Public Funding for University of Sunderland Enterprises Limited

Floating offshore wind in deep waters is a massive renewable energy resource ready to be tapped into to achieve carbon reduction targets. Prohibitive costs and advanced infrastructure requirement have limited growth of this sector even in developed countries. In developing countries the resource has remained entirely unexploited. Project MARLIN aims to test feasibility of a new cost-effective universal concept of modular construction of floating platforms for offshore wind. Using the concept of compact easily transportable modules as building blocks, the MARLIN team will design, construct and test models and prototypes of structures that will be capable of supporting wind turbines in all weathers in most of the coastal regions of the world. The modular floating platform technology will be developed for commercial exploitation and will form the basis of a new UK-based business. Beyond contributing to carbon targets the outcomes of the project could have transformative economic effects on coastal communities across the world.

To develop innovative, platform independant, online legal services revolutionising the legal services marketplace for buisness and consumers, through the embedding of advanced user experience techniques.

To embed new capability in strategic technical marketing.

To create a unique and sophisticated mobile to voice bridge product for synchronised communications opening up new markets in the UK and overseas.

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