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Award for Leonardo Power Quality Initiative

A Copper Development Association product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 27, 2004

The Leonardo Power Quality Initiative (LPQI) has won an award for quality and innovation in training professionals in the electricity sector.

The Leonardo Power Quality Initiative (LPQI) has won an award for quality and innovation in training professionals in the electricity sector.

The award ceremony took place at the high level conference on "Strengthening European co-operation in vocational education and training", held in Maastricht on 14th-16th December.

The event was cohosted by the new EU Commissioner for Education and Culture, Jan Figel, and the Dutch Presidency, represented by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Maria JA van der Hoeven.

For four years, LPQI has been addressing the training needs of electrical professionals.

The emergence of new energy technologies, the liberalisation of the electricity market and the increasing environmental concerns related to energy systems, make lifelong learning an absolute must for the more than one million European professionals active in this sector.

The availability of high quality electricity supply and uninterrupted datacommunications are part of the essential and critical infrastructure needed to power the digital economy and strengthen Europe's competitiveness.

LPQI is currently supported and implemented by a partnership of more than 80 organisations, from leading academia and industry.

The programme runs in 17 countries and 11 languages, and has issued over 150 educational modules, reaching well over 100,000 professionals per year, through a combination of seminars, trade fairs, e-mail marketing, direct mail and its website - www.lpqi.org.

Commitment from the partners continues beyond the period of the initial Commission contract, enabling LPQI to move forward to address wider electrical topics relevant to professionals in the utilisation of power, such as the quality of supply, the rational use of energy, renewable energy systems, distributed generation and safety.

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