Partnership for Research In Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE)

英国目前处于海洋可再生能源（MRE）领域的前沿，拥有近200兆瓦的波浪和潮汐流项目装机容量，这些项目要么正在运营，要么正在建设或正在开发。此外，首个漂浮式海上风力发电场正在苏格兰海岸附近建造。为了实现MRE的潜力，实现政府制定的目标，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。为了成功地面对这些挑战，需要国家和区域一级不同行为者的协调反应。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），将研究专业知识和获得MRE开发的设施结合在一起。PRIMaRE包括普利茅斯大学、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。西南海洋能源公园和波浪中心设施完成了PRIMaRE的产品线，作为研究界和工业界之间的管道。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的合作伙伴，扩大了其在国内和国际上的边界。核心合作机构已经签署了一项合作协议，共同研究MRE的各个领域，并建立一个以英国南部为中心的“卓越网络”。PRIMaRE已经举办了一年一度的会议（今年是第三届），以展示研究成果，并为MRE行业和学术界提供一个讨论论坛，并组织了面向行业的研讨会，以确定研究重点，以便使研究工作与MRE行业的要求保持一致。在EPSRC网络资助的支持下，PRIMaRE旨在将合作关系扩展到一个新的水平，为MRE行业的挑战做出积极有效的贡献。该网络汇集了针对MRE挑战的学术努力，但鉴于该行业的新生状态，该网络旨在通过提供培训和论坛来分享和交流思想，并通过访问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，拟议的网络渴望一种广泛的部门方法，其中既促进传统研究和学术人员（即博士后、研究人员、学者、博士生），也促进行业人员（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：(i)每年的PRIMaRE会议，扩大成为该部门的一个重要的国家和国际活动；（ii）关键挑战研讨会，这是一个面向行业的动态和积极主动的论坛，以确保PRIMaRE研究重点的一致性，并关注需要特别关注的关键新挑战；（三）旅行补助金，这对于确保知识转移和促进学术界与工业界之间必要的流动性至关重要，这是开展国内和国际新研究合作所必需的；（iv） PRIMaRE暑期学校，这是一个持续专业发展（CPD）的高水平课程，为研究、学术界、新兴的MRE行业和更广泛的部门提供知识交流机制。

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.