Know-how Transfer

Objectives Activities Results Working Group Leader

Objectives

To mutually transfer know-how on solar thermal technologies and specific conditions of the Mediterranean partner countries for current research and promotion projects of the EU and Mediterranean partner countries
To develop new pilot projects for R&D on solar thermal systems for hot water, heating and cooling that are adapted to the Mediterranean partner countries needs

Activities

The direct transfer of know-how between the EU and partner institutions from the Mediterranean partner countries is carried out through an exchange of researchers and experts for marketing and project development. The project partners select current and planned R&D or promotion projects for solar thermal systems for hot water, heating and cooling which can benefit from a direct exchange of experts between an EU and a Mediterranean partner country. The central instruments for know-how exchange are:

Expert missions

Experts from the EU partner will provide advice and support during short-term missions to each of the Mediterranean partner countries. Expert advice is mainly provided for the development of new pilot projects.

Internships

Each institution of the Mediterranean partner countries will send one researcher or expert to EU partner institutions for a five-day internship to take part in the daily work of the host institution in the EU. The internships serve to strengthen the technological and organisational know-how of experts from the Mediterranean partner countries who work in current R&D or promotion projects or who are involved in the development of new projects in the field of solar thermal.

Parallely to project meetings the project partners have the possibility to visit innovative applications of solar thermal.

Results

Expert mission reports

Expert Mission to Jordan, ITW - Stuttgart University, November 2008
Programme Expert Mission to Jordan (PDF, 24 kB)
Expert Mission to Tunisia, ISE - Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme, December 2008
List of Participants Expert Mission to Tunisia (PDF, 94 kB)
Programme Expert Mission to Tunisia (PDF, 136 kB)
Summary Expert Mission to Tunisia (PDF, 136 kB)
Presentations Expert Mission to Tunisia:
Fraunhofer ISE (PDF, 1.5 MB)
Monitoring Equipment (PDF, 225 kB)
Solar Cooling - Context and Overview (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Solaer Colling - State of the Art (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Conception and Simulation (PDF, 567 kB)
Fundamentals and Technologies (PDF, 2.5 MB)
System Sizing and Simulation (PDF, 637 kB)
Solar Cooling System MEDISOC (PDF, 703 kB)
Monitoring Task (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Internship reports

Internship at TEI - Technological Education Institute of Crete, October 2008
Internship Report TEI Crete (PDF, 559 kB)
Internship on “Testing and Certification and Large Scale Solar Thermal Systems" at ITW - Stuttgart University, October 2008
Programme Internship ITW Stuttgart (PDF, 32 kB)
Internship on "Solar Collector Testing" at ISE - Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme, Freiburg, July/August 2008
Internship Report ISE Freiburg (PDF, 1.2 MB)