Mission statement

We provide a platform to initiate and coordinate new collaborative wind energy projects in the areas of R&D, learning and teaching, ultimately aiming to foster excellence in Swiss wind energy R&D and to promote the export of Swiss know-how in products and services to the international wind energy market.

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Who we are

We formed in 2019 following the successful First Wind Energy R&D Forum on May 15th 2019.

Founder and CHAIRPERSON

Sarah Barber, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST)

MANAGEMENT Board

Andrew Clifton, enviConnect; Ursula Dubois, Sociolution GmbH; Elena Martinez, Alpiq, Laurin Hilfiker, OST.

Advisory board

Nicole Vermeulen, Green Energy Venture AG; Bernhard Brodbeck, WinJi AG; Alexandre Oudalov, Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Imad Abdallah, ETH Zurich; Karen Mulleners, EPFL; Anastasios Vassilopoulos, EPFL; Henrik Nordborg, OST, Kartik Venkatraman, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

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Universities:

  • Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences

  • Chair of Structural Mechanic & Monitoring, ETH Zurich

  • University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School of Engineering

  • ZHAW Centre for Aviation (ZAV)

  • Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  • IPW University of Bern

  • University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina"

  • Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina

Companies:

  • Omnisens SA

  • Palindrome Remote Sensing GmbH

  • NewGreenTec Int. AG

  • Heart Clinic Zurich

  • enviConnect

  • WinJi AG

  • Antefil Composite Tech AG

  • Eisele Innovation Engineering GmbH

  • RTDT Laboratories AG

  • Alpiq

  • Sociolution, Schweizer Netzwerk für Sozial- und Politikmanagement

  • Green Energy Venture

What we've achieved

  • March 2023: “Wind energy basics of offshore wind energy in Brazil” online workshop

  • March 2023: WindGoesDigital hybrid workshop in Zurich

  • December 2022: Launch of the digitalisation webinar series

  • June 2022: Networking Event Series - Wind Energy Technology 2022 in Rapperswil

  • March 2022: Launch of the diversity webinar series

  • September 2021: Networking Event Series - Wind Energy Technology part 2

  • May 2021: Networking Event Series - Wind Energy Technology ONLINE.

  • March 2021: Developed a concept for the new Swiss Wind Atlas platform (funding SFOE).

  • January 2021: Developed a concept for the WeDoWind data sharing and collaboration platform (funding SFOE).

  • October 2020: Innosuisse funding for Networking Event Series received.

  • September 2020: The Second Swiss Wind Energy R&D Forum ONLINE.

  • February 2020: Founding of Association.

  • October 2019: Launch of Network.

  • July 2019: First Management Team Meeting.

  • June 2019: Forming of Management Team.

  • May 2019: The First Swiss Wind Energy R&D Forum.