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07-11-23 - Kristina Koebe
From September to November 2007, the project partners from Havelland-Flaeming and Rostock performed a photographer's contest on wind energy, titled "Wind - Energy - Human being" addressed to pupils of art schools in Rostock and Berlin. Future photographer's and designers were asked to contribute with the following task:

"We expect works that do not only document a status but also the relationship and interaction between machines with their surrounding landscape and that enable a better understanding of their perception by the human being with the conflicting priorities of destruction, familiarization and fascination. The photos shall contribute to making these aspects experiencable".

Finally, more than 30 photos were provided by participants and evaluated by the jury of the contest. Please, find all contributing photos, the winner included, under: "WIND | ENERGY | HUMAN BEING".

07-11-16 - Manfred Bookholdt
Under the title "THE FUTURE OF WIND FARMING" the Wind-Tech-Know project organised and held an international conference in Potsdam on 14./15. November 2007. Almost forty participants from many European countries, including the project partners, presented their latest working results and experiences on the topics

- European wind energy tendencies
- Operating models for wind farms
- Contribution of wind energy to complex renewable energy supply concepts.

The conference was supplemented by an impressive exhibition where many of the tangible results of the Wind-Tech-Know project were presented and introduced to the public.

The conference marked also the end of a very efficient and fruitful cooperation of the Wind-Tech-Know partners from all over Europe. Many of the partners emphasised  the importance of this project concerning the European cooperation on wind energy, the amount of valuable and practice-related results as well as the pleasant and powerful working atmosphere during the last three years once again.

07-06-20 - Tore Wizelius

The university level distance education courses, developed within this projects, have now been integrated in the Gotland University's regular course catalogue. This autumn the course Windpower Technology starts in august/september. In october/november Windpower Planning follows.  

The course Windpower Basics will be run on a flexible mode, start when you like and study at your own pace. All students have to pass this course before they are accepted to the other courses. 

The number of applicants for the courses this autumn have increased very much, so Gotland University has had to hire some new teachers to manage the courses. More info about the courses, that all are free of charge, you can find at www.hgo.se 

Tore Wizelius

07-05-11 - Kristina Koebe
Over the last few months, training material for pupils was developed by the project partners. It aims to improve the knowledge of pupils (intended age: 11 to 14 years old) about wind energy and to increase their interest in the topic. While interesting and useful information about wind turbines and wind energy use are provided, the emotional approach to the topic is improved as well. 

Together with training material for pupils and teaching material for teachers, patterns for building one's own paper wind turbine are provided - they have been successfully tested so far with pupils from Bad Doberan County during the last weeks.

So far, the material is available on this website in:
- German
- English (coming soon)

07-04-23 - Kristina Koebe
The 6th meeting of the project partners will take place on Gotland on the 23./24.5.2007. The partners will present their latest working results there, focussing on the new online-course and course translations carried out now, the case study in Wales, carried out in component 3, and the marketing activities planned and carried out in component 4. The latest results will be available on this website soon afterwards.

07-02-01 - Dinis Rodrigues
The present article presents to the Portuguese students the contest promoted by ISQ concerning the marketing concept developed for the Project WindTechKnow.


No âmbito do Projecto de Investigação e Desenvolvimento - WindTechKnow, o ISQ apresenta um concurso nacional acerca da temática da Energia Eólica. O concurso consiste na realização de um trabalho escrito sobre energia eólica, alvo de avaliação, com o objectivo de caracterizar este mercado a nível nacional (continente e ilhas).

Nos ficheiros seguintes encontrará as regras de participação do mesmo.

http://www.windtechknow.net/download/10/Regras_de_Participa%E7%E3o.pdf
http://www.windtechknow.net/download/10/Formul%E1rio.doc

Boa sorte e bom trabalho!

07-02-14 - Kristina Koebe
The windpower courses keep on to be a big success - they have had many students from all corners of the world including Europe, from Portugal, Greece, South America, India etc. The course Wind Power Planning had 30 active participants. The test-course Wind Power Technology is currently running with 10 participants and everything is working out just fine. The course applies Maratech to perform lecturers which is a modern pedagogical instrument. Pleasant news are that the demand for these courses seems to increase and there are many persons in the cue for the courses starting autumn 2007. 

The presentation of the Wind Power Technology Course can be accessed on this link: http://mainweb.hgo.se/Adm/kurskatalogen.nsf/nya_kurser_presentation/04573054B41851E7C12570FB004972CC!OpenDocument&Highlight=,0,VT%202007

06-11-06 - Manfred Bookholdt
According to the conception of the WIND-TECH-KNOW project one of the basic emphases is to recognise and to depict wind energy in a regional planning context. With good practice examples transferred into regional planning and development programmes the competence of governmental bodies and regional administrations will be improved. This intention was put into practice by a regional planning case study in Havelland- Fläming (Germany). 
In May 2006 the Regional Planning Association Havelland- Fläming made the decision to update the existing “Regional Wind Energy Plan” and to open the mandatory formal procedure. The WIND-TECH-KNOW project could be linked with this real planning process and provided a well-founded planning and decision making documentation focussed on : 

      1. Local wind potential and energy yield estimate (Estonian Wind Power Association)

      2. Potential technical planning scenarios (Wind-projekt/ Bad Doberan County Council)

      3. Assessment of wind park effects on bat populations (Technological Education 
          Institute of Crete)

The individual modules of the study will be the basis to make decisions of the responsible Regional Planning Association on the planned “Regional Wind Energy Plan Updating” as objective as possible. The documentation is further suitable to involve the local public in an early planning stage and to make potential wind energy projects more acceptable to them. 

Manfred Bookholdt

06-07-10 - Manfred Bookholdt
One of the component 3 emphases is to provide regional studies on climatologic, technical and economic basics to found rational wind energy planning strategies for future wind energy regions. A fundamental base for wind energy utilisation is the knowledge of the regional wind potential and the expected  energy yield of modern wind turbines. 
According to the recommendation of the Estonian Windpower Association (EWA) the municipality of VIRU NIGULA could be taken into consideration as a potential wind energy development area in Estonia. Therefore it was advisable to provide a regional study on the useful wind potential as a first document to found a regional and local planning strategy.
The results of the calculations verify that the chosen region VIRU NIGULA is provided with large-scale areas with economically relevant wind potentials. In 100 metres above ground level (a.g.l.) the whole coastal area and a wide range of inland areas can reach a mean annual wind speed of 7.0 m/s and more.
The existence of beneficial economical, financial and legal conditions could stimulate a similar development in Estonian wind energy regions like in the leading European countries.  

Manfred Bookholdt
   

06-08-18 - Dinis Rodrigues

Are now available the final classifications of the "students" involved in the 1st course developed in the Project WindTechKnow.

Results can be consulted in: 
http://www.windtechknow.net/download/8/1st%20Course%20Final%20Classifications.pdf

06-05-18 -
Welsh advisors to businesses met in Conwy today (18 May 2006) to learn more about projects that could help their clients.  The Conwy Business Support Network of over 100 members meets regularly in Llandudno Junction to exchange information of value to their clients - small and medium sized enterprises across North Wales.  Conwy Energy Agency was asked to explain the work of the Agency including the WindTechKnow project.  As well as outlining the aims of the project and the components, the website was clearly pointed out.  The audience were very interested and asked several questions about wind power, renewables and energy efficiency and how they can help small and medium sized businesses save money, improve security of energy supply, improve their environmental impact and the comfort of people on their premises.

06-04-22 - Kristina Koebe
Municipal administrations and wind energy entrepreneurs in cooperation with the Regional Planning Broad Havelland-Flaeming are going to start first steps of a regional information campaign. The attitude survey conducted in the context of WindTechKnow-project indicated that legal required public participation is insufficient to cope with fears and prejudices of citizens. Local wind energy projects more and more come up against opposition of anti-wind-activist. Therefore the regional planners advise to further the dialog between municipal decision makers, wind entrepreneurs and citizens and have compiled a balanced catalogue of widely known pro and contra arguments. Various municipal administrations support the idea of installing computer information terminals sponsored by local wind farmers in the town halls were visitors can inform themselves on pro and contra arguments and facts about wind generation in there territory.

06-05-08 - Dinis Rodrigues
Starts today, 8 of May the 1st course developed by University of Gotland and ISQ in the WindechKnow Project. In this first course are currently enrolled 147 participants. The course will be performed between 8th of May and 2nd of June, being the results available bay the end of June.

06-04-23 - Kristina Koebe
190 pupils from Bad Doberan region, Northern Germany, were interrogated regarding their attitude about forms of energy production in general and wind energy use in particular. General aspects were included as well as latest offshore-developments. The results of the survey, carried out from December 2005 to February 2006 are, now, available here.

05-09-28 - Kristina Koebe
September 2005: The third meeting of the entire project team will take place from 16.-18. November 2005. It will be hosted by the project partner ISQ in Porto Salvo. During the meeting, first results of all components but also the new project intranet will be presented. In addition, the partners will get detailed information about the wind energy situation in Portugal and the work of the Portuguese project partner.

06-04-01 - Kristina Koebe
The 4th partnermeeting of the WindTechKnow-project will take place in April 2006 in Tallinn. On the meeting, the first online-course of the project will be presented, the small-scale study carried out in Estonia by the end of 2005 and the results of the opinion surveys on wind energy will be presented. Plans for the next project milestone will be made.

05-09-28 - Kristina Koebe
September 2005: In co-operation with the Lead Partner, Doberan County, the project partner Baltic Windenergy Assocation started an opinion survey among the parties involved into the planning and operation process of the citizen's windfarm "Ravensberg/Krempin" were asked for an evaluation. The results of the survey will be presented on the November-meeting and on a press-conference in November 2005.

05-09-28 - Kristina Koebe
September 2005: During the conference "Wind energy in the BSR" that took place on Gotland from 7.-9. September 2005 the project was represented by the Lead partner and two of the project partners and with an information desk

05-08-31 - Kristina Koebe
August 2005: Based on the wind energy survey developed and carried out at the project partner "Havelland-Flaeming region", a survey will be carried out now questioning the people who were involved into the installation and operation of the citizens wind farm Ravensberg-Krempin. First steps were taken, results will be presented by the end of this year.

Contact: k.koebe@rotorwerk.de

05-06-22 - Kristina Koebe
June 2005: At the second project meeting, hosted by the project partner "Havelland-Flaeming region", first project results will be presented: the partners prepared detailed reports on the national status regarding wind energy in every partners country, first steps were taken to carry out a poll on wind energy and wind farm planning processes in future wind farm regions. At the meeting, a concept for the first online-course will be developed and the adaption of the wind-energy-poll to other regions/countries will be planned in detail.

05-01-01 - Kristina Koebe
March 2005: After the project "Wind Tech Know" was approved by the Interreg JS in January 2005, we had our first all-partner-meeting in Rostock in the beginning of March. The meeting started with a presentation of every project partner and a clarification of general organisational matters. At the second day of the meeting, the work within the single components was planned in further details - the component managers presented a first concept for the 1st and 2nd project milestone