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Instituto Cervantes, Luizalaan 140 Avenue Louise, 1050 Bruselas
el 16 de junio a las 19:00 horas
El Instituto Cervantes y CEBE (Científicos Españoles en Bélgica) organizan una mesa redonda con cuatro participantes para hablar del potencial de la energía solar en el marco de la primera edición del Festival de Fotografía / Brassage Photographique.
El fotógrafo español Rubén Salgado Escudero nos hablará de su proyecto ‘Solar Portraits’ y nos ayudará a entender las condiciones en las que viven personas con difícil acceso a la electricidad en áreas remotas y lo beneficioso que ha sido para ellas la energía solar.
Maxime Defour, de la VUB nos comentará lo que son las células fotovoltáicas y los últimos avances en la materia. Por su parte, y representando a Ingenieros sin Fronteras, Farnoud Datlibagi hablará de la instalación de energía solar en la República Democrática del Congo que ayudará a los chicos en edad escolar. Y finalmente, Miguel Ángel Varela, de la Comisión Europea (DG DEVCO) explicará los proyectos que están llevando a cabo en los países en vías de desarrollo.
La actividad será en inglés. Inscripciones en Evenbrite
1er Festival de Fotografía: Brassage Photographique. Exposición
Colaboran CEBE/SSBE (Científicos Españoles en BÉlgica/Spanish Scientists in BElgium)
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that roughly 1.1 billion people in the world still live without access to electricity, more than 95% of these people are either in sub-Saharan Africa or developing Asia. The sun is a huge source of energy and if we could capture and store just a small part of this power, there would be no need for other sources of energy. Instituto Cervantes and CEBE (Spanish Scientists in Belgium) organize a round table to discuss the potential of solar energy. We will host a set of panelists who will give us an insight on the matter from an artistic, social and scientific point of view. Thanks to Rubén Salgado Escudero’s photography project on solar panels in developing countries– which will be part of the first photo festival Brassage Photographique in Villers- we will be able to understand better the conditions in which the inhabitants of remote areas live and how their lives have improved as a result of having access to electricity through the power of solar energy. Photovoltaic cells are devices that convert the energy of light directly into electricity. Maxime Defour – who does a PhD on this subject at VUB- will introduce the state-of-the-art for low-cost solar cells such as organic solar cells.
To illustrate a direct application of this technology to society, Farnoud Datlibagi will share with us an ongoing project of “Ingénieurs Sans Frontières”: an off-grid solar system that will be installed soon in a school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo allowing more kids to receive a scholar education. To close the event, Miguel Ángel Varela, Policy Officer at the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit of the European Commission (DG DEVCO) will talk about other projects in developing countries.
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