Wavetrain

Visit to Wavebob, Galway Bay, Ireland, 2006

At the lab of Queens University, Monitorization course, 2006

Lab activities - Edinburgh University, 2006

Wavetrain fellows surfing

An international challenge

Wavetrain was the first major European project of the WavEC, funded by the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme under the specific Marie Curie Action. The main aim of the project was to train a group of scientists in the field of wave energy.

The WavEC coordinated administratively and technically the project that started in June of 2004, as result of its well succeeded proposal. The network joined eight European universities, one national public entity and two wave energy developers.

The main objective of the project was to create a training network of researchers in the field of wave energy, in particular specialized in device modeling and design, device components, socio-economic and environmental impact assessment and evaluation of existing power plants such as the Oscillating Water Column of the Pico Plant, AWS and Wave Dragon.

Wavetrain at the WavEC

The project allowed the WavEC to have in its team 3 researchers: Veronica La Regina (Italy), specialist in Economics, and Iain Russell (United Kingdom) and Cristina Huertas-Olivares (Spain), in the Environmental area. The beginning of 2008 marked the end of WAVETRAIN and today the project is well known internationally. The involved researchers have been presenting their papers in diverse international conferences and thus disseminating wave energy technology and the project itself.

Besides the exchange of knowledge in the field of wave energy, different short courses have taken place for all participants of the projects and other interested researchers. 

Short Courses

During the three years of existence of the project six short courses have been organized:

• Ocean Wave Energy Fundamentals - Chalmers University of Technology - 23rd of May to 3rd of June 2005;
• Numerical Modelling of Wave Energy Devices - Ecole Centrale Nantes: 27th of June to 8th of July 2005;
• Physical Modelling and Monitorization - HMRC University College Cork and Queen’s University Belfast: 10th to 16th of May 2006;
• Power-Take-Off Systems - University of Edinburgh: 4th to 8th of December 2006;
• Wave Energy Environmental Issues - Spok ApS: 23rd to 25th of April 2007;
• Wave Energy Realities – Pico Island, Azores - WavEC: 24th to 28th of September 2007.

Participants

Partner: Instituto Superior Técnico

Country: Portugal

Researchers: Pierpaolo Ricci (iIalian) e Florent Thiébaut (French)

Partner: Teamwork Technology BV

Country: The Netherlands
Researcher: Miguel Prado (Portuguese)

Partner: SPOK ApS

Country: Denmark
Researcher: James Tedd (British)

Partner: Queen’s University Belfast

Country: Ireland
Researcher: Joseph van’t Hoff (Dutch)

Partner: WavEC

Country: Portugal
Researchers: Iain Russell (British), Veronica la Regina (Italian) e Cristina Huertas Olivares (Spanish)

Partner: Ecole Centrale de Nantes

Country: France
Researchers: José Carlos Lopes (Portuguese), Martin Kamensky (Slovenian) e Lorenzo Baños (Spanish)

Partner: University College Cork

Country:  Ireland
Researchers: Rebecca Church (British) e Julien Cretel (French)

Partner: The University of Edinburgh

Country:  United Kingdom
Researchers: João Cruz (Portuguese), Jorge Lucas (Portuguese), Remy Pascal (French) e André Delrue (Dutch)

Partner: INETI

Country:  Portugal
Researcher: Jean Baptiste Saulnier (French)

Partner: Technische Universiteit Delft

Country: The Netherlands
Researcher: Mattia Scuotto (Italy)

Partner: Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola AB

Country: Sweden
Researcher: John FitzGerald (Irish)

General Information

Funding: 6FP of the European Commission
Team Coordinator: Frank Neumann
Total Funding: € 1 823 900,00
WavEC Funding: € 284 831,38
Duration: 45 months
Coordinator: Instituto Superior Técnico, (Management by the WavEC)
Other partners: Teamwork Technology, SPOK ApS, Queen’s University Belfast, Ecole Centrale Nantes, Cork University, University of Edinburgh, Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação, I.P (INETI), Technische Universiteit Delft and Chalmers
Website: www.wavetrain.info