Strategic Energy Planning and Industrial Ecology for Local Sustainable and Just Development in an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainties (Politecnico di Milano) The BEP is one of the six Inter-University Specialising and Intensive Courses under the TNE – Advanced Skills.
The Blended Executive Programme (BEP) consists of 5 general modules, 3 specific modules and a project work. From a general perspective, more than the 50% of the teaching will be delivered in person.
- the 5 general modules account for the 25% of the load and will be online;
- the 3 specific modules account for the 60% of the load and will be mostly in presence;
- the project work account for the 15% of the load and will be conducted online with tutoring.
The training program starts in November 2025 and it ends in February 2026.
The 5 general modules are selected among the MOOCs available:
- Sustainable Development and the Challenge of Africa;
- Fundamentals of Geopolitics in Cooperation;
- Funding Opportunities and Research Proposal Preparation;
- Scientific publication: access to database, paper writing and valorization;
- Ethics of Research and Technology.
The 3 specific modules are:
- Fundamentals of Energy: Sources, Carriers, and Technologies for the Energy Transition;
- Energy Accounting & Countries Balances: Geopolitics of Energy & Evidence-Based Energy Policies;
- Open-Source Tools for Simulating, Modeling, and Planning the Energy Transition.
The BEP includes the assignment of a final project work during which students will apply the knowledge acquired from the modules. Specifically, they will conduct a modeling analysis and design a program for a new course or an update to an existing one in the energy sector. Students will be divided into working group and will be supported by senior tutor.
Students are required to attend in-person teaching activities; a minimum of 80% attendance is required for live online teaching activities. MOOCs can be followed on demand following the Direction instruction.
This BEP has a specific threefold objective for the target audience:
1) to increase participants’ knowledge of the just energy transition and clarify implications for Africa;
2) to provide appropriate tools to study energy solutions with an open source and open data approach;
3) to strengthen partnerships and collaboration opportunities with the home universities (joint labs).
More in details the learning outcomes are:
- Knowledge and understanding. The students will learn the trends of the global energy challenge and the methodological approach to the national energy balance. They will be exposed to the Africa Energy Challenge and will learn the basic of Energy Modelling.
- Applying knowledge and understanding. The student will be able to evaluate and design the energy balance at the country level.
- Making judgements: the students will learn how to evaluate the energy economy of countries by using a proper set of indicators. They will be then able to perform scenario analysis
- Communication: the students will present their project work based on a given format, amount of time and audience