Course Catalogue

Why Decarbonising Heat – and How

This micro-credential explores the challenges and opportunities driving decarbonisation of heat, as well as the principles, technologies, and strategies for taking projects from vision to operations, with a focus on district energy solutions. Learning will be grounded in a real-world case study using digital twinning software.

Digital Transformation for DHC

This micro-credential is focused on digital skills for the District Heating & Cooling (DHC) sector. The course is designed to equip professionals with the digital and analytical skills required to manage increasing system complexity, improve operational performance, and support strategic decision-making.

Sustainable Cooling

This micro-credential explores the principles, and the combination of strategies and technologies to rapidly adjust buildings and city infrastructure to a warmer climate. Focus will be on effective and affordable solutions which can be implemented at scale. The course will involve speakers from across the globe, all with a hands-on experience in the field.

Stakeholder Management – “Beautiful Heat”

This micro-credential highlights the strategies for packaging and communicating the opportunities and benefits of heat networks, thereby securing buy-in from communities and decision makers. The course is highlighting the rational arguments as well as exploring the emotional side which is critical in complex decision-making processes.

How to become a “Decarboniser” – Attracting Young Talents

This course highlights the rapidly growing job and career opportunities in the sector of decarbonising heating and cooling in buildings. Topics addressed include a review of the basic concepts of heating and cooling buildings, the drivers, solutions and benefits of decarbonising, and a description of career opportunities and how and where to develop the required skills.

Building Efficiency – Introduction

This micro-credential explores the principles, technologies, and strategies for increasing efficiency in old and new buildings. Focus is given to the combination of strategies and solutions to maximise the return on investment. The course involves speakers with a hands-on experience in the field.

Decarbonising Historic Buildings

This micro-credential explores the challenges, strategies, solutions and skills required for decarbonising heating and cooling in historic buildings. The course will highlight cost effective and scalable technologies, practices and business models making it viable – technically, politically and commercially. Demands for combined heating and cooling solutions will be addressed.

High Temperature Heat Networks

This micro-credential explores the challenges, technologies, application areas, and skills related to high-temperature heat networks. The course highlights the basic physics of high temperature heat distribution, installation practices, hardware, software, and approaches to monitoring and maintenance to secure reliability. Also providing overview of the skills required.

Low Temperature Heat Networks

This micro-credential explores the challenges, technologies, application areas, and skills related to low-temperature heat networks. The course highlights the basic physics of high temperature heat distribution, installation practices, hardware, software, and approaches to monitoring and maintenance to secure reliability. Also providing overview of the skills required.

Asset Management of Heat Networks

This micro-credential explores the challenges, technologies, and best practice to maximise performance, reliability and life-time of heat network systems. The course highlights a range of new technologies and digital solutions to assist in the processes of designing, installing, monitoring and refurbishing heat network assets with the aim of minimising life-cycle costs.

Optimising Heat Networks

This micro-credential explores the challenges, technologies, application areas, and skills related to optimising performance in heat networks. Topics addressed include solutions and practices for reducing supply and return temperatures and losses, improving hydraulic control, and matching generation to demand. The course also introduces digital solutions for building smarter networks.

High Temperature Waste Heat – Europe

This micro-credential explores the principles, technologies, and strategies for recovering industrial waste heat and transforming it to electricity as well as heating and cooling which in turn can support internal processes or be distributed to external users. The course will involve speakers from across the globe, all with a hands-on experience in the field.

High Temperature Waste Heat – Canada

This micro-credential explores the principles, technologies, and strategies for recovering industrial waste heat and transforming it to electricity as well as heating and cooling which in turn can support internal processes or be distributed to external users. The course will involve speakers from across the globe, all with a hands-on experience in the field.

High Temperature Waste Heat – India

This micro-credential explores the principles, technologies, and strategies for recovering industrial waste heat and transforming it to electricity as well as heating and cooling which in turn can support internal processes or be distributed to external users. The course will involve speakers from across the globe, all with a hands-on experience in the field.

Low Temperature Waste Heat – Data Centres, Sewers

This micro-credential explores the principles, technologies, and strategies for recovering redundant heat from data centres and transforming it to district heating and cooling which in turn can support internal processes or be distributed to external users. The course will involve speakers from across the globe, all with a hands-on experience in the field.

Sector Coupling

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Project Delivery in Heat

This micro-credential highlights the process of taking decarbonisation projects from vision into operations. Focus is on strategies and solutions to minimise the total life-cycle costs and risks, while optimising reliability and performance. The sessions will address the five key stages in a project – Project Management, Commercial Modelling, Technical Design, Installation, and Operations

Commercial Modelling

This micro-credential explores the strategies, technologies and steps in building a viable commercial case for heat networks. The course will address a broad range of topics, including heat mapping, decision support tools, tariff models, forecasting demand, risk assessments, system design and optimisation, as well as procurement and capacity building.

Small Scale Heat Networks

This micro-credential highlights the opportunities for bringing together the components, skills and best practices into standardised, pre-designed and modularised kits with the aim of reducing capex, operational costs and risks, while speeding up implementation and expansion. The course examines the combination of a variety of heat sources, thermal storage and digital technologies.

Transition to low-temperature heating solutions in multi-apartment buildings

This micro-credential highlights the opportunities for bringing together the components, skills and best practices into standardised, pre-designed and modularised kits with the aim of reducing capex, operational costs and risks, while speeding up implementation and expansion. The course examines the combination of a variety of heat sources, thermal storage and digital technologies.

Decarbonising Greenhouses

This micro-credential highlights the opportunities for bringing together the components, skills and best practices into standardised, pre-designed and modularised kits with the aim of reducing capex, operational costs and risks, while speeding up implementation and expansion. The course examines the combination of a variety of heat sources, thermal storage and digital technologies.

Retainergy – Recovering high-temperature Heat from Small Scale Industrial Facilities

This micro-credential highlights the opportunities for bringing together the components, skills and best practices into standardised, modularised kits reducing capex, operational costs and risks, while speeding up implementation and expansion. The course examines the combination of heat recovery solutions, thermal storage, ORC technologies, heat distribution solutions, thermal storage, and AI.

Core Heat – Standardised approach and toolbox for driving energy efficiency at scale in public and residential buildings

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