Why this course?

The course focuses on green energy and low carbon development in developing countries. It is targeted at managers and decision makers from the private and public sectors seeking to develop their knowledge and problem-solving skills with regard to improved energy efficiency and renewable energy, as an integral part of the global green growth agenda. Specifically, course participants are encouraged to apply new ideas into realistic action plans for business development and/or enabling frameworks for public-private partnerships.

The potential of private sector involvement in green energy and low carbon develop-ment is still relatively under-developed and under-stimulated. However, this is changing with energy sector reforms aiming to engage large companies as well as small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and non-state actors. This has led to new market opportu-nities. At the same time, an increasing inter-national focus on climate change mitigation has been followed by financing mechanisms for low-carbon development involving pri-vate sector players.

Danida Fellowship Centre

Danida Fellowship Centre

Green Energy and Low Carbon DevelopmentThe Danida Capacity Development Support Programme will host a three-week course on Green Energy and Low Carbon Development to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 3 August 21 August 2015.

A wide array of factors can facilitate an increase in renewable energy supply and energy efficiency actions (collectively termed green energy) contributing to a low-carbon development such as an increasing global interest in focusing on SME development, diverse portfolio of commercially viable low-carbon technologies, Carbon Footprint as a marketing strategy, and accessing finance for renewable energy investments.

The course will cover relevant energy tech-nologies, different technical service providers, market and financial mechanisms including Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and New Market Mechanisms (NMM) to enable participants to build new private or public-private partnerships. The participants will learn about enabling frame-works and business opportunities related to both supply and use of green energy and CO2 reductions. Moreover, they will be supported in their efforts to develop and apply new ideas into realistic actions plans for business and policy making. Why you should attend?

Develop an action plan for your company or government agency to apply green en-ergy and access climate or carbon finance for greenhouse gas reductions, i.e. be able to:

Introduce energy efficiency programmes and green technologies to reduce costs or improve production processes

Access carbon or climate finance as a financial option

Develop markets for energy efficient appliances and renewable energy tech-nologies

Explore commercial opportunities among

Danish green energy and low-carbon technology providers and increase your knowledge of technology transfer proce-dures

Develop a network of professionals in green energy and low carbon development who can help mentor and connect you, as you develop your business or policy

Learning approachAn active learning approach will be employed, involving all participants in acquiring knowl-edge for action. The course will combine for-mal course modules, group discussions, video material, case based exercises, and targeted excursions to relevant Danish sites such as producers or stakeholders in the renewable energy market. Moreover, each participant will develop a green energy and low carbon development action plan. It is expected that participants are able to make use of their ac-tion plans upon return. Follow-up assistance is provided up to six months after completion of the three-week course to facilitate the process of transferring lessons learned at the individual level to capacity development at company and institutional level.

Modules1. Introduction to the course and venue2. Understanding the challenges of green

energy and low carbon development 3. Green energy introducing technologies

and business cases4. Energy efficiency rising on the business

and political agenda 5. Low carbon development mechanisms for

public-private cooperation6. Market and Financing mechanisms 7. Business opportunities 8. Clean enterprise development 9. Presentation of action plans

Target groupThe course is intended for public and private managers and entrepreneurs seeking to learn about enabling frameworks and green growth business opportunities within a growing and partly liberalised energy sector and domestic and global carbon markets.

Application procedureThe application procedure must follow the Guidelines for Danida Fellowships. The guidelines and the application form are avail-able at the Danish Embassy in the partner country and can also be downloaded at DFCs website: www.dfcentre.com.

The fellowship form is filled in by the appli-cant and endorsed by the Danish Embassy Desk Officer responsible for the relevant Danida programme/project. This proce-dure ensures that the training is targeted to participants within the framework of national sector plans for capacity development. The Embassy will forward the application forms to DFC.

The deadline for submission of application forms to a Danish Embassy is 18 May 2015.The selection of participants will be carried out by Danida Fellowship Centre and the course manager.

CertificationA Course Certificate will be issued upon suc-cessful completion of the green energy and low carbon development action plan.

Course feeThe course requires co-funding of DKK 2,500 per study week per person (includ-ing study fee, accommodation, allowances, airfare and insurances).

Further information about the courseFor questions regarding the course content and implementation, please contact the Course Manager Mr. James Haselip: jhas@dtu.dk

Course manager and facilitatorsCourse manager and facilitatorMr. James Haselip (PhD) has worked in the Cleaner Energy Development group at the UNEP DTU Partnership since 2010 and is

involved in a number of activities, including country co-ordination of GEF-funded Tech-nology Needs Assessments and the man-agement of two EU-FP7 projects on climate change research and policy in Africa. Between 2003 and 2006, James worked at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial Col-lege, London, where he wrote a PhD thesis on electricity market reforms in post-crisis Argentina, followed by work in the private sector conducting non-financial risk assess-ments for extractive companies operating in less developed countries and a lectureship at the University of Reading (UK).

Main facilitatorsMr. Ivan Nygaard (PhD) is a senior research-er at the Cleaner Energy Development group at UNEP DTU Partnership, which focuses on issues related to the transfer and diffusion of low-carbon technologies in developing coun-tries. Over the last 15 years, he has been involved in a number of research, develop-

ment and capacity building projects, mainly in Africa. Before joining UDP, Dr. Nygaard was employed for more than 10 years at the Danish Energy Agency, mainly involved in managing and evaluation of development programmes for renewable energy in Den-mark. Currently Mr. Nygaard teaches Masters and PhD students at DTU, and has been a teacher and supervisor on the DFC course in previous years.

Mr. Sren Lybecker (PhD) is Program Di-rector at DTU Executive School of Business. His research areas are in business innovation and strategic organisational development. He teaches Master students in Technology, Economics, Management and Organisation and in Change Management. He teaches Executive Master students in Leadership, Organisational and Business Innovation. He supervises Master students and is responsi-ble for development and management of a new Master program in Design and Manage-ment of Projects in Networks.

Mr. Lawrence Agbemabiese (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP), college of Engineering, University of Delaware (USA). Before joining CEEP in January 2013, Law-rence was a Senior Program Officer for more than 10 years at the Energy Branch of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where he was responsible for UNEPs rural energy enterprise development (REED) pro-gram and the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project. He brings to this endeavour over 20 years of experience in adult training needs assessment, instructional design and delivery, beginning with his first job as Lectur-er at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

The course organizersDanida Fellowship Centre has contracted the UNEP DTU Partnership to develop and manage the course.

What is Danida Fellowship Centre?Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) manag-es and implements the Danida Capacity Development supported Programme, which supplies training in support of capacity development in Danidas programme and projects worldwide. DFC is responsible for the education, administrative and practical aspects of the training in Denmark. Further information is available at www.dfcentre.com.

What is UNEP DTU Partnership?UNEP DTU Partnership is a leading inter-national research and advisory institution on energy, climate and sustainable devel-opment. As a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Collaborating Centre, it is an integral part of UNEPs Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE) and an active participant in both the plan-ning and implementation of UNEPs Climate Change Strategy and Energy Programme. It is organizationally a part of the Department of Management Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and is located at the UN City building in Copenhagen. Further infor