07-06-12

0

The exchange of students’ experiences between regions is the central focus of PraTLA’s final stage

PraTLA is a sub-project on practical training of students and local energy experts in local authorities. It helps to open doors: students get a first insight into local administrational structures and local authorities learn to better tap certain potential and setting up of strategies using students as energy experts for these tasks.

The Sub-Project will end at 31st October 2012. Since the beginning of 2011 until now, approximately 58 trainings in 4 different countries have been carried out or are currently completing in municipal institutions.

For Lower Silesia, this time period was the core activity part of the project since all practical trainings were carried out in a period of three months. In this region there are only very few local energy strategies available. So, the students focused on helping the local authorities to set up an initial strategy on energy efficiency measures identifying some key areas. Seven papers on local strategies have been prepared under PraTLA in the region. In Haute-Savoie, smaller groups of students have assessed local EE activities in some smaller municipalities in the region and identified first improvement potential in this area which will be in some cases anchored in concrete measures that are being set up. In Saxony, students assessed concrete areas of intervention in local authorities or public institutions and performed feasibility studies on the improvement of heating systems or energy-efficient potential in the refurbishment of public buildings.

read more →



04-06-12

0

Students are helping Trixi for saving

Grandaunts are looking for possibilities for saving energy for Großschönau bath. Also other municipalities put on such helping.

Yvonne Geldner and Alexander Rewerk are studying industrial engineering with the specialization of energy management and energy technology at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/ Görlitz. Currently, they are writing their diploma thesis and are working on a topic for “Trixipark Großschönau GmbH” (a holyday park with an adventure pool). Already in their semester before they did work on a topic for this municipal institution.

Extract of the press release: in “Sächsische Zeitung” (Newspaper from Saxony); April 2012

German press release: Yvonne Geldner and Alexander Rewerk are currently completing their practical training in collaboration with a municipal institution in Großschönau

read more →



04-06-12

0

Instead of cooking coffee, Anton Zimmermann is helping the municipality of Kodersdorf to save money (and energy)

Anton Zimmermann is studying energy- and environmental technologies at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/ Görlitz and completes their 5-month practical training at the municipality of Kodersdorf.

Extract of the press release: in Sächsische Zeitung (Newspaper from Saxony); 6th March 2012

German press release: Anton Zimmermann completed their practical training in the municipality Kodersdorf 

read more →