Marie Curie Research Fellowships Related to Energy : Experiences at University College Cork

1. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Marie Curie Research Fellowships Related to Energy : Experiences at University College Cork Tony Lewis Hydraulics & Maritime Research Centre University College Cork

2. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre

3. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre Activity Areas • WAVE TANK TESTING and PHYSICAL MODELS • WAVE MEASUREMENT and ANALYSIS • COMPUTER MODELLING • COASTAL PROCESSES and PROTECTION • HARBOUR and MARINA DEVELOPMENT • OFFSHORE FLOATING SYSTEMS • AQUACULTURE STRUCTURES • OCEAN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

4. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Marie Curie Fellowships • Framework IV and Framework V • Category 10, 20, 30 • Individual Fellowships Targetted Open • Host Fellowships Industry Development

5. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre Fellowships • Individual Fellowships • Specific to Energy Programme – Wave Energy Development • Two Fellowships Awarded • Category 10

6. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre Fellowship Holders • Yann DeLaure France Category 10 – Hydrodynamics of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Devices February 1997 – January 2000 PhD awarded Summer 2001 Lecturer at DCU in Hydrodynamics

7. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre Fellowships • Jochem Weber Germany Category 10 – Optimisation of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Devices using Hydro-Aerodynamic Coupling January 1999 –December 2001 Ph.D. in press Employed in Irish subsidiary of German Wind Energy Development Company

8. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sustainable Energy Research Group • Development Host Site • Hydrogen Storage and Wind Energy Integration • Two Fellowships Category 20 2 years duration • Adolpho Gonzales mid 2001 – mid 2003 • Dimitrios Bechrakis mid 2002 – mid 2004

9. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre Supporting Activity • Fellowship Holders Conferences • Ten held since 1997 • Progress Presentations • SWERF Contract • EMCsquared • Website

10. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre SWERF Contract • Series of Workshops for Energy Research Fellows • Six Conferences • 2001 – 2003 Steyr, Austria – Biomass Troia and Azores, Portugal – Natural Energy Stavanger, Norway – Hydrocarbon Development Tenerife, Spain – Energy for Island Communities Rekyavik, Iceland – Geothermal Energy Pau, France – Oil and Gas research

11. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre EMCsquared Contract • Energie Marie Curie Conference Series • Six Conferences • 2003 – 2006 Cork, Ireland – Spring 2004 – Renewable Energy Others to be fixed at Fellowship Holders’ Locations

12. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Energy Fellowship Holders WEBSITE • www.ucc.ie/research/hmrc • Non Nuclear Energy Fellowships Conferences • 2003 – www.mariecurieenergyfellows.org

13. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE Energy Fellowship Holders WEBSITE

14. EU ENERGY R, D & D:INFORMATION MORNING FOR IRISH PROPOSERS – 19th December 2002 HYDRAULICS & MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE CONCLUSIONS • Marie Curie Fellowships Positive for European Collaboration • Support Funding – Adequate to attract high quality candidates • FP6 – no longer targetted – no specific Energy Fellowships.