Concept of Education and Training provided by the European Nuclear Experimental Educational Platform (ENEEP)

Research reactors have been playing an important role for the development of nuclear technology during the past decades. However, recently the interest of students to get engaged in nuclear technology declined for several reasons, such as very few new nuclear power projects in Europe and better careers in other technologies. In view of human resources development and nuclear knowledge transfer to the next generation, modern techniques in nuclear education and training are of utmost importance. Therefore, five institutions in Central Europe countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia), with access to four research reactors of different designs, cooperate in an EU project "European Nuclear Experimental Educational Platform" - ENEEP with the aim to improve nuclear education in Europe. This paper describes the ENEEP platform and discusses the projected target as well as presents one of the experiments offered by ENNEP.