The interim steering committee 2006-2007
The idea of creating a network for young researchers who worked on offshore renewable energy was born in the “PhD Pool on Offshore Renewable Energy” existing of one Post Doc and three PhD students associated to the Norwegian Centre For Renewable Energy and financed by the Research Council of Norway.
The intention with the PhD Pool was to let researchers from different fields work together in order to create solutions which are difficult to achieve without the touch of interdisciplinary thinking. The PhD pool soon realized that the need for a bigger community to enable the discussions needed to obtain this goal. Inspired by the blooming industry and lack of real cooperation across country boarders the work to establish an interdisciplinary and international network was started.
One of the key ideas was to establish a truly international network. To ensure the international spirit an interim committee meeting with participants from four different countries was held near Trondheim 15-17th of April 2007. The meeting was attended by the three initiators from Norway and three new committee members who were selected after applications.
The objectives of the meeting were to establish targets, strategies and visions for the network. New committee members from three different countries with different background and knowledge were invited in order to make the network truly international from inception and to assure commitment in several countries from inception.
The picture above shows the interim steering committee on a site visit at the island Frøya outside Trondheim, Norway (names according to position in the picture); Nicolai Løvdal, Jørgen Hals and Marta Molinas from Norway and , Helen Bailey from UK, Miguel Lopes from Portugal and Cristina Huertas-Olivares from Spain.
