What is the SCOBE Project all about?

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What is the SCOBE Project all about?

The main aim of the project is to create a state of the art blended learning course targeting people in the renewable energy industry. The student program that will be created during the progression of the project will use the SCOBE Toolkit to help nearly 3 million people work in the field of wind energy!

Partners of SCOBE will inviting students you ultimately seek to find a job in the Wind Enery sector to take part in the SCOBE online course. Student will be given practical training and adult learners will be taight the latest technologies. At least 60 students and 30 adults will be involved in the training itself. Subjects covered will be:

SMART as supporting dynamic matching for regional development;
PERMEVET as post – secondary training;
RESKILL as skills connected to renewable energy;
SOLARIS PLUS – Innovative modular vocational education for renewable energy experts.

All of these skills will be available at www.scobeproject.eu and obtainable with the help of the SCOBE toolkit.

Interested in taking part? Simply visit our Contact Us page at the SCOBE website. We would love to hear from you!!

About Wind Energy

We have been harnessing the wind’s energy for hundreds of years. From old Holland to farms in the United States, windmills have been used for pumping water or grinding grain. Today, the windmill’s modern equivalent – a wind turbine – can use the wind’s energy to generate electricity.

Wind turbines, like windmills, are mounted on a tower to capture the most energy. At 100 feet (30 meters) or more above ground, they can take advantage of the faster and less turbulent wind. Turbines catch the wind’s energy with their propeller-like blades. Usually, two or three blades are mounted on a shaft to form a rotor.A blade acts much like an airplane wing. When the wind blows, a pocket of low-pressure air forms on the downwind side of the blade. The low-pressure air pocket then pulls the blade toward it, causing the rotor to turn. This is called lift. The force of the lift is actually much stronger than the wind’s force against the front side of the blade, which is called drag. The combination of lift and drag causes the rotor to spin like a propeller, and the turning shaft spins a generator to make electricity.

More information and to learn more visit: Renewable Energy World.

Modern wind turbines tower above one of their ancestors-an old windmill used for pumping water. Photo Credit: Warren Gretz

Project Progression

Partnership Meeting #3
Blyth, Northumberland (UK)

The third partner meeting of the SCOBE project took place not far from the Scottish border in Blyth, Northumberland (UK) from 8 to 9 October 2018. This time Accentuate North East Limited welcomed the team consisting of the representatives of AcrossLimits (Malta), ArchEnerg (Hungary), MAICH(Greece) and Vea Global (Spain).

The partners mainly dealt with the training material during the meeting. The two courses focusing on introductions to Wind Energy Generation and Wind Turbine Rotor Blades Repair, have seventeen units altogether. Each unit is divided into two subunits. Both courses (‘Introduction Course in Wind Energy’ and ‘Bonded Composite Repair of Wind Turbine Blades-an Introduction’) contain twenty-four lessons. Accentuate, GMI and MAICH are continuously working on the units of the training material while AcrossLimits is making it suitable for the virtual e-learning platform. Learning will be more delightful and exciting due to the interesting quizzes and videos making part of the e-learning platform. These professionals work in great cooperation supporting each other though there are still discussions about the lengths of the units. The training platform is expected to be finished by the summer of 2019.

The consultation became more stimulating by a walk on the beach, where the participants of the event could see the offshore wind turbines of Blyth. The other important part of the sessions was dissemination. The Hungarian ArchEnerg Cluster is responsible for this part of the project but every partner has to deal with some publicizing activities.

This is essential because people must know about these courses to be able to join and learn about rotor blades in the near future. For this, each partner has been in contact with educational institutions, energy companies and local municipalities from their own countries since the beginning of the project

Moreover, a few partners have also collaborators from other countries. Thanks to this, a great interest has risen in the online courses of SCOBE in Ukraine during the last few months. The partners are hoping to attract a great number of people who are willing to learn about wind energy.

Other Events / Confrences

Energy Storage 2019
Brussels, Belgium
Jan 23 2019 – Jan 24 2019

The conference will bring together senior representatives from:

The conference will bring together senior representatives from European energy suppliers, developers of storage technologies and suppliers energy storage services, policy regulators and industry associations, market analysts and consultants, research organizations and institutes, distributions network and transmission service operators, financial investments companies and governmental representatives.

The two-day event will provide excellent opportunities to learn from high profile speakers sharing their knowledge and expertise on overcoming the current challenges to managing energy storage projects and services.

You will also have the chance to network with industry leaders from across the entire value chain, to maximize the opportunities arising in the energy production and supply market, whilst also discovering the latest technologies and solutions that facilitate the development of energy storage facilities.

To get a full brochure or to register with 15% discount, please contact Mohammad Ahsan on +44 (0)20 3141 0606 or [email protected] or use EESe9Ahsan for online registration.

For more Information visit: Energy Storage 2019

Want to Get Participate?

Dont forget! If you are interested in taking part in the SCOBE training or your company is interested in collaborating in some way please Contact Us .
We want to hear from you!

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflect the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.