Renewable and Sustainable Energy Laboratory (RSEL), Kathmandu University, recently organized a two-day international workshop on ‘Research/Problem-Based Education for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Development’, in collaboration with the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka, and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Bangladesh. The main aim of the workshop was to bring different professionals working in the renewable and sustainable energy field from academia, government, non-government and private sectors in one place and intensely discuss and share experiences on the opportunities and challenges of renewable and sustainable energy development, technology transfer, and possible ways to strengthen research-based education emphasizing the circular economy. The workshop was…

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Laboratory (RSEL), Kathmandu University is organizing a two-day international workshop on “Research/Problem Based Education for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Development”, from 6th -7th December 2022, in collaboration with the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka, and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Bangladesh. The workshop is a part of the Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation (NORPART) 2021 project- “Instituting of research-based education systems for the development of renewable energy technology in the circular economy (2022-2026)” funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research (MER) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The main aim of this…

On 21st October 2022, Prof. Dr. Ramchandra Bhandari (ITT, TH Köln) and Prof. Dr. Sunil Prasad Lohani (Lead-RSEL, KU) along with their research team updated on the e-REET project progress and had a discussion on way forward for successful conduction of the project. The team had extensive discussions on how the research project could contribute for energy-intensive agriculture sector in Nepal. The project partners with their team also visited a small-scale Mushroom farm and Bee farm located at Sangha, Dhulikhel. The field visit provided useful insights on the current agriculture practice of Nepal, technologies in use and the gap in agri-technologies research in Nepal and how academia could contribute to…

The 2 days workshop on – “energizing higher education-Renewable Energy for Economic Transition (e-REET)” on October 20 – 21, 2022, organized by Institute of Technology and Resources Management in the tropics and Subtropics (ITT), TH Köln, Germany, and Kathmandu University (KU), Nepal has been successfully conducted. As a part of the collaboration, Prof. Dr. Ram Chandra Bhandari from TH Köln and Prof. Dr. Sunil Prasad Lohani from Kathmandu University is leading this project, which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD). The workshop was attended by 30 participants representing from government, private sector, and academia on 20th October 2022.The program commenced with welcome remarks and a workshop introduction…