Specific programme: Erasmus+ KA2
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: Jose Manuel López Guede
Project start: 01/Sept/2015
Project end: 30/Sept/2018

Brief description: Clean Energy Research is a key task for the EU Agenda due to the importance of the energy independence of the European Community. The European and Anatolian plates are not rich of the fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil. Even the carbon release from the fossil fuels prevents the European Community to use the traditional energy sources in high amounts and motivate us to improve alternative and renewable energy techniques. In this manner, the efficiency of the renewable energy devices such as solar, wind, hydro-electric and harvesters play an important role to obtain maximal power output from the nature. In addition, new trends and technological ideas on these devices should be introduced to the students in the undergraduate and graduate levels. The priority of this project is to handle above task in order to improve the educational aspects of partnering European institutions and produce two innovative machines both for the educational aims and also for the laboratory researches. Initially, a curriculum study is performed among the partners to present the last trends in the academic research. In addition, this project provides joint research collaboration among the institutions and produces an intellectual media to produce academic research papers. The project also includes workshops and conference presentations for the exhibition of the results of laboratory researches.