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Romania has various regions which have geothermal potential, but due to insufficient information and few professionals in the field, these areas are not exploited to their full potential, thus investments in those areas fail to appear.
The project aims at providing all interested stakeholders (local and national authorities, academia, various experts etc.) with the opportunity of participating in a series of lectures/workshops, field visits and the opening and closing conferences, with the following main topics: (i) new findings in the research field of geothermal energy and the theoretical framework representing the base of geothermal energy investments and more importantly identifying areas prone for geothermal investments and (ii) the best practice examples which could be replicated in areas with geothermal potential in Romania.
The project is structured as a hybrid between online and live workshops, held in Romania and in Iceland. Through the online workshops it is aimed at setting the theoretical framework for the selected target group, presenting them with the basic theoretical concepts of geothermal energy production and harvesting and its numerous applications, while with the live workshops it is aimed at providing best-practice examples from Iceland and try and spark interest for the replication of the same model in Romania, depending on the availability of resources.
There are two project partners: National Energy Authority (OS, Iceland) and University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics (Romania).
There will be organized: 1 meeting between the the Project Partners (in Romania), 2 conferences (in Romania), 2 online workshops, 2 workshops/lectures and field visits (one in Romania and one in Iceland).