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Participation in Torque2024

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

With more than 700 attendees and three, intense days, TORQUE2024 has been again a huge success, and as STEP4WIND consortium we are very proud to have been part of it. A special thank you to the official photographer Simone Chellini for contributing to this great adventure.

STEP4WIND final meeting

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The final meeting after four years of our project couldn’t have taken place in any other place but in the beautiful, sunny Florence with the vibes of the Torque2024 conference hanging in the air. Our 10 PhDs have brought valuable insights to the table for further research on floating wind energy. Not nly have they managed to stick around until the end of the project but they also built up a remarkable bond with each other, extremely unique for a project that started off in a global pandemic! 10 PhDs that will now start off applying their knowledge and experience in the industry or share it with others through further academic work. None of this was possible without the great help of our partners and great supervisors in the project from Politecnico di Milano, University College Cork, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Delft University of Technology, MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands), ÉireComposites Teo, and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. Thank you all and good luck with your story further!

Participation in WESC2023

Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Our PhD candidates presented their work at the WESC2023 conference. They could network with the 1000 attendees of the event in Glasgow, including some fellow PhD candidates from other European projects. This was a great moment to exchange knowledge and get back to the host institutions full of new ideas and impulse.

Visit to the Kincardine floating wind farm

Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In May 2023, the PhD candidates within STEP4WIND have reached a great milestone in their research work! They have been able to visit the world’s largest floating wind farm in Kincardine, Aberdeen harbor. Nothing better to witness the scale of these turbines! Huge thank you to Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and Flotation Energy for making this possible, for the valuable insights shared and spotless arrangements around the visit. Brief information on the Kincardine wind farm offshore Aberdeen: https://lnkd.in/e3rj9vCb

Participation in a PhD winter school

Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Two of our ESRs, Likhitha Ramesh Reddy and Felipe Novais, took part in a winter school organized by DTU Wind (Denmark) on 7-11 November 2022. The topics was floating wind turbine control. More information about the training here .

Organisation of our PhD summer school

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Our PhD team participated in a week-long summer school organized by UCC and attended a mixture of presentations, workshops and fun team-bonding activities. In addition to the topics of entrepreneurship and presentation skills, a visit was organized to the UCC test facilities (including a tour of the Lir National Ocean Test Facility, UCC).

Participation in Torque2022

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The STEP4WIND researchers presented their work at the international conference Torque2022 organized by TU Delft on 1-3 June 2022.

Article in Dutch national media

Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On 31 May 2022, our project coordinator, Axelle Viré, talked about floating wind energy in an interview published online and in paper by De Telegraph, the most widely read national newspaper in The Netherlands.

Ambassador for OffshoreWind4Kids

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

STEP4WIND and TU Delft are working together with OffshoreWind4Kids to disseminate offshore floating wind energy to a wide public. The university has received a set of dissemination kits which will be used for different outreach activities in the coming months. The project coordinator is leading the collaboration together with colleagues at TU Delft.

Talk at the EERA DeepWind conference 2022

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Omar Ibrahim (ESR10) made it virtually to the EERA DeepWind conference in Trondheim 19-21 January, 2022! This conference is an international event aiming to present the best ongoing research and innovation related to deep sea offshore wind farms, both bottom-fixed and floating. Omar had the chance to present his ongoing piece of work titled “Semi-submersible floating offshore wind and green hydrogen: Electrolyser synchronization”. This comes as the second piece of his PhD work within STEP4WIND on coupling floating offshore wind with green hydrogen production and transportation. The aim of this research is to introduce a novel control system for a fully synchronized hydrogen production facility with an off-grid floating offshore wind output, integrated on the turbine’s deck.

Support for the day of sustainability

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The STEP4WIND coordinator and OffshoreWind4Kids supported the day of sustainability organized in Delft (The Netherlands) by providing workshops on wind energy to school children. Thanks to the staff members at TU Delft for their help during the workshops!

STEP4WIND Autumn school

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Our first school took place on 4-8 October 2021 in Lake Como (Italy). The programme included lectures on: atmosphere physics and natural wind boundary layer, mechanical and control models of wind turbines, aerodynamic modelling of wind turbine, wind farms control problems, floating wind research topics and future and floating wind industrial applications. A site visit to the wind tunnels at Politecnico di Milano was also organised. All information can be found here .

Grant from COST Action WECANet

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Omer Khalid (ESR9) received the STSM COST Action grant from WECANet for the project titled “WG4: Impacts and economics of wave energy and how they affect decision- and policy-making”. He collaborated with Dr. George Lavidas from TU Delft, and worked on operations and maintenance (O&M) cost modeling for a co-located floating wind-wave energy farm.

Participation in an International Autumn School

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

On the week of 13th -17th of September 2021, our ESR 3 Deepali Singh and ESR 10 Omar Ibrahim had the opportunity to participate in-person for the first time in the International Autumn School “Climate Policy and Energy System Transformation: New Opportunities and Challenges of the Consideration of Co-Benefits” hosted at TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany. The School addressed and presented state-of-the-art concepts and methods to capture effects of low-carbon policies in order to improve the scope for well-informed decision-making of policymakers. The school also sensitized the participants for the complexity faced by policymakers and researchers concerned with climate policy. Furthermore, over the five days, the school aimed to provide such skills and knowledge to students, which are required for the sophisticated task of including different effects with different features in the analysis of climate policy.

Support of the OffshoreWind4Kids initiative

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Some of our staff and PhDs attended the event in Scheveningen on 19 Septemnber 2021 and helped kids and families build small-scale offshore and floating wind turbines. More information about the initiative here .

Participation in the ECFD4 workshop

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Extreme CFD 4 workshop (ECFD4) took place online on the week of 22-26 March 2021. Our ESR Likhitha Ramesh Reddy and the project coordinator Axelle Viré participated with a project on wave-structure interactions for a moving structure. This intense week of code developments led to new features in the CFD model YALES2, as well as new collaborations between STEP4WIND researchers and the YALES2 community.

Kick-off meeting with the early-stage researchers

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The kick-off meeting for the early-stage researchers was held remotely on 16 February. Representatives of all the beneficiaries and some partner organisations attended the meeting. Each PhD candidate gave a short presentation about their backgrounds and projects. This led to fruitful discussions and the identification of new synergies between the researchers.

WESC2021 conference

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A number of STEP4WIND principal investigators are leading mini-symposia at the WESC2021 conference. These mini-symposia are co-organised with the principal investigators of other MSCA ITN projects running in parallel to STEP4WIND. Although the mini-symposia are open to any researchers, the ITN early-stage researchers will be given the opportunity to present their research projects to the wider wind energy community.

MSCA2020 conference

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The project coordinator, Axelle Viré, is invited to talk at the workshop on ‘Supervision in Academia’ as part of the MSCA Conference on 29-30 September 2020. The event will take place online.

Kick-off meeting

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

STEP4WIND officially started on 1st April 2020. The scientific and administrative staff met remotely on 7 April 2020. Representatives of all the beneficiaries and some partner organisations attended the meeting. Topics covered included: presentation of the 10 PhD projects, recruitment of the ESRs, project management structure, ITN best practise, first milestones and deliverables.

FOWT2020 conference

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The project coordinator, Axelle Viré, will give a talk at the largest event on floating offshore wind energy in the world. The talk was scheduled on 24 April 2020 in Marseille. However, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the conference has been rescheduled. The new date is 9 September 2020. This is the first international dissemination of the project.

Kick-off meeting

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

STEP4WIND officially starts on 1st April 2020. The principal investigators from all the beneficiaries will meet in Delft on 7 April 2020 to kick-off the project. Topics of discussion include: presentation of the 10 PhD projects, recruitement of the ESRs, project management structure, ITN best practise, first milestones and deliverables.