So why do we need such a database? I often get questions like could you please update the airborne wind energy world map or can I use your updated map or do you have the rough specs of company X's prototype system, do you know what

they are currently testing on, and do you know what funding company Y received, and of course I often know these questions because I collect a lot of this information but it's hard to have the updated information readily available and often I can then not do anything, also because

the format is different, someone wants a world map, someone wants just a data sheet and so on, so this triggered me to better integrate this and provide this information for you who are writing grant proposals, who need to speak with government officials or just with colleagues.

And I just have here a few examples that I just mentioned, so this is the world map that you will find on our websites about airborne wind energy activities and I say it's from 2021 but actually there are companies in there that are already gone for a while and I just

made a quick inventory, right now this is how it looks, the black boxes is actually things that are gone, they don't exist anymore and I overlaid some white new initiatives so you see there is quite some active change, most of it of course in the commercial sector because that's how

companies work, some survive, some don't, some grow, some shrink but also in the academic sector we have new initiatives, often new funding proposals that are granted. This is a second

example, this classification scheme that I set out to do and also here the classification luckily is still in place so that doesn't change but the actors in that map, they change and I have here only indicated which of these systems do not fly anymore and that's quite a lot.

There are new ones, I did not put them in here, so these are two examples of things that just should be readily available from a website, you take a screenshot or something like that. So the objective is really to provide a practical database for researchers, developers and

users of this airborne wind energy systems and what does it cover? An ambitious goal here but we have already done some first steps, so first of all I want to map all the development teams, be it commercial or academic, should all be in there, small teams,

big teams. Then I would like to have all prototypes listed with some rough specifications, so how big it is, how heavy, what's the intended energy output, no internal specifications, of course this is often IP sensitive but simply things from the website with a certain fact

check, of course not unfounded claims but should be reasonable. Then I want to also cover test sites, most of the companies fly somewhere and this is also changing due to regulations

or birds breeding somewhere or some other impact on the environment or local protests or the opposite, so this is a landscape in motion, also test data is generated so that can be, that should of course be open access, I want to list that also,

when it was harvested, where it was harvested and by which company, wind data, the other big importance, assume that you want to use that data for validating your models then you need to know on what day you got that test data, what wind resource or how the wind was blowing over

the altitude to be able to make proper use of that data and of course the funding itself, the funding of all the activities is a bit standing aside but this is often also important.

So I just give some examples now of things that I have already collected in certain formats that are available but not yet integrated, so this is for example my prototype database and I think the green prototypes that are the one that actually fly and the ones that

are white are envisioned prototypes, I will probably focus more on the green things to really have hardware that is actually built and very important, I forgot to mention this, where does the data come from? These sources should always be tagged in this database that

you actually can retrace where things came from because I imagine that more people will use that in the future and suddenly you don't anymore where this 1.5 megawatt energy output comes from, who stated that? This is my first try for the test sites, you see here only three, so we have

the one in the Netherlands of kite power, we have the one of kite craft here south of Munich and the one in south Italy of kite energy nicely aligned on an axis, these are the three test sites that we will use in the meridional project, so this map should have

many more dots in the future and I'm collecting this with the GPS coordinates but also with the tag whether the site is active, not active anymore or even available for others.

Then this is an example of test information of kite power, it's a bit outdated already from 2019 with the last entry, so pre-Covid accumulated flight days per month and then the dashed line where you would like to be ideally, so these pink bars

ideally grow here up to the dashed pink line which means you have continuous operation. Funding, my last point, I have a very much complete part of the database on the funding

which includes EU funding, national funding, US funding and other funding sources where I list all the funds that were available, I think it's about 30-40 million euro alone in the EU funding that we have already, so this is also quite impressive to see but we all know we need more

but it's good to know what has already been funded if you speak with your government and now very quickly just how I want to set this up, I formulated an architecture document, a few pages where I outline why we do this, what we want to have in there and what technology

we want to use, maybe now this is less of interest, so I started with excel and google sheets for all the different data and then keywords for cross-referencing that you can make links

but I'm open for suggestions if someone has a good idea how to set this up professionally please contact me and of course on the back end we will very likely use google forms to actually contact companies, ask for specific data, also direct interviews by email or phone

on the front end that's what the user sees, will see, you will see a map where you can filter for specific test sites or company locations, that's one thing and you can also

get the raw data of course, finally very quickly glance ahead so this has nothing to do with the database but it's some good news for the sector I would say and that's why

I want to mention it, so we have been successful in submitting a proposal to this call here of the EU about the physics and aerodynamics of atmospheric flow of wind for power production and the good thing is this proposal was granted with a large consortium we submitted in February, we plan to start in October, it has a budget of 6 million, about

70% of that is for conventional wind, 30% roughly for airborne wind but the good thing is you see it from the partners, most of the partners are already involved in airborne wind

and that was clearly stated by the reviewers of the proposal that this let's say complete coverage of airborne and wind together in an integrated fashion was actually the winning criterion for this proposal, you see we have three SMEs in here, Kite Power, Kite Craft and

Kite Energy, the ones that I mentioned, we will use the kites of these companies also as sensors so they will fly and harvest data, we will use that data then with the other partners for processing, you see we have also NREL in here as an unfunded partner but with in-kind activities

we have Airborne Wind, Europe in here, WIFL, a TU Delft startup looking at wind forecasting, University of Stuttgart, they have the AutoKite project as you have already heard so they are also in here also for drones to measure wind speeds in front of wind farms

so that's not airborne wind but it's related because they use drones then Polyme, TU Munich, DTU and Delft and this is too complex to go into details but just add this, this is the entire

knowledge data and tool chain that we want to set up and there are also some kites here although airborne wind is much more integrated in this whole thing and you see it goes from from the data itself down here to the interaction with machine, how turbulence interacts with the

kites and into specific case studies of which airborne wind is one. Thank you very much. Are there any questions? I also need to keep time a little bit in check,

maybe one or two questions if there are any. Yes, so we have a microphone up here. Hello, when will it be public? The database. Exactly. Oh that's the road map and I forgot to put that on here, that's true. So my plan is for July to have the company sub-database

available then I want in August to follow with the test sites and as I showed these are already available as individual data, Google sheets, I just need to find a way to nicely present this to the outside. My release plan was to first have a core group

of internal users before we later go online for the entire world because we want to first collect some feedback and integrate that before you publish everything.