Last round of certification for ESPRiT professional titles (ESPRiT risk examiner and ESPRiT senior risk assessment) will be held in last week of April 2010. The exact dates and venue are still to be confirmed. 

Applicants have to present their knowledge, experience and skills as required by ESPRiT criteria for certification and that includes passed exams for 4 (risk examiner) or 6 (senior risk assessor) ESPRiT courses and experience in projects in related to the corresponding fields of risk engineering. 

Titles to be achieved are:

• risk examiner in the HSE field
• risk examiner in the field Equipment
• senior risk assessor in the HSE field
• senior risk assessor in the field Equipment. 

Online applications for risk examiners and senior risk assessors are open!

ESPRiT team wishes luck to all applicants!

ESPRiT project enters in last phase or realization. In January 2010 following events will take place:

1. January 11 - 15, 2010 - Second instance of ESPRit course # 12 OSHA Occupational Safety and Health, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade
2. January 18 - 22, 2010 - Second instance of ESPRiT course # 8 FIRE Fire protection and modeling, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade
3. January 25 - 29, 2010 - First instance of ESPRiT course #9 Explosion protection and modeling, EPS, Panonske TE - TO, Novi Sad.

After the first part of the training for ESPRiT trainers (July 13, 2009 and August 31, 2009), the second instance of Final exam will be held on:

• December 23, 2009, Faculty of Technical Science Novi Sad (starts at 9h)
  (Sekretarijat Departmana za energetiku i procesnu tehniku, prostorija 06, Blok F - stari pravni) 
• December 22, 2009, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, room 514 (starts at 13h)

About 10 candidates will take a part in this event trying to earn the title ESPRiT trainer!

ESPRiT Project Presentation and Commencement Ceremony took place in Novi Sad, October 27, 2009, in the City Hall, Žarka Zrenjanina 2, with more then 120 participants, among them representatives from Serbian Government, German embassy in Belgrade, universities of Novi Sad, Belgrade and Kragujevac, Serbian industries and other institutions.



485 certificates, issued by Steinbeis University Berlin, were handed out to the ESPRiT courses participants that have successfully passed final exams in the first round of ESPRiT courses, November 2008 - June 2009,  by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Johann Löhn, President of Steinbeis University Berlin and Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Jovanović, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center Advanced Risk Technologies in Stuttgart.


 

The event and the ceremony is a part of the overall manifestation "Deutsche Tage 2009" ("Dani Nemačke 2009", "German Days 2009")

Short-stay based On-the job training will take place in the period September 12 - 20, 2009.

This training combines visits to German (and other) companies accompanied by lecturing. The participants of this event will have unique opportunity to visit, between others,  Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, BASF, Bayer, some of the largest refineries and power plants... 

Other data related to the terms and condition for participants are also available and for details of this event see the Program.

ESPRiT Course # 4a and # 13 will in be held in June 2009. These two courses will end the first round of the ESPRiT courses, November 2008 - June 2009.

Course # 4a RBI PETROL Risk based Inspection - Petrol, June 17-19, 2009, is dedicated to the personnel working in petrochemical industries and its aim is elaborate risk based inspection as it is currently used and to improve the skills of specialists to use appropriate software.
It will be held in NIS Refinery Pančevo, Pančevo, Spoljnostarčevačka 199, June 17-19, 2009

The course # 13 BUSINESS Business Continuity Risks & Insurance (June 22'26, 2009) is intended to complement the series of 13 other ESPRiT courses devoted to technical and engineering issues of risk management in industrial plants (petrochemical plants, process industry, power plants, etc.). Technical risks in the above plants can be a cause or a contributing factor in/for the business continuity and the final outcome of the technical/engineering activities is practically always to be seen on the background of business implications and implications/impacts to the business activities of a company. The insurance aspects are the most relevant practical aspect linking the engineering and business side of the company operation and asset management: therefore these will be tackled, too.

See short description of the courses and application forms. 

Application for the on-the-job training abroad - short staying - has started.

Based on the Article 1.5.f and Annex 2 of the Main Contract of the ESPRiT project, (tentatively) 40 persons from Serbian companies are entitled to participate in the short-stay based part of the on-the-job training. This one-week-long training will combine visits to German (and other) companies accompanied by lecturing.

See details of this event, including application form.

Next week is tenth week of ESPRiT training! First course took place in November 2008, and then from the week February 9-13, 2009, ESPRiT courses were held week after week.

Next week, April 6-10, 2009, ESPRiT Course # 12, Occupational Safety and Health, will be held in Belgrade and the host will be Faculty for Security Studies. At the moment 76 participants have applied for this course, thus half of them will attend the course in the second round of training and education which will take place from the end of August 2009.

In the second week of March, ESPRiT program moved to Belgrade, to the Faculty of Security Studies, where Mr. D.Oberhagemann, Mr. I.Crvenica and Mr. K.Scheuermann presented issues considering fire protection, during the period March 09-13, 2009. Those attendies who were present, and we are talking about approximately 40 interested ones, resisted the crowded classroom and carefully followed the course.

Mr. J. Freek have had the oportunity to present ADR topics on March 16-20, 2009, at the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Pančevo, where again nearly 30 participants attended every session.

Course #4, previosly planned to be held at Electric Power Industry of Serbia building in Belgrade for all those interested in that topic, is announced to be specified for both, power and chemical/petrochemical industries. Therefore, the first round of course #4b, named RBI POWER Risk Based Inspection - Power Industries is going on during the period March 23-27, 2009, however, course #4a, named RBI PETROL Risk Based Inspection, specified for petrochemical/chemical maintainence personell, accompanied with process ingeneers and HSE stuff, would take place in June. Both courses are held by Mr. D.Balos, who is skilled to involve his attendees into expert discussions, which would make every different point of view quite clear.

ESPRiT Course # 3, POWER - Risk Analysis in Power Industries, training within ESPRiT program of education, was held at the Thermal Power plant TENT "B" in Obrenovac, during the third week of February 17-20, 2009.

More than 40 participants, mostly from the different plants and departmants of EPS - Electric Power Industry of Serbia, gathered together with several emploies of NIS - Petroleum Industry of Serbia to participate this event. Discusions, which were focused on the topics considering Risk Management approach in Power industries, were very interesting, trying to clarify some practical aspects of this theme and to get right solutions for day-after-day problems.

Due to the snowstorm outside the walls of the TENT "B", it was realy a miracle having all of these people so deeply involved, but four lecturers, Mr. A.Jovanovic, Mr. J.Bareiss, Mr. P.Auerkari and Mr. D.Balos gave their best to convince participants that they made the right choice being there.

Based on signed partnership agreements with Serbian companies and individual applications, preliminary plan of ESPRiT courses for the first half of the year is prepared.
See the plan, see description of each course and, if interested, apply for the chosen courses.

A. Jovanović, the project manager, gave this interview to the Radio Television of Serbia explaining the goals and scope of the project.
See the interview or read the article.

The Letter of intent was signed during the international conference "The Danube – the River of Europe’s Future" organized by Baden-Württemberg in Brussels, and held on October 6 and 7, 2008. The conference was attended by all countries of the Danube region. Serbia was represented by Deputy PM Božidar Đelić and President of the Vojvodina government Bojan Pajtić.

The ESPRiT project kick-off meeting was held in Belgrade on September 12, 2008.
The project was presented in general, including goals, financial support, German and Serbian partners and potential benefits for Serbia and Serbian companies.
The potential Serbian beneficiaries from oil, process, power industries, universities, ministries were invited to participate to the meeting. The ways to participate in the project, activities and tasks were discussed and cleared up.
You may see or download presentations from the meeting from the page Downloads.

The Kick-off meeting took place at NIS a.d. Petrol, Congress hall of the first floor, Milentija Popovića 1, Belgrade.
You may see the agenda of the meeting and the list of participants. The ESPRiT leaflet is available in Serbian or English language.

The ESPRiT project Kick-off meeting took place on July 28, 2008 at
meeting room K1, Haus der Wirtschaft, Willi-Bleicher-Strasse 19,
70174 Stuttgart, Germany. See the list of participants.
The project partners gathered to discuss and clear up the contract requirements and individual responsibilities as well as the time tables for the project activities and tasks.
See the Agenda of the meeting.
You may see or download presentations from the meeting from the page Downloads.