7th International RAVE Workshop April 30th, 2026 in Hamburg

This year's International RAVE Workshop 2026 was organized as a hybrid event and was pursued on April 30th in Hamburg, Germany.

The public workshop was free of charge and offered a well-established space for yearly knowledge transfer and lively exchange on offshore wind-related topics. Current research findings using the data from alpha ventus were presented and questions from participants were discussed. Workshop language was English.

One of this year's focus were discussions and presentations from research and industry on decommissioning and related topics. Lively discussed in a panel discussion was the question what further use the offshore industry and Germany can gain from alpha ventus pioneering this era. For interesting contributions with a range of perspectives we hosted participants from industry, offshore organizations, federal and public authorities. The live audience and participants online were also included to discuss with the panel group.

alpha ventus is the first German wind farm to reach its design life. As an offshore pioneer in this process it will be followed by many large wind farms.

We are happy and made sure that breaks provided many options for lively discussions on specialist topics. New contacts were established between science, authorities and industry and existing networks in an after-workshop-networking-time after closure.

We are sorry,that lunch was not included in the workshop, as it is part of the publicly funded finalRAVE project. The cafeteria of the FORUM FINKENAU  offered different choices of food during lunch time.

The program with the presentations is published here , all presentations will be offered soon as a download on the workshop´s website .

If you intend to present your scientific work with RAVE data at one of the following occasions (e.g. RAVE Forum) or contribute a talk on decommissioning topics please send a mail to raveworkshop@iwes.fraunhofer.de