Back in Ulaanbaatar: Long-Term Cooperation between UASTW and MUST in the Field of Renewable Energies
10 November, 2022
The UASTW and the Mongolian University of Science and Technology have been cooperating successfully since 2009. In October, two colleagues from the Competence Center Climate Fit Building visited the university in the capital Ulaanbaatar.
After a two years break our colleagues from the field of renewable energies could finally meet their counterparts at Mongolian University of Science and Technology in Ulaanbaatar again on site. MUST´s Department of Environmental Engineering is an integral partner for the Faculty Industrial Engineering of UASTW. Within the Faculty, staff has been in close cooperation with their colleagues from the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Ulaanbaatar. Both institutions share a common field of expertise, sustainable and green energy and buildings, and complement each other through the integration of architecture, as well as socio-ecologic and interdisciplinary research of smart city, and smart district development. Cooperation between UASTW and MUST kicked off in 2009 and since then, 13 students and 10 staff have been successfully exchanged within the framework of Erasmus+ ICM projects. Since October 2022 two more colleagues were able to visit and teach at our long-lasting partner MUST.
Shima Goudarzi and Manfred Schindler, both from the competence field Climate Fit Building Technologies had a one-week workshop and teaching with the focus of building energy simulation with different building simulation software’s, passive houses, energy saving, and energy flexibility in building at MUST. The lectures and meetings were mainly in environmental engineering department and building energy efficiency center. There they get to know their coworkers and especially Munkhbayar Buyan, director of the building energy efficiency center and gained insights into their working environments. Together with him and his colleagues new strategies for the joint existing and future Erasmus+ projects have also been discussed. Last but not least, they had the opportunity to visit Ulaanbaatar’s Ger neighborhood, and discuss the main issues supporting the construction projects in Ulaanbaatar, and the topics that should be covered in the next teaching programs between MUST and UASTW.
The stay was planned with the International Office´s assistance and funded through the Erasmus+ program. In order to stay on track further student and staff exchange is planned during the summer semester 2023.
