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Registration deadline: May 18, 2018

From May 29th to June 1st, the EES-UETP Course on HVDC and HVDC Grids for Future Transmission  will be organized by the university of Leuven. The course is held in the city of Leuven, Genk and Brussels in Belgium.

A previous version of this course "HVDC for Offshore Grids" was organized by  Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya -- UPC in December 2016 and was highly successful. We are now pleased to invite you to the new version of this course organized by the University of Leuven, Belgium from 29th May to 1st June, 2018. The course is organized in close collaboration with Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Cardiff University  and Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The course is organized in the framework of the EES-UETP platform: http://www.ees-uetp.com.

The course is aimed to researchers, PhD students and industrial participants working in the field of transmission systems in particular HVDC transmission. The course covers following topics:

• DC and offshore grids
• HVDC converter technologies
• HVDC converter control
• Interactions between AC and DC grids
• Protection of sytems involving HVDC
• HVDC grid planning and operation

A tentative programme can be found under agenda.