Training | STEP4WIND

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).

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.

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 .

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.

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.