This Summer R&D Nester hosts 6 students who are contributing in research, studies and projects.

They are from Nova School of Science and Technology, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa and from IST - Instituto Superior Técnico.

Summer trainees at R&D Nester: Sofia Lopes, Catarina Marcelino, Ana Catarina Araújo, Manuel Barros, Davide Silva e Rafael Rodrigues

These selected students are from courses as Electrical Engineering and Computers and Energy and Environmental Engineering:

Instituto Superior Técnico:

• DAVIDE SILVA (Internship area: renewable sources)
• MANUEL BARROS (Internship area: aggregation of distributed energy resources)
• RAFAEL RODRIGUES (Internship area: electric vehicles)

Nova School of Science and Technology

• ANA CATARINA ARAÚJO (Internship area: storage)
• SOFIA LOPES (Internship area: networks/planning)

Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

• CATARINA MARCELINO (Internship area: consumption profiles)

This type of initiative allows these students to take advantage of their summer school break, thus enriching their knowledge with the reality of the sector dealing now with real projects.

In these period of collaboration with R&D Nester, these students end up acquiring more in-depth knowledge of the many concepts of the electricity and energy sector in general that until then only knew in theory.

This experience seeks to reconcile the theoretical and abstract knowledge these students acquired in their course, bridging the reality experienced in R&D Nester and the decisions that are associated to energy sector in general.

The context of R&D Nester is particularly suitable for this type of initiatives, as it provides them to work in Research, Development and Innovation area, often close to the student's study areas and already with a connection to applications In business life.

Trainees will work on themes such as networks/planning grid, consumption, aggregation of distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, batteries and renewable sources.

The work developed by them is aligned with the current research needs of R&D Nester, being used in real projects that are in progress.

The collaboration with these students will last between 5 to 7 weeks.

Trainees with their R&D Nester Coordinators

 This is intended to be an enriching experience to remember and to boost the professional career of these 6 potential researchers and future professionals in the sector.