Prof. Jesús María Blanco, on behalf of the Master of Renewable Energies in the Marine Environment (REM), received yesterday the World Maritime Week award (WMW), in the category of marine energy. The prize is awarded by the Ocean Energy Conference, organizer of one of the four conferences that have coincided this week in Bilbao.

The award recognizes the trajectory of this master’s degree, whose origins go back to the beginning of the last decade, when Professor Blanco (on the right, in the photo) began to outline what would ultimately be the actual Master in Renewable Energy in the Marine Environment (REM PLUS), training offer offered by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), in collaboration with University College Cork (Ireland), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) and the Central School of Nantes (France), and that it is already one of the European benchmarks in terms of training on marine energy.