The initials UETP stand for University Enterprise Training Partnership. The UETPs were the first organizations supported by the European Commission (COMETT programme) in the late 1980s which had as an explicit aim the promotion of the cooperation between universities and enterprises in European, regional and local level.
EES-UETP is an Association of Universities and Enterprises for the training in the field of Electric Energy Systems. EES-UETP has 23 partners (4 enterprises and 19 universities) in 12 European countries. The Partnership began its activities in July 1992, in the framework of the COMETT program. After the end of COMETT, EES-UETP is self-financed.
The main objectives of EES-UETP are:
• To provide an advanced technical and economic basis for the interconnected European Electric Energy System, under the new European Union scenario.
• To join utilities practice and universities experience to create more advanced and realistic planning and operation procedures.
• To better integrate environmental issues in both utilities practice and universities education programs.
• To obtain better and direct information about research and development in Europe in the area of Electric Energy System