Industrial doctorate centre for offshore renewable technologies
15 March 2011
15th March 2011
An Industrial Doctorate Centre to help develop the skills essential for accelerating offshore renewable technologies in the UK is to be created by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) and the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Energy Programme.
UK Universities are being invited to bid to host the centre which is expected to be launched by October 2011.
The centre will address a priority area for the ETI’s engineering and technology developments and addresses a gap in the RCUK Energy Programme’s current provision of cohort doctoral training.
The centre will train up to 50 students (through five annual cohorts of 10) , with each doctoral student training for an Engineering Doctorate. Students will be based for most of their training in ETI Member companies (BP, Caterpillar, EDF Energy, E.ON, Rolls-Royce and Shell), within ETI technology development and demonstration teams, and with third party organisations.
The closing date for applicant organisations is Tuesday, 26 April 2011. For more details, click to http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/energyidc/Pages/default.aspx
Up to £6.5 million of funding will be made available from the ETI and RCUK towards the establishment of the centre.
The ETI is a public private partnership tasked with developing “mass scale” technologies that will help the UK meet its 2020 and 2050 energy targets.
Dr David Clarke, the Chief Executive Officer of the ETI said: "This centre will provide a pool of 50 future leaders in offshore renewables engineering and technology. These individuals will be equipped to helping solve the challenges we face in making offshore renewables a key part of the long term industrial base of the UK. It will also lead to the development of enhanced links between universities and industry to ensure a long term pipeline of technology, training and engineering that will play a major part in the UK’s economy over the coming years"
The EngD is equivalent to the intellectual challenge of a PhD coupled with extensive business leadership training. The research engineers are expected to spend around 75% of their time working directly with their host company on project work and 25% on taught courses.
The ETI’s offshore wind programme is focused on achieving significant cost reduction and enhanced reliability to offshore wind to realise its huge potential to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions by around 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The key challenges in the sector are affordable floating structure, maintenance, installation and turbine reliability and cost reduction.
The ETI’s marine energy programme is focussed on accelerating the development and deployment of commercially viable marine energy technologies that contribute to the delivery of cost energy and performance improvements.
Applicants must contact Andrew Wright Andrew.Wright@epsrc.ac.uk to discuss their interest and suitability in applying against this call before submitting an e-mail of intent to apply to Andrew Wright by 16:00 on Thursday 24 March 2011.
Notes to Editors:
For further information please contact
ETI PR Manager Nigel Richardson on 01509 202084/07827 946064 or email nigel.richardson@eti.co.uk
An Industrial Doctorate Centre to help develop the skills essential for accelerating offshore renewable technologies in the UK is to be created by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) and the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Energy Programme.
UK Universities are being invited to bid to host the centre which is expected to be launched by October 2011.
The centre will address a priority area for the ETI’s engineering and technology developments and addresses a gap in the RCUK Energy Programme’s current provision of cohort doctoral training.
The centre will train up to 50 students (through five annual cohorts of 10) , with each doctoral student training for an Engineering Doctorate. Students will be based for most of their training in ETI Member companies (BP, Caterpillar, EDF Energy, E.ON, Rolls-Royce and Shell), within ETI technology development and demonstration teams, and with third party organisations.
The closing date for applicant organisations is Tuesday, 26 April 2011. For more details, click to http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/energyidc/Pages/default.aspx
Up to £6.5 million of funding will be made available from the ETI and RCUK towards the establishment of the centre.
The ETI is a public private partnership tasked with developing “mass scale” technologies that will help the UK meet its 2020 and 2050 energy targets.
Dr David Clarke, the Chief Executive Officer of the ETI said: "This centre will provide a pool of 50 future leaders in offshore renewables engineering and technology. These individuals will be equipped to helping solve the challenges we face in making offshore renewables a key part of the long term industrial base of the UK. It will also lead to the development of enhanced links between universities and industry to ensure a long term pipeline of technology, training and engineering that will play a major part in the UK’s economy over the coming years"
The EngD is equivalent to the intellectual challenge of a PhD coupled with extensive business leadership training. The research engineers are expected to spend around 75% of their time working directly with their host company on project work and 25% on taught courses.
The ETI’s offshore wind programme is focused on achieving significant cost reduction and enhanced reliability to offshore wind to realise its huge potential to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions by around 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The key challenges in the sector are affordable floating structure, maintenance, installation and turbine reliability and cost reduction.
The ETI’s marine energy programme is focussed on accelerating the development and deployment of commercially viable marine energy technologies that contribute to the delivery of cost energy and performance improvements.
Applicants must contact Andrew Wright Andrew.Wright@epsrc.ac.uk to discuss their interest and suitability in applying against this call before submitting an e-mail of intent to apply to Andrew Wright by 16:00 on Thursday 24 March 2011.
Notes to Editors:
- The Energy Technologies Institute is a UK based company formed from global industries and the UK Government. The ETI brings together projects and partnerships that create affordable, reliable, clean energy for heat, power, transport and associated infrastructure. For more information, please go to www.energytechnologies.co.uk
- The ETI’s six private sector members are BP, Caterpillar, EDF Energy, E.ON, Rolls-Royce and Shell. The ETI’s public funds are received from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills through the Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The ETI will accelerate the deployment of affordable, secure low-carbon energy systems from 2020 to 2050 by demonstrating technologies, developing knowledge, skills and supply-chains and informing the development of regulation, standards and policy.
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- Established in 2002 by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and led by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the RCUK Energy Programme aims to position the UK to meet its energy and environmental targets and policy goals through world-class research and training. For more information visit http://www.rcukenergy.org.uk/
For further information please contact
ETI PR Manager Nigel Richardson on 01509 202084/07827 946064 or email nigel.richardson@eti.co.uk