{"id":1310,"date":"2014-11-27T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/?page_id=1310"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T11:58:25","slug":"winter-2015-leuven-and-brussels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/training-and-events\/winter-2015-leuven-and-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2015 – Leuven and Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winter 2015 meeting took place at Elia System Operator (Brussels) and KU Leuven 19 – 23 January 2015.<\/p>\n

Programme<\/a>
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Visiting Scientist Dr Norman MacLeod joined us for the Assembly Meeting and to deliver two lectures on Thursday 22 January.<\/p>\n

Researcher training included:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

– Complementary skills<\/strong>
\nTraining on ‘Time and Self Management<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

– Industry day with Elia System Operator:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/strong>this included talks on the innovation process<\/a> by Alexandre Torreele, Head of Strategy and Innovation \u2013 Project Execution, on network security<\/a> and on the role of Elia Grid International by Olivier\u00a0 Bronckart and on HVDC research topics for VSC-HVDC installations<\/a> by Johan Rimez of the Technical Governance & Expertise division.\u00a0\u00a0 Researchers then visited the National Control Centre<\/a> and attended a talk by Luc Huybrechts on the role of the NCC.<\/p>\n\n\t\t