D-NA3.2 Education and Training Material for E-learning and Laboratory Education
Creators: name: Kontou, Alkistis Christina
name: Paspatis, Alexandros
name: Strasser, Thomas
name: Ramos, Leonhard
name: Heussen, Kai
name: Anastasakis, Kostas
name: Rikos, Evangelos
name: Nikoletatos, John
name: Makrides, George
name: Feng, Zhiwang
name: Gilbert, Ian
name: Kamsamrong, Jirapa
name: Schwarz, Jan Sören
Publisher: name: The ERIGrid 2.0 Consortium
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education
Training
Educational Tools
Webinars
E-learning Material
Virtual Laboratories
Remote Laboratories
Hands-on Laboratories
European Union (EU)
H2020
Project
ERIGrid 2.0
GA 870620
Deliverable

description: This report presents the results and developments related to the provision of education and training material for e-learning and laboratory education of ERIGrid 2.0. The main objective of those activities is to develop and provide open source, online e-learning tools, material, and modules for laboratory education on project-related developments and identified topics. As part of the project's activities, an educational strategy is established for the identification of the target audiences, areas and topics of education as well as the advanced educational methods to be utilised for the efficient training on smart grids, smart energy systems and renewables research, which is used to guide and assess the impact of the training activities and developments.
Efficient education plays a critical role in promoting the energy transition. The new era of smart grids implies the increased digitalization of energy systems, thus people who study and work on topics related to power systems should be properly trained and develop new skills and capacities to deal with the contemporary complex environment and the interdisciplinary dependencies that exist in modern energy systems. The developed material and e-learning tools target university students, young researchers, and professionals. The educational topics and areas are identified as part of the educational strategy and cover a wide range of aspects related to smart grids. The tools and material delivered comprise five webinars, three educational tools, one interactive notebook, three virtual labs and one remote lab, one video and a couple of presentations. Furthermore, a Massive Open Online Course is under development as well as two laboratory modules.
More specifically, the delivered webinars cover the topics of remote testing, recent research trends in engineering and validation of cyber-physical energy systems, new co-simulation features of Mosaik 3.0, growing complexity of power and energy systems through the interconnection of geographically distributed research laboratories, RICH Europe, and Research Infrastructure access opportunities. Moreover, the tools educate the learners on load flow execution in Python, energy analysis for microgrids and islanded power systems, and smart grid applications leveraging machine learning principles. The developed Jupyter interactive notebooks allow the power flow calculation in transmission networks, using MATLAB and Python programming languages. The virtual labs offer the possibility of virtual access to solar-plus-storage system environmental and performance measurements, virtual access to microgrid and realtime measurements as well as virtual access to Photovoltaic models and related environmental measurements. Apart from the virtual labs, remote access is provided to an experimental microgrid for the online execution of experiments.
Additional educational material, including an introductory video about ERIGrid 2.0 activities and the slides from a tutorial regarding the latest digitally-enhanced methods and technologies used to enable the necessary observability and control of underlying Distributed Energy Resource assets in smart grids, are provided. Finally, the Massive Open Online Course will consist of six seminars and will cover topics on technical developments and validation methods in modern power and energy systems. The developed material and tools are publicly available at the dedicated section of the ERIGrid 2.0 website, in order to provide an online resource centre that is easily accessible to interested individuals.