Background & Objectives

International DAAD-Alumni Seminar
“Applied Solar Technology in Developing Countries”
held June 2^nd 2015 (arrival date)
to June, 9^th 2015 (departure date to Munich)
in Witzenhausen, Germany

followed by a visit to the world's leading solar trade fair
“Intersolar Europe 2015”
June 10^th – 12^th 2015
in Munich, Germany
(departure date from Germany is June 13th)

The seminar and trade fair visit are part of the program DAAD Alumni Special Projects. The seminar is organized and hosted by the Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics of the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences of the University of Kassel (Prof. Dr. Oliver Hensel) and DITSL Witzenhausen in close cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Kassel (Prof. Dr. Dirk Dahlhaus).The costs will be mainly covered by funds from the DAAD provided by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

The seminar targets German university alumni from developing countries (DAC country nationals) who are professionally involved in solar and/or regenerative energy technology in the framework of rural or urban, public or private sector development, and who are working for academic or educational institutions, development organizations, NGO's, donor agencies or private enterprises. Participants should be potential multipliers in a position to spread the acquired knowledge and experience and/or take decisions on implementation.

The seminar will promote exchange between the participants in the field of solar technology, facilitate international scientific cooperation and qualify the participants in the field of photovoltaic equipment, solar food processing and solar energy driven water equipment. The seminar will foster exchange of experiences, establishment of international networks between the participants, scientific discourse with regard to solar engineering, and international academic cooperation in this field. It will stimulate and promote ideas for joint research, technology development and knowledge transfer on photovoltaic, solar heat and solar engineering.