Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de Almería

GENERAL PRESENTATION
1.5 Training activities
The ruling principle
of the Plataforma
Solar de Almería
training program is
the creation of a generation
of young researchers
who can
contribute to the deployment
of solar
thermal energy applications.
Through this
program, about thirty
students of different
nationalities are admitted
each year so
Figure 1.7 Students 2006
that we can transmit
the knowledge of solar thermal technology accumulated at the PSA in its
twenty-five years of experience to new generations of university graduates.
The main features of this training program are:
• Management of the Ph.D. fellowship program in association with the
annual agreement with the University of Almería (UAL)
• Management of traineeship grants associated with an annual agreement
with the UAL Mediterranean Foundation.
• European funded ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ grants, for students from other
countries, mainly German.
• Management of miscellaneous specific educational cooperation agreements
with other entities for sending students to the PSA.
Founding in 2004 of the virtual European solar laboratory ‘SolLAB’, has
opened new possibilities for scientific development of researchers in training
at the PSA. One of the first joint activities initiated by SolLAB was an annual
seminar for Ph.D. students from the four different institutions. This year, from
October 16-18 th , thirty Ph.D. students attended the seminar organized by the
Figure 1.8
Ph.D. students who attended the seminar held in Monte Veritá
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