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Events

• July 08, 2011 - Solar Ovens Workshop The "ENGENHO&OBRA" (work and ingenuity) hereby make the call for your participation in a training initiative with the support of one of the founders of NGO, the ISEP (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto) andl will be directed by the Engineer Armando Herculano. This initiative, which involves carrying out a workshop on solar ovens, aims to enable and provide a training day open to all citizens who wish to reflect around the themes of alternative energy sources, food security and responsibility and individual conscience regarding protection of the environment, thus aiming to provide them with a tool that brings citizens in the South, in the reflection on issues related to global environmental issues. » Schedule and Location » Registration Form

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News and Recent Developments

• November 2009: Forno solar ganha mercado e se volta para exportações - Lusa

Professor Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo

• August 2008: Since becoming “well contaminated with the virus of solar cooking” at the 2006 International Solar Cookers Conference in Spain, professor Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo has become an important advocate for solar cooking in Portugal and beyond. Ruivo credits Pedro Serrano, of Chile’s Red de Cocinas Solares de Latinoamerica (RECOSOL), and others for helping him overcome his initial skepticism. Ruivo learned to solar cook using a “CooKit” given to him by Solar Cookers International (SCI). He has since made and used several types of solar cookers, mostly “low cost apparatus using recycled materials.” Over ninety percent of his meals are now cooked with solar energy. Ruivo started promoting solar cookers locally — at his home, in local schools and restaurants, etc. — and worked with local media. Then he broadened his scope to other regions of Portugal, and eventually to Brazil and Spain. He’s even becoming known in Australia, where an interview with Ruivo (taped during a solar cooker workshop he conducted for about 70 Scouts) was broadcast on Australia’s SBS television program “Dateline.” Ruivo conducts numerous promotional activities. He has held several solar cooker conferences at the University of Algarve, with sessions on the evolution of solar cookers in Portugal, solar cooker distribution strategies, and solar cooker construction. He has also assisted with solar picnics and participated in solar cooking contests. According to Serrano, Ruivo has “developed an intensive process to diffuse the technology, [organizing] workshops, symposiums, courses, etc. — more than 20 activities in only one year.” Though Ruivo admits to being somewhat tired, he says he will continue his efforts to “contaminate others with this solar cooking virus.”

• April 21-25, 2008: One class of eigth grade students from D. Paio Peres Correia Basic School, Tavira, Portugal will fly to Porto Novo, Cabo Verde, to facilitate solar cooking construction and use workshops. The workshops will be realized in Porto Novo's Technical School and in Social Centers of porto Novo, as part of a cooperation program, promoted by Centro Ciência Viva de Tavira, and will be part of the trainning of local students, teachers and social workers, to become solar cooking promoters.[Source: Filipe Santos]

• June 18, 2007: O Concurso “Sabor Solar”, decorreu dia 18 de Junho com muito sol e boa disposição no Chalé Dr. João Lúcio – Ecoteca de Olhão. Houve 26 participantes que nos surpreenderam pela originalidade dos fornos apresentados e criatividade na confecção das diversas receitas. O Júri atribuiu o primeiro prémio na Categoria A – até 15 anos – a Ana Betriz Ruivo, David Silva e Inês Soveral, que nos apresentaram um delicioso Bacalhau com Batatas à murro, confeccionado numa panela cheia de areia! O grupo da Escola E.B. 2,3 de Quarteira, recebeu uma menção honrosa. Na Categoria B – maiores de 15 anos – o Júri teve mais dificuldade em decidir, pois a diversidades de receitas era grande… O primeiro prémio foi atribuído a Sandro Bruno Giovagnoli, com o prato Couscous à Marinheiro. Foi ainda atribuída uma menção honrosa a Silvério Ventura. Esta foi uma iniciativa da Ecoteca de Olhão, que pretende estimular a utilização de fornos solares e proporcionar a partilha de saberes num ambiente de convívio, contribuindo desta forma para despertar o interesse da população pela Energia Solar. [Source: Celestino Ruivo]

• March 16-17, 2007: Irá realizar-se um "Piquenique Solar" na Ecoteca de Olhão, Portugal

• February 3, 2007: O Encontro de Cozinhas Solares (III ECOSOL) irá realizar-se na Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Universidade do Algarve ­Campus da Penha.

• March 2006: Armando Herculano reports that he leads solar cooking demonstrations and workshops for schools, nongovernmental organizations, and local agencies. He recently designed a panel-type solar cooker called Girassol (“sun flower”). Its pentagonal shape eliminates the need to reorient the cooker to track the sun’s movement. With teacher friend António Serafim, Armando Herculano introduced the solar cooker to classes at National University of East Timor. This event was covered in local newspapers (Semanário 57 58 59; Timor Post) as well as on the 'TIMOR CONTACTO' portuguese international television (RTPi) program . Contact: Armando Herculano

Climate, Culture, and Special Considerations

• Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables

Resources

Reports

• March 2011: Analysis of the Drying Kinetics of S. Bartolomeu Pears for Different Drying Systems - Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Articles in the media

• November 2009: Forno solar ganha mercado e se volta para exportações - Lusa

• June 2008: Estudantes do Algarve ajudam a fazer fornos solares em Cabo Verde para lutar contra a pobreza - A Semana Online

External links

• A Aldeia de Energia Solar

• December 2006: Photos from the ECOSOL II in Portugal now online

• Perguntas freqüentes sobre cozimento solar

Contacts

The entities listed below are either based in Portugal, or have established solar cooking projects there:

SCI Associates

Main article: Solar Cookers International Association

NGOs

• Cozinhar com o Sol
• Tamera
• Tamera Solar Village

Manufacturers and vendors

• SunOK

Individuals

• Armando Herculano
• Celestino Ruivo
• Pedro Serrano

Educational institutions

• Instituto Superior de Engenharia da Universidade do Algarve

See also

• CONSOLFOOD 2016
• CONSOLFOOD 2018
• CONSOLFOOD 2020
• CONSOLFOOD 2022
• Sun Cook