Project description
Legal and engineering skills for power electronics openness training
Power electronics (PE) play a crucial role in the transition to power systems incorporating integrated renewable energy. However, achieving interoperability in power electronics faces several challenges, such as a lack of essential technology, intellectual property issues, and regulatory obstacles. The MSCA-funded Inter-oPEn project seeks to address these challenges by establishing an innovative doctoral training programme that encompasses multidisciplinary knowledge. The programme aims to promote openness by exploring current challenges, understanding legal requirements, and investigating power software and hardware needs. By combining legal and engineering skills, the programme will provide researchers with a distinctive approach to addressing these challenges and others in the field.
Objective
Power electronic (PE) devices are a key enabler for integrating renewable energy into our power system. However, to achieve interoperability of PE devices, barriers are present in technology but also in intellectual property and regulation. To overcome these barriers, Inter-oPEn offers a unique doctoral training program for 10 researchers that integrates multi-sectorial knowledge, gathering electrical engineering and legal researchers. To achieve the common goal of the interoperable PE-dominated power system, openness will be a pivotal factor across the different doctoral projects, tackling fundamental aspects of modern PE-based electrical systems such as control, protection, interoperability, governance, and intellectual property challenges. In line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the EU Green deal, Inter-oPEn's research program is divided into three complementary parts, (1) Engineering components for swift interoperability, (2) Integration of a resilient and flexible power system, and (3) Enabling interoperability from a legal and regulatory viewpoint. Inter-oPEn's training program puts a particular emphasis on maneuvering the complex and rapidly growing power system/electronics sector with specific intersectoral trainings on, e.g. change management in critical infrastructure, how to give good recommendations, or simplification approaches for an efficient description of complex contexts to other domains. Comprised of 8 academic partners and 13 industrial associated partners, Inter-oPEn offers a broad industry and transmission system operator expertise for doctoral trainings, research, and secondments. Compared to previous EU projects and doctoral training networks on the interoperable PE-dominated grid, Inter-oPEn is innovative by including two fundamental and new aspects: (1) the interplay of technical and legal perspectives is considered, and (2) openness principles are the heart of engineering and legal research, as well as, training.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineering
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinator
52062 Aachen
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08034 Barcelona
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3000 Leuven
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100 44 Stockholm
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76131 Karlsruhe
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38106 Braunschweig
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9712CP Groningen
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2628 CN Delft
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1000 BRUSSELS
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81739 Munchen
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10557 Berlin
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59119 Bönen
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8092 Zuerich
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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76131 Karlsruhe
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38116 Braunschweig
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38302 Wolfenbuttel
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70173 Stuttgart
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PH1 3AQ Perth
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112 47 Stockholm
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