10.07.2015   SonSolar

Alumni network

EUREC Agency is creating an network of former students to keep track of their career development, to monitor which percentage of graduates find work in the RE sector as planned, which sectors are most likely to employ graduates and how long students have to look for a job upon graduation. The results of this monitoring are not available yet, as the first students have only received their final diplomas at the end of 2003. However, half of them is already working in their discipline of specialisation, an encouraging sign.

Table 1: 2003 — 2004 Student Overview Core / Specialisation

biomass

wind

PV

hybrid systems

solar build

Total

Zaragoza

2

2

2

2

EU

8

non-EU

Loughborough

3

3

3

2

0

EU

11

1

1

1

2

non-EU

5

Ecole des Mines

0

2

0

6

0

EU

8

non-EU

Total

6

8

6

12

0

32

EU students

27

% EU students:

84,38%

Non-EU students

5

% Non-EU students:

15,63%

Outlook

The medium objective consists in establishing the European Master in RE as a reference in the field of Master-grade RE education on EU level, while taking into account the EU enlargement. In practical terms, this means promoting the course with the renewables industry, increasing the number of participating universities within the EU in order to cope with the growing number of students and extend the geographic scope to the East.

Given the high number of applications received from developing countries’ students, an adapted replication of the course is under consideration for Asia and later on for Latin America.

Research-universities-industry collaboration

EUREC Agency, the European association of renewable energy research centres, makes sure the course curriculum fully and timely integrates all relevant new R&D results. EUREC members being R&D centres and universities as well, the network takes care of transferring knowledge from research laboratories into the classrooms. On the other side, the continuous dialogue with the RE industry guarantees that the teaching remains sector-relevant. After all, the course has ultimately been set up to serve the RE industry.

About EUREC Agency

EUREC Agency, the Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centres, initiated this first European RE Master in 2002 with support from the European Commission.

EUREC Agency fosters contact and exchange among RE R&D, academia, industry and policy-makers through multiple research, training and information projects on Eu level.

All further information on the European master in renewable energy is available on

the EUREC Agency website at http://www. eurec. be/REmaster

Applications & inquiries: E-mail : master@eurec. be or Phone : +32 2 546 1930