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Installation vessel Apollo departs from Port Oostende
Ostend Science Park partner, Port of Oostende has some exciting news to share.
Last thursday the installation vessel Apollo departed from the REBO heavy weight terminal in Port of Oostende with 2 sets of wind turbines to the SeaMade wind farm at sea. At the REBO terminal, blades, nacelles and pre-assembled towers are waiting to be installed on the latest wind farm in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
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Preparing a strong academic team to support the current and future Belgian offshore wind energy sector
Ghent University is proud to be the consortium leader of PhairywinD, a brand new offshore wind energy project. The main objective of this project is to prepare a community of nine PhD researchers from different Belgian knowledge institutes to tackle the current and future challenges of the Belgian offshore wind energy sector together.
The Belgian offshore wind zone is expanding, with 2.2 GW already installed and brand new zones being tendered. To ensure our place as frontrunners of wind energy in Europe and to stay on the forefront of technology trends and scientific advances, our industry needs a strong academic home base. And that is exactly what the PhairywinD project is all about.
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2nd Coastal and Ocean Basin Seminar
SEMINAR – Recent groundbreaking innovations in experimental research in wave tank facilities
Following the first successful “COB seminar” on October 20th 2017, the consortium UGent – KU Leuven – Flanders Hydraulics Research organized on February 6th 2020 a second seminar focusing on recent innovations in experimental research in a wave tank facility.
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