Online educational initiatives to ensure safety in nuclear technology
Europe faces a serious shortage of expertise within nuclear safety. Several authorities and organisations have already highlighted the dangerous lack of competence in this area. Now, the EU programme Euratom is investing around 5 million euros to educate a new generation in nuclear technology. At the heart of the initiatives, which will contain significant distance learning elements, are researchers from Chalmers University of Technology. The programme covers two major educational projects, of which Chalmers will coordinate one and participate as a partner in the other. Both aim to