Joint Summer School and Energy Modelling Platform
Climate Compatible Growth supports the Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable with the ICTP, the Energy Modelling Platform for Africa, and the Energy Modelling Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean via the OpTIMUS community. These free events provide access to skilled trainers, discussion forums and coaching in models and tools for energy planning and analysis. The models and tools are all free and open source, and the courses are available at any time via the OpenLearn platform.
Energy Modelling Platform:
Latin America and the Caribbean (EMP-LAC)
The next Energy Modelling Platform in Latin America and the Caribbean (EMP-LAC) will take place from 12 January to 2 February 2024. This will be an in-person event offering free training in energy modelling for LAC countries, with eight courses available. The event is free and there is funding available for flights and accommodation.
Application deadline is 12.00 pm (GMT-3) 27 October
To see full details for the 2024 event click the button below.
You can also keep up-to-date with announcements from CCG and beyond and network with other students, trainers, policymakers and analysts working in the area via our Linkedin Community.
CCG gratefully acknowledges all of the partners that contribute to the EMP-LAC
- 2050 Pathways Platform
- Centre for Global Equality
- Energy Strategy Reviews
- ESMAP (Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme)
- GIZ – German Development Agency
- Green Grids Initiative – One Sun One World One Grid
- International Renewable Energy Agency
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- Imperial College London
- International Energy Agency
- Loughborough University
- Optimus Community
- Simon Fraser University
- Sustainable Energy for All
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- United Nations Development Programme
- Universidad de Costa Rica
- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
- Universidade Federal Fluminese
- University of Cambridge
- University of Oxford
- World Bank Group
- World Resources Institute
Energy Modelling Platform for Africa (EMP-A) 2023
The EMP-A 2023 aims to contribute the creation of optimized investments for the energy transition in Africa. It is an excellent opportunity to acquire free training, access to discussion forums, and receive coaching in models and tools for your energy planning needs.
The specific objectives of the platform are:
- Bring together the energy planning and modelling community in Africa to share experiences, models, and data
- Support human and institutional capacity in Africa for integrated energy modelling and investment planning
- Support the development of centres of excellence energy planning in Africa
- Promote efficient and widespread use of open source modelling tools in support of implementation of the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, and Africa´s Agenda 2063
The last EMP-A Event was held April 2023 and helped participants to gain modelling skills for five of the #CCG OpenLearn courses through a mixture of self-paced study, in-depth hands-on training and a high-level strategic dialogue. To see details of this event, click this link. There will be another event in 2024. Follow CCG on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date.
You can also keep up-to-date with announcements from CCG and beyond and network with other students, trainers, policymakers and analysts working in the area via our Linkedin Community.
EMP-A partners include:
- UN Economic Commission for Africa
- University of Cape Town
- University of Mauritius
- Pan African University
- Department for International Development
- International Renewable Energy Agency
- ESMAP (Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme)
- African Development Bank
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- International Energy Agency
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
- Energy Strategy Reviews
ICTP Joint Summer School
The Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development 2023 (#SDSummerSchool) was held from 3 to 13 July 2023 and was hosted by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). It provided free training with energy modelling experts on eleven tracks, many of which are offered free by the Climate Compatible Growth Programme’s OpenLearn Collection and hosted by the Open University.
The Summer School increases your ability to develop energy analyses by providing further training on the skills obtained from the Open University courses and then guiding you through conducting a country-specific case study. At the end of the course, they attended a High-Level Meeting with speakers from various international organizations and research institutes.
The ICTP Joint Summer School 2022 was very successful, with 70 certificates issued to participants from all around the world, and 93% of participants said that the training would be useful for their daily work. Participants were from a range of backgrounds, from students (28.3%), to the public sector (26.4%), to NGOs (11.3%), academia (24.5%), and the private sector (9.4%).
All available sessions can be found on Climate Compatible Growth’s Youtube Channel, or can be found directly using this link. Follow CCG on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date with further training opportunities, or click the button below to see details of the 2023 course..
The event is co-sponsored by:
- OpTIMUS Community of Practice
- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
- Imperial College London
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Loughborough University
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
- University of Cambridge
- University of Oxford
- The Open University
- The World Bank Group
- Simon Fraser University
- The Climate Compatible Growth (#CCG) programme