Background & Objectives
Rural development and particularly the creation of sustainable and productive value chains that offer income opportunities for people in developing countries require the availability and easy accessibility of the necessary resources, particularly energy and water. In the light of dwindling global fossil fuel reserves and global climate change, energy supply needs to seek new ways that are economically viable and ecologically sustainable. Furthermore, remote rural areas in developing countries are often not connected to the national power grid and development efforts must therefore rely on decentralized energy supply systems. Solar technology has advanced rapidly over the past decades and today offers a whole range of different appliances to efficiently, and sustainably harness solar radiation for different purposes. The challenge for professionals involved in research and development is to design and create locally adapted technological solutions for the specific energy requirements of the respective value chain. To this end the University of Kassel and the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) have developed a training program, which will be held in the framework of the
International DAAD-Alumni Summer School
“Applied Solar Technology in Developing Countries”
held May 31st 2010 (arrival date)
to June, 8th 2010 (departure date to Munich)
in Witzenhausen, Germany
“Applied Solar Technology in Developing Countries”
held May 31st 2010 (arrival date)
to June, 8th 2010 (departure date to Munich)
in Witzenhausen, Germany
followed by a visit to the world's leading solar trade fair
“Intersolar Europe 2010”
and the
International Conference on Solar Technology and Engineering
June 9th – 11th 2010 in Munich, Germany
(departure date from Germany is June 12th)
“Intersolar Europe 2010”
and the
International Conference on Solar Technology and Engineering
June 9th – 11th 2010 in Munich, Germany
(departure date from Germany is June 12th)
The program is organized and hosted by the Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics of the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences of the University of Kassel (Prof. Dr. Oliver Hensel) and DITSL Witzenhausen with financial support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The Summer school targets German university alumni from developing countries (DAC country nationals) who are professionally involved in solar and / or regenerative energy technology in the framework of rural or urban, public or private sector development, and who are working for academic or educational institutions, development organizations, NGO's, donor agencies or private enterprises. Participants should be potential multipliers in a position to spread the acquired knowledge and experience and / or take decisions on implementation.
The Summer school will promote exchange between the participants in the field of solar technology, facilitate international scientific cooperation and qualify the participants in the field of photovoltaic equipment, solar food processing and solar energy driven water equipment. The Summer school will foster exchange of experiences, establishment of international networks between the participants, scientific discourse with regard to solar engineering, and international academic cooperation in this field. It will stimulate and promote ideas for joint research, technology development and knowledge transfer on photovoltaic, solar heat and solar engineering.
The Summer school targets German university alumni from developing countries (DAC country nationals) who are professionally involved in solar and / or regenerative energy technology in the framework of rural or urban, public or private sector development, and who are working for academic or educational institutions, development organizations, NGO's, donor agencies or private enterprises. Participants should be potential multipliers in a position to spread the acquired knowledge and experience and / or take decisions on implementation.
The Summer school will promote exchange between the participants in the field of solar technology, facilitate international scientific cooperation and qualify the participants in the field of photovoltaic equipment, solar food processing and solar energy driven water equipment. The Summer school will foster exchange of experiences, establishment of international networks between the participants, scientific discourse with regard to solar engineering, and international academic cooperation in this field. It will stimulate and promote ideas for joint research, technology development and knowledge transfer on photovoltaic, solar heat and solar engineering.