Materiali za shranjevanje in pretvorbo energije

The study program Materials for energy storage and conversion is foreseen as a joint masters' degree program, offered by a consortium of universities, within which the University of Ljubljana - Faculty of chemistry and chemical engineering (FKKT-UL) is collaborating with four other universities and offers seven teaching units within the third semester of study. Offering the program as a joint degree program is however not well reflected in the complementary contribution of study subject by participating institutions, which is reduced to only 20% of the contents of the third semester. Despite the relatively large number of participating universities, the program does not give adequate optionality for selection of TUs by students' choice. The program aims to educate much needed professionals on materials for energy conversion and storage, which is a fast-expanding field of materials' science, with projected growth in the near future, which will demand adequately qualified professionals for this sector. Within the fourth semester of study, which is dedicated to preparation of masters' thesis through the research training of student, who get the opportunity to acquire practical skills by research internship within partner research institutes and universities as well as industry. The contents of the course syllabi are however not in line with the title of the study program, since the focus is almost entirely on the materials for storage of electrical energy and not on other types of energy. In some cases, the contents of teaching units are too basic for the master’s level, while the common deficiency is the lack of description of the foreseen lab work. Many inconsistencies, ranging from admission criteria, to grading of examinations, requirements for progression and others, which are specified in detail in the report, were observed between the application form and the consortium agreement, which indicates that the consortium agreement was not prepared thoroughly. Nonetheless, the consortium agreement does not contain some provisions which refer to quality assurance and selfevaluation procedures, and are mandatory according to the Criteria for international collaboration in higher education. All this results in a long list of non-compliances and the group of experts can not recommend the study program for accreditation in the presented form.