The project, namely INNOVATIVE EUROPEAN STUDIES ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS aims to provide an interdisciplinary working 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, solar and fusion energy explorations will be explored and constructed within this project.This project will contribute to improve the quality on the educational practises 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. This situation can cause serious problems for Europe in terms of evolving political issues. In place of the fossil fuels, other green energy systems must be used to satisfy 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 cost and power effective due to the increasing population and demand. The partners which will handle these scientific themes have different expert areas and take a part to design and produce different parts of the devices. In addition to the construction of devices, this project will be a driving force for the 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 project, certifications on “Renewable Energy Systems” will be done. In the activities certain ECTS amounts will be offered to the students. In the scope of the project, the undergraduate, M. Sci. and Ph. D. students and academic research staff will have an opportunity to make mobility among different countries and institutions. In addition to the mobility, different renewable energy sub-projects will be explored jointly, and the students will follow special renewable energy courses in different institutions, which have better laboratory equipment, facilities and teaching skills on specific energy topics. Within that context, teaching staff and undergraduate, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students from different European countries will take place in the project and meet themselves in order to get the current developments on various renewable energy issues. Thus the mutual benefits of studying in a different cultural, social and academic environment will be experienced. Besides, the teaching staff and researchers can contribute to the educational skills of other institutions by giving courses with special topics with certain ECTS. The staff can also take a part in renewable energy researches in a specific partner university. This can help to construct a multilateral cooperation among the higher education institutions from different countries. The teaching staff from different energy fields come together and finds a fruitful media to discuss their cutting-edge energy topics and problems with their research group and partner research groups. At that point, the project will 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. This will found a new research and education network and lead to an integrated academic and technical support mechanism for each partner universities. The technical cooperation will be increased further among the partners. Five technical transnational meetings and 2 workshops will be organized and short term mobility of students and teaching staff will be realized for the sub-project studies in the partner universities in order to improve the technical and laboratory studies. The students and staff will also find opportunities to present their sub-projects about the on-going or recently-completed research projects including the project themes. Thus, the academic staff can have a chance to make face-to-face suggestions to the students for their recent researches and the students can discuss the scientific problems with them. In addition to the technical benefits, the cultural and historical patterns of the countries will be introduced especially to the young scientists in order to learn the specialities of countries mutually as well as to motivate themselves for the construction of carbon-free community. The results of the project will be published in some reputable journals and everyone can follow the project from the project web-site world-widely.
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.