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Facilitating Community Energy Transition (8 cr)

Code: IE10063-3002

General information


Enrollment

01.04.2023 - 15.04.2023

Timing

23.10.2023 - 31.12.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

8 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3

Teaching languages

  • English

Seats

5 - 30

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Engineering

Teachers

  • Lasse Okkonen
  • Kaija Saramäki

Teacher in charge

Lasse Okkonen

Groups

  • TOP23_24
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2023-2024

Objective

You learn how to identify, facilitate and integrate diverse stakeholder needs into a co-created community-level energy transition plan. You are able to develop policy solutions and advocacy plans that propose holistic energy solutions (integrating technological, political, environmental, and business solutions) that deliver on community energy transition, as well as relevant national and regional-level climate targets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You are able to innovate and defend context-specific solutions that are inclusive and sustainable, strengthening community-level ownership and decision-making over energy resources.

Content

The main contents of this course include:

- Propose and advocate for policies
- Identify, engage, and co-create with stakeholders
- Propose new business models for a community energy
- Technological know-how transfer; innovation for the energy transition
- To develop community-specific energy transition solutions that integrate systems thinking and SD approaches
- Reflection of learning through the processes

Evaluation scale

H-5

Qualifications

Students are expected to attend courses IE10058-10061 before attending this course.