Training
ATENA designs and offers interdisciplinary training programs that integrate research, advanced education, innovation, and competitiveness. The testing of prototypes and the acquisition of practical skills in the management and maintenance of innovative systems provide unique opportunities for professional training and skills development.
The high-level training activities ensure that Atena is not only a context capable of generating new knowledge, but also of transferring it externally—stimulating patent applications, the creation of new enterprises, and the consolidation of a technological district capable of supporting a new industrial policy for development, competitiveness, and employment.
Atena's training projects
Training School “Innovative Systems and High-Efficiency Technologies for Polygeneration”
The Training School for researchers and technicians “FOR INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES FOR POLYGENERATION” was held in parallel with the entire PON Research and Development Project “Fuel Cell Lab.”
It was aimed at preparing personnel specialized in the design, modeling, testing, and control of components for stationary and mobile energy systems based on fuel cells, while also developing skilled resources for the subsequent phases of technological refinement, pre-commercial demonstration, and industrialization.
The project trained experts in design, research, and development in the field of innovative systems and high-efficiency technologies for polygeneration.
Training School “Technologies for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions”
The Training School for researchers and technicians “FOR INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS” was held in parallel with the entire PON Research and Development Project “Smart Generation.”
The goal was to train and prepare personnel specialized in the design, modeling, and testing of greenhouse gas emission reduction technologies—namely energy efficiency/savings, renewable energy sources, and CCS (carbon capture and storage) systems—in line with international mitigation scenarios outlined by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The project also aimed to develop technical professionals for the subsequent phases of technological refinement, pre-commercial demonstration, and industrialization.
The following professional profiles were trained:
1 – Expert in design, research, and development in the field of technologies for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
2 – Expert in design, research, and development in the field of CO₂ bio-capture and utilization technologies
PTraining Project “Il paese del sole”
“Il paese del sole” is a project aimed at activating the educational community to support youth development and their active participation in citizenship. It was submitted for funding to the social enterprise “Con i Bambini.”
Promoted by the association Maestri di Strada Onlus, the project fostered the integration of initiatives aimed at encouraging the use of city resources rather than marginalization in peripheral ghettos.
The project aimed to create an educational city where disadvantaged and privileged communities look at each other with mutual solidarity and develop concrete forms of cooperation rooted in the principles of a solidarity-based economy and community welfare.
The driving force of the project is the Open Space for Educational Planning and Research – SAPERE – a place where practitioners, through reflection on experience, activate the vital functions of the educational community.
Main actions:
- Active, hands-on teaching workshops in schools for the development of disciplinary and professional skills
- Open Reflection Space Workshops on Parental Educational Care
- Relief spaces for parents bearing excessive caregiving responsibilities for children with difficulties of various kinds and origins.
- Cross-cutting space for the training of peer educators
- Cross-cutting space for school-to-work transition programs