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Annual Report 2015
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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
CENTRE MANAGEMENT
The objective of the Centre Management is to manage and
coordinate the activities of NOWITECH, ensuring progress and
cost control according to approved plans.
The Centre Management Group (CMG) is led by the Centre
Director and consists of a management team including Centre Manager, the Work Package leaders, the
SC lead, vice-lead and secretary, the CIC chair and the project secretary of NOWITECH. Management staff
is appointed to follow up on administrative, financial and legal issues supporting the Centre Director in the
day-to-day operation of NOWITECH. The Centre Director is responsible for progress and cost control of the
project according to approved Working Plans. The Centre Director has the responsibility and the authority
to execute management tasks in accordance with the Working Plan, the Consortium Agreement and the
Contract and monitor Parties’ compliance with their obligations.
The work is divided into Management and Outreach as outlined below.
The Management
activity takes care of the day-to-day operation of the Centre, scientific leadership and strategy development.
The day-to-day operation includes follow up on administrative, budgeting, financial and membership legal
aspects, meetings in the CMG with WP leaders and representatives from the SC and CIC, preparations for
the GA and Board, and reporting to the RCN. CMG meetings have been held on a monthly basis during 2015.
These are for team-building, planning, follow-up, information exchange and strategic discussions.
The Outreach activity
includes preparing general presentations of the Centre, dissemination of results, keeping contact with
industry parties, overall coordination towards other projects, relevant organisations and FME’s, in particular
NORCOWE, and engagement in developing new offshore wind research projects and strategies. The Centre
management is engaged in this also through CIC and SC. Dissemination activities by the management in
2015 included hosting delegations visiting NOWITECH, preparation of media contributions, keeping web
and e-room updated, preparation of newsletters, organization of the “Industry meets Science” seminars
biannually together with WindCluster Norway and organization of the annual offshore wind R&D conference
in Trondheim, EERA DeepWind’2015, see also section 13. In 2015 NOWITECH also participated and
presented NOWITECH in the Energy Science Week in Tokyo, Japan coordinated by the Research Council of
Norway. This has initiated new cooperative projects with Japanese offshore wind research groups.
Setting the international research agenda with the industry
Engagement in developing offshore wind projects and research strategies in 2015 included both national
and international activities:
• Giving input to The Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment at Stortinget on offshore wind
energy (
http://blog.sintefenergy.com/politikk/demopark-for-havvind-er-et-viktig-klimabidrag/
).
• Giving input to the Energy White Paper (Energimeldingen) in preparation by Norwegian Ministry of
Petroleum and Energy.
• Giving input to the SET-plan Steering Committee on offshore wind energy development
(
https://setis.ec.europa.eu/system/files/declaration_of_intent_offshore_wind.pdf
).
• Heading the working group on offshore wind energy as part of the European Technology Platform on Wind
Energy (TPwind). TPwind will be replaced with ETIP wind in 2016.
• Heading the sub-programme on offshore wind energy in the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA)
joint programme on Wind Energy.
• Participation in the Board of WindCluster Norway
International engagement is further described in section 11.
Hans Christian Bolstad,
Manager NOWITECH
John Olav Giæver Tande,
Director NOWITECH