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Fact Sheet SPIS Course (18th Juni 2019 until 30th July 2019)
– Please notice that an Application for the e-Learning course entitled; "Solar Powered
Irrigation Systems (SPIS)" is possible until/within 30th May 2019. The SPIS course will be on
18th Juni 2019 until 30th July 2019. –

Figure 1: Summer School 2015 at the Ostfalia University of Applied Science

Introduction
There is a growing interest in solar-powered irrigation applications around the world, apparent by the
increasing number of sales as well as requests for finance, installations and capacity development. The
application of Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) aims to increase and stabilize local farmer’s
productivity thereby improving their living conditions especially in developing countries or remote
rural areas. However, awareness of SPIS technologies and its adaptability to different farming systems,
size of irrigation schemes and cropping systems is lacking among agricultural consultants, extension
officers and responsible personnel in the relevant ministries and as well as in financing institutions
including Banks, NGOs and the international donor community.
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Figure 2: Toolbox SPIS (Powering Agriculture, GIZ GmbH)

Chapters of the SPIS course:

I – SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT

II – SOLAR PUMPING ESSENTIALS

III – PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION

IV – OPERATION & MAINTENANCE

Target group:
The target group are agricultural consultants in regions where no solar irrigation would be possible
without solar powered pumps. We are going to train them in order to familiarize the local farmers with
the possibilities of solar irrigation. If you are interested in SPIS, you are cordially welcome to join us
(such as farmer, banker, scholarly person, NGOs, institution of the government).

E-Tutors:
We have a couple of E-tutors that support the applicants in different regions of the world. We
considered to have localized and well-educated E-Tutors suit to every region. The E-Tutors work
voluntary.

Figure 3: Future Pump installed in the lab of Ostfalia University of Applied Science (2019)
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Our Expectations:
We expect from you a basic knowledge of agriculture - water management and irrigation, high
motivation to get informed about the toolbox by GIZ GmbH on energypedia and intermediate english
language skills.

Please inform yourself before the course start about the toolbox at the energypedia website:
https://energypedia.info/wiki/Toolbox_on_SPIS.

We also expect the affirmation of your employer and a detailed feedback we need for the evaluation.

We appreciate your participation for joining us to widen the SPIS network and developing further
synergies of scale and skills.

Contact:

Ostfalia University of Applied Science

Institute for sustainable Irrigation

and water management in rural areas
Director
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Röttcher
Faculty Civil an Environmental Engineering

Iris Dahms M.Sc.

Tel. +49 (0) 5826 988 98861630
Fax +49 (0) 5826 988 98861632
Ir.dahms@ostfalia.de

Abbas Sadeghi Azad M.Sc.

Tel. +49 (0) 5826 988 98861660
Fax +49 (0) 5826 988 98861662
a.sadeghi@ostfalia.de