DTU Aqua, Denmark’s largest marine research institution, presents a challenge in collaboration with EU sister institutions under the NID4OCEAN initiative. The EU has set the ambitious goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 and has also taken a world-leading position on biodiversity, aiming to halt biodiversity loss by protecting 30% of European seas.
Expanding protected areas and offshore renewables will require more than “business as usual”—which is why NID4OCEAN has been tasked by the European Commission with identifying novel ideas for nature-inclusive designs (NiDs) for future floating offshore wind farms in European waters.
