Objectives

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The overall objectives of the project are related to modernizing the higher education within the contemporary energy sector in the partner institutions, realizing that energy services of different kinds are one of the major impacts on the climate change globally. It must be brought to the attention of students, industry and society at large in the Third Country partners that increasing energy services can be fully compatible with climate mitigation, and that their prospering to a more climate-neutral society will not be limited because of “lack of energy”. In fact, there is enough fossil-free energy available on earth on a daily basis for the globe and humanity to prosper. And many energy conversion technologies for harvesting this energy do exist. At the end it is a matter of storage and fair and efficient distribution mechanisms.
In consequence the way the education is performed in the energy sector must ensure that the essential features of the energy services are brought up, combined with storage, and that the students/graduates are well equipped for finding entrepreneurial solutions to the problems at hand.

Aims

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The present project aims to contribute to both modernize higher education and mitigate climate effects from energy services. The methodology towards this is the following

Join forces with an existing global educational consortium for efficient collaboration, and co-creation, of educational material.

Ensure an efficient “train-the-trainers” concept towards the pedagogical approach of student-centred, flipped-classroom, challenge-driven entrepreneurial, digital and online education, and identify specific subject area teacher-teams with similar interest.

Update, and when needed create new, courses in the energy sector at the partner universities towards a student-centred entrepreneurial perspective. Share this learning material with the broader educational community for impact and scalability.

Reuse existing, global, learning material in the area for such updates, while developing what does not yet exist.

Create a teacher-teacher transnational collaboration, based upon best-practices of modern pedagogical approaches.

Create, local as well as global, academic/business/society collaborations in which students/teachers/industry commonly defines, and solves, challenges in line with the UN Sustainability Goals.

Create a regional and global environment in which students can reuse equipment from other partners (remotely accessible laboratories and simulations).

Ensure that such programs and courses are recognized, and if possible certified, within the higher education in the partner countries.