship.
   
• The Basque Country, through EVE – Basque Energy Agency - entered the SET-Plan Ocean Energy – Implementation Plan (IP) group. This Implementation Plan was adopted by the SET-Plan Steering Committee on 21 March 2018.
   
• In September 2018, IDOM CONSULTING, ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, S.A.U. completed the takeover of OCEANTEC, including 100% of staff and key assets like the MARMOK-A-5 prototype deployed in BIMEP. IDOM has stated it will continue with the Oceantec’s activities as well as its commitment to fulfil all the R&D projects formerly involving OCEANTEC.
   
• The Master in Renewable Energy in the Marine Environment (REM) is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) offered by four universities: University of the Basque Country, University of Strathclyde, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and École Centrale de Nantes.These partner universities jointly engage in the overall execution and development of the Master. Each centre is responsible for the operation of the programme at its own institution. The Master is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
   
• The Basque Government took over the presidency of the Marine Renewable Energy working group of the Atlantic Arc Commission in 2017. The creation of this group is the result of the growing interest for MRE in the Atlantic. 
   
• EVE, TECNALIA and BEC (Bilbao Exhibition Centre) worked during 2018 with the Basque Energy Cluster on the organisation of the fourth edition of Marine Energy Week as part of a wider maritime event “World Maritime Week”, which will take place in Bilbao in February 2019.

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