Projet AWESCO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The height of conventional wind turbines is limited by the enormous stresses on the structure. The idea of the Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) is to replace the most efficient part of a conventional wind turbine, the tip of the turbine blade, with a fast flying high efficiency kite, and to replace the rest of the structure by a tether which anchors the kite to the ground. Power is generated either by periodically pulling a ground based generator via a winch, or by small wind turbines mounted on the kite that exploit its fast cross wind motion. While the concept is highly promising, major academic and industrial research is still needed to achieve the performance required for industrial deployment. This can best be done by innovative junior researchers in a closely cooperating consortium of academic and industrial partners. The ITN AWESCO combines six interdisciplinary academic and four industrial network partners with seven associated partners, all selected on the basis of excellence and complementarity. All partners work already intensively on AWE systems, several with prototypes, and they are committed to create synergies via the cooperation in AWESCO. The main task is to train fourteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in training-by-research and to create a closely connected new generation of leading European scientists that are ready to push the frontiers of airborne wind energy. AWESCO is the first major cooperation effort of the most important European actors in the field and will help Europe to gain a leading role in a possibly huge emerging renewable energy market, and to meet its ambitious CO2 targets. In addition, the AWESCO early stage researchers will be trained in cutting-edge simulation, design, sensing, and control technologies that are needed in many branches of engineering.

Mots clés : airborne wind energy, wind energy, kite power, innovative renewables

Participants :
- University of Applied Sciences Landshut (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 34613.4 €
- University of Limerick (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265674.6 €
- Fraunhofer Society (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Nts energie- und transportsysteme gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 250560.0 €
- Chalmers University of Technology (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 263659.32 €
- Delft University of Technology (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 510748.56 €
- Alphabet (United States) (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Xsens (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 255374.28 €
- Skywalk gmbh & co. kg (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Technical University of Munich (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214603.08 €
- University of Freiburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 663123.52 €
- Fraunhofer Society (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Enerkite gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 249216.48 €
- Skysails gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 34613.4 €
- Ampyx power bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 248280.56 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €