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NORCOWE intends to organise a Nordic research school on offshore wind energy for the PhD students in the centre. The research school will be a corporative effort between the four university partners in the centre, and with links to the existing Norwegian research school in climate dynamics at the Institute of Geophysics (UiB) and wind power related education programs at AAU to take advantage of synergy effects. The school will arrange both cross-disciplinary introductory field courses and indebts courses and workshops in different relevant disciplines.

The different Master studies at UiA, UiB, UiS, and AAU will form a major recruitment base for the PhD positions at the centre, and there will be special focus on recruiting female Master and PhD students. AAU in particular has extensive experiences in wind power research and education across various disciplines, including civil engineering, electrical engineering, control engineering, and mechanical engineering. AAU has established cooperative research and education relationships with wind power industry, including main wind turbine manufactures such as Vestas, Siemens Wind Power, etc. Based on the research work and industrial cooperation, AAU has developed a number of high quality PhD courses, including control, electrical engineering (generators, power electronics, and power systems), foundations, and wave loads. Furthermore, AAU has a number of master programs in full-time or part-time education that have mechanical and electrical specializations, such as ‘WindMaster’ and ‘Wind Power Systems’.

Summer schools on offshore wind energy will provide an opportunity to invite leading international researchers as speakers, promote interaction between academia and industry, create an arena for exploring innovative concepts through workshops or seminars, and function as a meeting place for researchers and students in the centre.