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ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, jointly organize a training workshop on “3G-HSPA and LTE: Towards the Next Generation of Mobile Networks” to be held in Skopje, from 3 to 5 February 2010. This workshop has been developed within the ITU Centres of Excellence Network initiative for Europe and will take place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje. It will be focused on technology, regulation and business aspects of 3G-HSPA and LTE, towards the next generation of mobile networks. It is addressed to regulators, executives, engineers, administration and officials from regulators, telecommunication companies, academia and government organizations who are interested in technology, regulation and business aspects of 3G-HSPA and LTE, towards the next generation of mobile networks. For formal Letter of Invitation for the ITU CoE workshop, and information regarding the workshop agenda and registration, all interested participants should contact Prof. Toni Janevski, PhD (tonij@feit.ukim.edu.mk), latest by January 29, 2010.

Student seminar in Renewable Energy Resources, classification, possibilities and prospects was held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, from 3 to 14 December, 2007. The seminar was organized by the Department of Power Plants and Systems, under the auspices of the Willy Brandt Foundation- Italy.

The relevance of the subject prompted a great deal of interest among the students and the number of filled-in application forms for attendance exceeded 50. After the evaluation of the forms, a selection was made and the seminar was actively attended by 35 undergraduate and postgraduate students, mainly from the Power Engineering and Control Engineering curricula.

The aim of the seminar was to enrich students’ knowledge in the possibilities of using wind energy, solar energy, hydro energy, geothermal energy, biomass and other renewable energetic potentials in the country and abroad. Moreover, the seminar covered some methods for energetic-economic analysis of the projects for renewable energy resources, as well as modern software packages for specification of project parameters and the performances of certain types of renewable energy resources.

Lecturers at seminar were: Prof. Arsen Arsenov, Ph.D., Prof. Vangel Fustik, Ph.D., Prof. Mito Zlatanovski, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. Anton Causevski, Ph.D., Doc. Atanas Iliev, Ph.D., and Doc. Krste Najdenkovski, Ph.D. from FEEIT, Prof. Slave Armenski, Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Teodora Grncarovska, M.A., from the Ministry of Environment,  Zoran Sapuric, Ph.D., and the expert in the  use of geothermal energy for electrical power generation Mr. Guido Capetti from ENEL-Italy.

The students were especially active during the seminar, and we need to point out their regular attendance, their commitment and their efforts to enlarge their knowledge.

All the students who will complete the seminar successfully will receive a certificate. On the other hand, the students who study according to the new ECTS, after the completion of the seminar and the knowledge check, will receive 2 credits, in accordance with the Decision brought by the Faculty Council.

Professor Siegfried Selberherr from the Institute of Microelectronics at the Technical University in Vienna visited Skopje on the invitation of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies and in collaboration with the Institute of Electronics and the Macedonian Section of the IEEE. On 14.09.2007 in the Faculty's Conference Room professor Selberherr gave a lecture on Microelectronics modeling in organization of the Macedonian section of the IEEE.

Besides giving the lecture, the guest visited the Office of the Dean and the Institute of Electronics and he discussed with the hosts about a collaboration between the two institutions.

A photograph of Prof. Selberherr with some of the people present at the lecture was made after the lecture.

The President of the Management Committee of the EVN Group from Vienna-Austria, Mr. Herbert Haidvogl with his associate collaborators and Prof. Lothar Fickert from the Technical University of Graz realized a professional visit to FEEIT.

During their conversation with the Dean of the Faculty, questions of mutual interest came up for discussion, such as awarding scholarships for the students of the FEEIT by EVN, possibilities of organizing Technological park, organization of professional seminars on project management and technical education according to the needs of EVN, continuation of the current collaboration and the installation of the new transformer station for FEEIT and ME Faculty.

In addition, the possibility of creating joint teams for changing and adaptating the standards in the electric power engineering in accordance with the new conditions and standards in the EU was also proposed. The possibility of financing topics and work on doctoral thesis practically oriented towards the needs of EVN was particularly stressed.

Within the frames of the Campaign for the promotion and affirmation of the Electrical Energy curricula, the Dean of the FEEIT, Prof. Vangel Fustik, Ph.D., gave interviews for the KaTV, a Kavadarci television, and for the morning programme of the MTV. Special accent was put on the fact that a lack of professional profiles needed for the planning, promotion, managing and realization of the projects planned in the fields of Electrical Energy and Electrical Supply and the general economic development of the country, as well, is already felt.

The Dean highlighted that for a successful implementation of this kind of projects, professional cadres who are supposed to put them into effect are crucial, besides the investments, the natural wealth of the country, appropriate policy and orientation of the Government.

He warned that the number of people of these profiles is lower than needed and that a stimulating policy for increasing the production of graduate electrical engineers of this sort is essential.

In this direction, in the registration term the Faculty awarded 30 scholarships to the best high-school students (10 for each curricula).