SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

9Learning about clean energy in the community

UPES runs programmes that help people in the community, from school pupils to working professionals, learn why energy efficiency and clean energy matter.

• Schools in the Himalaya. A Department of Science and Technology project led by Dr Mohammed Yaqoot ran sustainable energy workshops for students in remote schools of Chamoli district, Uttarakhand.Source: Sustainable Energy Workshops for schools in Chamoli (DST)
• Training in renewable energy. From 5 to 9 February 2024 the School of Advanced Engineering ran a short-term online course, Emerging Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies, open to outside participants. Speakers came from IIT Roorkee, IIT Madras, IIT Jodhpur, IIT (BHU), CSIR-IIP, MANIT Bhopal and Capgemini, with a Scientist-F from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy as chief guest.Source: Short-term course: Emerging Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies (LinkedIn)

  

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  School of Advanced Engineering · 5–9 February 2024

  Short-term course: Emerging Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies

  A five-day online course in which speakers from industry and academia shared the global impact of their renewable energy research.

  Link: LinkedIn post
• Student action. The student-led GreenUp Club of the Sustainability Cluster runs clean energy awareness for students and children. During ATMOSFAIR 2024 its "Haz Hunt" treasure hunt set challenges on climate change, renewable energy and cutting carbon footprints, and its members taught children at an orphanage simple ways to save energy at home.Source: GreenUp Club Haz Hunt, ATMOSFAIR 2024 (LinkedIn) · GreenUp Club environmental awareness drive (LinkedIn)