That the Parliament congratulates four projects that have been awarded grants from the €3 million European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) fund to research the socio-economic and environmental impacts of offshore windfarms; notes that the projects are an assessment by the River Dee Trust and Marine Scotland Science of how sea salmon and sea trout interact with offshore wind technology, a study by SMRU Consulting and the University of St Andrews into the movement of bottlenose dolphins along the east coast, an investigation by MacArthur Green on the effect offshore wind technology has on the auk population and work by Oxford Brookes University on the impact of offshore wind technology on the human environment; notes that they were chosen by a panel of experts, including representatives of the EOWDC developers, Vattenfall, and the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group, Marine Scotland Science, Scottish Natural Heritage, SEPA, RSPB Scotland, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Whale and Dolphin Conservation and the Crown Estate; understands that half of the funding that the projects will receive will come from the EU; believes that each project will contribute greatly to the understanding of the effect that offshore wind technology has on the environment and the communities, and commends all of the successful projects on their awards.