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Dr.-Ing. Christoph Abraham has joined the Test Centre for Support Structures Hannover (TTH) at Leibniz Universität Hannover as our new Operations Manager. As part of the ForWind...

The highlights, research projects and focus topics for the years 2018 to 2023 summarized in our annual report. Download as PDF    

As part of his summer trip, Lower Saxony's Minister for Science and Culture, Falko Mohrs, visited the ForWind WindLab on the Wechloy campus of the Carl von Ossietzky University...

ForWind - Centre for Wind Energy Research at the Universities of Hanover, Oldenburg and Bremen is pleased to be a supporter of the Powerhouse Nord initiative. ForWind has stood...

Together with its project partners RWE, ForWind (University of Oldenburg – Institute of Physics), and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems...

The ForWind Wind Physics Symposium 2024 will take place on Friday, June 14, 2024 in the WindLab on the Wechloy campus of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Wind...

ForWind has officially joined the Norwegian FME NorthWind as an associated research partner institute. Strengthening the relationship with NorthWind and pooling the already...

ForWind Managing Director Dr. Stephan Barth has been elected as the new coordinator of EERA JP Wind. EERA JP Wind is an association of large European public research institutions...

At the February meeting of the ForWind Executive Board, Prof. Dr. Raimund Rolfes from the Institute of Statics and Dynamics at Leibniz Universität Hannover was unanimously...

Numerical flow simulations are particularly relevant for the further expansion of wind energy. To date, modeling and simulation methods exist on different scales. They range from...

At its meeting on December 1, 2023 in Kassel, the Executive Board of the Research Association for Renewable Energies (FVEE) elected ForWind member and Fraunhofer IWES Managing...

At the December meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Rauh was accepted as a new member of ForWind. Rauh has been appointed to the...

Every two years in November, the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy opens its doors to interested visitors for an entire evening. "The night that creates knowledge" will...

The ForWind Wind Physics Symposium 2023 will take place on Friday, November 17, 2023 in the WindLab. Following the successful symposia in 2017 and 2019, we are reviving this...

ForWind member Prof. Dr. Amir Ebrahimi will succeed Bernd Orlik at the Institute for Electrical Drives, Power Electronics and Components at the University of Bremen on July 1,...

In the last week of September, the ForWind WindLab in Oldenburg hosted a delegation from the Volkswagen Foundation. Dr. Georg Schütte, Secretary General of the Volkswagen...

Last week, nine major research organizations and universities, all members of EERA JP Wind (European Energy Research Alliance Joint Programme Wind), signed a cooperation...

During a scientific colloquium on February 3, 2023, Prof. Dr. Elyas Ghafoori, Professor of Steel, Composite and Lightweight Structures and Head of the Institute of Steel...

In the future, wind turbines are to be operated in a more environmentally friendly and economical way - thanks to a digital twin. Scientists at the University of Bremen are now...

A large-scale research facility was opened in Krummendeich near the mouth of the Elbe into the North Sea on August 15, 2023. The WiValdi research wind farm (short for "Wind...

On June 30, 2023, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck visited three new test and research facilities for wind energy. At Leibniz...

They provide enormous computing power for complex research projects: Two new high-performance computers will complement the research infrastructure of the University of Oldenburg...

At the May meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vincent Oettel was accepted as a new member of ForWind. Oettel has been Professor of Concrete Structures at...

On 22 May 2023, John Olav Giæver Tande (Chief Scientist at the Norwegian research organization SINTEF and Director of the Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME)...

At the April meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Björn Maronga was accepted as a new member of ForWind. Maronga has been Professor of Boundary Layer Meteorology...

At the March meeting of the ForWind Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Avila from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg was accepted as a new member of ForWind....

For wind turbine manufacturers, it is important to be able to describe the wind conditions on the rotor blade as accurately as possible, for example to estimate the load on...