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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 for Africa (EMP-A) 2024

An image of Africa in a copper colour with the partner logos on the left and course information on the right (which is available on the website)

EMP-A 2024 is the fifth round of the Energy Modelling Platform for Africa, and it aims to contribute the creation of optimized investments for the energy transition in Africa. This 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: 

  • Gather the energy planning and modelling community in Africa to share experiences, models, and data in climate, land, energy, and water systems.
  • 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

EMP-A 2024 will take place from 13 May to 31 May 2024 and is an in-person event (the first week is online only), taking place at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration). Click the button below for more details and to apply.

An image of Africa in a copper colour with the partner logos on the left and course information on the right (which is available on the website)

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:

  • African Climate Policy Centre – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ACPC-UNECA)
  • Climate Compatible Growth Programme (#CCG)
  • Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
  • Green Grid Initiative (GGI)
  • Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC)
  • Ghana Energy Commission  
  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  • International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
  • Imperial College London (ICL)
  • Kartoza
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
  • OpTIMUS Community of Practice
  • Politecnico Di Milano 
  • Republic of Ghana Ministry of Energy 
  • Simon Fraser University
  • Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
  • The Loughborough Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment, and Resilience (STEER)
  • United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO)
  • United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Oxford
  • World Resource Institute (WRI) 
  • World Bank Group (WBG)

Energy Modelling Platform:
Latin America and the Caribbean (EMP-LAC)

Una tarjeta de imagen del evento EMP-LAC 2024. A la derecha. incluye la información básica, como las fechas (del 15 de enero al 2 de febrero) y las herramientas. A la izquierda, un esquema del mapa de América Latina y el Caribe y una imagen de una bombilla con iconos de energías renovables.

The most recent Energy Modelling Platform in Latin America and the Caribbean (EMP-LAC) took place from12 January to 2 February 2024. It was an in-person event offering free training in energy modelling for LAC countries, with eight courses available. 

This event has finished. There are some photos from the event 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

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.

A composite image of 3 photos of participants taken from inside the workshop for the Zambia CCG Network

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