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WIND ENERGY RESEARCH
Spreading and exchanging
excellence in Wind Energy
Research – the European
Academy of Wind Energy
By Elke Seidel, Branch Manager of European Academy of Wind Energy
The European Academy of activities like the exchange of PhD one of the world’s leading scientific
Wind Energy (EAWE) is a students and senior scientists and the wind energy conferences. Experts from
registered body of around utilization of each other’s research academia and industry are discussing
40 European universities and infrastructures. latest results and developments in
research institutes, which joined their fundamental as well as applied wind
forces in wind energy research and Current main activities within the energy research.
development. EAWE is aiming to be a academy are inter alia the publishing
world-leading wind energy academia of the long-term research agenda to At the sixth edition (TORQUE 2016,
and research community, supporting spur an intensive discussion worldwide October 5 - 7) – organized by the
Europe with world fore-front pre- within the wind energy community and current Vice-President of the EAWE
competitive innovations. the implementation of its own scientific Prof. Dr. Carlo Bottasso – at the
journal: Wind Energy Science (www. Technical University of Munich, more
The academy aims to enhance wind wind-energy-science.net). than 530 attendees participated in
energy research by integrating and a high-level technical and scientific
connecting the activities of the highest PHD SEMINARS programme, including ten sessions,
level academic and research institutes EAWE organizes annual PhD seminars featuring 142 oral presentations and
in Europe working on Wind Energy. providing opportunities for PhD 167 posters. Being one of the largest
While wind energy continues its path students and supervisors from all conferences in wind energy in 2016,
in becoming Europe’s most important over Europe to exchange information it offered countless opportunities for
future source of clean energy, more and experiences on research in wind networking and also hosted the plenary
and more countries are focusing on the energy. Participants, especially PhD roundtable “The Future Needs of Wind
accompanying research as well. students, from non-member institutions Energy Scientific Research”, which is
are welcome. available on youtube, too (https://
Therefore, the European Academy youtu.be/xmvaICNk4wA). The 2018
of Wind Energy is encouraging Mainly organized by PhD students edition of “The Science of Making
universities and institutes engaged in of the hosting institution the event Torque from Wind” will be hosted by
wind energy research to join the EAWE is composed of topical sessions, in the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, on
community. Combining untapped which PhD students present their latest June 20-22, 2018.
wind energy R&D potentials – e.g. in activities and findings in talks and
the Eastern European countries – with within a poster exhibition. The scientific WIND ENERGY SCIENCE
those from the cradle of wind energy committee is composed of young CONFERENCE
will foster Europe’s position as the scientists from EAWE institutions. The “Wind Energy Science Conference
leading wind energy innovation hub. 2017” (WESC-2017), taking place at
The next PhD seminar will be organized the Technical University of Denmark
A main part within the activities of and hosted by Cranfield University, (DTU) in Lyngby, is the first of a series
the academy is co-operation, which United Kingdom in September 19 – 22, of bi-annual conferences launched by
leads to spreading of excellence 2017 (www.cranfield.ac.uk/events/ the European Academy of Wind Energy
and the dissemination of knowledge events-2017/eawe-2017). (www.wesc2017.org).
by supporting the development
of international training courses, THE “SCIENCE OF MAKING TORQUE The board of EAWE has decided to run
organizing annual PhD seminars and FROM WIND“ CONFERENCE a scientific conference every year, with
high-class scientific conferences. Since 2004 the biennial high-class the Torque conference taking place in
scientific conference “The Science of even years and the WESC in odd years.
EAWE also encourages integration Making Torque from Wind” has become A main difference between the two
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