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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
NOWITECH participates in relevant international
activities with significant efforts in the following
international entities:
• European Energy Research Alliance (EERA)
joint programme (JP) on wind energy,
www.eera-set.eu
; SINTEF, NTNU and IFE
participate in EERA JP Wind Energy developing
network, scientific work programmes, work-
shops and project proposals. John Tande
(SINTEF Energy Research) coordinates the
sub-programme on Offshore Wind Energy.
The programme is enhanced with the EU FP7
IRPWIND project started in March 2014 with
coordination by DTU and objectives closely
aligned with EERA JPwind.
• European Technology Platform for wind energy
(TPwind),
www.windplatform.eu
; the platform
is replaced by end 2015 with the new European
Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP)
on wind energy. John Tande (SINTEF Energy
Research) was Chair of the offshore working
group within TPwind, and a member of the
TPwind Steering Committee. He will continue in
the Steering Committee of ETIP wind.
• European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE),
www.eawe.eu
; SINTEF, NTNU and IFE
participate. EAWE
members meet at
least once a year at
the annually PhD
seminar.
• European Wind Energy Master (EWEM),
www.windenergymaster.eu
, is a joint (NTNU,
TU Delft, DTU and University of Oldenburg)
Erasmus Mundus MSc programme on wind
energy providing for a 2 year specialization
within Wind Physics, Rotor Design, Electric
Power Systems and Offshore Engineering. NTNU
is engaged in EWEM offering specialization
in Electric Power Systems and Offshore
Engineering.
• IEA Wind,
www.ieawind.org
; The research
partners of NOWITECH are active in all relevant
tasks of IEA Wind, including Task 25 (Design
and operation of power systems with large
amounts of wind power), Task 26 (Cost of wind
energy), Task 29 (Mexnext: Analysis of wind
tunnel measurements), Task 30 (Comparison
of Dynamic Computer Codes and Models
for Offshore Wind Energy (OC4, OC5)) and
Task 37 (Wind Energy Systems Engineering).
The latter was started in 2015 with SINTEF
Energy Research, NREL and DTU sharing the
management and coordination of the task
• IEC TC88,
www.iec.ch
. The research partners of
NOWITECH are active in all working groups with
relevance for offshore wind turbines. SINTEF
Energy Research is heading the Norwegian
sister-organization NK88 and represents
Norway in TC88.
International cooperation is also through research
mobility programmes, transnational laboratory
access programmes, participation in EU projects,
meetings and collaboration with the international
associated research parties of NOWITECH
through SC and other means, guest lectures, the
In 2015 the research parties
in NOWITECH participated in
more than 15 projects with EU
or Nordic funding providing for
very substantial international
collaboration.