R&D Nester hosts this year 4 students who will contribute in research, studies and projects. Two of them are from ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and another 2 are from ISEC - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra.

These selected students are from Electrical Engineering and Mathematics Applied to Technology and Enterprise courses.

This type of initiative allows these students to learn about the reality of the energy sector dealing with real projects and customers.

In these period of collaboration with R&D Nester, these students end up acquiring more in-depth knowledge of the many concepts of the electricity and energy sector in general that until then mostly knew in theory.

This experience seeks to reconcile the academic knowledge these students acquired in their courses, bridging the reality experienced in R&D Nester and the decisions that are associated to energy sector in general.

The context of R&D Nester is particularly suitable for this type of initiatives, as it provides them with work in Research, Development and Innovation areas, often close to the student's study areas and already with a connection to applications in business life.

The collaboration with these students will last between 4 to 7 months. Facing the current pandemic context by COVID-19, R&D Nester has adapted its organizational structure to the remote working mode, allowing to welcome these students remotely, managing to maintain the needed connection and information sharing.

This is intended to be an enriching and memorable experience and to boost the professional career of these 4 potential researchers and future professionals in the sector.

Trainees will work on themes such as solar photovoltaic optimal park layout, voltage control with artificial intelligence methods and machine learning techniques for wind power forecasting.