November was the month of national events. Starting with Brunel`s Second National Event, it was unique in the sense that it was a series of events in October and November. It consisted of presentations to students in three universities and an international conference.

Presentation of UK student project to AIVC International Conference 12 October 2011

A paper based on the UK student project was presented to the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Conference on 12 October 2011, held in Brussels.  The conference was attended by 160 delegates from many countries.  The presentation was well received and the paper with USE Efficiency project was explicitly mentioned.  More information on the AIVC 2011 conference can be found on www.aivc.org .

Presentations on passive energy strategies for buildings:

1. Seminar to architectural students at Oxford Brooks University, Oxford, 19 October 2011

2. Seminar to architectural students at London Metropolitan University, North London,

26 October 2011

The project was presented to about 25 students and some principles.

3. Seminar to engineering and architectural students at University College London, London, 2 November 2011

The project was presented to about 45 students and some principles.

AUTH is having busy months touring around with the project in Europe. Between November 6-10, 2011 a visit in Romania took place, where the USE Efficiency project and its outcomes were presented to students and professors from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the University of Oradea. They presented the USE Eff philosophy, targets and results in three sessions to 160 students from different engineering Faculties and to more than 15 Professors. The interest was great, the discussions fruitful and the willingness to participate in any future project secured.

Between November 16-18, 2011 a visit in FYR Macedonia took place by Prof. G. Papagiannis, where the USE Efficiency project and its outcomes were presented to students, professors and experts in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies of the Ss Cyril & Methodius University of Skopje, and in the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the University St Kliment Ohridski of Bitola.

UNITOV also organized its first National event in Rimini on 11 and 12 November.  The second national event will be in Rome in 30th November and 1st December 2011 with the involvement of politicians and market players.

HCU and IWU organized its national event on November 17^th as part of the 47th conference of the “Arbeitskreis Energieberatung”. They distributed a flyer and sent out 3000 invitations by email. The event was also posted on the ENOB-Homepage (http://www.enob.info) and in the Energy Forum of HIS, the Higher Education Information System (http://www.his.de). The topic of the conference was: “Energy Efficiency in existing non-residential Buildings”.