The project aims to share experience and develop proposals for further collaboration. It also aims to boost the educational offerings in the topics of stochastic dynamics and multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) for offshore wind turbines, and energy systems for ships, ports, and offshore structures.

Both the development of offshore wind turbines and more efficient energy systems for ships, ports and other marine structures, are of vital importance if one is the solve some of the problems facing the world, like climate change and energy production. It is the hope that this collaboration will help strengthen today’s research activities to solve these challenges, and educate engineers and scientists to address tomorrow’s challenges.  

The collaboration will entail regular workshops and seminars, joint applications for research funding, bilateral research exchanges, joint publications, and mutually beneficial course development at the bachelor and master’s levels.

The first workshop will be held 15-16 October in Trondheim.