Partnership for Research In Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE)

英国目前在海洋可再生能源(MRE)领域处于领先地位，拥有近200兆瓦的波浪和潮流项目装机容量，这些项目要么正在运营，要么正在建设中，要么正在开发中。此外，第一个漂浮的海上风力发电场正在苏格兰海岸外建造。为了实现MRE的潜力，实现政府设定的目标并保持英国的领先地位，该部门需要解决一些相关的技术、环境和跨学科挑战。为了成功应对这些挑战，需要国家和区域各级的不同行为者作出协调一致的反应。为了提供这种协调，并将最初的重点放在英国西南部，建立了海洋可再生能源研究伙伴关系(Primare)，汇集了研究专业知识和开发海洋可再生能源的设施。PRIMaRE由普利茅斯大学、埃克塞特大学、南安普顿大学、布里斯托尔大学和巴斯大学以及海洋生物协会和普利茅斯海洋实验室组成。完成Primare的阵容的是西南海洋能源公园和Wave Hub设施，它们充当了研究社区和行业之间的管道。最近，Primare通过将乌普萨拉大学、卡迪夫大学和克兰菲尔德大学作为Primare的联系合作伙伴，在国内和国际上扩大了边界。核心伙伴机构已经签署了一项合作协议，在MRE范围内的研究方面进行合作，并建立一个以英国南部为中心的“卓越网络”。Primare设立了年度会议(现已进入第三个年头)，以展示研究成果，并提供与MRE行业和学术界讨论的论坛，并组织了以行业为导向的研讨会，以确定研究重点，以使研究努力与MRE部门的要求保持一致。在EPSRC Network Grant的支持下，Primare旨在将合作伙伴关系扩大到一个新的水平，为MRE部门的挑战做出积极有效的贡献。该网络汇集了学术界在MRE挑战方面的努力，但也考虑到该行业的新状态，旨在通过提供培训和思想分享和交流的论坛以及通过获得学术专业知识和设施，与供应链和行业合作伙伴密切合作。与博士培训计划的学术重点不同，拟议的网络渴望采用广泛的部门方法，既促进传统研究人员和学术人员(即博士后、研究人员、学者、博士生)以及行业工作人员(开发人员、供应链、测试中心、地区政府机构)的培训和研究合作。拟议的网络有四个主要的重点支柱：(1)一年一度的PRIMARE会议，扩大成为该部门的一项关键的国家和国际活动；(2)关键挑战讲习班，这是一个面向行业的充满活力和积极主动的论坛，以确保PRIMARE研究的优先事项一致，并侧重于需要特别关注的新出现的关键挑战；(3)旅费赠款，这对于确保知识转让和促进学术界和产业界之间开展新的国内和国际研究合作所需的流动性至关重要；以及(Iv)Primare暑期学校，这是一项持续专业发展(CPD)高级课程，为研究、学术界、新型MRE行业和更广泛的部门之间提供了交流知识的机制。

The UK is currently at the forefront of the Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) sector, with almost 200 MW of installed capacity of wave and tidal stream projects, that are either operational, under construction or in development. Furthermore, the first floating offshore wind farm is being built off the coast of Scotland. In order to realise the potential of MRE to achieve the targets set by the Government and keep the UK's leading position; the sector needs to address some relevant technical, environmental and interdisciplinary challenges. A coordinated response from different actors at national and regional level is required in order to successfully face these challenges. In an attempt to provide this coordination and with an initial focus on the South west of the UK, the Partnership for Research In Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) was established, bringing together research expertise and access to facilities for MRE developments.PRIMaRE comprises the Universities of Plymouth, Exeter, Southampton, Bristol and Bath, along with the Marine Biological Association and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Completing the line-up of PRIMaRE is the South West Marine Energy Park and the Wave Hub facilities, acting as conduits between the research community and industry. More recently, PRIMaRE has extended its borders both nationally and internationally by including the Universities of Uppsala, Cardiff and Cranfield as associated partners of PRIMaRE. The core partner institutions have signed up to a partnership agreement to work together on research across the spectrum of MRE and to establish a 'network of excellence' centred in the South of the UK. PRIMaRE has established the annual conference (now in its third year) to showcase the research and provide a forum for discussion with MRE industry and academia, and have organised industry oriented workshops to identify research priorities in order to align research efforts with the requirements of the MRE sector.With the support of the EPSRC Network Grant, PRIMaRE aims to expand the partnership to a new level, making active and effective contributions to the challenges of the MRE sector. The Network brings together academic effort on MRE challenges, but also given the nascent state of the industry, aims to work closely with supply chain and industry partners, by providing training and a forum for sharing and exchange of ideas and through access to academic expertise and facilities. Unlike the academic focus of doctoral training schemes, the proposed network aspires to a broad sector approach, in which training and research collaborations are promoted both for conventional research and academic staff (i.e., post-docs, researchers, academics, PhD students) and for industry staff (developers, supply chain, test centres, regional government agencies). The proposed network has four main pillars of focus: (i) the annual PRIMaRE conference, expanded to become a key National and International event for the sector; (ii) the Key Challenge Workshops, an industry oriented dynamic and proactive forum to ensure alignment of PRIMaRE research priorities, and to focus on key emerging challenges requiring special attention; (iii) travel grants, which are crucial to ensure knowledge transfer and to promote the required mobility between academia and industry needed to develop new research collaborations nationally and internationally; and (iv) the PRIMaRE summer school, a continuing professional development (CPD) high level programme, providing the mechanism for exchange of knowledge between the research, academia, the novel MRE industry and wider sector.