AWESCO

Airborne Wind Energy System Modelling, Control and Optimisation

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christoph M. Hackl

AWESCO was an interdisciplinary doctoral training network addressing the main technical challenges of wind power generation with rigid and flexible membrane blades. AWESCO employed 16 PhD students at 8 academic and 4 industrial partners across Europe.

Duration: 01.01.2015 - 31.12.2018

Institutions:

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• Institute for Sustainable Energy Systems (ISES)

Project management: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christoph M. Hackl

Funding program: Horizon2020

Project funding: European Commission

Project partner:

• Ampyx Power BV
• Chalmers University of Technology
• Enerkíte GmbH
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
• ETH Zürich
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• SkySails Power GmbH
• Delft University of Technology
• Technische Universität München (TUM)
• University of Limerick (UL)
• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Universität Freiburg)
• Xsens Technologies BV