Università degli Studi di Brescia
The University of Brescia comprises eight departments offering quality programs and competitive research in areas related to Engineering, Health, Law, and Economics. With its 550 permanent academic staff, offers 24 undergraduate Degree programs, 17 postgraduate and 7 Doctoral Degree programs. In 2016, about 14300 students were enrolled. At present, Università degli Studi di Brescia counts more than 160 active financed research projects, 40 international projects where 25 projects funded within the 7th Framework Programme and 120 nationally funded projects. The University participated in various programs such as FP5, FP6, FP7, COST actions, LIFE+, South East Europe Program, Erasmus Mundus, ACP Water Facility, Civil Justice and is currently participating in 13 projects within Horizon 2020. The support to the MACBETH project will be granted mainly by the Energy Technology Group (ERGO), in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. ERGO’s main research activities focuses on the study, analysis, and design of components involved in all the aspects of energy conversion and advanced power generation technology, with a particular focus to power plant operating with non-conventional working fluids (ORCs, closed gas cycles, Stirling engines) and to hydrogen production (membrane reactor) and utilisation systems (fuel cells).
