INNOVATIVE EUROPEAN STUDIES ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS Erasmus Project

Project Title

INNOVATIVE EUROPEAN STUDIES ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Energy and resources

Project Summary

The project, namely INNOVATIVE EUROPEAN STUDIES ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS aims to provide an interdisciplinary working and teaching group in order to cooperate with the European institutions and innovate the renewable energy systems with the good practices throughout Europe during 3 years. For this purpose, especially various innovative electrical devices used in wind and solar energy explorations have been explored and constructed within this project by covering the implementation phases with the “project exceptional cost”. This project contributes to the the educational practices on renewable energy systems, which is one of the leading aims of the EU Commission for the formation of a “clean energy community”. The motivation for this project comes from the idea of energy-independence of Europe, since the fossil fuel need of European community is supplied by the non-European countries, mostly. In this frame, innovative green energy systems should be used to cover the energy requirements of the European industry and house-hold consumption. Besides, environmentally friendly energy systems are very important for the future generations as well as the present community. To achieve innovative and sustainable energy solutions, a multidisciplinary approach is unavoidable. In addition, the considered energy systems should be both cost and power effective due to the increasing population and demand. In that manner, project objectives include energy curriculum study, research development and implementation studies especially on innovative electrical generators and low power harvester systems covering the project exceptional cost, educational, technical and multiplier events.

The partners handling the above-mentioned themes have different expert areas and take a part to design and produce different parts of the devices. Later these devices will be used in educational and research development studies on energy engineering. Besides, this project is a driving force for students and scientists to realize the attempts of different partners on various renewable energy technologies and to make a benchmark for their researches and educations. By organizing various activities within the project, certifications on “Renewable Energy Systems” are done for the partnering universities. In teaching/learning activities, ECTS amounts have been given to the successful students. In the scope of the project, the undergraduate, M. Sci. and Ph. D. students and academic research staff have opportunities to make mobility among the laboratories and institutions. In addition to the mobility, different renewable energy sub-projects have been explored collaboratively, and the students have followed special renewable energy courses in different institutions, having better laboratory equipments, facilities and teaching skills on specific energy topics. The mutual benefits of studying in a different cultural, social and academic environment have been experienced. Besides, the teaching staff and researchers have contributed to the educational skills of other institutions by giving courses with special topics. The staff can also performed innovative designs and laboratory practices in the partner universities. That helped much to construct a multilateral cooperation among the higher education institutions from different countries and yielded a 1000 paged project output book. Educational materials, curriculums, presentations and course subjects have been prepared. In addition, the teaching staff from different energy fields have come together and discussed their cutting-edge energy topics and problems with their and partner research groups. At that point, the project would be a very good chance to understand the basic knowledge as well as the cutting-edge researches in order to increase the qualities of the academic studies and the awareness of students on the renewable energy topics. Many of the studies have been published in reputable SCI- and SCOPUS-indexed journals as denoted in Project Output Book. Many others have presented in international reputable academic refereed conferences. This proves that the project has founded a new research and education network in Europe as well as the remaining world. Because in the last multiplier event (i.e. ECRES project conference) at least 200 scientists and students have participated from every continents and 34 countries. The academic and educational energy network has been produced in a sustainable manner for future years. That will lead to further technical cooperation world-widely among the European partners and world universities. Some of the project students have already found a position in energy sector and universities after the awareness objectives of that project. In addition to the technical benefits, the cultural and historical patterns of the partnering countries have been introduced especially to the improve the future collaborations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 198033 Eur

Project Coordinator

GAZI UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN PITESTI
• KLAIPEDOS UNIVERSITETAS
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA