About Cherne

CHERNE is an open European academic network for cooperation in Higher Education on Radiological and Nuclear Engineering

- to share competencies and facilities in organising teaching activities for their students, mainly at the Master level

- to enhance the mutual support by learning from each other, by exchanging experiences and by regular mutual reflections

2002	PAN Erasmus IP: “Practical Approach to Nuclear techniques” partners: ISIB (Belgium), CVUT (Czech Republic), UPV (Spain)
2003	PAN-2 XIOS-HL (Belgium) & AcUAS (Germany) joined the group
2004	PAN-3 with the same 5 partners of PAN-2
2005	Workshop in UPV, Valencia (creation of the CHERNE network) Initial partners: ISIB (Belgium) UPV (Spain) CVUT (Czech Republic) XIOS-HL (Belgium) AcUAS (Germany) Faculty of Engineering � University of Bologna (Italy)
2005	New partners: ETSEIB Barcelona (Spain) Department of Nuclear Engineering of Politecnico Milano (Italy)
2006	SPERANSA-1 Erasmus IP “Stimulation of Practical Expertise in Radiological And Nuclear SAfety“ participating the same 5 partners of PAN-2 and PAN-3.
2006	2nd CHERNE workshop in UPV, Valencia
2006	New partners: Department of Physics of the University of Messina (Italy) Kansas State University (USA) Università di Catania (Italy) University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz (Germany) ITN, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (Portugal)

- The CHERNE network is open to all activities related to higher education in nuclear or radiological engineering.
- The language of CHERNE activities is English.
- Each partner is expected to organise or co-organise at least one activity per year.
- CHERNE teaching activities are modules of at least 1 week/2ECTS open to the students of other partners.
- Attention is given...
	· to include a strong practical part (experimental and/or computational),
	· to minimise the costs for the students, and
	· to involve the participation of young colleagues

The following is a list (non-exhaustive) of possible CHERNE activities for 1-2 weeks, including practical part (experimental or computer)
	· Introduction to the MonteCarlo method
	· Probabilistic Safety Analysis
	· Medical applications of radiations
	· Radiation protection in non-conventional sectors
	· Radiochemistry
	· Reactor: practical course
	· Applied plasma physics
	· Reactor thermohydraulics
	· Nuclear detectors
	· Detector electronics
	· Computational methods in safety analysis
	· Material physics
	· Accelerator use and applications
	· Waste management
Some of these activities are already performed or are foreseen for the next future. Please, consult the page CHERNE activities where the list is normally updated.