Facilitating Community Energy Transition (8 cr)
Code: IE10063-3004
General information
- Enrollment
- 31.03.2025 - 30.04.2025
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 18.08.2025 - 12.12.2025
- The implementation has not yet started.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 8 cr
- Local portion
- 8 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Insinöörikoulutus / Energia- ja ympäristötekniikka (IE)
- Campus
- Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 5 - 30
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Engineering
- Teachers
- Kaija Saramäki
- Teacher in charge
- Kaija Saramäki
- Groups
-
IENS22Engineer, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Full-Time Studies, Fall, 2022
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TOP25_26Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2025-2026
- Course
- IE10063
Evaluation scale
H-5
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
Location and time
On site at Wärtsilä Campus, Karelia UAS.
Materials
The MSP Guide by Herman Brouwer and Jim Woodhill with Minu Hemmati, Karèn Verhoosel and Simone van Vugt
International connections
The course will be implemented in a multidisciplinary and multinationality gruop. Cases of stakeholder processes will be introduced from several countries.
We will also have visiting lecturer(s) from Karelia's partner organisations.
Qualifications
Students are expected to attend courses IE10058-10061 before attending this course.