Building European Nuclear Competence through continuous Advanced and Structured Education and Training Actions

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Nuclear power and non-power technologies are technically very complex facilities that operate in the increasingly challenging regulatory framework and market conditions.

Development, construction, operation, decommissioning, waste management and oversight of these facilities require personnel with excellent education, skills and motivation: nuclear specialists, that are equipped to work in multidisciplinary, multicultural and competitive environments.

ENEN2plus stands for the largest and most integrative nuclear Education and Training (E&T) efforts up to date in nuclear E&T.

Attraction of excellent new talents followed by outstanding development through E&T, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary activities are the overarching objectives.

Excellent workforce should remain the basic enabler of safe long-term operation of existing and development of advanced facilities. A detailed insight into the EU supply and demand of nuclear human resources for power and non-power applications will be developed. This will include industries, academia, technical safety organizations and regulators.

Higher number of nuclear talents will be achieved through dedicated career-related events and competitions for high school pupils and teachers, students (BSc, MSC, PhD), postdocs and lifelong learners.

A strong mobility program will support over 100 person-years of nuclear career-enhancing experience to about 1.000 learners with over 2,5 million EUR.

Cross-border and cross-disciplinary mobility within and beyond EU will be promoted in cooperation with JRC, OECD/NEA and partners from USA, Canada, China, Korea and Japan.

A single hub will be established to provide information on available educational, training and job opportunities.

Appropriate connections with the complementary project facilitating access to research infrastructures will be maintained.

A centralized platform with coherent information on vocational training programs, developed during the project, will be established.

Meeting on 21 September 2023 – after 1 year (and some) of project implementation

EVENTS

2 December 2022

ONLINE EVENT : Nuclear Energy for a Cleaner Future

14 December 2022

HYBRID EVENT : Coordination Meeting (WP & Tasks Leaders)

7 March 2023

IN PERSON EVENT : Nuclear Career Days

3-7 July 2023

IN PERSON EVENT : 3rd European Nuclear Competition for Secondary Schools

Website for registration: http://nuclearcompetition2023.enen.bme.hu/

ENEN as coordinator of ENEN2Plus

The European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN), since its establishment in 2003, has had “the main purpose of the preservation and the further development of expertise in the nuclear fields by higher education and training”, counteracting difficulties that, with alternate fates, have been experienced in the last two decades. In almost twenty years of its existence, ENEN has deployed efforts in support to E&T in nuclear sectors, with the continuing contributions to EU projects, organising the most important actors in the E&T and cooperating with technological platforms and industrial bodies. From the early results of the establishment of the European Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering (EMSNE) Certification and of the ENEN PhD Event and Prize, which catalyzed and coordinated efforts at the academic level, the activities of ENEN have progressed considerably towards better serving the end-users. This allowed including industrial bodies among its Members and/or involving them in important projects in support to E&T and Vocational Education and Training (VET).

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ENEN2plus is the LARGEST MOBILITY ACTION to date

WP1

WP1 – Human Resources analysis in the nuclear sector

The overall objective is to evaluate the workforce required by the nuclear sector in Europe and to identify any gaps in terms of nuclear Education & Training to match the needs.

WP2

WP2 – Informing and attracting new talents

The main objectives can be summarized as follows:

the development of one single point of entry for information on nuclear education, training, job opportunities, and access to facilities;
• the organization of career events where information on education, training and careers in nuclear is given and opportunities for networking between students, young professionals and employers are created;
• increasing the visibility of outstanding work related to nuclear research or applications;
• outreach towards pupils and their teachers with dedicated competitions and summer schools;
• promoting transdisciplinary approaches to create awareness on the broad applications of ionising radiation in nuclear as well as non-nuclear industry and healthcare.

WP3

WP3 – Enhancing nuclear competencies: continuous E&T programs

The objectives of the WP3 are as follows:
• the analysis and benchmarking of existing E&T programs provided by other European projects and the development of E&T materials for new themes according to the needs,
• the organization of events for BSc/MSc/PhD students,
• the setup of networking cross-YG and cross-professional organizations as stimulating collaboration in the different nuclear fields,
• the revision of the existing EU strategy for E&T in nuclear.

WP4

WP4 – Development of Sustainable Vocational Training Program and Network

The objectives of the WP4 are to:
• understand and analyse the existing Vocational Education and Training (VET) offer in the nuclear field,
• identify critical jobs in the nuclear domain and specify vocational training that will contribute to resolving the criticality,
• contribute to resolving the current fragmentation of the relevant nuclear vocational training opportunities in the EU, guarantee a coherent and sustainable Euratom vocational training programme

WP5

WP5 – Mobility schemes for nuclear talents

The WP aims at enhancing EURATOM competencies through mobility opportunities, including access to world-class infrastructures and job perspectives.

In particular, the WP objectives are:
• Develop, implement and manage a comprehensive mobility scheme
• Establish and implement links with project(s) supporting access to infrastructures
• Identify and follow-up opportunities for sustainable funding

WP6

WP6 – Internationalization and stakeholder involvement

The objective of WP6 is to engage international organizations with the scope to provide the necessary set of Educational and Training actions to nuclear domains that are missing the expertise at the level of EU.

WP7

WP7 – Communication and Dissemination

The objectives of WP7 are:

1) to disseminate the project results to targeted audiences and the general public,

2) to assure communication with relevant stakeholders and decision-makers,

3) to support outreach to potential beneficiaries.

WP8

WP8 – Project and data management

The project is a large integration action with more than 50 partners involved. It makes project management very challenging. A strong Management Support Team is therefore in place (established by ENEN and EVALION) to assure smooth implementation, progress monitoring and planning, event organization and decision-making.
The management will also rely on the activity of the nominated WP Leaders, who will play an important role in internal information flow, assurance of quality and timely delivery. The management rules will be based
on well-known and widely accepted DESCA model Consortium Agreement.
The objective of WP8 is to ensure efficient:

1) Project management

2) Data and knowledge management

Included is also the organization of project meetings and steering of the project management bodies (General Assembly as the highest decision-making body, Executive Board as the executive body, Management Support Team – MST as assistance in administrative issues, Advisory Committee – AC as one of contact points with the external scientific community, End-Users Committee – EUC as an interface with industries and
Mobility Committees – MCs for management of the Mobility activities under WP5).

Link to the HUB serving as E&T database (…coming soon…)

Link to the PROJECT DEDICATED WEBSITE: https://www.enen2plus.eu/home

PUBLIC DELIVERABLES – available for download

D 1.2 Report on Human Resources needs in Research, Safety and Waste Management

D 1.3 Report on HR needs in non-power nuclear sector applications

PROJECT BULLETIN

FIRST Bulletin – SPRING 2023

SECOND Bulletin – SUMMER 2023

THIRD Bulletin – AUTUMN 2023

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the  European Commission can be held responsible for them.

 Frequently Asked Questions about ENEN2plus MOBILITY

1. Can urgent applications be evaluated faster in order to respect the student’s deadlines?
No. You are advised to take notice of the average time between the submission deadline and decision, which is about 4 months. The payments to the successful applicants are to be
expected in about 3-4 months after the submission deadline.

2. Is it possible to request the mobility support for a mobility action in the past?
Yes, if the action started after June 1, 2022, and will end before May 31, 2026. Please note, however, that this is not an advantage in the evaluation of the application.

3. Are ENEN# mobility grants for longer mobility actions paid in monthly instalments?
No. All ENEN# grants are paid as lump sums in a single bank transfer to the account indicated by the successful candidate in the web application system.

4. Are medical expenses taken in account by ENEN# grants?
No. The mobility grants can only be used to cover the transportation and subsistence costs, and in some cases, also the registration or tuition fees. Applicants are advised to consult their receiving and/or sending institution to verify the status of their medical insurance.

5. Can ENEN# or ENEN AISBL provide acceptance certificates for student needing visa?
No. Candidates are advised to contact their host institution for this purpose.

6. Is it possible to change the dates of an accepted mobility action?
The mobility action has been accepted based on the data provided by the applicant. So, no changes can be accommodated after the acceptance. If a change occurs after the acceptance, the applicants are strongly advised to withdraw the application. A new application, containing the same information and the new dates is started and can follow a short track for approval, providing the original application was accepted and only the dates were changed. The applicant should notify secretariat@enen.eu via email with ‘ENEN2plus mobility change of dates – number of original application’ as subject of the email.

7. My application was declined. Where can I learn about the reasons for this?
ENEN# will not disclose the reasons for declining a particular application. Experience from the past ENEN+ project indicates that the most frequent reasons for declining the applications include:

at least one of the reviewers disagrees on technical or scientific grounds;

the topic of the application does not match the nuclear topic declared at submittal (e.g., studying radon effects in nuclear engineering);

the topic of the application is outside of the scope of the ENEN# project;

senior experts with already established nuclear careers cannot benefit from ENEN#;

applicant requested 0 EUR or more than the maximal mobility grant;

proposed mobility action is not cross-border;

both supervisors (from the sending and receiving institutions) are from the same organisation and/or country.

8. Can the same person apply for more than one ENEN# mobility grant?
Yes. The limitations is that each individual will be eligible to a maximum of one submitted application per rolling deadline. (see Table 9);

9. Can the ENEN# mobility grant be transferred to an account outside of the IBAN system?
Yes, but it usually involves substantial costs (e.g. taxes), which will need to be borne by the applicant, and longer transfer times. In any case, the transfer will be made in Euro (€). In case of multiple transfers, due to wrongfully provided information from the applicant to ENEN, all associated costs are to be borne by the applicant.

NOTE about REPORT and Questionnaire !!!!!!!!!

Applicant is obliged to submit a mission report (see section 3.4) and answer the questionnaire (see section 5.4) through the application portal no later than 30 days after completion of the mobility action OR if the payments is received after the mobility action, no later than 30 days after the payment has been received. Failure to submit the report will require the applicant to return the full lump sum.

APPROVED GROUP EVENTS – A Group mobility application has been settled, individuals can apply for these courses