Dissemination | STEP4WIND

Project Coordinator interviewed for the Dutch magazine Quest

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The project coordinator, Axelle Viré, was interviewed by the popular Dutch tech magazine Quest about the challenges and opportunities of floating wind energy. You can read the article in Dutch here .

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 .

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.

Project Coordinator interviewed for the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf

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

The project coordinator, Axelle Viré, was interviewed by the most widely read national newspaper in the Netherlands, De Telegraaf. She talked about the importance of floating wind energy to accelerate the energy transition. The article can be found here (behind paywall).

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.

Day of Sustainability in the Netherlands

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

TU Delft organised a workshop for school children at the OPEN public library in Delft for the Day of Sustainability on 10 October 2021.

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 .

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.

Outreach event building floating wind turbines at the beach

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

TU Delft supported the OffshoreWind4Kids outreach event in Scheveningen on 19 September 2021. A few of our PhD students and staff attended the event and helped out with kids building both bottom-mounted and floating wind turbines. More information about this initiative here .

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 .

Project featured in a special report

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Our preject was presented in a special report of the Innovation Platform magazine here .

Project Coordinator interviewed for the Dutch magazine KIJK

Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The project coordinator, Axelle Viré, was interviewed by the popular Dutch tech magazine KIJK about GE’s announcement of a new floating wind turbine concept. She highlighted the challenges faced by floating offshore wind turbines and the role of STEP4WIND. You can read the article in Dutch here .

Omar Ibrahim featured as MSCA Fellow of the Week

Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Omar Ibrahim featured as MSCA Fellow of the Week. You can read about it here .

Project Coordinator interviewed by New Energy for Europe

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The project coordinator, Axelle Viré, was interviewed by New Energy for Europe and highlighted the key role of floating offshore wind in the years to come, in particular for green hydrogen production at sea. You can watch the interview here .

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.

Project and Coordinator featured in a TU Delft's magazine

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The project website is featured in a layperson magazine on offshore renewable energy. The project coordinator was also interviewed to talk about floating offshore wind. Read more about this here .

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.

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.