TRAINHY-PROF
Building Training Programmes for Young Professionals in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Field
| Coordinatore | THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Organization address
address: Edgbaston contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 381˙370 € |
| EC contributo | 269˙105 € |
| Programma | FP7-JTI
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Joint Technology Initiatives |
| Code Call | FCH-JU-2009-1 |
| Funding Scheme | JTI-CSA-FCH |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-10-01 - 2012-09-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Organization address
address: Edgbaston contact info |
UK (BIRMINGHAM) | coordinator | 3˙210.00 |
| 2 |
FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH
Organization address
address: Leo-Brandt-Strasse contact info |
DE (JUELICH) | participant | 96˙835.00 |
| 3 |
Heliocentris Energiesysteme GmbH
Organization address
address: Rudower Chaussee 29 contact info |
DE (Berlin) | participant | 83˙460.00 |
| 4 |
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Anker Engelundsvej 1, Building 101A contact info |
DK (KONGENS LYNGBY) | participant | 42˙800.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
Organization address
address: CROMORE ROAD contact info |
UK (COLERAINE) | participant | 42˙800.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Fuel Cells and Hydrogen remain new topics to European professionals’ training agenda(s), despite considerable progress in the integration of these subjects into, for instance, university curricula. Especially those professions with less of a basic materials and process engineering orientation will suffer from a lack of information during their academic or vocational training courses (i.e. manufacturing, component & systems design, etc.). This fact constitutes a major problem for the up-starting European companies in fuel cell and hydrogen business, since the availability of candidates with a FC&H background is low and the basic training of employees has to be provided internally. The project contributes to tackling this training deficit by devising a system of vocational education and training (VET) for post-graduate engineers and scientists, either at a PhD level of education or already employed by a company. Based on an evaluation of current activities, including the many summer schools and short courses already being offered in Europe, a curriculum concept will be developed that offers a system of courses and distance teaching that can be attended in parallel to other studies or professional work. Elements of this concept are to be tested and evaluated. Two groupings of stakeholders (academic institutions as cooperation partners and industry as end user) will be involved in order to gain broad acceptance of the programme developed across the variety of European education systems.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
An EU-funded project developed and ran short courses in hydrogen and fuel cell (HFC) technologies for young professionals involved in academic or industrial research.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
HFC technology is one of the most promising fields of sustainable energy research today. In order to prepare for the increasing market impact of such technologies, young researchers and industry professionals should have access to education and training in HFC.
The 'Building training programmes for young professionals in the hydrogen and fuel cell field' (http://www.hysafe.org/TrainHyProf (TRAINHY-PROF)) project was tasked with developing an appropriate curriculum. The resulting HFC short courses for young professionals were then run as part of the Joint European Summer School (JESS) programme.
To develop the courses, TRAINHY-PROF first reviewed current postgraduate training in the field at a range of European universities. From this, the project devised the concept of offering a broad curriculum as a series of modules.
The curriculum was compiled as a single HFC unit, but was split into four modules that covered several different topics under the HFC banner. This was first taught in Viterbo, Italy at the 'JESS for HFC Technologies'.
Researchers further developed the modular approach for the second JESS in Iraklion, Greece where students could choose from eight different modules. The courses were well-received, with students attending from a large number of institutions as well as a high percentage of women participants.
TRAINHY-PROF has successfully established a curriculum in HFC technology for student researchers and professionals. The next step is to adapt the curriculum for more formal education programmes such as degrees and vocational industry training.