The ForWind WindLab at the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg has had a number of important visitors in recent weeks: representatives from politics and science, who accompanied Lower Saxony's Minister of Science Falko Mohrs on his trip to Groningen, learnt about the ForWind projects ‘Reallabor 70 GW Offshore Wind’ and the Collaborative Research Centre 1463 Offshore Megastructures and had the opportunity to experience the turbulent wind tunnel in operation. Two weeks later, the Presidium of the Lower Saxony State Parliament and a delegation from Bern also showed great interest in ForWind's current scientific work and visited the WindLab on the Wechloy campus. Prof Dr Kerstin Avila and Prof Dr Martin Kühn presented wind energy research on both occasions.