CONNECT-Asia E-learning Courses
UNESCO e-learning course: Energy for Sustainable Development in Asia
UNESCO Jakarta, in collaboration with Sustainable Energy and Environment (SEE) Forum, provides "Energy for Sustainable Development in Asia" course. This energy course is developed under COMprehensive Program to Enhance Technology, Engineering and ScienNCE Education (COMPETENCE) and will present Asian energy experts from Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, India, Malaysia and China.
The course will be broadcast through CONNECT-Asia partner networks (INHERENT-Indonesia, MYREN-Malaysia, PREGINET-the Philippines and SOI Asia-Japan) during February - April 2011 at 10.00 am to 12.00 pm (GMT+7). University/participants connected to our partner networks will receive the course through video conference. Meanwhile other participants could follow the lecture via live streaming. Please register your name to get enrolled. Certificate will be provided for the participants.
Details schedule can be downloaded here and as bellow:
| Theme 1: Understanding of Sustainable Development | |
| 10-Feb | Sustainable development, What are MDGs? |
| Prof. Hubert Gijzen, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Jakarta | |
| 16-Feb | Energy access, linkage between energy and MDGs |
| Prof. Sivanappan Kumar, Asian Institute of Technology | |
| Theme 2: Current Energy Situation and Needs to Transform Toward Sustainable System | |
| 17-Feb | Current energy situation, Resources and future energy scenarios |
| Prof. Sivanappan Kumar, Asian Institute of Technology |
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| 22-Feb | Gender perspective |
| Ms. Christina Aristanti, Dian Desa | |
| 23-Feb | Social and environmental cost, Ethics and behavioral change issues |
| Prof. Tetsuo Tezuka, Kyoto University | |
| Theme 3: Current (Conventional) Energy Technologies | |
| 01-Mar | Technology and applications (pros and cons of technology options): |
| Nuclear power generation; Prof. Hideaki Ohgaki, Kyoto University | |
| Fossil fuel power generation; Prof. Harwin Saptoadi, Gadjah Mada University | |
| 02-Mar | Status of conventional energy technologies |
| Prof. P. Ravindra, University Malaysia Sabah | |
| Theme 4: Energy Efficiency | |
| Energy efficiency technologies: | |
| 03-Mar | Sector wise opportunities in Japan and Asia |
| Prof. Keiichi Ishihara, Kyoto University | |
| 08-Mar | Sector wise opportunities in China and Asia |
| Prof. Yanjia Wang, Tsinghua University | |
| Theme 5: Renewable Energy | |
| 10-Mar | Renewable energy technology |
| Prof. Hideaki Ohgaki, Kyoto University | |
| 15-Mar | Renewable energy technology - Bioenergy |
| Prof. V.K. Vijay, Indian Institute of Technology | |
| 17-Mar | Prof. Xi Wenhua, UNIDO International Solar Energy Center for Technology Promotion and Transfer (tbc) |
| 22-Mar | Support strategies to promote renewable energy (policy), Renewable energy as a tool to empower community |
| Dr. Bundit Fungtammasan, the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment | |
| Theme 6: Sustainable Energy Policy and Development | |
| 24-Mar | Local/national/global policies |
| Prof. Low Seow Chay, Nanyang Tech University | |
| 29-Mar | Renewable energy policy at national and local levels: frameworks and examples |
| Dr. Eric Martinot, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies Tokyo | |
| 31-Mar | Stakeholder engagement |
| Prof. Low Seow Chay, Nanyang Tech University | |
| Theme 7: Case Studies | |
| 05-Apr | Good practices (policy, technology innovation, public participations) and lessons learned |
| Prof. V.K. Vijay, Indian Institute of Technology | |
| 07-Apr | (title tbc) |
| Prof. Kamaruddin Abdullah, Dharma Persada University | |
| Dr. Dadan, Ministry of Energy, Indonesia (tbc) | |
