Agenda & News - FLOAWER

ESRs started the year by participating to the EERA DeepWind Conference 2023, in Trondheim, Norway, from the 18th to the 20th of January 2023. It was followed by the last training of the project organised by NTNU, and focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and communication skills.

On 28th of November, Seung-Yoon HAN, ESR 5 at Ecole Centrale Nantes, presented his research at Le Loquidy high school in Nantes.It was a perfect occasion for him to do his first outreach activity, as he could present in English and in Korean.

Last week FLOAWER celebrated it's 3rd anniversary through a hybrid event hosted by DTU Wind Energy Systems in Denmark.

2 weeks ago ESRs gathered in Lisbon to attend the multidisciplinary training organised by WavEC.It focused on Economics, Environment, Licencing and Marine Spatial Planning. The wonderful environment of Lisbon as well as the welcoming WavEC team made this experience a memorable one !

In September 2021, the 13 ESRs of the project met each other for the first time in the context of the 3rd training week of the project. Join this intense floating wind experience by watching this short video !

Last two weeks ESRs participated to 2 main conferences: Torque and OMAE (International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering) to share their work via posters, talks and even session chairing.

Last week FLOAWER ESRs participated to a soft skills training organised by the ForWind Institute based in the University of Oldenburg.

FLOAWER and FLOATECH projet are happy to invite you to their side-event "Academia and industry: Synergies to boost floating wind" which will take place during the Wind Europe Summit in Bilbao on Wednesday 6th of April, from 10am to 1pm.

On the 27th of January 2022, Telem Avidor (ESR1) and Florent Jubé (Project Manager) participated to the outreach event "La Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs" ("Researchers' All-night Session"), organised by Nantes Université and the venue Stéréolux.

During last ESR Council, the two new ESR representatives were elected. They will represent the 13 ESRs of the project for a period of one year.

On the 22nd of November, Kutay, ESR12 at POLIMI, presented his research to pupils from Turkey. This was part of the Science is Wonderful outreach event, organised by the European Commission.

Telem, ESR at ECN, embarked in the FLOAWER project in October 2021, after the launch of a new recruitment process for the ESR1 position. He's dedicating his time and work around "Wind resource assessment in deep waters through space-distributed measurement systems" for the next 24 months. He is recruited as research assistant.

On the 6th of September 2021, Craig White (ESR13) did his first outreach activity towards high school students in Lisbon. Such activities are crucial for Early Stage Researchers in order to get the support of the general public in their really specific field of research.

Centrale Nantes had the pleasure to organise last week the first major physical training event for our ESR.The perfect occasion to start creating cohesion in the group, while leaning and developing practical skills.

Centrale Nantes have to launch a new recruitment to fill the ESR1 position, it's open until the 31st of July.

WESC 2021 is the first major conference for FLOAWER ESR, as 10 of them will present their current and future work during 4 mini-symposia co-organised with 3 other ITN projects (LIKE, STEP4WIND, TRAIN2WIND).

ESR at ECN, France for the next 3 years, Seung-yoon started his work in December. He will focus on "Hydrodynamic analysis and numerical modelling of heave-plates dedicated to the design of floating wind turbines".

Last week FLOAWER organised it's first training week of the project, where FLOAWER ESRs gathered together with other ESRs and PhD students to attend 8 lectures around Engineering in Floating Offshore Wind.

ESR at UROS, Germany for the next 3 years,Victor started his work in November. He will focus on "Multi-Used design components for different kind of floating sub-structures".

Moritz, ESR of USTUTT, embarked in the FLOAWER project in November. He's dedicating his time and work around "Assessing the measurements of offshore wind conditions using LiDAR on floating platforms for resource assessment and power curve verification" for the next 36 months.

ESR at ECN, France for the next 3 years, Ana started her work in November. She will focus on "Wind resource assessment in deep waters through space-distributed measurement systems".

ESR at UCC, Ireland for the next 3 years, Navid started his work in November. He will focus on "Advanced physical Modelling Methods for Floating wind turbines".

ESR at POLIMI, Italy for the next 3 years, Mariana started her work mid-October. She will focus on "Horizontal and vertical axis WT aerodynamic modeling and testing".

Thomas, ESR at University of Oldenburg, embarked in the FLOAWER project mid-October. He's dedicating his time and work around "Dynamics and interaction of floating turbines" for the next 36 months.

ESR at POLIMI, Italy for the next 3 years, Kutay started his work mid-September. He will focus on "Integrated design and LCOE minimization of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines".

Wessel, ESR of CNRS-LEGI, embarked in the FLOAWER project in September. He's dedicating his time and work around "Ability of vertical axis wind turbines to be a competitive alternative to horizontal axis wind turbines for floating offshore applications" for the next 36 months.

Xiaoming, second ESR of NTNU, embarked in the FLOAWER project in September. He's dedicating his time and work around "High-fidelity determination of wave load and load effects for floating WT hulls subjected to severe wave conditions" for the next 36 months.

ESR at NTNU, Norway for the next 3 years, Eva started her work early August. She will focus on "Advanced design and optimized cost of mooring systems".

The University College Cork, Ireland, is opening its ESR6 position to applications. Apply until July 31 to join our project.

Following the announcement of the 2nd call for applicants, Centrale Nantes opens the ESR5 position for application, until the 1st of July.

Craig White, second ESR to start his PhD, embarked in the FLOAWER project in May. He's dedicating his time and work around "System design to minimize the LCOE of Floating Offshore Wind" at WavEC, Portugal.

FLOAWER opens a 2nd call for Applicants and is looking for 1 PhD student. The ESR position (ESR2) is located at University of Stuttgart.

Daniel Hatfield is the first ESR who started his PhD work within our project.Since the beginning of April he's dedicating his time and work around "Offshore wind resource at deep sea applying satellite data and numerical modelling" in DTU, Denmark.

On March 3 and 4, Centrale Nantes hosted the first FLOAWER event. Gathering around 40 people, it was the perfect opportunity to meet all the different partners of the project.

The MSCA ITN project FLOAWER just started and it's already time to announce its first major event. In fact on Wednesday 4 March, the ESR recruitment event will take place at Centrale Nantes, France.

FLOAting Wind Energy netwoRk (FLOAWER) is an Innovative Training Network (ITN), a European project that brings together leading academics and industry leaders in the offshore wind industry, and floating wind turbines in particular. Its goal is to strengthen the leadership and competitiveness of this industry in Europe.

Recently graduated from a Master's degree in European projects management, Florent has travelled Europe throughout his studies improving his language skills. Thanks to the diversity of his curriculum, he had the chance to broader his academic and professional experiences which makes him a flexible and open-minded young professional.

The FLOAting Wind Energy netwoRk (FLOAWER) is primarily designed to train researchers in the required multi-disciplinary engineering fields to better develop Floating Offshore Wind technologies under the constraint of Levelized Cost Of Energy minimization.