COLLABORATION BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY AT ISIB

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COLLABORATION BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION AND
INDUSTRY AT ISIB

• Isabelle Gerardy , Caroline Licour , Jonathan
  Baré , Agnès Peeters , François Tondeur
• ISIB, Haute Ecole Spaak, Bruxelles, Belgium

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Introduction

• Collaboration with industry important for
• Maintains the adequacy with professionals needs
• Organized in ISIB by 3 ways
• Internship for students
• Applied research projects
• Development of specific learning modules for
  professionals in radiation protection

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Internship for student

• Internship of 6 weeks for bachelor and one
  semester for master
• Database for placement contains companies in
  different fields
• Medical (manufacturer, hospital, )
• Radiation protection, radioecology
• Research center
• Engineering development office
• Master thesis
• developed within industry
• Subject linked to a real engineering problem
• Also accessible to Erasmus students

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Interest for CHERNE partners

• Industrial master thesis for Erasmus students
• Direct way Erasmus internship
• ISIB just acts as a link between the company and
  the Cherne partner
• Indirect way the student works at ISIB on a real
  industrial problem in close connection with the
  company
• ISIB deals with the industrial partner

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Two real cases

• Two students of Unibo
• (Bologna) coming for the master
• thesis
• Elisa Ceccolini (2008)
• Subject Measurement of dose around a HDR
  brachytherapy system with gafchromic EBT film
• In collaboration with the St Jean hospital
• Silvia Tolo (2012)
• Subject MCNPX modelling of the WENDI 2 neutron
  detector
• In collaboration with IBA sa

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Applied research projects

• Collaboration with a company in the framework of
  FIRST projects
• Innovative applied research
• 2 or 4 years projects
• The grant of the Walloon region mainly covers the
  salary of the researcher
• Benefit for the company
• a person working exclusively on a defined project
• Possible commercial valorisation of the results
• Benefit for ISIB
• Increase of the knowledge in certain fields
• Limited possibility of new equipment

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Inclusion of CHERNE in applied research projects

• Formation of the research fellow
• DONDES (Fast neutron spectrometry)
• at UPV and CVUT
• MICOS (X-ray spectrometer) at UPV
• Erasmus projects
• Silvia Tolo Related to the FREDONE project
• Modelling of the neutron detector WENDI 2
• Shanna Eismar from FHAachen (2012)
• Feasibility study of XRF in vivo measurement
  of iodine within the thyroïd gland
• The results obtained lead to the submission of a
  First project , elected by the Walloon
  authorities

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Beyond Erasmus exchange

• Giorgia Cinelli
• Student in Bologna
• Master thesis in ISIB, related to a research on
  radon risk mapping
• Collaboration with the Federal Agency for Nuclear
  Control
• PhD on natural radioactivity
• 5 publications with ISIB
• on Radon

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Training of radiation protection experts

• 120h program developed to fulfil the requirements
  of the FANC
• In collaboration with IRE (for the French
  speaking part)
• U Hasselt (XIOS) and SCK same program in Dutch
• Continuous contacts and exchanges with the
  companies involved in the nuclear and
  radiological field

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And for the future

• Erasmus exchange principles will be drastically
  changed for the next year
• Erasmus for all
• creation of strategic partnerships
• Focused on sectoral and cross-sectoral
  cooperation
• Between different types of actors linked to the
  educational field
• Wide range of different educational activities
• Including social commitment, entrepreunarial
  spirit

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Erasmus for all

• Different types of strategic partnerships
• Large opening to partnership with different types
  of actors
• Industry Electrabel- Tractebel, IRE, IBA sa,
• Research SCKCEN
• Radioprotection and controls FANC, Controlatom,
  BelV
• Hospitals St Jean, Bordet