REFEST

REFEST aims to achieve procedures and technologies to secure the reduction of fuel consumption and GHG emissions up to 40% reduction compared to the original design. The solutions proposed will be designed to ready to deploy in a broad range of small fishing vessels. Ensuring upscaling of the proposed solutions after project implementation till 2029. REFEST aims to ensure that presented solutions and technologies are suitable, acceptable, and economically viable for the end-users by including fishing communities, researchers, but also, they have not a negative effect over the north and Baltic Sea environment by application of analytical and modelling methods for impact assessment on marine environment and biodiversity.

REFEST managed by a Consortium of 14 Partners from 10 Countries. It is focused on the most promising scalable technologies, easy-to-deploy and suitable to be installed in a broad range of traditional fishing ships to provide hydrodynamics, electrical power management, alternative propellers, solar electricity generation and propulsion (batteries), sensoring and digitalization, hull appendages and air lubrication.