Stanford University
Sky Windpower
Honeywell
CMNA Power
Ampyx Power
Nature Technology Systems
Airborne Wind Turbine
EnerKite
SkySails
WindLi
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Magenn
Highest Wind
Alula Energy
WPI
University of Delaware
Fraunhofer IWES
Anurac
Baayen-Heinz
UC Santa Barbara
Chalmers University
Tampere University
RMIT University
Guangdong HAWP
Technology
Fraunhofer IPA
NASA Langley
Kite Power Solutions
DTU-Wind
Devotek
Kitemill
Xsens
E-kite
TU Del
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KU Leuven
Omnidea HAWP
University of Limerick
KiteNRG
KiteGen
Politecnico Torino
EPFL
ETH Zurich
TwingTec
EMPA
FHNW
Alstom Power
TU Munich
University of Freiburg
University of Grenoble
ENSA Bretagne
Beyond the Sea
Altaeros Energies
UFSC
Crosswind Power
eWind Solutions
Google[x]
SRI International
Institutions involved in Airborne Wind Energy R&D in 2015.
Roland Schmehl Associate Professor Delft University of Technology Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Wind Energy Section Kite Power Research Group
Kluyverweg 1 2629 HS Delft The Netherlands r.schmehl@tudelft.nl www.kitepower.eu www.awesco.eu
The AWESCO Initial Training Network – Addressing the Key
Engineering Challenges of Airborne Wind Energy
Roland Schmehl
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology AWESCO (”Airborne Wind Energy System Modelling,
Con-trol and Optimisation”) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Ini-tial Training Network funded by the European Union within the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme and by the Swiss federal government. The network con-nects twelve European academic and industrial partners who have joined forces to collaboratively train young re-searchers in the area of airborne wind energy. AWESCO was launched in January 2015 with a duration of 4 years with a total funding volume of 3.4 Me. The research programme addresses the present key challenges of air-borne wind energy technologies with the aim of support-ing the commercialisation in Europe.
The four research themes in AWESCO are • Modelling and Simulation,
• System Design and Optimisation, • Sensors and Estimation • Control Systems.
Financed network partners are Delft University of
Tech-nology (Netherlands), who is also coordinating the action, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), University of Leuven (Belgium), Technische Universität München (Germany), University of Limerick (Ireland), Eidgenössis-che TechnisEidgenössis-che Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) as well as the SMEs Ampyx Power B.V. (Netherlands), Sky-sails GmbH (Germany), Xsens Technologies B.V. (Nether-lands) and EnerKite GmbH (Germany). The universities in Delft and Freiburg will employ two PhDers each, while all other network partners employ one PhD.
This presentation will describe the context of the AWESCO network and the four research themes with a special fo-cus on how they are interrelated to address the multidis-ciplinary character of the AWE technologies. It is further outlined what PhD training events are planned from 2015 until 2018.
