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ECR Research Fund Call 6 – July 2023
Our sixth Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fund, has awarded £38,000 to 9 projects at UK institutions.
The awards made through this call investigates a range of ORE challenges including the effects of waves on tidal energy devices, the response of monopile foundations to storm loading, and the study of a novel hinged-raft floating platform to harness wave energy and serve as foundation of multiple offshore wind turbines.
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ECR Research Fund Call 5 – March 2022
Our fifth Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fund, has awarded £16,000 to 4 projects at UK institutions. The awards made through this call cover optimisation and hydrodynamic analysis of a top-hinged wave energy converter, an industry internship combining smart-sensors and machine learning, assessment of wide-bandgap power electronics, synthetically generated database for supporting condition monitoring of offshore wind turbine converters.
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ECR Research Fund Call 4 – October 2021
Our fourth Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fund, has awarded almost £29,000 to 8 projects at UK institutions. The awards made through this call cover a range of topics including assessing bio-physical interactions with floating tidal turbines, investigating fault-tolerant control technology of offshore wind turbines, and demonstrating a novel approach for wave calibration based on artificial intelligence.
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ECR Research Fund Call 3 – March 2021
Our third ECR Research Fund awarded almost £38,500 to 9 projects at UK institutions. The projects funded in this third call are wide ranging from an internship investigating economic and environmental trade-offs between offshore wind farms and fisheries, a feasibility study into the installation of innovative suction caisson anchors, and a study into the wave interaction with a floating/submerged elastic disk.
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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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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
