Impact
The highly focused training program of RENESENG aims also to ensure continuation of their own professional development once the RENESENG Project is over. The presence of the industrial teams will ensure that the intersectorial training will remove the classical barriers to mobility by equipping the researchers with a much wider set of skills that any single institution could deliver.
The fellows will learn all the different aspects of developing a research project, from problem solving, prioritizing tasks, to human resources management, financial management and communication skills, that will enable them progress in their chosen career and will help them to prepare new projects.
Fellows will be called to present the activities and the importance of research in biorefienery and bio-chemicals systems engineering during info days to University students as well as open science days to the public or presentation in schools to attract young people in engineering sciences. Participation of women in the PSE field remains very law. Priority should be given to assure a 30% of women in research fellows.
Working within RENESENG will provide each researcher with a unique opportunity to build their own network of contacts in both academia and industry.
RENESENG objective is to prepare all the fellows for a real interesting career and create attractive opportunities for them. The consortium will provide an academic-industrial environment which will allow the fellows to experience the different working environment, different approach to problem solving, different priorities and also to learn different skills. Collaboration with industrial partners will also promote a more entrepreneurial mindset, encouraging academics to seek applications for their science and providing researchers within valuable skills in process system development and management.
The ultimate long-term objectives of RENESENG is to initiate and encourage agreements between European universities that will lead to join, a multicenter PhD program in order to strengthen European research and structure the research in the new field of design of biorefinery, biofuel and (bio)chemical process systems of the future, their exploitation and career opportunities for young scientists. The network program will have a significant impact for the partners involved that goes beyond training and research programs. Integration and exchange will mutually increase the partners workforce and effectiveness, not to the least via collaboration with external researchers with specific know-how and experience in the relevant fields. This will contribute to diversify the scientific and technological expertise of the partners and reduce knowledge fragmentation, and will also lead to new long term collaborations. In addition the presence of international researchers at the host institutes will improve the communication skills of local researchers and students with respect to foreign languages and will certainly enhance the readiness for international mobility, thus improving knowledge transfer to other European countries.
RENESENG aims to foster a new generation of highly-qualified researchers in Biorefinery and biobased chemicals Systems Engineering Sciences in Europe, essentially preparing future communities of systems engineers that are expected to bear high impact in the operation and design of newly establishing industrial complexes in biorefinering and more generally in eco-industries. The effort requires to bring together academic and industrial teams, with particularly interdisciplinary and high-quality expertise.