November 26

Introduction to Clean Energy for Grade 9 Students at HVL

ANCEHA research team at HVL conducted a clean energy workshop for the grade 9 students on the 26th and 28th of November at the HVL, Kronstad. Students were given an introduction to clean energy and then they were exposed to the clean energy situation in Sri Lanka and India followed by an introduction to Hydrogen. Later there were live demonstrations..Read More

October 16

Professor Ravirajan Punniamoorthy and Professor G. Rajanya Asoka Kumara were invited by Professor Dhayalan Velauthapillai to HVL

Professor Ravirajan Punniamoorthy and Professor G. Rajanya Asoka Kumara were invited by Professor Dhayalan Velauthapillai to HVL. Both Scholars arrived at Bergen on the 16th October 2018. Both of them took part in a seminar conducted for Undergraduate students and the students were given demonstrations on solar cells. The scholars also met the Rector of the HVL and also participated..Read More

August 2

Staff Mobility: Research stay of Dr. Y Akila Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT)

On the recommendation of Prof. V. Dhayalan, HRNCET & CBERC project Coordinator of Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Dr. Y Akila are invited to pursue a short term research work at Research Laboratory (CERL) of the Department of Physics, University of Jaffna for up to two weeks in August 2018.

July 24

Student mobility

Three Sri Lankan students have been undergoing research training at HVL. Siva Uthayaraj from the Department of Physics, University of Jaffna arrived on the 24th July, Asitha Udayanga Malikaramge from the Post Graduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya arrived on 14th August, Rajaramanan Tharmakularasa, Department of Chemistry, University of Jaffna arrived on 5th of October 2018. They are conducting..Read More

July 13

Staff Mobility: Visit of Sutharsan Vivekananthan, Study Manager / Senior Project Engineer, Citec Norway AS

Suthan Vivekananthan has over 16 years of experience in process system design and analysis in the fields of Offshore and/or Onshore engineering projects relating to oil & gas production as well as good exposure to renewable energy sector.  Extensive experience as Interface Engineer, coordinating multidiscipline teams to ensure smooth delivery.  Long experience working with Greenfield projects for the Norwegian Continental..Read More

May 19

A book on Clean Energy Technologies was officially launched

The project group and resource persons authored a book on Clean Energy Technologies, and the book was officially launched by The Norwegian Ambassador on the 11th of May 2018 at UoJ .

May 11

Opening of Clean Energy Research Laboratory (CERL)

A new Clean Energy Research Laboratory was officially opened by the Hon. Ambassador Thorbjørn Gaustadsæter and Rector Berit Rokne on the 11th of May 2018 under a collaborative project between Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) and University of Jaffna. University of Peradheniya, Sri Lanka, University of Bergen, University of Agder, Norway and Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), India..Read More

May 11

webpage launching

A webpage was launched on the 11th of May 2018 at Univ. of Jaffna by the ambassador at the Norwegian Embassy and the Rector at HVL for the International Conference on Clean Energy and Health Applications (AMCEHA 2019) at http://conf.jfn.ac.lk/amceha/.

May 10

Visit of Norwegian delegation to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna

May 9

Establishment of Norway- Sri Lanka research consortium on Clean Energy Technologies, JetWing Hotel, Colombo -07

A record breaking big delegation of 30 academics and representatives from the private sector from Norway visited this week Colombo and Jaffna under the collaborative projects between my Western Norway University of Applied Science (HVL) and University of Jaffna (UoJ). Several tasks were accomplished. A seminar on Clean Energy was arranged in Colombo on the 9th of May. Over 120..Read More

May 9

Seminar to establish a research consortium on clean energy technologies 

On the 9th of May 2018 and more than 100 participants including academics and private sector from Norway and Sri Lanka. Objective of the seminar was to establish a research consortium on clean energy technologies http://project.jfn.ac.lk/hrncet/index.php/research-consortium/.

April 25

Advanced Training on Fabricating Nanostructured solar cells and Building solar mobile charger

An advanced training workshop on “Fabricating nanostructured solar cells and Building solar phone chargers” was held on 25/04/2018 at the Department of Physics, University of Jaffna. 49 students out of 65 students, who scored above 80% in the written quiz examination on CETs, participated. The participants were divided into ten groups and trained to make nanostructured dye sensitized solar cells..Read More

March 22

Staff Mobility: Visit of Prof. Alfred Christy, University of Agdar, Noway  to UoJ

Professor Alfred Christy, Professor of Chemistry, Agdar University, Norway, visited Jaffna on March 19, 2018 after delivering talk and having discussion with Professors Rajapakshe and Kumara and their group at the department of Chemistry, university of Peradeniya on 14.03.2018. On 19.03.2018, he had discussions with academics and research students at the Research laboratory, Department of Physics, and the Department of..Read More

March 19

 The Master degree curriculums in Clean Energy Technologies

The Master degree curriculums in Clean Energy Technologies   were evaluated by an independent subject expert committee

March 15

Staff Mobility: Visit of Prof. Alfred Christy, University of Agdar, Norway to UoP

      Professor Alfred Christy, Professor of Chemistry, Agdar University, Norway, visited Sri Lanka on 14th March, 2018, landing at the Katunayake International Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka at 23.45 hour. Despite his very late arrival on the 14th, he started to leave Colombo in the early morning to reach Peradeniya at around 10.30 am. He was well received by the..Read More

March 14

Educational Training on Clean Energy Technologies for School Students in Jaffna District

The programme was organized in collaboration with the Provincial Department of Education, Northern Province. From 6-14 March 2018, an educational training on CETs for 2684 school students from 56 schools in the Jaffna District was conducted. A total of 10 sessions, each of 2.5 hours duration, were organized at 6 different schools. Two sessions were conducted at Vembadi Girls’ High..Read More

February 19

A questionnaire-based survey for Master degree programmes

A questionnaire-based survey among 75 final year undergraduates pursuing BSc (Engineering) and BSc (Honours) degrees, respectively at UoJ was carried out during the survey period in order to get a clear picture on the interest of students in enrolling to the Master degree programmes that were developed under HRNCET project.

February 5

Staff Mobility: Research stay of Dr. Raja Manickam, Gandhigram Rural University, India

Dr. N. Rajamanickam, Gandhigram Rural University, India had been worked as a visiting researcher  at Department of Physics, University of Jaffna from 05 February 2018 to 04 March 2018 under Higher Education and Research collaboration on Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Technologies project (HRNCET). He worked on materials development towards Nanostructured titanium dioxide based dye sensitized solar cells as well as methylammonium..Read More

January 31

Staff Mobility: Research stay of Mr.Venkat Raman, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India

Venkat Raman, India had been worked as a visiting researcher  at Department of Physics, University of Jaffna from January 26, 2018  to February 05, 2018 to under Higher Education and Research collaboration on Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Technologies project (HRNCET).During his stay, he trained a few undergraduate students on fabrication and characterization of Dye Sensitized Solar cells. He made presentation..Read More

December 8

International Symposium on NANOMATERIALS FOR CLEAN ENERGY AND HEALTH APPLICATIONS

International Symposium on NANOMATERIALS FOR CLEAN ENERGY AND HEALTH APPLICATIONS From 6th of December to 8th of December, an international symposium was arranged in India under the UTFORSK, INCP and NORPART projects. Both students and staff from HVL, UiB, UoA, UoJ, UoP were involved in this symposium and meetings along with our partners from CIT. Eight academics from Universities of..Read More