ECR Research Funding

The ECR Research Fund is designed to be a flexible fund for ECRs to support small activities that either supports and develops existing research activities, or develops career skills further. Funded research activities should be aligned with the objectives of the Supergen ORE Hub and be directed at offshore wind, wave or tidal energy research. Multi-disciplinary or multi-sectoral proposals to the fund are welcomed.

ECR Research Fund Call 1 - October 2019

Our inaugural ECR Research Fund call was hugely successful with 8 successful awards, representing over £46,000 of investment. Awards ranged from an industrial secondment to a leading company in the field of manufacturing informatics to a research project into Aeroelastic Modelling and Predictive Control of a 20-MW Offshore Wind Turbine

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ECR Research Fund Call 2 - October 2020

Our second ECR Research Fund call was another success with a further 8 successful awards, representing over £36,000 of investment. Awards ranged from parametric study for flapping foil system for harnessing wave energy to the development of an integrated anchor model via industry engagement

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