Renewable Energies Specialization Course - 24th-28th August 2020
Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain
Summer Course
DURATION
1 week
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 30th June is the application Deadline for enrollment.
Key Summary
About: This 5-day course (24–28 August 2020) gives interdisciplinary training in renewable energies for technical backgrounds. Topics include aerothermal, thermal vacuum tubes, solar PV and thermal, two-axis tracking, wind turbines, geothermal, accumulation and smart microgrids, electromobility, CIRCUTOR monitoring. The course has practical workshops, technical site visits and diploma.
Career Outcomes: This course prepares you for roles in renewable energy, such as solar PV installer, wind technician, geothermal technician, microgrid operator, electromobility specialist, energy systems maintainer. You can also move into technical project support, site commissioning, field maintenance, monitoring and control, and system design, or vocational teaching and training roles.
Why study at our Campus?
1. Usurbilgo Lanbide Eskola and ZubiGune Foundation are recognized as Reference Centers in Basque Country in Climate Change and follow a High-performance training methodology.
2. Our innovative Campus offers a park with five Renewable Energy Sources:
- Aerothermal (Heating/Cooling System)
- Thermal Vacuum Tubes for Heating
- Two Axes Solar Follower
- Smart Monitoring Systems based on CIRCUTOR
- Embedded Systems (Control Consumption Control)
- Air Heating Solar Panels
- Micro-co Generation
- ATU (Air Treatment Unit)
- Compressor Central (R410 + co2)
3. Our teacherscombine both professional and teaching backgrounds.
4. Our Campus is 8 km from San Sebastian, a coastal capital city in North of Spain that has won several awards for its contribution to the promotion of sustainable tourism and urbanism.
Why is a high-impact Summer Course? “Learning by doing”
The added value of this course lies in the practices, workshops and outdoor activities with photovoltaic panels and mini wind turbines as real installers and maintainers.
This course also includes technical site visits to real installations (business or buildings) together with their installers.
Renewable Energies - Summer Course
This Summer Course offers interdisciplinary knowledge in the field of renewable energies no matter what your technical background is.
- Solar Energy (Photovoltaics & Thermal Solar Energy)
- Wind Energy (Mini wind turbines)
- Geothermal Energy
- Accumulation Techniques and Smart Micro Grid
- Electromobility for sustainability
- Practical outdoor workshops as real installers and maintainers
- Technical site visits to real installations together with their installers
Roadmap
As participants with different backgrounds can take part in this course, it has been designed into a very logical order and is been created easy to understand whatever is each one’s previous technical studies or experience is.
Extra social activities and coordinators
Our local coordinators will be glad of helping every participant with information related to Airports and transfer services, accommodation and housing possibilities, papers for visa and other necessary documents or actions. We will be proposing some activities to do together during the afternoons (Surf lessons, San Sebastian sightseeing tours, pintxo’s tours.)
Target Audience
- University and VET Center students who are interested in Renewable Energy and want an international experience in Spain.
- University and VET Center teachers and professors.
- Experts and technicians in other fields who want to introduce into Renewable Energy or renew their education.
Language
English.
Diploma
Once the course is completed, the participants will receive the Certificate issued by ZubiGune Foundation with the accreditation of the Vocational Training Center of Usurbil.
