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The Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship Programme                                                           

EEA Grants 2014-2021

 

“Working together for a green, competitive and inclusive Europe”

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                              

Project title: Digitalisation of water sector and water education – DIGIWATRO

Project No: 20-COP-0050

Project implementation period: 01/09/2021-31/08/2023

Project Promoter: UniversitateaDunărea de Jos” din Galați – UGAL (www.ugal.ro)

Project Partner: Norwegian University of Life Sciences – NMBU (www.nmbu.no)

 

Intensive Programmes for higher education students

 

8 students from NMBU were involved in a 7 days mobility consisting on:
- presentations on modelling, process control and monitoring applied in the case of wastewater treatment plants. These presentations included relevant theoretical aspects and applications in order to familiarize the students with this topics;
- visit to 2 wastewater treatment facilities: one used for urban wastewater (Galati wastewater treatment plant) and one used for industrial wastewater (aquaculture plant). These visits allowed to the participants to see the level of digitalization on wastewater treatment plants from Romania and to compare with the situation from Norway;
- several presentations regarding different aspects on digitalization on water industry were included as a relevant topic for this project;
- presentation on risk assessment of urban water infrastructure.

In this event 4 teachers from NMBU joined the 8 students from NMBU (6 MSc students and 2 PhD students) in a one-week event participating with presentation in this event. Also, they were involved in all the activities together with the students (please see above).

 

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Agenda Intensive Program Event

 

Sunday 18th June

09:45

Flight departure from Oslo Torp

13:50

Arrival in Bucharest OTP airport

17:30

Arrival and check in to Galati accommodation

19:00

Dinner

Monday 19th June

09:00

Opening and welcome by Prof Barbu

09:10

Round the table- introduction to participants

09:30

Plan for the week.

10:00

Meeting challenges in the water sector with digital tools, Prof Ratnaweera, NMBU

13:00

Lunch

13:30

Risk assessment of urban water infrastructure: Part I - Concept and methods; Part-II: applications. Associate Prof  Abbas Roozbahani, NMBU

17:30

Closure

Tuesday 20th June

09:00

·         Sewer Network Model of a City with a Medium-Sized Population, MSc Iulian Vasiliev, UGAL

·         Stormwater fees: One of the many possibilities in the water sector which can be improved with digital tools, Assistant Prof Ulf Rydningen, Assistant Professor, NMBU

·         Mathematical Model of a Collecting and Wastewater Treatment Integrated System, Dr Laurentiu Luca, UGAL

11.30

Process control and process stability at the Vestby WWP, Norway (Real Time Demo). Dr Luc, MSc Hykkerud, Prof Ratnaweera

13:00

Lunch

13:30

Visit to the REXDAN Research facilities

17:30

Closure

Wednesday 21st June

09:00

Process control and process stability at the Galati WWTP (Visit to the treatment plant of city Galati), Romania. Prof Barbu,

13:00

Lunch

13:30

Workshop on process stability and cost saving at WWTPs

16:30

Presentation of the Master Program proposal: NICEST, prof. Ramon Vilanova, UAB, Spain

17:30

Closure

Thursday 22nd June

09:00

Digital tools in education- introduction and practical exercises, Moderator Prof Ratnaweera

12:00

Lunch

12:30

How to optimize the aquaculture industry with digital tools in surveillance and control. Visit to an aquaculture farm (Movila Miresei), coordinator: Ira Simionov

17:30

Closure

Friday 23rd June

09:00

Software for Process Control, Laurentiu Luca

10:00

Workshop on automatic control of processes (I): Mathematical modelling, George Ifrim

12:00

Lunch

12:30

Workshop on automatic control of processes (II): Optimization, George Ifrim

14:30

Discussion on the work performed and the way forward

17:30

Closure

Saturday 24th  June

18:15

Departure from Bucharest OTP

20:25

Arrival in Oslo Torp

 

 

Disclaimer

 

This document was realised with the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 financial support. Its content (text, photos, videos) does not reflect the official opinion of the Programme Operator, the National Contact Point and the Financial Mechanism Office. Responsibility for the information and views expressed therein lies entirely with the author(s).

 

 

 

 

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