3 PhD student from the Italian Universities of Rome ("Sapienza" and the University of Pisa) visit the ACE-ESD
They visited prof. Ntagwirumugara because They knew him from his publications as a renown scholar in the field of micro-grids for rural electrification, and as a director of the Center of Excellence in Energy Sustainable Development(ACE-ESD).
In order to establish connections for common research activities jointly with the Italian Universities of Rome "Sapienza" and the University of Pisa.
Furthermore, They introduced him to the Field Study Abroad, a course which will bring about 30 italian and international student in the Eastern African Community Countries for a month. The organizations making this possible are CIRPS (Interuniversity Research Center for Sustainable Development) and the no-profit organization Tecnologie Solidali.
A group of 10 students will visit Rwanda in January and would like to get in touch with University of Rwanda, its teaching staff and its students, with the final aim of elaborating their final thesis project on their experience in the country; studying, designing and developing electrification projects based on renewable energy systems
Finally they spoke about the upcoming opening of the Micro Grid Academy in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Micro-Grid Academy is a regional capacity building platform for trainees to learn technical and business skills through a variety of courses and the use of a 10-30 kW off-grid hybrid power plant. Located in KPLC Training & Research Institute in Nairobi, the Academy aims to train young local and international professionals and graduates on how to plan, design, build and operate a hybrid micro-grid in rural and remote areas. The Academy supports the roll-out of micro-grid projects in their local communities, thereby contributing to creating energy access, growing the green jobs market, local community economic development, and the improvement of African livelihoods.
This project is being developed by the association RES4Africa, and has prof. Andrea Micangeli of the University of Rome as its main academic reference for its teaching activities, a number of small and big industries will partecipate at the events in Nairobi, from all over East Africa and Europe.
