Strengthening education and research in Applied Informatics for Energy System Integration

The 5-year NORPART project "Applied Informatics for Energy System Integration" (AI-ESI) aims to make a contribution by conducting joint activities between the partner universities in Norway, Egypt, and Palestine. Academic cooperation will target educational programmes development, teaching, research and supervision, and mutual virtual and physical student/researcher mobility.

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Facts
Duration

2022-2026

Coordinator

University of Stavanger, Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering

Funding

Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills through the NORPART scheme

Partners

Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (Egypt) Palestine Ahliya University (Palestine)

Energy systems of the future

About the project

The AI-ESI project (short for 'Applied Informatics for Energy System Integration') seeks to bring together educational and research strengths across the partner universities to provide their students/researchers with a multidisciplinary-, 360-degree- view of sustainable energy systems engineering. The project will cover the major topics essential for energy transition towards more sustainability including renewable energy resources, energy systems integration, and energy technologies. In addition to the core energy knowledge, students will be equipped with an essential toolkit of applied informatics and energy data analytics to manage real-life energy projects and therefore making them ready for a variety of careers in the energy industry. Thus, the project will enable the students to tackle complex energy and climate challenges by developing and implementing technological concepts and solutions, understanding the energy business environment, and analysing available energy-related data through the use of artificial intelligent techniques and machine learning skills in their countries. In addition the project is designed to positively impact and support gender equality in the energy sector workforce in the academia/private sector.

A large part of the planned project activities comprise mobility grants for students (at post-graduate level) and researchers. More information will be made available in the sections below.

We also encourage students to apply for Norstip, a scholarship scheme for degree-seeking master’s students from selected partner institutions outside the EU/EEA.

More information will come

More information will come.

Contact persons

Associate Professor
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering
Adviser
51832751
University of Stavanger
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty Administration TN
Project Support and PhD Administration TN

Partners

Project team

Adviser
51832751
University of Stavanger
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty Administration TN
Project Support and PhD Administration TN
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering
Head of Department
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering
Head of Administration
51832188
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty Administration TN
Associate Professor
51832534
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering
Postdoctoral Fellow
51831160
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering
Peter Breuhaus
Chief Scientist
NORCE
Rania Rageh
Head of Accredited International Programs
Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport
Yasser Gaber Dessouky
Professor
Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)
Khaled Shanaa
Head of the Projects Department
Palestine Ahliya University
Labib Arafeh
Dean of engineering and Information tech faculty
Palestine Ahliya University
Ahmed Abdou
Head of engineering department
Palestine Ahliya University
News

Visit to UiS from Arab Academy For Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

Stavanger, June 26th-27th

Visit to UiS from Arab Academy For Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

AI-ESI partners from UiS and AASTMT (from left to right): Norbert Puttkamer, Yasser Gaber Dessouky, Mohammad Mansouri, Bente Karin Dale, Mona Fouad Moussa, Øystein Arild.

Visit to UiS from Arab Academy For Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

Social gathering of project contributors (from left to right): Bente Karin Dale, Helleik Rosenvinge Syse, Kasra Saberi Beglar, Ali Karimi, Øystein Arild, Norbert Puttkamer, Yasser Gaber Dessouky, Micol Pezzotta.

Visit to UiS from Arab Academy For Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

Researchers explaining their research activities (from left to right): Helleik Rosenvinge Syse, Ali Karimi, Micol Pezzotta, Yasser Gaber Dessouky, Mona Fouad Moussa, Mohammadreza Kamali, Kasra Saberi Beglar, Norbert Puttkamer.

Visit to UiS from Arab Academy For Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

Øystein Arild presenting the Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering of UiS (from left to right): Mona Fouad Moussa, Yasser Gaber Dessouky, Øystein Arild, and back to camera are Norbert Puttkamer, and Bente Karin Dale.

Prof. Yasser Gaber Dessouky (Dean of Scientific Research and Innovation) and Prof. Mona Fouad Moussa (Academic Dean for Smart Village Campus) from Arab Academy For Science, Technology & Maritime Transport – AASTMT in Egypt visited UiS on 26th and 27th of June 2024.

During this visit, a joint meeting with colleagues from Palestine Ahliya University (PAU) was arranged in which the AI-ESI project members received an overview of the activities in the recent months and discuss the upcoming activities.

In addition, researchers at the Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering shared their recent research activities with the visiting members of the AI-ESI project from AASTMT, Egypt.

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Visit to Norway from Palestinian partners

Stavanger, November 28th-29th

The core team of the Palestinian partner visited Norway in November.

The 3 days program included discussion around collaboration within:

Mobility: presentation of rules of admission for exchange/visiting students at UiS. More info can be found here: https://www.uis.no/en/studies/inbound-exchange.

Education: shared online platform for collaboration in education

Research: current research within the Energy field, with presentations by PhD students at UiS, managers of existing projects and by the partner research organization NORCE.

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NORPART project seminar 2022

OsloMet, September 21-22

En kvinne står utenfor Oslo Met.

The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-Dir) arranged a meeting for the project core teams of all the ongoing NORPART projects.

NORPART is the 'partnership program for global academic collaboration'. The objective of the program is to strengthen the academic collaboration and mutual mobility of students between Norway and countries of the global South.

Some representatives of UiS and of the core team of the AI-ESI project participated in the meeting where they could listen to the experiences of other project coordinators. The speakers shared lessons learned, challenges and suggested solutions. Among them, also some students currently staying in Oslo for their mobility period shared their first impressions, and plans for their stay.

At the photo: Micol Pezzotta.

The program and the presentations held during the seminar are available at HK-Dir website here, https://hkdir.no/arrangement/norpart-project-seminar-2022.

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Kick-off meeting

The project started on February 16th with a digital meeting (via TEAMS) where all partners met to review the work-plan and discuss the tasks and deliverables.