United Nations University–Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) is pleased to announce a postgraduate course on renewable energy. The University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research (UN-CECAR) – for which UNU-ISP acts as the Secretariat – is a university network of leading universities in the Asia Pacific that developed the course for students to understand renewable energy issues in the context of science, technology, economics, policy, and relate renewable energy to climate change and other global contemporary issues.
The intensive course will cover hard topics such as small hydropower, solar, geothermal, bio-, wind, marine, fuel cell and hydrogen energy and soft topics such as energy demand and supply, economics, security, and policy. Students will also receive practical training with RETScreen clean energy project analysis software and HOMER energy modeling software. It is a unique postgraduate course that will foster the ability to function in a multidisciplinary team that could consist of persons with varying backgrounds of policy, science, engineering, and business.
The course will be held from the 1 April 2014 to 25 April 2014 at UNU-ISP, Tokyo, Japan. Researchers, faculty/staff of universities, government officials, international agencies, and professionals in relevant professions are invited to apply on-line by 14 February 2014 at
http://cecar.unu.edu/apply