Geothermal Group Training Course in Japan

The training course in Geothermal Energy and Environmental Sciences has been conducted at Kyushu University, Japan, since 2000 as one of the course organized and financed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) of the Japanese Government.

The course was originally started in 1970 as the general course on geothermal energy and closed in 1989 after twenty years operation, which accepted 272 participants from 32 countries. Then, the course was upgraded to the advanced course in geothermal energy and lasted for ten years until 1999. A total of 98 engineers and scientists from 16 countries participated in the course.

Duration of the present course is four months, starting early August and finishing early December. The course consists of lectures, study tours, and project studies. Faculty member, engineers of private companies and scientists of national institutes give lectures for the first six weeks at Kyushu University. They teach geothermal geology, geochemistry and environmental chemistry, geothermics, exploration geophysics, reservoir engineering, and thermodynamics, etc. After completion of lectures, each participant is assigned to a laboratory for a project study, which is supervised by faculty member. The programs are carried out in English.

Participants have to write a report on their project study and submit it at the end of the course. Upon completion of the course, participants receive certificates both from Kyushu University and JICA.


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