EAWE is an international community that promotes and supports the development of wind energy science to exploit wind energy to its full potential for the benefit of the world. EAWE’s mission is to ° Connect expertise in wind energy science and education ° Provide a forum for wind energy knowledge exchange ° Promote education, awareness, career development and interest in wind energy ° Be a credible, legitimate and independent scientific voice of European wind energy research EAWE is a non-profit organisation and is governed by Europe’s leading universities and research institutes on wind energy. Main decisions in the organisation are taken in the General Assembly in which all members have voting rights. The work of EAWE is supported through several dedicated committees, e.g., the Strategy committee, Young Wind Doctor Award Committee, Outreach Committee, Wind Energy Science Chief Editors, and several technical committees. EAWE supports wind energy research through its various activities, does not perform any research itself, but all EAWE members are leading research institutes in the field of wind energy. EAWE interacts and collaborates with various European and international organisations in the field of wind energy, such as WindEurope, ETIPWind, NAWEA, among others. EAWE is a strong advocate of fundamental research in wind energy as the basis for sustained long-term reductions of the levelised cost of wind energy. To this end, EAWE has published its long-term strategic research agenda 2016–2025. In 2015, EAWE funded the interactive open access journal ‘Wind Energy Science’, meanwhile a leading journal in the field of wind energy. EAWE’s conference proceedings, publications, and white papers are available open source. EAWE organises three main flagship events: the biennial ‘Science of Making Torque from Wind’ and ‘Wind Energy Science’ conferences, the yearly EAWE PhD Seminar and supports the scientific tracks of the WindEurope meetings.