The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree DENSYS is a collaborative two-year (120 ECTs) joint master degree programme with the goal to provide training in the inter-disciplinary fields of Decentralised smart ENergy SYStems.
Read moreI am delighted to have received the important appointment of new Chair of the EUA Energy & Environment Platform (EUA-EPUE). We are actively working to take the platform to a new level, building on the many successes of the UNI-SET project, notably with the launch of EUA’s first ever event on energy and the environment.
Read moreThe EUA Energy & Environment Platform (EUA-EPUE) welcomes a new Chair. The EUA Council has appointed Dr Douglas Halliday, Co-Director of the Durham University Energy Institute (DEI) and Director of its Multidisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy.
Read moreThe 24th United Nations climate change conference (COP24) took place from 3 to 14 December in Katowice, Poland. It focused on the implementation of the Paris Agreement (2016) and on advancing the Talanoa dialogue, initiated by the Fijian presidency of COP23 in 2017. The urgent need to act at a global level was also powerfully stressed in the recent special report (October 2018) on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Read moreOn 28 November, the European Commission adopted a strategic long-term vision for a climate neutral Europe “A Clean Planet for all”. EUA-EPUE responded to the European Commission Public Consultation on Future climate and energy policy – a Strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions in October 2018.
Read moreOn 28 November 2018, EUA moderated a session on Education and Training in Smart Grids and Smart Cities at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) International Forum on Smart Grids for Smart Cities.
Read moreThe quarterly SETIS Magazine “Jobs and skills in the energy transition” (December 2018) released an article on lessons learnt from the FP7 UNI-SET project. The article was authored by Lidia Borrell-Damian, EUA`s Director for Research and Innovation.
Read moreThe 2018 SET-Plan conference took place in Vienna from 19 to 21 November 2018. It addressed among other topics the 2030 and 2050 European energy and climate strategies, the financing instruments to support Research & Innovation (R&I), the EU's position in the world, and the importance of engaging citizens, cities and regions.
Read moreBy Lidia Borrell-Damián, Research & Innovation Unit, European University Association.
This article is one of the Forewords from the SHAPE ENERGY open access book recently published by Palgrave Macmillan ‘Advancing Energy Policy: lessons on the integration of Social Sciences and Humanities’.
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During the stakeholder collaboration workshop on “SET-Plan Key Action 6: Energy Efficiency in Industry”, held in Brussels on 27-28 June 2018, EUA-EPUE hosted a session on Knowledge exchange, training and capacity building.
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