Adel El Gammal, Secretary General of EERA, at the EERA Wind Innovation Forum
"💬 My message is an urgent call for defragmentation of research innovation in Europe and to have a good integration of research innovation with industrial and trade policies."
Interview with Henk-Jan Vink, President of EERA, on the challenges of wind energy research in Europe.
"🍃 Today, you see that we are, in every country, creating the same kind of bricks, but we are not building a house for Europe”, he says. “We should really start rethinking instruments that we have for research and development and if everything should be in competition."
Iván Pineda, Director of Innovation, WindEurope, on the EERA JP Wind programme
"💡 The importance of EERA JP Wind is essentially about setting the right priorities for research in wind energy. It’s about bringing the best minds in Europe together to shape the future of research in this area, and to set the course towards the big goals that Europe has in deploying wind energy. "
Christina Garcia Duffy, technical director at Catapult, on the new strategy
"What we’re talking about is, different mechanisms, perhaps a public private partnership that has a delivery body and that has a center of excellence, making sure we update the strategies. We know how much funding comes from industry and therefore how much we can leverage from public funding, both at country level and at European Commission level"
Ignacio Martí, Coordinator of EERA JP Wind, on the Centre of Excellence
"It is the first time that multiple research organisations, from six different European countries, agree to take this kind of initiative. We are looking forward to what is
needed, not just in the next two or three years, but also in the next two or three decades."
Vibeke Stærkebye Nørstebø, SINTEF and EERA JP Wind sub-programme Coordinator
"The social, economic and environmental aspects sometimes tend to be forgotten. It’s really important to see how we could work cross-disciplinary. That’s really important when it comes to identifying what research is needed in the future"
Enrico Degiorgis from the European Commission at the EERA JP Wind conference in Amsterdam
"We are facing several crises and it’s becoming more and more urgent to tackle them through an increase of renewable energies and wind has to play a big role in this. It is planned at EU level to increase the level of wind energy from the current around 14% to 35% in 2030 and of course this has to be accompanied by research and innovation in the field."
Interview with John Olav Tande on the lighthouse initiative
"Why not move from project to project collaboration to setting up a permanent European centre of excellence on offshore wind? One is on floating wind, making it an affordable technology to utilize the big wind resources over deep water, and the other one is to operate the power system with large amounts of wind."
Adel El Gammal, Secretary General of EERA and Professor in Geopolitics of Energy
"The RePowerEU is a very ambitious policy package basically to wean itself off from the Russian energy dependency” says Adel. “RePowerEU looks primarily also to accelerate the deployment of renewables."
The DeepWind conference 2025 in Trondheim, Norway
🍀 The panel discussion on ‘𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝’. Setting the scene on the urgency of action, panellist John Olav Tande said: “We’ve already reached the 1.5-degree threshold for global warming, meaning we can’t from now on emit a single kilogram of carbon oxide. We have to move fast.”
Brief
Strategic communications campaign, sustaining the European research agenda on wind energy research and technology. Interviews with thought leaders from academia, industry and policy makers
Project type
Video Journalism | Strategic Communications
Year
2022-2025
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