Sustainable Energy System Management

Semester 1 – Core

You will acquire a solid foundation in economics, modelling and business concepts related to innovative energy project design and aspects of the energy business. Combined with planning, strategic decision-making and communication, this core knowledge will allow you to analyse energy business challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective. The core is offered at Hanze UAS Groningen and Technical University of the Shannon (Ireland).

Themes of the core semester:

• Energy Transition Context
• Energy Technologies, Plants & Integration
• Markets, Finance, and Law
• Modelling & Scenarios for Strategic Decision Making
• Research Methodology

Semester 2 – Specialisation

You’ll be focusing on System Innovation Management, Sustainable Energy and ICT or Sustainable Energy Management. In-depth conceptual lectures are accompanied by practical assignments and technically orientated company visits. You are required to actively contribute to the course content by presenting papers and carrying out research tasks. Besides that you can chose between three different specialisations at different universities.

Hanze UAS – Specialisation System Innovation Management (SIM)

• Energy System Modelling & Application
• Energy Infrastructures and Renewables
• System Innovation Processes
• System Business case Economics & Law
• Business Ecosystem Design

Howest UAS – Specialisation Sustainable Energy and ICT

• Energy Audit,Flexibility & Dashboarding (electrical & thermal)
• Big Data & Internet of Things
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Renewables, Storage and smart Grids (electrical & thermal)
• Blockchain & Security

Semester 3 – Thesis

You will apply your knowledge and skills in a research project at a company or a research centre. Based on this research you will write your thesis under the supervision of a core professor, (a professor of the specialisation) and a professor from the project provider. At the end of the master’s programme, you will present your results to an assessment committee, at a EUREC gathering in Brussels.

You have to spend either semester 2 or semester 3 in a different country than the country of your core University.