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Sustainability Education: Capacity Building Using the MUSE Model

Published:2023-07-20 Issue:14 Volume:16 Page:5500
ISSN:1996-1073
Container-title:Energies
language:en
Short-container-title:Energies

Author:

Giarola Sara¹²³^ORCID,Kell Alexander³,Sechi Sonja⁴,Carboni Mattia⁵,Dall-Orsoletta Alaize⁶,Leone Pierluigi⁴,Hawkes Adam³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Management Engineering, Polytechnic of Milan, 20141 Milan, Italy

2. European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Via Bergognone 34, 20144 Milan, Italy

3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

4. DENERG Department of Energy ’Galileo Ferraris’, Polytechnic of Turin, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 10129 Turin, Italy

5. Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Marzolo, 9, 31131 Padua, Italy

6. Algoritmi Research Center/LASI, University of Minho, Campus Azurem, 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal

Abstract

Education for sustainable development has among its pillars, capacity building, which equips future generations with the set of skills needed to face the challenge of the transformation of society for sustainable development. This paper presents a training course for a novel model of long-term energy planning (the ModUlar energy system Simulation Environment, MUSE), as an example of capacity building activities for sustainable development. The activities were part of the Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable development, held in Trieste (Italy) in 2022. This summer school was one of the first successful implementations of education and training courses in a super-hybrid mode in the post-COVID era. Describing the training activities for MUSE open-source, this paper addresses one of the challenges that education for sustainable development is expected to increasingly face in the future: the training of future professionals in the use of novel toolkits and the implementation of truly trans-disciplinary approaches.This paper discusses the pre-school online training course for MUSE, the summer school contents, and some student modeling outcomes. While doing so, it shows the importance of leveraging the abstract contents of a course with practical exercises when learning a new tool. Reflecting upon the students’ experience, this paper draws conclusions that can be used to improve future editions of the same course and be extended to the design of training courses for other tools.

Funder

European Union

“Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia”

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/14/5500/pdf

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