IEAGHG International CCS Summer School 2018

Background - The IEAGHG CCS Summer School was initiated by the IEAGHG to provide students with diverse academic backgrounds a broad understanding of the issues surrounding CCS and encourage their participation in this area. The school is a week-long exercise with presentations and discussion groups led by international experts. The Summer School - 60 students from 24 countries participated in The IEAGHG Summer School 2018, held in Trondheim on June 24-29, and organized jointly by IEAGHG and the Norwegian CCS Research Centre. The program included 37 presentations from world leading CCS experts, a communication workshop, a field trip, a career session, a poster session, group work sessions, and group presentations. The week started off with a welcome reception and was ended with a banquet, including presentation of awards. 34 speakers and 10 student mentors contributed throughout the week. The cost of the event was ca NOK 1.72 million. Organization - The International Steering Committee (ISC) oversaw progression and development. The ICS had representatives from the IEAGHG and the serial sponsors. The International Organizing Committee (IOC) organized the project: arrangements for the speakers, mentors and development of the programme. The IOC had representatives from IEAGHG and SINTEF. The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) dealt with infrastructure at the venue (lecture halls, hotels, a site visit and food). The LOC worked closely with the IOC in setting up the technical program and was responsible for identifying speakers from the host country. Technical program - The week was kicked off with a welcome reception on Sunday. Monday ? Lectures started at 09:00 at the NTNU campus. After welcome speeches by Tim Dixon, John Kaldi and Amy Brunsvold, there were lectures on storage, capture and policy issues. In the evening, the students were split into groups and assigned research projects to be worked during the week. Each group was assigned a mentor who would follow the group throughout the week. Tuesday ? Three lectures on storage were followed by lectures on utilization, hydrogen and negative emissions. After lunch, the following issues were discussed: ship transport, health and safety, costs and financing, legal and regulatory issues, and public communication. The final item was a communication workshop. The day was ended with a dinner at the Munkholmen island. Wednesday ? Three storage lectures were given. Then students were taken on a field trip, first to the Tiller plant, where they could see the test rigs for solvents testing and CLC. After lunch the field trip continued at the laboratories of SINTEF and NTNU at Gløshaugen, where four projects were presented: Defacto, CEMCAP, CO2Mix and ECCSEL. Back at the hotel, there was an interactive CO2 monitoring game. Thursday ? Lectures were on direct air capture, pipeline transport, developing countries issues, and Norwegian industrial CO2 sources. After lunch topics were: environmental aspects of storage and capture, energy systems, and barriers to CCS deployment. The last agenda item for the day was a career session where the students were given the opportunity to speed-date with the different mentors and ask questions relevant to their future careers in CCS. The rest of the day was devoted to group work. Friday ? Time was devoted to presentations of the group works. Each group were given 30 minutes to present their findings and answer questions from a panel consisting of all the mentors. An hour was set aside for poster presentations, posters the students had prepared on their personal activities before coming to the Summer School. The program was ended by a presentation on communication and use of social media. The final part was the banquet. The event started with presentations of awards. The Best Group Award discussed the issue "Is CCS Viable for Developing Countries?". The Best Poster Awards went to Charlotte Mitchell (Univ of Edinburgh) and to Tjerk Lap (Univ of Groningen). Awards for the two Most Outstanding Students were given to Corey Myers (Waseda Univ) and Pooya Hoseinpoori (Imperial College). Budget, funding and sponsors - The overall cost for staging the Summer School 2018 was NOK 1.721.031 split into NOK 968.641 in labor and NOK 752.390 in direct costs. Direct funding came from: IEAGHG (NOK 370.285), TOTAL (250.000), and CLIMIT/Research Council of Norway (200.000). The balance (NOK 900.746) was covered by NCCS. Series sponsors were: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (UK), Swiss Federal Office of Energy, Shell, and CLIMIT. Local sponsors were: TOTAL, Research Council of Norway (CLIMIT), and SINTEF Energy Research. Communication - All presentations given at the Summer School can be downloaded from the IEAGHG webpage. Four interviews were made with students and key personnel in the organization. The interviews are available on YouTube. In addition, six blogs were written.

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The IEAGHG International CCS Summer School 2018 skal gjennomføres i Trondheim 24.-29. juni, 2018, som et samarbeid mellom SINTEF Energi AS og IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG). Sommerskolen er arrangert hvert år siden 2007 og har hvert år 50-60 deltakere og 15-20 forelesere fra hele verden. Det legges opp til en god miks av forelesninger, gruppearbeider og diskusjoner. Et utvalg mentorer følger studentene gjennom hele uken. Sommerskolen avsluttes med en uformell kåring av beste studentarbeid. Den lokale arrangøren (NCCS) etablerer en lokal organisasjonskomite (LOC), som arbeider nært med den internasjonale organisasjonskomiteen (IOC) – etablert av IEAGHG. Hovedaktivitetene for LOC består i å: finne sted/lokaler, skaffe overnatting for deltakerne, organisere lokal transport, skaffe sponsormidler, planlegge "site visit", assistere studentene mht. reise, invitasjon, etc., utarbeide budsjett, markedsføre arrangementet, holde kontakt med IOC, og samordne undervisningsmateriell. Budsjettet for Sommerskolen er foreløpig estimert til NOK 2,1 millioner, som inkluderer alle direktekostnader (NOK 1,2 million) og personalkostnader (NOK 0,9 million). Arrangementet er gjort kjent via IEAGHG sin web. I tillegg er det lagt ut informasjon på FME NCCS sin web. Det er også sendt direkte e-post til alle som er, og har vært, PhD/Postdoc-kandidater i FME SUCCESS og FME BIGCCS, samt alle aktive kandidater under CLIMIT-programmet. Kommunikasjon er et sentralt tema i skolen. Det vil bli opprettet en Facebook-gruppe for alle deltakerne. Etter Sommerskolen vil undervisningsmateriellet legges ut på NCCS sin web. Gruppene bli bedt om å lage faglige og/eller populærvitenskapelige blogger med resultater fra gruppearbeidene. Disse legges ut på NCCS sin web etter arrangementet. Det vil også bli bedt om at noen av studentene skriver blogger om sine generelle erfaringer fra sin deltakelse på Sommerskolen. Studentene vil bli anmodet om å dele sine blogger via f.eks. Twitter, Facebook, etc.