Hi friends,
I guess this
start of the year had been little busy for me and I had not had enough time to
talk to you, but I am here again, trying to reorganize everything to not let you
without news.
This time I want
to tell you about the fourth training week of SMARTI: “Multi-functional
Transportation Infrastructures”. This training week was carry out in two different
cities of France: Paris (from 21st to 23rd of January)
and Nantes (24th and 25th of January) and it was organized
by the supervisors and the fellows of SMARTI ETN whose are part of the IFSTTAR
stuff.
The event was
composed by two main parts. The first part was the Midterm Review of the SMARTI
ETN program, where a panel of experts of the European Commission in charge of
the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, were evaluating the SMARTI ETN program. In
this part of the event, each fellow did a presentation of ten minutes about
their projects, advances obtained, and dissemination and outreach activities.
Additionally, fellows and supervisors participated in specific sessions with
the representant of the European commission, where she was getting details and
feedback about the advance of the work developed by the coordination of SMARTI and
the general feeling each fellow has about our work in each one of our projects
(it was nice to know that they are also taking care of us, other really good
part of being a MSCA fellow).
The second part
was a technical training to see the transportation infrastructures as
multi-functional systems with the capacity to harvest energy, to monitor the
solicitations that the external variables do to them or they do to the
environment (modularity, links with the building, biodiversity, etc), among
others discussed there. We received training about up to date techniques to
monitor civil engineering structures in general, as for example experiences
using nanosensors. Complementary, we could visit the Sense City of IFSTTAR in
Paris and the Carrousel facilities (and Accelerated Pavement Testing facility, APT) at IFSTTAR in Nantes, which I should say
that are impressive, I feel proud to had been there and learning just a little
of the amazing work they are doing there.
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| Sense City at IFSTTAR, Paris |
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| APT at IFSTTAR, Nantes |
During this
training week, we (the fellows) were also participating in a work team activity
called INFRACKATON, which was directed to solve a real problem of potential
multifunctional uses of transportation infrastructures of France. Actually a
great activity to encourage us to work together and to participate in groups of
opinion that can be influent in the sector (part of the leadership skills we
should develop as MSCA fellows).
Keep in touch,
ESR14-PLP.
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