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Explore Our Past and Upcoming DEI Events: Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Upcoming events

Jun 26th, 2025: We will run the Mini Symposium MS#10.1 “Voices of DEI in Wind Energy” community

Jan. 17th, 2025: Launch on the “Voices of DEI in Wind Energy Community”

The EAWE DEI Committee at TORQUE2024 in May 2024:
- At TORQUE2024, Sarah Barber had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion during the conference opening session on the topic of “How could wind energy benefit from encouraging traits such as empathy, emotional intelligence and collaboration in everyone?”. After an introduction to the topic from Sarah, four members of the wind energy research community, Amy Robertson, Offshore Wind Group Manager at NREL, USA, Simon Watson, Professor of Wind Energy Systems at TU Delft, NL, Wout Weijtjens. Senior Researcher at VUB, BE and Tuhfe Göcmen, Senior Researcher at DTU Wind, DK, discussed the questions “How do you think wind energy could benefit by encouraging traits such as empathy, emotional intelligence and collaboration in everyone?” and “What ideas do you have for encouraging these traits in everyone?”. The discussion was very well received by the audience! Later on in the week, we ran a workshop aiming to get inputs from conference attendees about what the DEI Committee should be focusing its efforts on. Some suggestions included building up a community of people sharing personal stories, introducing a mentoring programme, providing information, facts and advice, as well as running awareness training and self-assessments.

The EAWE DEI Committee at the PhD Seminar in September 2024:
- At the PhD Seminar in 2024, James Gilbert from the DEI Committee lead a DEI workshop, in which some initial results of our DEI Survey were presented and discussions about the direction and strategy of the DEI Committee were discussed.

The EAWE DEI Committee at WESC2023 in May 2023 (details to come)
- At WESC2023, Sara Fogelström and James Gilbert lead a DEI workshop during the event. In this workshop, we asked some questions about demographics and about what we can do to increase inclusion at EAWE. The answers were used to help us design the DEI Survey, which we ran in 2024.

Between 2022 and 2024, we ran regular webinars in order to raise awareness on various DEI topics:

Amy Robertson Offshore Wind Group Manager – National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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