Each year the Institute selects approximately 100 WNU Fellows from some 35 countries
– By April Murelio –
The World Nuclear University (WNU) has announced that it has begun accepting applications for the 6th Annual WNU Summer Institute in 2010.
Next year´s session at the University of Oxford runs for six weeks from 3 July to 14 August.
Each year the Institute selects approximately 100 WNU Fellows from some 35 countries. These young, nuclear professionals are tutored by some of the world´s notable experts in the field and will receive instruction in a broad range of issues, including nuclear energy, team-building and leadership.
Since 2005, more than 300 Fellows from dozens of countries have completed this WNU initiative and became part of an expanding global network of future leaders in the nuclear field.
To ensure global diversity among the Summer Institute participants, the IAEA has consistently provided financial support for select participants from developing countries, through its Technical Cooperation programme. Experts from the IAEA have also been involved in the summer programme as course lecturers on nuclear power development, nuclear safety and nuclear safeguards.
A Fellowship Application Form can be obtained online from the WNU Website
For more information, please visit the WNU Website.
Since the first WNU Summer Institute in 2005, the IAEA, along with OECD´s Nuclear Energy Agency, the World Association of Nuclear Operators and the World Nuclear Association, have supported the summer program.
The WNU is a partnership in which these four global organizations cooperate with leading institutions of nuclear learning, in activities to enhance nuclear education and leadership.
The World Nuclear University is a global partnership committed to enhancing international education and leadership in the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. The central elements of the WNU partnership are:
The global organizations of the nuclear industry: World Nuclear Association (WNA) and World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO)
The inter-governmental nuclear agencies: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD-NEA) and leading institutions of nuclear learning in some thirty countries.
The WNU was inaugurated in 2003 in a London ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower's historic Atoms for Peace initiative, the visionary proposal that gave birth to the IAEA. That UN agency is one of the four world organizations known as the WNU’s “Founding Supporters”. Within the UN system, the WNU is recognized as a "Partnership for Sustainable Development" by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD).
A non-profit corporation, the WNU pursues its educational and leadership-building mission through programmes organized by the WNU Coordinating Centre (WNUCC) in London. These cooperative activities are designed to harness the strengths of partnership members in pursuit of shared purposes.
Operationally, the WNU is a public-private partnership. On the public side, the WNUCC’s multinational secretariat is composed mainly of nuclear professionals supplied by governments; the IAEA further assists with financial support for certain WNU activities. On the private side, the nuclear industry provides administrative, logistical and financial support via the WNA.