During year 2012, a total of twenty four graduate students were enrolled in the participating Universities, with fusion-related subjects. Of these, sixteen in Ph.D. programmes. Of these, two Ph.D. degrees was awarded to Dr. Marina Moraitou and Dr. Alexandros J. Iatridis.

In addition, the following courses were given by faculty members (affiliated with the Association) to students, for education and training in fusion-related disciplines, in the frame of their University Curricula (hours per week per semester):

• NTUA: Plasma Waves, 13 × 4 hours per semester (undergraduate),

• NTUA: Beams and High-Power Microwaves, 13 × 4 hours per semester (undergraduate; focusing on the physics of fusion plasma heating devices),

• NTUA: Plasma Kinetic Theory, 13 × 3 hours per semester (graduate),

• NTUA: Introduction to Fusion Physics and Technology, 13 × 3 hours per semester (graduate and undergraduate)

• U. of Athens: Astrophysics Plasmas, 13 × 4 hours per semester (undergraduate),

• U. of Athens: Theory and Applications of Microwaves, 13 × 3 hours per semester (graduate),

• U. of Ioannina: Introduction to Plasma Physics, 13 × 4 hours per semester (under - graduate),

• U. of Ioannina: Plasma Physics, 13 × 4 hours per semester (graduate),

• U. of Ioannina: Energy Resources, 13 × 4 hours per semester (undergraduate; one third of the course concerns Fusion),

• U. of Thessaly: Advanced Fluid Mechanics, 13 × 3 (postgraduate; 3-hours on MHD and fusion)

• Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki: Plasma Physics, 13 × 3 hours per semester (undergraduate),

• Technical University of Crete: Courses on plasma diagnostics, neutron generation from high density and high temperature plasma, Negative ions production and neutralization and 2-D MHD code for fusion devices, 13 × 3 hours per semester (graduate)

• Technical University of Crete: Laser Matter Interaction, 13 × 3 hours per semester (graduate; 10% of the course concerns Fusion)

• Technical University of Crete: Laser plasma spectroscopy and diagnostics, 13 × 3 hours per semester (graduate; 10% of the course concerns Fusion)

• U. of Cyprus: Statistical Theory and Modelling of Turbulent Flow, (graduate; 20% of the course refers to magnetohydrodynamic flows),

• U. of Cyprus: Energy Conversion Systems, (undergraduate; 15% of the course refers to fusion technologies) Of these courses, the Plasma courses, in addition to providing the general background material, typically contain fusion as a discrete entity or refer to fusion in application examples. Finally, the UoThly is one of the five partners of the EFDA GOT Programme on Vacuum Technologies and Pumping (VACU-TEC). The duration of the programme is 4 years (1/11/2010-31/10/2013), while one of the five trainees is Christos Tantos who is a mechanical engineering and a Post Graduate student at UoThly.

EFDA GOT Programme on Vacuum Technologies and Pumping (VACU-TEC):

The work in VACUTEC has been progressed according to the plan. All deliverables have been provided. The training of the UoThly trainee Mr. Christos Tantos in the field of vacuum gas dynamics has been continued. All scheduled secondments have been successfully realized and the corresponding reports have been provided.

Within the VACU-TEC program the UoThly team has organized and implemented the following school for the trainees: School on Vacuum gas dynamics via kinetic theory

• General

• Place and time: University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, May 7-11, 2012

• There were a total of 8 students (2 from CEA, 3 from KIT and 3 from UoThly)

• The objectives of the school was to provide to the trainees a solid understanding and knowledge of the theoretical approaches and computational tools in the field of vacuum gas dynamics. The trainees have been exposed on the basic theory of vacuum gas dynamics associated with standard approaches based on simple approximation formulas as well as to more advanced methodologies at micro and mesoscales.

• Program description

- The following main courses and labs have been provided:

• Kinetic theory I, II, III (Prof. D. Valougeorgis)
• Deterministic numerical schemes I, II (Dr. S. Naris)
• Stochastic numerical schemes I, II, III (Prof. A. Frezzotti)
• Computer Labs:

1. Flow through channels via DVM – tutorials (J. Lihnaropoulos)
2. Gas flow calculator (J. Lihnaropoulos)
3. Flows and heat transfer between plates via DSMC (S. Misdanitis, C. Tantos)
4. Typical flow configurations; results and discussion (Prof. D. Valougeorgis)

- The following supplementary lectures have been provided:

• Introduction to vacuum gas dynamics via kinetic theory (Prof. D. Valougeorgis)
• Introduction to molecular dynamics (Prof. Th. Karakasidis)
• Diagnostics in turmomachinery (Prof. An. Stamatis)
• Pump modelling (Dr. S. Naris)
• Advanced modelling including hybrid codes (Dr. S. Pantazis)

Emphasis was given in the efficient modeling of vacuum systems in the whole range of the Knudsen number via kinetic theory with applications in several ITER related configurations. During the school the trainees had the opportunity to formulate, model, simulate and obtain results of simple vacuum flows based on tutorial codes which had been provided to them.

• Evaluation As it is seen from the evaluation forms the trainees found the organization excellent and the lectures of the school very good. The overall evaluation was very positive. The trainees pointed out the importance of the labs taking place through the school and they mentioned out that the number of labs/examples compared to lectures may be increased.

• School Website

A detailed description of the school with the time schedule and the lectures delivered may be found in the following website: http://vacutecschool2012.uth.gr