REHVA Student Competition

On Thursday 16th, REHVA held its annual Student Competition in Istanbul!

Fifteen students from all around Europe reunited to compete in the competition!

We are happy to announce that our student from Portugal, selected by Ordem dos Engenheiros, Joao Mota, won the REHVA Student Competition! Joao impressed the jury with a presentation based on “Acoustic Assessment of a Novel Visor Concept with Aerodynamic Sealing for Medical Protection”!

Figure 1. Joao Mota, winner of the 2024 REHVA Student Competition, who will represent Europe at the HVAC World Student Competition.

Second prize was received by Marco Bizzari, our Italian student, with his presentation on “Building Heating Load Prediction for Optimal Control of Hybrid Heat Pumps: Evaluation of an Autoregressive Model and Energy Analysis”. The third place was secured by Ninon Gauthier and Roxane Viala, the French team, who presented an insightful presentation on “Monte-Carlo modelling of input uncertainly in ELECTRE-Tri Multi Criteria Decision Analysis”!

The Best Poster award was granted to Angelika Václavová.

We extend our heartful congratulations to all our students! All students were invited to participate to our REHVA Gala, a chance for them to celebrate the end of the competition. We were all reunited, REHVA team and network to share a dinner of Turkish specialties!

On Friday 17th, all students were invited to come and visit one of Istanbul’s most famous monument: the Hagia Sofia. This visit was organised by the REHVA Community of Young Professional, the community all students are now a part of! 

Figure 2. All the participants of the REHVA Student Competition shared dinner during the REHVA Gala after the Competition, with Arash Rasooli, representative of the REHVA Community of Young Professionals.

We would also like to express our gratitude to our sponsor, Eurovent Certita Certification, whose support made this event possible, once again.