Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de Almería

GENERAL PRESENTATION
Figure 1.5 Participants in the ‘SolLAB’ Executive Committee Meeting on October 15 th in Monte
Veritá
Institute” in Switzerland formalized its adhesion to ‘SolLAB’ as a new member
in 2006.
The intensity of ‘SolLAB’ activity increases every year, having already created
several working groups with concrete lines of collaboration, which performed
the following activities in 2006, in chronological order:
• Creation of the working group on ‘Receivers for high temperature processes’.
The first meeting was held on January 24 th at the PSA.
• Meeting of the working group on flux and temperature measurement,
coinciding with the SolarPACES Symposium in June at the Seville
School of Engineering.
• General meeting with representatives of the European Commission.
Brussels, August 8 th .
• Creation of the working group on materials testing and qualification for
high temperature solar processes. First meeting at PROMES-CNRS,
Odeillo (France) on September 4 th .
• Publication of descriptive ‘SolLAB brochure in October.
• Meeting of the executive committee on October 15 th in Monte Veritó
(Switzerland).
• Annual general seminar for Ph.D. students from October 16 th to 18 th in
Monte Veritá (Switzerland).
• Radiometer comparison campaign in the DLR solar furnace in Cologne
(Germany) in the months of October and November.
In training activities, there is an agreement with the University of Almería
(UAL) for managing joint fellowships and educational agreements for receiving
students from universities around the world.
In fact, this long-lasting collaboration with the UAL has recently been
enlarged and consolidated with the creation of the ‘CIEMAT-UAL Mixed Center
for Solar Energy Research’ called ‘CIESOL’.
Apart from the joint projects carried out in several fields of science, this
year, the 1 st Master’s Degree in Solar Energy’ was offered by CIESOL.
This one-year Master’s degree will be listed in the University of Almería’s
catalogue of ‘coursework’.
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