Strathclyde Business School and Dauphine Université, Paris, are joining forces to bring the future leading energy market professionals together, via a new Energy Master Exchange Programme (EMEP).
EMEP aims to strengthen the international prospects and opportunities for its Glasgow based MSc Global Energy Management (GEM) students via the development of international exchanges.
The first exchange is with the MSc in Energy, Finance and Carbon taught at Dauphine Université, Paris, a similar type of programme to MSc GEM, which prepares its graduates to manage the future challenges of the global energy sector.
The exchange involves two visits taking place in February and March 2014. The MSc GEM students of Strathclyde have already visited their French colleagues for a three-day educational workshop, where they attended lectures and presentations given by energy sector professionals from a number of key organisations such as French Regulatory Commission, the Distribution Network Agency ERDF and SIA Consultants. In addition, they undertook a field trip to a waste-to-energy plant near Paris.
Subsequently, students from Dauphine Université, Paris will visit Glasgow in March 2014, where the students of Strathclyde's Global Energy Management masters will host a number of lectures and workshops focussed on a key topic in the energy sector, and an area of expertise for the University of Strathclyde: Sustainable Cities.
The workshop will look at both the importance of sustainable cities globally but also on how Glasgow provides practical examples of the implementation of sustainable city solutions.
Confirmed speakers so far include: Brian Veitch [Director of Sustainable Systems at ARUP], Chris MacGee [Consultant Engineer at Sgurr], Gareth Macnaughton [Director Innovation & Strategy at Cisco], Dr Robert Rogerson [Reader at University of Strathclyde] and Morten Jordt Duedahl [an expert in District Heating]. Additionally, Richard Bellingham [Director of the Institute for Future Cities and Deputy Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute] has provided a great deal of support to this initiative and will be taking part in the workshop.
The students, led by GEM student Silvia Escudero, are keen to engage with colleagues in the university in relation to this visit, in addition to working with corporate partners to develop the event further- in particular they hope to secure some corporate sponsorship for elements of the workshop.
Dr Stuart McIntyre, Course Director MSc GEM commented, "This is a fantastic exchange initiative, and we are really looking forward to the visit to Glasgow of the students from Dauphine Université's Energy, Finance and Carbon programme.
"This is a student led initiative, and credit has to go to both sets of students for setting up what are superb workshops, which have engaged key individuals in the energy sector to expand the knowledge and expertise of our students."