Innovative Pathways to Thermal Energy Storage (INPATH-TES)

Following the EC SET-Plan Education and Training Roadmap, the concept of this proposal is to develop a joint PhD programme between universities and research centres, on the topic of Thermal Energy Storage (TES). The goal of INPATH-TES is to create a network of universities and research institutes to implement a joint PhD programme on TES technologies.

The final result of such a network is to educate professionals on these technologies for the European research and industry institutions. The partners in the proposal will be the core of a future larger network of excellent R&D institutions, and industries for co-funding and industrial placement, sharing infrastructure capacities, and enhancing mobility of students.

The specific objectives of the project are:

To establish one joint PhD programme starting year 0+2
To develop at least 20 ECTS as basic common training modules
To develop four basic common technology PhD courses
To establish one annual joint workshop for PhD students
To aim at graduating at least 28 PhD students every year at year 0+6
To exchange at least 14 PhD students every year between industry and academia

For further information go to our project website www.inpathtes.eu/, or follow us on Twitter @inpath_tes.