Project description
The growing global population has led to an increasing need for the sustainable use of marine space. Urban, infrastructural, and industrial areas should coexist in harmony. FAMOS aims to contribute to the sustainable blue economy by developing innovative multi-use marine spaces, based on recent research findings from the consortium.
The proposed concepts consist of modular floating islands that integrate units for renewable ocean energy, floating foundations, innovative mooring systems, and floating wave dampers. During the design phase, key considerations include cost-effectiveness, structural integrity and reliability, manufacturing performance, and user needs in various European marine areas. To meet society's needs for water, energy, food, and space utilization, specific islands serve each purpose, such as freshwater production (aqua-island), wind energy (wind-island), solar energy (solar-island), and general usage (living-island).
By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the project considers various aspects, including social and environmental factors, mechanical design and optimization, the dynamics of floating structures, as well as numerical and experimental methods. The pursuit of expected outcomes and impacts follows the logic of the theory of change, encompassing an interdisciplinary and participatory strategy. This approach aims to achieve tangible socio-technical transformations.
The project is led by the University of Florence (Italy) with three European partners: the University of Agder (Norway), Jagiellonian University (Poland), and the University of Cyprus (Cyprus).
