COST Action EU-Training Schools 2024 für nachhaltige Wasserkraft
This Action's major venues after kicking-off in September 2022, are the Training Schools. The second one was held in in Thessaliniki/Greece in May 2024, after TS 1 in Timisoara, Romania, in May 2023.
Students selected through an application process had to undergo theory and practice: beyond the introduction to the work of the Action they ran a full-day training on the Hydropower Sustainability Standard, to work from that basis into a practical application through plants visited on another full day.
The enthusiasm and thrill in the participants' collaboration, as in the results presented by all of them at the end of 4 days, was second to none!
I am honored and pleased to be a trainer in these Training Schools and also be part of the whole COST Action CA 21104, the Pan-European Network for Sustainable Hydropower as a Member of the Management Committee and the Core Group. Also, I am happy to represent gender and stakeholder issues in Working Group 5 "Holistic assessment and stakeholders" under the lead of Dr. Marina Cerpinska from Riga University, Latvia.
For this reason, I was especially proud of having motivated a mentee of mine from another mentoring program to apply for and be accepted for this Training School, Salma Bennai from Tunesia.
Happy ladies on last night after concluding the Training School successfully
I am additionally thrilled also about the opportunity of training on the Standard together with Professor Jian-hua Meng from Konstanz University, Germany, whom I knew long as an absolute expert in this field and - like me - a long-term contributor to the development of the Standard and a chamber head (me a member) of the governance body for the Standard, the HSA (Hydropower Sustainability Alliance) https://www.hs-alliance.org/
The main objective of this Action is to establish a Pan-European network for sustainable, digitalised hydropower contributing to the Clean Energy Transition (CET). CET is a united network of researchers, engineers, scholars, and other stakeholders, such as representatives from industry, policy and civil society, to facilitate close collaboration among European research groups through projects supporting sustainable hydropower.
Interested to participate? Learn more under this link COST Pan-European Network