AWESCO network

AWESCO is an interdisciplinary doctoral training network addressing key technical challenges of wind energy generation using tethered wings, of both rigid and flexible membrane type. AWESCO employs 16 PhD fellows at 8 academic and 4 industrial partners across Europe. The TU Delft is the oldest and largest technical university of the Netherlands. It is the highest ranked university of the country. Chalmers is a major technical university in Scandinavia, hosting eight Areas of Advance and is the largest recipient of the Energy Initiative in Sweden. Since 2016 Thomson Reuters ranks it as Europe’s most innovative university. The TU Munich (TUM) was ranked as the best German university by the 2020 QS World University Ranking. Established in 1972, the University of Limerick is an independent, internationally focussed university with over 13,000 students and 1,500 staff.