EU best practices-based education in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Culture for the Belarusian Academia - RADIUM

Organisation

University of Applied Sciences Mannheim structure involved:
Institute of Physical Chemistry and Radiochemistry

Scientific manager:
Ulrich W. Scherer

HSMA Team:
Ulrich W. Scherer, Lotte Lens, Dominik Krupp

Erasmus+ Action type: 
Capacity Building in higher education

Project reference: 
609721-EPP-1-2019-1-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

Start Date: 15 January 2020
End Date: 14 January 2023

Budget:
Total:
€ 999,722
HSMA: 65,650

 

Partners

Coordinator:
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (IT);

Partners:
Universiteit Hasselt (BE)
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (BY)
Belarussky Gosudarstvenniy Universitet Informatiki i Radioelektroniki (BY)
Polotsk State University (BY)
Polessky State University (BY)
Francisk Skorina Gomel State University (BY)
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (ES)
Belarusian State University (BY)
Hochschule Mannheim (DE)

Scope

Summary:

Belarus is in the process of building nuclear power generation with two reactors envisaged: Construction of the first will be completed this year, construction of the second will finish in 2020. Higher Education in nuclear safety and radiation protection will be of utmost importance, hence appropriate curricula need to be developed and set in place.

Aim of this project is the development of curricula at the Master level, in line with Bologna principles, to be accredited by the Ministry of education and adopted throughout the Country. To this aim, a number of Belarusian University, covering practically all the regions of the Country, have been involved in the project, and will serve both as developers and as “testing facilities” for the new curricula. The EU Universities involved all have a long-lasting and deep experience in the field, and have developed in the past their own curricula in the field. The expected results will be innovative two-year study program, including a special attention to practical training effected with a two prong approach: New, up to date didactic laboratories to be set up in all the Belarusian partner HEIs; traineeships in institutions and companies active in the field of nuclear safety and radiation protection.

Special attention shall be focused on “training the trainers”, i.e., professional instruction and internship for the teachers-to-be. Ideally, a first generation of teachers will be formed during the three years of the project, and this first group of fully trained teachers will continue the work raising the new generations of instructors. The end result will be a Country-wide education framework in the field of nuclear safety and radiation protection.

The impact on the Country is quite clear: the capability of handling the new nuclear industry safely and effective; the wider impact for Europe will be that a newcomer in the nuclear industry can be trusted to be capable to manage its nuclear potential.