The Flat Pack programme supports academics from universities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by having ready-made teaching materials freely available. These have been developed by CCG and can quickly be incorporated into graduate university courses. They cover a wide range of the open-source models and the skills learnt will be relevant to the energy transition.
The target audience for the Flat Pack are acedmics from the Global South who have attended either an Energy Modelling Platform or a capacity-building event that specialised in one of the CCG tools.
The following tools/courses are currently available as part of the Flat Pack programme.
The steps involved in establishing a flatpack at a university are as follows:
- Expression of Interest in Flat Pack
- An institution asks about receiving support from CCG to implement a Flat Pack; this is formalised by a letter request (which will be provided)
- For more details, see ‘Request Flat Pack Support‘ below
- Initial Discussion
- Discussions are held to understand the available teaching capacity, the proposed MSc courses, and other details
- Review Instructor Qualifications
- This establishes if the institution needs capacity-building support or not
- Review Curriculum and Integration Opportunities
- CCG and the institution review and identify the best way to initegrate the CCG Flat Pack teaching material
- Propose and Agree Curriculum Enhancement
- Establish and agree upon the final curriculum
- Official Adoption of Flat Pack material
- This is supported by a letter from the applying institution to confirm the implementation of the Flat Pack
- Ongoing Support of Flat Pack During Early Years
- This will be done primarily through the Energy Modelling Community
The Flat Pack initiative was launched in 2024, and has seen success at Strathmore University in Kenya. Currently, the initiative is being implemented in several universities in the Global South. If you would like to implement a Flat Pack at your university, please contact us via email fill in the following form with as much detail as possible, sending an offline version as part of the Flat Pack request email.