Zabala

Zabala acted as the Spanish partner in the seven-member Floatgen consortium and was responsible for consortium management and internal coordination activities. The Mer et Marine article described Floatgen as a European Commission-supported floating offshore wind demonstrator project, led by a multi-country partnership involving organisations in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. Within that consortium structure, Zabala’s role focused on organising and coordinating the partnership’s project execution rather than supplying physical equipment. In this capacity, Zabala supported the governance and day-to-day management of the collaboration between the partners delivering the demonstrator’s development, construction and testing programme. This internal coordination remit typically covered aligning partner workstreams, ensuring coherent communication between the technical and research teams, and maintaining project-level management processes needed to run a multi-party EU-funded demonstrator. The article positioned Zabala’s contribution alongside the other consortium partners’ specialist technical scopes (such as research, benchmarking and environmental impact analysis), indicating that Zabala’s primary value-add was project management support at consortium level for Floatgen, France’s first floating offshore wind turbine demonstrator installed at the SEM-REV test site off Le Croisic.