On November 10, 2021, the National School of Engineering of Tunis (ENIT) and the Mediterranean Renewable Energy Center (MEDREC) participated in a seminar on “Water, Energy, and Electrification in Developing Countries,” organized by the organizations of the French-Speaking Engineering Technicians (CITEF) and the institutional network “Engineering Sciences” of the Francophone University Agency (AUF).
The seminar is a forum for building shared knowledge that should lead to significant actions that CITEF could potentially support. In this context, the ENIT and MEDREC team participated in a session on electrification to present “SMARTNESS Microgrid Platform: Community Energy Empowerment through Training and Capacity Building.”
During the presentation, it was emphasized that the pilot microgrid is a platform that serves for education, research, and training through:
Preparing future engineers for professional practice through practical workshops;
Developing experimentally validatable research activities as part of master’s and doctoral thesis projects;
Designing and conducting a training and capacity-building program for socio-economic operators to meet the technological challenges of a rapidly evolving field.
In a first initiative, the ENIT team established a Microgrid platform that provides a demonstration, training, and research environment, targeting national stakeholders in the energy sector, including STEG (Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company).
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