FLOAWER - FLOAting Wind Energy networRk

FLOAWER aims is strengthen the leadership and competitiveness of this industry in Europe.

Floating offshore wind (FOW) presents a unique opportunity for Europe with its considerable potential to develop wind farms. However, the sector faces two main challenges: the cost of energy remains high and there is a lack of specialized human resources.

FLOAWER is designed to tackle these challenges. Coordinated by Centrale Nantes, the project, involving EMO, DAUT & SEM-REV LHEEA's Team, start in 2019 for a period of four years. This time will be devoted to the multidisciplinary training of early stage researchers in the technologies required for the development of floating wind turbines, with a view to reducing costs and optimizing the profitability of the sector.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon H2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Słodowska-Curie grant agreement N°860879.

The first step during FLOAWER’s launch phase is to recruit the thirteen early stage researchers who will commence training between April and October 2020.

The four scientific work packages of the FLOAWER programme are as follows:
WP4: Wind Resource Assessment in deep water
WP5: Advanced floater analysis
WP6: Dynamics of wind turbine
WP7: System design to reduce Levelized Cost of Energy

FLOAWER Partners
Centrale Nantes (ECN) (France), Politecnico di Milano (PoliMI) (Italy), Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (UOLD) (Germany), University of Stuttgart (SWE) (Germany), CNRS (France), University College Cork (UCC) (Ireland), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Norway), Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), WavEC Offshore Renewables (Portugal) and University of Rostock (UROS) (Germany).

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