Development of learning material for the RENAC online course “Methodologies to quantify renewable energy employment impacts”

Across the world, promoting renewable energy plays a crucial role in mitigation against the impacts of climate change. Adoption of renewable energy technologies has not only revolutionised energy markets in industrial countries but increasingly does so in developing and emerging economies. Climate change mitigation is not an end in itself but creates significant economic and social co-benefits. More specifically, shifting towards wider adoption of renewable energy and cleaner production processes can have significant positive effects on livelihoods and businesses in almost all parts of the world. A particularly crucial co-benefit is the impact on employment.

For this reason, the International Climate Initiative (IKI), funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), had initiated the COBENEFITS programme on “Mobilising the Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation through Capacity Building among Public Policy Institutions” to combine and align climate change mitigation approaches with social and economic benefits and opportunities of promoting renewable energy. Within this wider framework, the specific project at hand has aimed to build the capacity of government institutions responsible for developing and implementing energy and climate policies in the target countries South Africa, Kenya, Mexico India, Vietnam, and Turkey on methods and tools that can help to identify and quantify employment impacts of renewable energy.

adelphi was the content provider for the Renewables Academy AG (RENAC) who implemented the trainings and capacity building initiatives. In this role, adelphi has conceptualised and developed the online course on “Methodologies to quantify renewable energy employment impacts” as well as complementary teaching videos on course content. adelphi has put great emphasis on combining different teaching techniques that complement each other and speak to different user groups in order to ensure maximum reach and effectiveness. For this reason, developing an innovative blended learning approach that brings together visual, interactive, explanatory, and teacher-centric elements has been a key priority.