RENET (Renewable energy Networks between Turkish and European Universities)

RENET (Renewable energy Networks between Turkish and European Universities) is organising a conference that aims to gather academicians from both EU and Turkey, NGO representatives working or related in the field of renewable energy, professionals working for public and private corporations active in the renewable energy sector, and decision makers. It will take place in Istanbul, in November 19-20, 2009. The following topics will be
discussed in the Conference:

• Bioenergy
• Biofuel
• Geothermal energy
• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Waste to energy
• Energy & Sustainable development
• Energy policy, economics and planning

Information about the RENET project and Final conference are also available on the websites given below. If you're interesting in lecturing or participating in this event plese contact the organisers.

http://www.renet-project.eu/
http://www.renetistanbul.org/

Iceland's Geothermal Bailout - Feature Article in Popular Science Magazine

This weeks feature article of the Popular Science Magazine deals with the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project. A few weeks agao the author Christopher Mims interviewed me about my risk management which I have done for the IDDP. You can find some of my comments I gave to him in this article as well as some general information about the frontier geothermal project. The article is published online here and is also part of the printed edition of Popular Science Magazine(June edition).

Geothermal Summer School 2009

The Technical University Darmstadt offers from 20th to 24th of July a block course for graduate students and professionals within this years Geothermal Summer School 2009.
A variaty of top german researchers will give presentations on recent research and project developments as well as fundamentals and basic knowledge for deep geothermal applications.
The main topics are:
- hydrothermal systems
- petrothermal systems
- power plant technics
- Combined heat and power (CHP) solutions
- hydromechanical reservoir stimulation
- reservoir charcterization
- allowance procedures and quality management
- deep closed geothermal systems

The course will be held at the Institute for Applied Geosciences, Schnittspahnstrasse 9, 64287 Darmstadt.

All presentations and practical orientated course work will be given in german.
More information and a leaflet (flyer) here.

RES '09 Reunion in Kraków (5-7.06.2009)

RES Class of 2009 Reunion in Kraków was a great success! 18 people attended the activities which included Kraków sightseeing, selector festival concerts, Gala Dinner in "Miód i Wino" restaurant, Saturday night pub crawl and last but not the least the RESAO conference which took place at the AGH University of Science and Technology campus.

Here, here and also here photos from the Reunion.

RES '09 Reunion in Kraków (5-7.06.2009, Lea chapter)

8th Grand Cosmic Dragon Parade

Eight years ago, the Groteska Theatre in Kraków initiated the Great Dragon Parade which it has organised annually since that time. It is an internationally renowned outdoor festival, with a wide media coverage and publicity and an audience of several dozen thousand spectators each year.
It will take place on the 6th and 7th of June in Kraków. There are several interesting things in the schedule:

• Dragon Exhibition
• The Grand Dragon Parade
• The Competition for the Knight and the Lady - in - Waiting
• The Grand Outdoor Performance on the Vistula
• The Dragon Family Picnic

You can find additiona information here: www.groteska.pl

RESAO on AGH I-Day in Kraków (20.05.2009)

Tomasz Miklis and Maciej Łukawski were representing RES Alumni Organisation on AGH I-Day in Kraków. AGH Department of International Relations in cooperation with Erasmus Student Network AGH and other student organisations organised the International Day for the second time in Klub Studio. During the event different educational exchange opportunities were presented (Erasmus, Vulcanus, RES). Young students had a chance to talk to people who experienced international exchange programmes and get information about application criterias.

More photos from this event can be found here.

Blue Bells Apartments

For those who are still searching for a place to stay in Kraków, I found this interesting place. Blue Bells is located just next to the old town. Apartments are available for 1 to 6 people which helps keep the price rather cheap. In my opinion Zyblikiewicza Street is more discreet, cozy, and beautiful. For information about prices you can find it here: www.cracowonline.com

• From 16,25 EUR in 4 people apartament
• From 26 EUR in 2 people apartment
  

Additional information You can find here: www.bluebells.pl