Vak: Building Communities and Energy Landscapes credits: 10

This module will enable students to:
 
1. Analyse and evaluate how local resources and ‘clustering connections’ can be mobilized to solve energy transition challenges
2. Analyse, identify and evaluate the actors and factors in the development process of energy communities in the context of relevant theories of social movements, systems thinking and network thinking
3. Compile an advice for prosumer communities to develop local energy collaboration and solutions
4. Form resilient energy communities based on multi-stakeholder perspectives
5. Engage in a self-learning process that draws lessons from concrete energy community experiences in light of academic conceptual and analytical frameworks
6. Analyse and evaluate how various levels of decision-making come together at the local (‘micro’) level and in regional coalitions and clusters (‘meso’ level) in various forms of bottom-up initiatives that support the energy transition
7. Analyse and evaluate community building systems and decision-making processes in their local end ‘meso’ context