A team of Romanian students, named Team Bucharest 2018, has qualified for the Solar Decathlon Middle East international competition, which challenges universities from around the world to design, build and operate a grid-connected, energetically self-sufficient house.

The competition will take place in Dubai, in 2018. The Romanian team will compete alongside 20 other teams from 16 countries.

The house developed within the competition will be designed and built in Bucharest, and will then be transported to Dubai where it will reassembled it in just 10 days, according to a statement from EfdeN. This will be just one of the competition’s challenges.

The Romanian team is made of students from five universities in Bucharest.

The Solar Decathlon competition was launched in the U.S. in 2002. The first international edition was held in Europe in 2010, in Madrid. Romania was represented for the first time at the 2012 edition in Madrid, with PRISPA project, and then in 2014 at Versailles with the EFdeN project.

Those who want to be part of the team can register until September 20.

The Romanian students, the sun and the traveling house

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(Photo source: Efden.org)