Tue, 29 November, 2022
The work conducted in the H2020 GATERS project won the TRAVISION2022 Senior Researcher’s Award for Professor Mehmet Atlar of Strathclyde University who is the project coordinator for the Waterborne Transport mode based on his entry entitled “An innovative way of retrofitting ships for greener and safer operations”. The award was presented to Prof Atlar at TRA2022 Conference by the Director of the EC Clean Planet DGRI, Rosalinde van der Vlies on 15 November 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.
TRAVISIONS 2022 Waterborne Transport Senior Researcher’s Award is presented to Prof Mehmet Atlar by the Director of EC Clean Planet DGRI at the TRA2022 Gala Dinner in Lisbon
TRAVISIONS is a series of EU-funded projects whose core activity is the organisation of Senior and Young Researcher competitions for transport research awards in the road, railway, waterborne, airborne, and cross-modality transport modes. The award ceremonies are organised every two years to take place in conjunction with the Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference, the largest showcase for EU-funded transport projects. The motivation for the Senior Researchers Competition is to have an award celebrating excellence in transport research, and it is open for leading transport researchers engaged with EU-funded projects who can demonstrate proven impacts in their field. The competition is a showcase for some of the best EU-funded innovations and research and encourages the identification of current and future leaders in their area to be chosen by an expert panel at a selection workshop held at the EC in Brussels.
The winning entry was based on the current H2020 project GATERS, which is coordinated by Prof Atlar with a 6M EUR budget and 18 EU partners to demonstrate the first retrofit application of the novel propulsion and manoeuvring device, “Gate Rudder System”, and exploit a more practical and cost-effective way of greener propulsion of ships. During the TRA2022, an approximately a 1/3 scale model of the Gate Rudder System was privileged to be displayed at the EC’s showpiece stand by the members of the GATERS project. The model represented the first retrofit gate rudder system designed and manufactured to be installed on a 90m coastal cargo ship for the first time to demonstrate its benefits in February 2020 in Turkey.
TRA2022 Conference weblink: https://traconference.eu/
TRAVISION2022 Book weblink: https://www.travisions.eu/TRAVisions/javax.faces.resource/files/2022/travisions2022_book.pdf.xhtml?ln=travisions
GATERS project weblink: https://www.gatersproject.com/
Day (15th Nov 2022) highlight of TRA2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yiqbwf0mVA&ab_channel=TRAconference
Large model of Gate Rudder System for the project target vessel MV ERGE displayed at the EC’s showpiece stand in TRA2022 by the GATERS partners (From left to right: Dr X Sun, Prof M. Atlar, Dr B Aktas and Mr L Drikos)