ENETRAP projects

The main objectives of this project are:

to better integrate existing education and training activities in the radiation protection infrastructure of the European countries in order to combat the decline in both student numbers and teaching institutions;
to develop more harmonised approaches for education and training in radiation protection in Europe and their implementation;
to better integrate the national resources and capacities for education and training ;
to provide the necessary competence and expertise for the continued safe use of radiation in industry, medicine and research.

These objectives will be reached by the establishment of a European E&T network in radiation protection which will:

assess training needs and capabilities;
identify the potential users and their future involvement in order to insure the sustainability of the network;
launch a consortium of universities with the aim of create an European Master in Radiation Protection;
review the scientific contents of E&T activities;
explore the effectiveness of on-the-job training and identify options for additional programmes;
propose recommendations for the recognition of courses and competencies of radiation protection experts;
make recommendations for revising the current European Radiation Protection Course (ERPC) to include a system for credit points and modern educational tools, such as distance learning;

Two characteristics of this project need to be stressed on:

the wish for promoting a “bottom-up” approach instead of the more usual “top-down”;
the decision for developing a modular structure as well for the Education as for the Training programmes

The main deliverables of the ENETRAP project are:

the proposal for the establishment of a universities consortium;
the delivery of a pilot session for the training in radiation protection;
the recommendations to the EUTERP platform regarding the recognition of this training, especially for the qualified experts