An Inaugural Energy Centres for Doctoral Training Student Conference

博士培训中心是EPSRC/NERC的研究培训旗舰倡议。在这些中心，学生被招募到队列中，并在对联合王国具有战略重要性的领域接受高水平的专业培训。其中有9个课程可以确定为以能源为重点。对CDT的一种批评是，它们过于专业化，存在这样一种危险，即学生可能无法形成必要的能源概述，从而无法将他们的特殊专业知识用于解决英国能源系统现代化的复杂问题。为了弥补这一点，我们正在寻求组织一个为期两天的邀请会议，其中学生群体将有机会见面，并形成跨CDT团队，以竞争性地开发解决方案，以脱碳英国的低品位热网络的问题。这些团队将需要汇集不同的技术，并提出将由知名能源专家评估的解决方案。在此过程中，他们将有机会获得金融、法律和政策领域的专家咨询。因此，学生们不仅将获得系统思维的经验，还将获得开发和实施新能源技术所需的更广泛的技能。本次会议还将向我们的外部专家顾问介绍CDT结构，从而提升其整体形象。我们将积极寻求新的方法，将新的“额外”技能引入能源CDT培训计划。

The Centres of Doctoral Training (CDTs) are the research-training flagship initiative for EPSRC/NERC. In these centres students are recruited into cohorts and receive high-level specialist training in areas of strategic importance to UK. Within these there are nine identifiable as having an energy focus.One criticism of CDTs is that they are overly specialist and there is a danger that students may not develop an overview of energy necessary to bring their particular specialism to the complex problem of modernising the UK's energy system. To remedy this we are seeking to organise a two-day invited conference in which the student cohorts will have the opportunity to meet and to form inter-CDT teams to competitively develop solutions to the problem of decarbonising the UK's low-grade heat network. The teams will need to pool different technologies and produce solutions that will be assessed by high-profile energy experts. During this process they will have access to consultancy specialists in the areas of finance, law and policy. Thus the students will not only gain experience in systems thinking but also in the broader skills necessary to develop and implement new energy technologies.This conference will also introduce our external expert consultants to the CDT structure, thus raising its overall profile. We will be actively seeking new methods for introducing new 'additional' skills into energy CDT training programmes