About the consortium members
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture ( www.fsb.hr ), University of Zagreb (http://www.unizg.hr) , (UZ - FSB)
dates back to 1919 when it was founded as a part of Royal high technical school. Nowadays it has 1600 students enrolled in the study majors of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture and Aeronautical Engineering, employing 180 teaching stuff. It is one of largest and leading institutions of this profile in the region.
The activities of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture include both theory and practice of design, construction and production of marine structures, machines and devices in power generation and process industry, command production of internal combustion engines and conveying machinery, as well as the manufacturing of wide-consumption products. In addition to the undergraduate studies relevant to the degree of a graduate mechanical engineer or a graduate naval engineer, the Faculty offers regularly postgraduate studies for obtaining the master and doctoral degrees in technical sciences.
The faculty is about to re-organize its educational system along with the Bologna Declaration (signed by Croatia in May 2001) and to adopt the European Credit Transfer System. There are also more efforts being done in modernization - introduction of new teaching methods (on line education, lecturing provided by video links to the partner universities, industry experts guest lecturing, encouragement of student mobility towards the universities abroad, study visits) and up-dating of course objectives. The faculty also provides specialized up-grading courses to the specialists from industry.
UZ - FSB is the only institution in the continental part of Croatia with established Lab for Renew. Energy Resources Utilization being focused primarily on solar energy and biomass (research, testing and designing of commercial equipment). Two departments involved in the realization of the present Tempus project – Department of Applied Thermodynamics, Thermal and Process Engineering, (15 prof. and assist. prof., 8 PhD students) and Power Engineering Department (16 prof. and assist. prof., 11 PhD students) take the active role in promoting energy efficiency and environmental aspects of energy production and utilization throughout close cooperation with industry, as well as with the responsible Ministries and National institute of energy. Four laboratories have been established within the two departments: Lab for technical thermodynamics, Lab for applied thermodynamic, Lab for process measurement and Power lab.
The D epartment of thermodynamics, thermal and process engineering and Power Engineering Department offers the international and Master of Science Degree Program Sustainable Energy Engineering (MSc SEE) which provides basic and advanced state-of-the-art education in the fields of power generation and energy utilization in both economically and environmentally sustainable way .
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
The Royal Institute of Technology (Kungl Tekniska Högskolan) was founded in 1827 and is the largest of Swedish technical universities. KTH is responsible for one-third of Sweden 's capacity for engineering studies and technical research at post-secondary level. KTH is an international institution with established research and educational exchanges all over the world, especially in Europe , the USA , Australia and South-East Asia . The University conducts top-notch education and research of a broad spectrum – from natural science to all branches of technology, including architecture, industrial economics, urban planning, work science and environmental technology. KTH is especially active in the field of Sustainable Energy Engineering. It has two special Master programs taught in English in this field. Sustainable Energy Engineering is the program that is closest to the MSc program offered at UZ-FSB. Cooperation between UZ - FSB and KTH was established in early 80' in terms of joint projects and student exchange and intensified through the mentioned MSc program.
comprises a number of departments covering wide range of engineering studies like Architecture, Mech. engineering, Chemical engineering, Transportation, Process eng. etc. Department of Fisica Tecnica, which is involved in the project realization, focuses on the following areas of research: Theoretical and applied acoustics; New development in refrigeration ; Heat transfer on enhanced surfaces with liquid-gas two-phase flow of new refrigerants, Solar collectors and absorption, Testing of refrigerating machinery, Building-systems interactions in the study of seasonal heat loads
There are 20 professors and assistant professors together with 19 PhD students employed at the Department. Laboratory for acoustic and Heat transfer laboratory for students are the part of department, which has developed cooperation with industry and other Universities from all over the world. Among them is also University of Rijeka , Faculty of Engineering with established cooperation in the field of absorption refrigeration and solar collectors.
provides education in the fields of Mechanical engineering, naval architecture as well as electrical engineering. Cooperation on the project realization will be established with Department of applied thermodynamics and energy technology with which UZ - FSB has already developed close cooperation in the field of solar collectors, heat pump and refrigeration technologies, as well as within a student exchange. This faculty is the local center in the north coastal region for education of specialists particularly in tourism with strong environmental and sustainability orientation of the study. The first solar collector manufactured in the region in early 70's was designed at this Faculty, which continues work on development of new types of solar collectors in cooperation with industry. There is also intensive cooperation with local industry and universities from Czech Republic , Italy , Slovenia and Croatia .
University of Split , Faculty of Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (US – FESB)
employs 111 teaching staff and 16 PhD students working in the fields of Mech. engineering, electrical, industrial and computer engineering, while students after 2 two years continue started Naval architecture study in either Zagreb or Rijeka. The chair for thermal energy technology, involved in the realization of this program, is particularly active in the field of utilizing wind power and has contributed to the development of the national strategy of wind power utilization guided by National institute of energy. There is also established one of the first test rigs for testing solar collectors and PV systems in Croatia , in a close cooperation with the first manufacturer of solar PV panels in Croatia . The Faculty has good cooperation with domestic universities as well as with the foreign ones from the US , UK and Germany.