Program on Energy – Internship Program for Foreign Researchers, private practitioners, professionals and public officials

Objectives of the Contest: Fortalecer las capacidades y habilidades de los investigadores, Professional, funcionarios de instituciones públicas y privadas, en el desarrollo e implementación de tecnologías, proyectos demostrativos, modelos de nuevos negocios energéticos y aspectos institucionales, dando respuesta a necesidades concretas detectadas en el sector energético del país.

Disciplines involved:

  • Energy storage: (materiales y tecnologías).
  • Energy Efficiency: (construction, transport, industry, project evaluation, financial mechanisms and instruments, territorial management of energy resources and energy efficiency, education and certifications).
  • NCRE – General: Resource exploration. Electricity generation and incorporation of NCRE network. Project evaluation, financial mechanisms and instruments. Complementary services.
  • Solar Energy: PV/CSP : Materials and Alloys. Suitable designs to local realities. Sistemas termo-solares sanitarios. Design, sizing and installation.
  • Geothermal: High enthalpy (generation). Low and medium enthalpy: direct use (heating, industrial use, etc.).
  • Bioenergy: Production of renewable fuels (biomass, pellets, biogas, biofuels, waste to energy, etc.).Technologies to extract energy from biomass (boilers, gasifiers, heating equipment, etc.) Business Models (supply chains, bioenergetics city concept, biomass courtyards).
  • Energy of the Seas: Potential and register variables. Technologies to harness the tides and waves.
  • Small-scale water: (technology, installation, operation and maintenance)
  • Hybrid Systems to Produce Electricity: Design, sizing and coordination of systems for high penetration of renewable (solar – wind – biomass – diesel- or other).
  • Redes Inteligentes de Energía y Generación Distribuida (information technology, control systems, meters, and regulations).
  • Tecnologías de Producción de Calor y Refrigeración (technologies, district heating, cogeneration).
  • Gases no convencionales (methane hydrates, shale gas, gases carboníferos, etc.).
  • Tecnologías limpias de carbón (C02 capture and storage technologies).
  • Energía nuclear (fuel cycle, radioactive waste management, Radiation Safety, new technologies, assessment of natural hazards).

You can propose another topic, must be justified their relevance.

Benefits:

  • Roundtrip airfare, point-to-point economy class funded by CONICYT.
  • Asignación de manutención para el/la adjudicatario/a durante el programa de pasantía, of $1.500.000 (one million five hundred thousand pesos) monthly, for a maximum of six months, counting from the beginning of the internship.

Chileno/a o extranjero/a con residencia definitiva en Chile. Investigadores y profesionales del sector privado, vinculados al ámbito de la ciencia, la tecnología o la innovación a nivel nacional. Profesionales y funcionarios de instituciones públicas.

  • Contest Start Date:13 July 2011
  • Competition closing date: 29 August 2011