Interview with Christina Garcia Duffy, coordinator for Sub-Programme 7 “Infrastructures, Mobility, R&I Strategy”.
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Interview with Christina Garcia Duffy, Executive Director in ORE Catapult and coordinator for Sub-Programme 7 “Infrastructures, Mobility, R&I Strategy”.
Among others, she emphasises the need to “… enable our talent, our researchers, our skills, to move across geographies, and how can we do knowledge exchange and lastly, infrastructures”.
The implementation of NeWindEERA's strategy and establishment of a Centre of Excellence focus on delivering a comprehensive vision for wind energy research. This includes enabling mobility for researchers, facilitating knowledge exchange across geographies, and coordinating large-scale industrial testing and validation infrastructures among EERA JP Wind members. The goal is to ensure that Europe has full capability in wind energy research, exploring public-private partnerships that both researchers and industry can exploit, and exploring different, more simple mechanisms to secure necessary funding.
“Now going forward, we have already this strategy. We have the plan”, Cristina concludes. “The SRIA outlines a need for a certain amount of funding. It is time that we move together with the European Commission and individual member states (…) And then just get on delivering on the vision.”
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