In the period from 10.07 to 22. 07.2017 seven students from BNTU faculties of POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FACULTY and MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES AND HUMANITARIZATION FACULTY, also six students from ISEI of BSU and a graduate student from the National Academy of Sciences in Belarus were on the summer training practice at HTW Berlin. The practice was organized and financial supported in the frame of special project by the German Academic Exchange Service to the (DAAD).
The subject of the training practice: "Renewable energy: economic and environmental aspects". It included listening to the lecture course one of the leading specialists in the field of bioenergy in Germany - Professor Mirko Barz, performing laboratory works on the above topics and visiting specialized research centers: German Research Center for Research Biomass in Leipzig and the Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Economics in Potsdam.
Opening ceremony in HTW
At the lecture of prof. Mirko Bartz
In laboratories of HTW
During the staying in Berlin cultural program was organized: acquaintance with the sights of Berlin, the German Technical Museum, the Reichstag - the building of the state assembly and many other objects.
Acquaintance with the HTW training and industrial equipment for renewable energy
During visiting of the German Research Center for Research Biomass in Leipzig
During visiting of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Economics in Potsdam
Thanks to this practice we were able to get acquainted with new developments in the field of bioenergy, the organization of the educational process at the Berlin Higher School of Engineering and Economics, get acquainted with the history and culture of Germany, get up-to -date information in this important energy area for Belarus, improve our knowledge in technical English language vocabulary specialties.
At the ceremony of awarding certificates for the passage of training practice
All the participants expressed great gratitude to DAAD representation services in Minsk and personally to the office manager, Ms. Kerstin Muller, project coordinator from the HTW, prof. Mirko Barz, project coordinators from BNTU, and BSU Professors Semjon Kundas and Sergei Poznyak, accompanying teacher Elena Kresova, and also to Dr. Jürgen Schenk from Berlin for their great work in organizing the implementation of all the project activities in Belarus and in Germany. I should also express special gratitude to Professor Semjon Kundas for delivering of the course "Renewable energy sources" in English (lectures and practical exercises) to students from BNTU in the autumn semester in 2017 year, which is largely determined by the success in the perception of educational information and all events in Berlin.
Natalia Kolchenko (Project manager from BNTU).