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D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
Figure 1: Maghrenov Slideshare website with a list of the workshop presentations. ............................ 22 Figure 2: Maghrenov Flickr website with pictures of the workshop. ............................................... 23 Figure 3: Picture with participants of the workshop. ................................................................. 24 Figure 4: Maghrenov Youtube playlist with recordings of the sessions, round tables, and debates. .......... 25 Figure 5: maghrenov.eu blog entry with the video interview to Mr. Abdelilah Slaoui. .......................... 26
D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
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D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
The objective of the workshop is to provide a working basis among the partners of MAGHRENOV project and other selected actors in EU and MPC.
The workshop is oriented to generate results in:
• Agreeing to the best concept for EU-MPC collaboration to facilitate capacity-building in MPCs. Actions in higher education programmes are welcome (MSc, PhD, life-long learning, postdoc), always with the goal to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Debating about the “how”, the tools to create effectively such capacity building, the collaboration of different sectors, the funding mechanisms.
• As a specific action, a MSc programme collaboration is going to be structured as one of the main actions of the workshop.
D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
The workshop is structured in sessions and round tables. The sessions are focused on the view of every speaker, with presentations of 20-25 minutes and a short debate afterwards. The round tables are focused on the debate, in such a way that the panelists summarize very briefly their concept in 5-10 minutes (with or without a presentation) and the development of the round table is essentially the debate of the speakers among themselves and with the audience, coordinated by a chairperson.
June 19th
10:30-11:00 – Welcome and Introduction by Josep BORDONAU,
Programme of the workshop, objectives and the roadmap of the Project.
11:00-13:10 – Session 1: Capacity Building Concept in MPC Area
Debate about the bidirectionality of activities (North-South and South-North), participation of the public and private bodies, identifying topics under the umbrella of “capacity building”.
Target sector to be addressed: MSc students, PhD students, technicians in industry, entrepreneurs. Objectives of capacity building: definition of the “new professional”.
The speakers will show their view about the capacity building concept in MPC area. This means, a view about how can higher education programmes (MSc, PhD and postdoc) as well as life-long learning programmes can foster the innovation and entrepreneurship in MPC area. The speakers will talk about which of these actions are more effective to promote the improvement of innovation and entrepreneurship and their opinion about how they can be implemented in MPC area, taking into account the short term, the medium term and the long term perspectives.
Chairperson: Badr IKKEN - IRESEN
• Badr IKKEN – Institut en Recherche en Energie Solaire et en Energies Nouvelles (IRESEN), 25 min.
• Souheil EL ALIMI – Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir (ENIM), 25 min. • Debate and conclusions.
Articulate the way to make possible the active participation of industry and public bodies in the actions of MAGHRENOV.
The speakers will talk about how should be the practical implication of private and public bodies in the capacity building, this is: MSc, PhD, postdoc and life-long learning, specially focused, again, to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
Chairperson: Ahmed Ernez - BSI
• Josep BORDONAU – Knowledge & Innovation Community InnoEnergy (KIC-IE) 20 min. • Mustapha BENNOUNA – Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez (UEMF), 20 minutes. • Ahmed ERNEZ – Biome Solar Industry (BSI), 20 min. • Debate and conclusions.
16:45-17:15 – Coffee break & Networking
D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
17:15- 18:30 – Round table 1: How to Facilitate Capacity Building in EU-MPC?
Identify the main actions/programmes to facilitate capacity building results: MSc, PhD, postdoc, eLearning.
This round table is intended to be very practical: defining actions to make possible the implementation of MSc, PhD, postdoc and life-long learning programmes in MPC area.
The speakers will talk about the tools they know and the future tools that could be developed on a short term basis.
Chairperson: Josep Bordonau - UPC
• Capacity building in research and tools: Macarena MUÑOZ – MEDSPRING, 15 min. • PostDoc topic: Bruno BOUYSSOUNOUSE – InnoEnergy Pathways Team, 15 min. • International experiences topic: Abdelilah SLAOUI – EUROSUNMED, 15 min. • Debate 30 min.
18:30-19:30 – Meeting of the MPC Academic Partners and MAGHRENOV WP2 Partners.
21:00-22:30 – Social dinner & Networking
D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
This session is very practical, showing the current state and the medium term strategy of the bachelor, MSc and PhD programmes in MPC area, candidates to be integrated in a Joint Master Programme EU-MPC.
Chairperson: Essia Znouda - ENIT
• Essia ZNOUDA – École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), 15 min • Mustapha BENNOUNA – UEMF, 15 min. • Rajae CHERKAOUI EL MOURSLI – University Mohammed V Agdal (UM5A), 15 min. • Taher MAATALLAH – Institut des Sciences et de Technologie de l'Energie de Gafsa
(ISSTEG), 15 min • Enrique VELO – MSc in Renewable Energies (RENE), KIC InnoEnergy, 20 min • Debate 30 min
10:50-11:20 – Coffee break & networking
11:20-13:10 – Round table 2: funding of capacity building
This round table is intended to open the minds of the audience about the different options to fund high-level actions in capacity building, taking into account the environment of the EU-MPC collaboration.
Chairperson: Josep BORDONAU – KIC IE
• Josep BORDONAU, on behalf of Xavier ESTARÁN – UPC, 15 min • Souheil ELALIMI – ENIM, 15 min • Bérénice MARTÍN – UPC, 15 min • Debate
13:10-13:30 – Wrap-Up of the Meeting
Debate about the future and immediate actions.
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Welcome and introduction by Josep Bordonau (Academic Director, UDKIC, UPC, Spain)
Session 1: Capacity building concept in MPC area (11:30 h)
1st speaker: Badr IKKEN (CEO, IRESEN, Morocco)
The presentation is divided in three parts: I. Moroccan national energy strategy • Different areas in capacity building for universities:
-‐ Technical Training (Establishment of IFMEREEs). -‐ Degree Programs (Master degrees, PhD, etc.). -‐ Research and Innovation.
• IFMEREE: Training centers for technicians (Solar Energy). The first IFMEREEs are now in the construction phases in Oujda, Tangier and Ouarzazate.
II. The role of IRESEN (Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies) • IRESEN Foundation with public and private funding. • Supports the national energy strategy. • Supports programs from universities. • Research on human resources involved in renewable energy needs. • Financing different research projects of several universities with industrial partner involvement. • Financing training of human resources and professors, scientific equipment. • Financing different research and development facilities:
-‐ Green Energy Park: o The first research platform in North Africa in the field of Solar energy, o An important infrastructure that will encourage R&D and students training, o The idea is to develop different energy platforms (biomass, hydro, wind, etc.)
III. Capacity building through MAGHRENOV • Presentation shows ideas on how to collaborate within the Maghrenov project:
-‐ Through joining call for projects. -‐ Joining educational programs. -‐ Facilitating student and professor mobility.
Debate:
-‐ “Teaching universities vs. Research universities in Morocco”
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• Presents himself, his institution and country, how they select students. • ENIM: National Engineering School of Monastir. • Presents national context (energy). • School objective: train and teach energy engineers. • Presents the curricula for the 1st year, 2nd year, and 3rd year (last) 1 semester for the final degree
project. • Programme presents 2 summer internships and several industrial visits. • Further studies (PhD, master) are also possible. • Presents international cooperation:
-‐ Coordinated master programme with Polytechnique Lyon. -‐ Cooperation activities with foreign academic institutions (all from France or Canada).
• Presents opportunities for graduate students: -‐ Industry. -‐ Consulting and Studies. -‐ Educations and Research.
Debate:
-‐ “One weakness of universities programmes is the practical studies part. Moroccan and Tunisian engineers are good in theory. The problem is the practical experience”.
-‐ “Renewable energy cannot be an option. It has to be mandatory”. -‐ “Match master thesis with internships. Short time Internships at companies (one – two months) are
not fruitful. They should be included within the study programme or aligned to it (the period should be 6 months at least)”.
-‐ “It is very important the connection between industry and university”. -‐ “In order to make successful university programmes, the opinion of companies should be included
while developing them”: o Student selection criteria. o Learning outcomes they expect the student should have. o KIC InnoEnergy RENE and SELECT Master programmes can be a guideline for that.
-‐ Idea: create “cluster” network of technical universities of Maghreb (similar to CLUSTER network in Europe).
o There are already some networks.
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1st speaker: Mustapha BENNOUNA (Consultant of the Rector,
UEMF, Morocco)
I. First presentation • Presents his university.
-‐ EMUF (Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez) is an international university. -‐ Young university (starting now). -‐ Regional platform that promotes student mobility. -‐ Multidisciplinary. -‐ Focused on student employability. -‐ High impact academic programmes (engineering and humanities & social sciences). -‐ Multilingual teaching: English, French, Arabic and Spanish. -‐ Joint degree programmes.
• Presents the planning of the university for next years (Implementation phases). II. Second presentation • Presents Solar Flash drying process for phosphates programme they are working on.
-‐ Financed project from IRESEN in the framework of the call for proposal Inno Therm III. -‐ PhD or Master Degree projects for students. -‐ Partners: UEMF, Airlight Energy, CTAER, OCP (the last three are industrial partners) -‐ Benefits:
o Saving money. o Protection environment reduction CO2. o PhD students training. o Intellectual property.
-‐ Looking for finance as government only finances up to 15%. Debate:
-‐ Students profiles you look for: o PhD students, Master degree students and also bachelor degree. o Programme made for students to spend some time in all the universities of the consortium.
-‐ Relation with industries that found their projects: o Student works with the company from the beginning to the end. o Students acquire practical experience through internships. o The consortium has other foundation to obtain more financial support (mobility, grants,
etc.). o Encourage student entrepreneurship activities.
-‐ Business model for stable university: o An important indicator for the university is the creation of Start-ups.
-‐ Students have to pay tuition? o Rewards to the students/researchers for publishing in high impact journals (Science or
Nature). o The PhD is paid by the university.
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2nd speaker: Ahmed ERNEZ (President of Cluster ER, BSI, Tunisia)
• Presents the Renewable Energies Cluster of Tunisia, which he presides. • Created in Feb. 2014. • Members: 13 companies (BSI among them). • Financial support from government (Ministry of Industry). • Expectations:
-‐ Higher quality of know-how exchanges between Tunisia and other countries. -‐ Finer research coordination to meet the needs of the companies. -‐ Promote regional market.
• Loan paid in 5 years for solar water heater.
Round Table 1: How to facilitate capacity building in EU-MPC (17:20 h)
Capacity building in research and tools topic: Macarena MUÑOZ (Researcher, MEDSPRING, Spain)
• Presents MEDSPRING (Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research and Innovation Gateway). • 28 partners. • 9 work packages (she explains only WP4, WP5 and WP7). • WP4: AGORA platform. • WP5: Brokerage and venturing • WP7: Capacity Building in RDI • Two examples of how MEDSPRING stimulate the participation:
-‐ The open consultations before the EMEG meetings. -‐ The brokerage events.
PostDoc topic: Bruno BOUYSSOUNOUSE (InnoEnergy Pathways Team Program Director, KIC InnoEnergy, France)
• Main goal: Provide funding to students to pursue a postdoc hosted by KIC InnoEnergy partners (for industry, research centers, universities and start-ups).
• Fellows change countries and bring international mobility. • Programme for everyone, not restricted to academia or country. • Focused on sustainable energy technology areas. • Details of the funding:
-‐ 40% of salary costs, travelling expenses, 100% of training programme. -‐ Period of funding: 2 years. -‐ Different salary depending on the country.
• Details on fellowships. • Details of the selection process (proposals are evaluated by independent experts). • Details on how partners can select a fellow. • Now, 135 profiles. In Dec. 2014, more than 500.
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International Experiences topic: Abdelilah SLAOUI (Coordinator, EUROSUNMED, France)
• Goal: Strong collaboration between academia and industry. • Around 500 people. • European project founded for the European commission. • Slide with partner geographical distribution (partners from Spain (2 institutions),
Belgium (1), Norway (2), France (2), Italy (1), Morocco (6), and Egypt (3). • Mobility of students, researchers and engineers between EU countries and MPC. • Research oriented for development of new technology. • Strong collaboration at research level and training level. • Workshop in April in Rabat. • Shows work packages of the programme. • Explains expected outcomes of the project:
-‐ Creation of an Associated International Lab between EU/MPCs involved. -‐ Launching an EUMed Master Degree on renewable Energies.
• Explains work package 7. • Troubles for developing an international master programme:
-‐ Context of each country. -‐ Academic requirements. -‐ International travel. -‐ Tuition fees. -‐ Teaching methods. -‐ Teaching language.
• Launch master in two – three years from now. Debate:
-‐ EL ALIMI, from ENIM, and CHERKAOUI EL MOURSLI, from UM5A, ask SLAOUI to join the Master. SLAOUI says yes.
-‐ Has any company approached for using AGORA? o There are companies interacting. o The number of researchers is higher than companies (interacting). o Kind of revolutionary tool which is working quite well.
-‐ Has any company approached for using KIC InnoEnergy tool? o Long term objective to have a very high impact with partners. o Contacting with partners takes a long time to convince them mostly for all the contacts
needed (mostly until you reach the CEO). o Idea is to present the tool to a lot of partners at the same time and have their feedback
and interest as they contact us. -‐ Specific masters within RE, for instance Master in PV, master in wind energy, etc.)
Main conclusions of the RT Private-Public partnership:
o There are tools for companies to interact with. o Maghrenov is in between research and business. o Explore different possibilities for post-doc international mobility within different contexts
(not only Maghrenov or CLUSTER). o Reaching a kind of agreement between companies to control the flow of experts so there is
no unbalance of brainpower between north and south of the consortium (companies forum in Casablanca).
o Analyse the existing master programmes to see what we can add.
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• We need to do a greater effort in use of renewable energy and energy efficiency. • Energy mix with a great amount of oil energy sources (over 50%). • Planning to introduce renewable until 30% of energy mix:
-‐ Wind. -‐ Thermal Solar. -‐ PV. -‐ Others.
• Shows planning to increase different renewable energy until objective reached. • This new technology implies new jobs, highly qualified workers, with good skills. • Academic curricula specialized in renewables and also other engineering areas. • Other programs related to renewable energies but not specialized on this area. • Present cross training (different areas related to renewable energy field). • Presents research centers (related to renewable energy and not directly related), human resources of
these centers. • Presents number of research projects related to different energy areas. • Presents ENIT:
-‐ Different engineering degree related to renewable energy. -‐ Professional master programme ‘Energy’.
• Presents some contents of the solar energy course. • Presents research related to renewable energy.
-‐ Few examples of research projects (only names). • Interested in cross university master programme (in renewable energy):
-‐ Several partners: universities and companies in the Mediterranean area. -‐ Define needs for partners. -‐ Thematic course by country and exchange students. -‐ Use the competence of the entire network.
• Steps for developing the programme. Debate:
-‐ What a professional master means? o Applied master. o Practical thesis done in industry.
2nd Speaker: Mustapha BENNOUNA (Consultant of the Rector, UEMF, Morocco)
• Presents Master. • Master objectives. • Presents skills to be acquired by students and competences. • Presents the opportunities for students:
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-‐ Development of energy sector. -‐ R&D. -‐ Also employment opportunities.
• Presents requirements for the master. • Presents the different modules and courses of the master (4 semesters). • Present distribution of lecture hours between the modules. • Presents theoretical training. • Research training. Debate:
-‐ Possibility to include elective courses. -‐ Specific thematic curricula for the renewable courses. -‐ This is a transversal master in order to give the students the basis of the renewable energy field. -‐ The detailed programme includes courses which focus on specific areas of renewable energy (like
• Specialty tracks in open-access schools. • Presents employment in renewable field:
-‐ Rises from year to year. • Presents master “Energy”:
-‐ First year common core for all schools. -‐ Semester 3: Specialization (Wind, electronic converters or materials). -‐ Semester 4: Internship. -‐ Presents courses for every semester. -‐ Aims of the master.
Debate:
-‐ Impossible to let the students choose courses in other specializations, they have to choose one and do its courses.
-‐ It is possible for students to have mobility. -‐ No credits similar to the European universities (yet). -‐ Master oriented for physics and chemistry bachelors or engineers.
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• Presents himself. • Presents institute context. • Presents his institute. • Presents institute programme:
-‐ Applied bachelor. -‐ Presents learning outcomes. -‐ Weakness of the programme. -‐ Areas of improving the programme they are working on.
Debate
-‐ Suggestion to remain as a technician institute increasing your knowledge and improving your technician bachelors, since Tunisia needs many good technicians.
• Speaks about Master RENE (Renewable Energy). • Presents how KIC InnoEnergy programs should be. • Companies provides scholarships, participate in the learning outcomes of the
programme and how the curricula should be designed, and also the selection of students.
• Students should have a high scholar academic qualification. • Presents partners. • Presents programme overview. • Explains a bit the learning approach of the programme. • Presents company and university partners locating them within the learning process. • Shows learning outcomes. • Shows RENE position in the knowledge triangle. • Shows learning by doing approach in RENE. • Presents RENE engineering and business case.
Round Table 2: Funding of capacity building (11:30 h)
1st speaker: Josep BORDONAU on behalf of Xavier ESTARAN (Valorisation Team, UPC, Spain)
• Presents the UPC research valorization unit. • It was created in 2010. • Presents table of indicators: assessed projects, start-ups, patents applied, etc.) • Numerous start-ups have been created. An interesting example is Ecotecnia, which nowadays belongs
to Alstom Wind. • Interesting phrase: “The entrepreneur is capable to identify or create an opportunity. Afterwards the
entrepreneur must be tenacious and have initiative to make it happen”, by Rubén Bonet.
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• Explains in detail a diagram with the process to create a business from the identification of a problem/need (idea).
2nd speaker: Josep BORDONAU on behalf of Mireia de la Rubia (Director of Specific Projects Office, UPC, Spain)
• Presents the Campus Energia of the UPC. • Campus Energia is a strategic aggregation of several economic, social and research agents whose
purpose is to collaborate. • Transformation of the city. • National funding (credit). • Strategic objectives:
-‐ Attracting international talent. -‐ Consolidating international projection in the energy sector. -‐ Adapting professional profiles to the demands of society. -‐ From cooperation to strategic partnership.
• New buildings, living labs, new degrees, masters and PhDs, etc. • Areas of specialization:
-‐ Smart Energy Management. -‐ Renewable Energy. -‐ Energy Efficiency. -‐ Nuclear Fission and Fusion (ITER project).
3rd speaker: Souheil EL ALIMI (Director of the Department of Energy Engineering, ENIM, Tunisia)
• Presents University of Monastir. • 57 degrees, 25 masters and 16 PhDs. • Around 24.000 students (1% foreign). • 36 international projects (14 with France, 8 with Morocco, 4 with Algeria, etc.). • Presents the budgets assigned to the University of Monastir in the different projects.
4th speaker: Bérénice MARTÍN (Office of International Relations, UPC, Spain)
• Presents programme ERASMUS+. • Rebuilt of Erasmus and other programs. Main novelties:
-‐ Connects industry with university. -‐ ERASMUS+ integrates different old programs: Erasmus, Leonardo, Erasmus Mundus, Tempus,
Youth in Action, etc. • Total budget: 14.7 Billions of €. • Key Action 1: Student mobility (mainly), and staff mobility. • Key action 2: Cooperation in Higher Education (28% of total budget). • Key action 3: Policy Support. Debate and final conclusions
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-‐ The audience starts talking about the proposal to apply to the call of ERASMUS + in the year 2015.
-‐ Bérénice Martín comments that the exact date of the call is not known (it will be during 2015). She also says that they don’t have too much information about the call yet.
-‐ Suggestion from Claude Ayache: Creation of a specific task force in order to plan the proposal to apply to the call of ERASMUS +. General agreement from the audience.
-‐ In the near future, Josep Bordonau will meet with Bérénice Martín and her colleagues to get more information.
-‐ Olga Mackiewicz says that in June 2015 there will be a conference about ERASMUS+ in Barcelona or Paris (not decided yet), which is in the framework of MAGHRENOV.
-‐ It is commented that there is enough time to prepare the proposal thoroughly, defining exactly what it is desired, with a proper strategy, and of course with the agreement of all the MAGHRENOV partners.
-‐ Suggestion of Josep Bordonau to do a MAGHRENOV meeting in Brussels in late September 2014 with Comission officials working on ERASMUS+ in order to obtain feedback that would permit the preparation of a solid proposal.
-‐ Suggestion from Claude Ayache: Three representatives in the task force, one from each region (Europe, Morocco and Tunisia). General agreement from the audience. It is decided that the three representatives will be defined the following week.
D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
4 Conclusion: Taskforce Document The main conclusion of the WP2 Workshop on Capacity Building held in Barcelona June 19th and 20th, 2014 was the establishment of a taskforce to prepare Erasmus+ proposals aligned with the objectives of MAGHRENOV:
• Establish a MSc programme in cooperation between EU and MPC universities, in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
• Establish a programme for internships in cooperation between EU and MPC universities. The members of the taskforce are almost completely defined:
• Josep Bordonau (UPC), coordinator of the taskforce. • Rajae Cherkaoui El Moursli (UM5A), coordinator of the Moroccan partners. • M. Souheil El Alimi (ENIM), coordinator of the Tunisian partners. • Representative of KIC InnoEnergy to be defined (Richard Biagioni will contact Torsten Fransson, KIC
IE EDU Director). Timeline of the taskforce: • July 2014 - First meeting of the taskforce (videoconference) to agree upon:
• The actions to be run in Erasmus+. • The date to ask for a meeting with the officers in Brussels. • The actions to be done with the national contacts.
• September 2014 – Development of the concept of the proposal
• Concept for the MSc programme EU-MPC. • Concept for the internship programme EU-MPC.
• October 2014 – Meeting in Brussels with the DG EAC
• Follow up and refinement of the timeline. • November – December 2014: In-person meeting to agree on the first draft.
• January-March 2015: Preparation of the proposal(s).
D2.2 Dedicated Workshop Defining Future Needs for Human Resources Capacity Building
Youtube Playlist with the Recordings The entire workshop was streamed in a live feed through http://tv.upc.edu and simultaneously recorded. These recordings were afterwards edited and uploaded to Maghrenov Youtube’s channel.
Figure 4: Maghrenov Youtube playlist with recordings of the sessions, round tables, and debates.