Renewable Energy - LIST hosted a M.Sc. course with Johns Hopkins University

On May 23 – 24, 2016, the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) hosted at its premises in Belvaux (LU), the first edition of a professional Master course on Renewable Energy and Proactive Climate Change in BeNeLux with Johns Hopkins University (Washington D.C, USA).

LIST is pleased to collaborate with Johns Hopkins University and to work in conjunction with experts in applied science at institutes and agencies. This contributes to cross-fertilizing energy policy developments and technological innovation.

About the course

The course was co-lead by Dr. Daniel Zachary, Associate Director of the programme at Johns Hopkins University and former expert of LIST, as well as by Ulrich Leopold, expert in GeoComputation at LIST, and addresses both the technical issues related to renewable energies, the policy issues related to renewable implementation and aspects of climate change technologies.

This one-week field course took place in the BeNeLux region and is part of a Master of Science degree in the Energy Policy and Climate programme at Johns Hopkins University. The first part was organised at LIST in Belvaux, and the second was continued in Brussels at the European Parliamant and the European Commission and ended in Rotterdam (NL) in collaboration with the City of Rotterdam and the Erasmus University.

Two days course at LIST, Belvaux

During these two days at LIST, eleven professional students participated in the course and had the opportunity to meet with experts from the field of energy in Luxembourg.
Students were given an introductory overview of the LIST mission by the Director of the “Environmental Research and Innovation” (ERIN) department, Professor Lucien Hoffmann. They were then shown, the state-of-the-art urban energy planning by Ulrich Leopold, visual analytics tools presented by Dr. Fintan Mc Gee, expert in this domaine at LIST, and bio-fuel technologies presented by Dr. Philippe Delfosse, expert in Bionenergy also at LIST. Energy policy developments in Luxembourg were presented and discussed in a Q&A session by Tom Eischen, Energy Commissioner of the Ministry of the Economy and Camille Gira, Secretary of State for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure. Students had several visits to nearby bio-plants in Beckerich and Kehlen, and visited urban energy concepts in Beckerich.  They also visited solar energy projects, energy transition schemes and climate change projects in Rotterdam.

By the end of the course, students should have developed a sense of appreciation of these technical aspects in the BeNeLux Region. The course provides students with a better understanding of these issues and how to translate them to the USA context.

For more information, we invite you to contact Ulrich Leopold and to visit the course schedule page.