International Advanced Training Seminar on Concentrating Solar Power

This workshop is sponsored by both the GID and the EMAN, and is organized with the assistance of the Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energies (CTAER), Spain, and the ONE, Morocco.

This seminar/workshop is sponsored by both the InterAcademic Group for Development (GID, Paris) and the Euro Mediterranean Academic Network (EMAN), and is organized with the assistance of the Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energies (CTAER), Spain, and the Office National de l’Electricité (ONE), Morocco.  

The seminar/workshop will be held in Seville, from 19 to 24 November 2012, within the framework of previous GID/ EMAN activities, which aim at linking advanced scientific and technological knowledge with the needs and constraints of technical jobs and professions within specific social contexts.

It is intended for young professionals who are already employed, or about to start their career in the area of solar thermal electricity.

The first stage will include interactive lectures by highly qualified experts on the state of knowledge concerning technological research and progress, as well as on future prospects. Thereafter, the seminar will be focused on the professional and technical aspects, through the exchange of experience, technology assessment, best practices, as well as approaches to problem-solving.

Technology experts will be present to moderate interactive discussions, taking into account the various social contexts of the countries represented. The topics dealt with during the seminar will be adapted to the needs and wishes expressed by the participants, and they will be finalized at the beginning of the seminar, once there is a common understanding of the overall contents and objectives. Those participants who wish to contribute through a specific presentation should inform the seminar’s coordinators in due course.

Field visits are a key component of the seminar. In the Seville vicinity there are several plants and installations, which are among the most advanced in the world and which can provide excellent opportunities for training and technical discussions. The participants in the seminar will therefore be able to test their own experience, projects or expectations in commercial-scale programmes.

The Academies of Science and Technology of Euro Mediterranean countries, in close cooperation with the national scientific and technological institutions, will play a key role, as in similar previous seminars, in suggesting appropriate candidates for the seminar. The Academies will also be involved in proposing some of the speakers who will be in charge of guiding the seminar.

The coordinators of the seminar, who have been selected from the northern and southern rims of the Mediterranean, are:

• Prof. Valeriano Ruiz Hernández, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros, Sevilla, Spain. E-mail: valeriano.ruiz@ctaer.com
• Prof. Mahfoud Ziyad, University Mohammed V Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. E-mail: mahfoudziyad@gmail.com

Both are members of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology (Rabat, Morocco).

Accommodation and registration.

Registration of participants. Introductory speeches

Sunday, 18 November

• 09:00 – 10:00

• 10:00 – 11:30

(Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco)