“Give Energy to Your Study”: Students Worldwide Gather in Europe To Design Future Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

Patrice Simon (1) , Philippe Knauth (2) , José L. Tirado (3) , Janusz Plocharski (4) , Władysław Wieczorek (4) , Antoine Barnabé (1) , Jean-Marie Tarascon (5) , Christian Masquelier (5)

1 CIRIMAT - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux
2 LCP - Laboratoire Chimie Provence
3 Universidad de Córdoba = University of Córdoba [Córdoba]
4 Faculty of Chemistry
5 LRCS - Laboratoire réactivité et chimie des solides - UMR CNRS 7314

Global warming, finite fossil-fuel supplies, and urban pollution rapidly change the landscape of energy research worldwide and our training and education programs must change accordingly. Because of the natural intermittency of many renewable energy sources, there will be a far greater need for advanced electrical energy storage technology. Establishing highly diversified education programs that embrace worldwide scientists in this strategic area of science is of primary importance for bringing newly emerging concepts to fruition and securing our future. Five European universities pooled their efforts to create a specific, integrated, European Master’s-level degree program, Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, which offers high-level education while providing high mobility to students, as well as beneficial knowledge and exposure to relevant industrial settings.

Mots clés: Continuing Education; General Public; Graduate Education/Research; Upper-Division Undergraduate; Electrochemistry; Nanotechnology; Solid State Chemistry; X-ray Crystallography

Domaines: Matériaux

Patrice Simon, Philippe Knauth, José L. Tirado, Janusz Plocharski, Władysław Wieczorek, et al.. “Give Energy to Your Study”: Students Worldwide Gather in Europe To Design Future Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion. Journal of Chemical Education, 2011, 88 (9), pp.1203-1206. ⟨10.1021/ed900061h⟩. ⟨hal-03472022⟩