The UPM has been a member of the ERASMUS mobility program in Spain since its inception. It became part of the Erasmus Charter during the period 2007 2013.The UPM higher education student and staff mobility program is contained within the quality framework of European and international collaboration activities as set out in the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE).The main objectives of the project are, on the one hand, innovation and quality in mobility activities, and, on the other, the consolidation of the level of participation of the students together with the increase in the quality of the mobility as a result the increasing culture of internationalization in mobility in staff training and teaching.In this way, the project is integrated into the objectives of the strategic plan for internationalization of the UPM (inclusion in the budgets of the UPM, consolidation of the organisational chart for work positions in the international area and lines of strategic activities as regards the development of capacities and structural modernisation).There have been a total number of 1219 students (about 20% more than 2015) and 47 staff participating in mobility for training and teaching (an increase of near 30% compared to 2015). 150 students were within the category of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Regarding the student mobilities for traineeship, about than 10% were recent graduates.The mobility program comprises the following phases:1.Preparation:This phase begins with the formalization or renewal of the institutional agreements with new member universities.To guarantee the basic principles of publicity, competition transparency and objectivity, a call for mobility places is published. After that the students that have achieved the adjudication criteria are selected (evaluation of their academic records, suitable linguistic accreditation and the specific academic criteria of the different UPM Centres).The ViceRector’s Office for Academic Strategy and Internationalisation manages PROLINTER (Programa de Lenguas para la Internacionalización (Language Program for Internationalization)), a language program to prepare students for mobility (English, French, etc) together with an internal accreditation test in the language demanded for the mobility so that the student is able to provide it together with the application for a place in the ERASMUS+ call. If the student does not have documental proof to justify the level, we offer them the possibility to do an external accreditation test: TOEIC (English) or TFI (French) in the corresponding call, or participate in the Pruebas de Capacitación Lingüística (Linguistic Ability tests) in the languages demanded.These tests are free and exclusive for participating in the Mobility Programs of the UPM and their validity is exclusive to those destination centres who will accept them as justification of the linguistic ability of the candidates.In this way, the support given to the participants in the mobility activities is reinforced in order to improve their skills in the foreign language before their stay.2.Implementation of the mobility tasks: The management and coordination of the mobility of the participants, before, during and after their stay is the responsibility of the International Mobility Office of the ViceRector’s Office (OMI). The OMI coordinates its activities with different international offices located in the different UPM Centres.3.Monitoring the project: Together with the evaluation of the activities, there is a formal system for the recognition of credits implemented by the Governing Council of the UPM. The different centres of the UPM are responsible for the academic recognition of the activities carried out during the mobility.The results of the project are fundamentally the knowledge and experience acquired by the student, the member universities and our own structural organization in the international area.The dissemination and use of the results form part of the planning of all communications activities of this university in order to obtain the greatest advantage from the resources available. In this way, we achieve the desired impact, that is, that the activities that we carry out in the project have repercussions on our participants and the member universities in the future.As regards the way the project is disseminated, the Web page of the UPM, notice boards in all of the centres, social networks, email and posters are used. Information sessions are held in the Centres every year to guide the students interested on carrying out mobility within the Program.Likewise the results of the Mobility Program are disseminated by means of the different international activity reports sent to the highest body for representation in the university community, which is the Faculty.

The growing interest for the integration of renewable energy sources, as solar energy, in the global energy mix, increases the need of developing of new methods that will assist on the up-scaling and demonstration of efficient energy storage and conversion technologies. In this regard, advanced modelling methods can be an indispensable tool towards this effort. SHINE aims at developing a holistic numerical methodology – by using in-house codes coupled with commercial software– that will boost the cost-efficient and sustainable electricity production and storage at unprecedented ultra-high temperatures (> 1000 oC). The stepping stone for the modelling activities will be a compact latent heat thermophotovoltaic device recently patented in UPM targeted for energy storage and production at ultra-high temperatures. The core components in such a device are the latent heat thermal energy storage system and the thermophotovoltaic device. The modelling methodology will integrate rigorous multi-physics models (fluid dynamics, heat transfer and optoelectronics) targeted at a component level into a reduced order model (ROM) by using multi-variable polynomial functions. Key in the proposed methodology is the validation of the rigorous models through in-house measurements at ultra-high temperatures that will be undertaken at the host organisation. Key as well is the production of the multi-variable polynomials through artificial neural networks that will be undetaken during the Secondment phase. The whole project is highly interdisciplinary because it integrates highly interrelated diverse disciplines (physics, engineering, optoelectronics, thermo- and fluid-dynamics, photovoltaics and thermal storage, and artificial intelligence-AI) as well as know-how from experiments is a single holistic approach. Once developed the ROM will be used to predict the whole system's performance as being part of a solar-to-heat-to-power and a power-to-heat-to-power concepts.