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EDUCATION

CERENA’s researchers already have a long experience in advanced training and active coordination and participation in several MSc and PhD Courses offered by the host institutions as well as in advanced training programmes for industrial staff. Involvement in international degrees is also an objective to strive. 

PhD Programmes
Master Programmes

Energy Resources Engineering studies new ways of prospecting, exploring and valuing energy mineral resources from a sustainable perspective. This Master provides knowledge, methods and tools to characterize and model the properties and processes that occur in the Earth’s subsurface, especially those related to geoenergy (geothermal, gas and oil) and geological carbon sequestration.

The Master in Mining and Geological Engineering has partnerships with several international universities such as: Montanuniversitat Leoben (Austria), University of Mining and Geology ´St Ivan Rilsky (Bulgaria), University of Zagreb (Croacia), Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Universidad de Vigo (Spain), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - Etsi Minas (Spain), U. Politecnica de Cartagena (Spain), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Universita degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy), Universitá degli Studi di Catania (Italy), Universitá degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy), Politechnika Slaska (Poland), Technická Univerzita Ostrava (Czech Republic).

All students can complete the first semester of the master program at University of Leoben, the second semester at Freiberg University, and the third semester at Técnico. The master’s thesis, in the fourth semester, can be completed at any of the three partner universities.

The Master in Petroleum Engineering established partnerships with foreign universities for student mobility, namely University of S. Paulo (Brazil), S. Paulo State University (Brazil), State University of Campinas (Brazil), Petroleum Institute (Abu-Dhabi),Heriot-Watt University (UK), University of Wyoming (USA), Clausthal University of Technology (Germany), Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (Germany).

International Training Networks

CERENA coordinates the consortium of Portuguese Universities – Técnico/ULisboa, FCUL and UA – participating in the Course of Advanced Studies in Geoengineering of Carbonate Reservoirs, created to serve the needs in advanced training of qualified personnel of Petrogal and Petrobras. In this consortium of universities participates also two top Brazilian Universities in the field – UNESP and UNICAMP.

CERENA is/was also involved in other International Training Networks, as the example of the Erasmus Intensive Programme (Erasmus IP) network.

Erasmus IP : Summer School on  Optimization and Decision Support Systems for SC July, 1-15 2012

Erasmus IP : Summer School on  Optimization and Decision Support Systems for SC July, 7-21 2013 (2nd Edition)

Erasmus IP : Summer School on  Optimization and Decision Support Systems for SC July, 6-20 2014 (3rd Edition)

Erasmus IP: Summer School on Heat Integration and Biorefineries  July, 14-27 2013

Erasmus IP: Summer School on Heat Integration and Biorefineries  July, 13-27 2014 (2nd edition )

Short Courses

CERENA is actively involved in advanced formation activities for professionals and qualified personnel including:

  • Explosives training course for technical managers of quarries and excavation works

This course counts with 10 editions where the trainees come from several national and international companies.

 

10th EC group
Group of trainees of the 10th Explosives Course (June 2018)

 

  • Leveling Course on Mining (Angola, 2014-2015)

This course was given in Luanda (Angola) for the technical personnel of Secretary of State for Mines of Republic of Angola Government.

 

CERENA also offers “in-house” formation programs in reservoir characterization, mineral reserves evaluation and geophysical characterization, for international oil companies. The most recent courses have been given for companies in Abu-Dhabi, Brazil and Angola.

  • Coordination of the Advanced Studies in Geoengineering of Carbonate Reservoirs (Consortium of Portuguese and Brazilian Universities for Petrogal and Petrobras Companies)
  • “In-house” formation programs in reservoir characterization, mineral reserves evaluation and geophysical characterization, for international oil companies, more recently Abu-Dhabi, Brazil and Angola
In house formation
In house Formation, Angola