OES / Membership
Membership
Benefits of participants
Benefits of international collaboration and cooperative activities under the OES-IA:
- Shared costs and pooled technical resources
- Avoided duplication of effort and repetition of errors
- Harmonised technical standards
- A network of researchers
- Stronger national R&D capabilities
- Accelerated technology development and deployment
- Better dissemination of information
- Easier technical consensus
- Boosted trade and exports
Through their regular meetings, each member provides a well established platform where high-profile ocean energy issues can be addressed by experts and officials close to government policy making in each member country.