How lucky are you to spend time with your favorite people? Enjoying a few days with them hanging around under the sunshine of Lisbon. Have a chat in the morning while breakfast. Yes, I have been lucky to be with SELECT family again in Lisbon for Spring seminar 2017 between the period of 8th and 11th of May in the university of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).

Vice president of the IST international affairs, Prof. Luis Miguel Silveira have welcomed students and teachers to the event with SELECT coordinators. Director of Infrastructure and Networks, Prof. Jorge Esteves and Eng. Cláudio Casimiro delivers invaded talks regarding the topics of “Energy Union and Regulation” and “Energy efficiency for business competitiveness” respectively. The first day dinner, EDP & KIC InnoEnergy evening was held in Museu DA Electricidade which is a great technical power plant environment for the engineers who are really loving with power sector with shorter presentations on few startups such as Power, C2C, Heaboo and Addvolt.

For the second day Prof. Ivanka Visnjic, professor of ESADE have delivered a course on “Design Thinking” for first year student. Further “Dealing with Intellectual Property Rights” and “Digital Marketing” courses have delivered from the professors of ESADE Prof. Carles Puente and Prof. David Lopez respectively for the second years. ESADE sessions have conducted as an interactive group work and practical sessions was really helpful for the qualitative absorption and better understanding of the contents of the course.

First year and Second year students Project in Energy Systems Analysis (PoY) and Integrated project of the year in sustainable energy (IPoY) presentations were delivered by the final day (11th of May) of the program and second year student poster session of thesis is conducted for the brief their studio works for the first years and teachers. The poster session was a great opportunity and guide for the first year student to make their decisions while choosing the correct path towards the success research.

Since the Fall seminar which journey starts from the Stockholm and we had a wonderful time in Germany kickoff, ESADE business school in Spain. The final event of the academic year Spring seminar in Portugal was ended in the restaurant “COIMBRA TABERNA” farewell party which was a great enjoyable moment of my life, I guess it is a great moment of all of our SELECT family.

[Cover photo credit: Olga Gerasimenko]