The OPTEC Kite Power activities are since 2011 performed within the ERC Project HIGHWIND.
OPTEC Member Rien Quirynen was awarded the LMS prize for his master thesis "Automatic code generation of implicit Runge-Kutta integrators with continuous output for fast embedded optimization". He pursues his work at OPTEC, on an FWO PhD fellowship.
More info at http://eng.kuleuven.be/masterproefprijzen2012/laureaten1112.html