Renewable Energy
Made Easy
EUCENA ☼ European Citizen Energy Academy
Free online courses with certification
Renewable Energy
Join the Greek Summer School Network
The summer school Citizen Energy Movement in the Balkans (28-30 June, 2022) fosters networking at the Balkan level and cross-country exchange of ideas, tools, knowledge, and good practices. It also starts consolidating the community energy movement in South-East Europe, where citizen energy is just developing, and foster collaboration with partners from Central Europe, where there is already a tradition of citizen energy.
Renewable Energy Made Easy: The Course for You
"We are facing the biggest economic structural change since the start of the industrial age. Instead of just a few owners we now suddely have hundreds of owners, millions even. Energy supply is being democratised." – Hermann Scheer
- Are you fascinated by the power of solar and wind energy?
- Do you want your region to be energy independent?
- Are you ready to locally self-organise the harvest in the community?
- Would you team up in your own neighborhood to establish solar and wind power plants and own and control it together?
- This Course about Community Energy will teach you how.
The technology to harness your own sun and wind energy is easy and accessible to all of us. Anyone can learn and implement these technologies in their day-to-day life and participate in the renewable energy transition.
These free and open online courses teach you the methods and techniques that you can introduce into your life and push the energy transition together with your neighbors and friends.
The best of all: you are not alone, all of us can learn from each other, we share knowledge and act together. It’s time you mobilise your community, your neighborhood, and let your region flourish.
Courses
“Solar modules are the most effective weapon of peace” – Krisztina André
In these courses you can learn about the secrets of community energy. Practitioners will help you and your community step by step and you can also contact them or visit them if your group needs assistance in any phase of your community energy projects.
For each course you will need only a couple of days and you are free to chose in what order you would like to complete it.
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EUCENA Compact Course
EUCENA Compact Course
In the first edition of Citizen Energy, you will learn how to pro...
Course 1: Introduction to Citizen Energy
This course is the first one out of 7 EUCENA courses going online...
Course 2: The Social Component, Mobilization and Networking
The second course will lead you through steps to find others with...
Course 3: Renewable Energy Production and Usage
In the third course you will learn about the potential of solar e...
Course 5: Management and Founding of Energy Communities
In the fifth course you will learn how to found and manage your e...
Course 4: Energy and Climate Politics, Advocacy
In the fourth course you will learn about the definition of citiz...
Course 6: Financial Components and Business Models
The sixth course will lead you through steps to finance the proje...
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Course 7 Technical Components
Course 7 Technical Components
The 7th course is the last EUCENA course. To give you something p...
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EUCENA trailer – Making 100% renewable energy possible—together!
Be an Energy Warrior
Learn and discover easy ways to implement renewable energy tools and techniques. The courses will show you how to create and manage energy communities. Take back the power from corporates to build self-sustaining energy communities today!
Learn from
Experts
We have a host of experts in the field of renewable energy to guide you step-by-step on how to utilise renewable energy and maintain energy communities.
Find Support & Community
You are not alone. Throughout the course, you will be supported by our team. We will also guide you to various resources so that you have all the support you need.
Inspire &
Be Inspired
Choosing to make a difference is inspiring. We encourage you to inspire others and motivate change. We will also share stories and conversations from communities from whom we take inspiration on this journey.
Learn for
Free
We want to ensure that knowledge and resources are accessible and inclusive. So, we are offering these courses for free and online.
Benefits of Participation
Participating in these courses will equip you to learn how to harvest green electricity, create new jobs, discover opportunities in joint action, protect your own health as well as everybody else’s and open the door to communal prosperity.
About the Course
Have you ever wondered what it would take for you to make use of the sun’s power and the wind’s force? Are you already active in your neighbourhood energy cooperative and would like to expand your activities? Are you concerned about climate change and inequality in our world and want to make a difference? Then, this course is for you.
The main topic of this course is citizen energy—what it means, why it matters, and how you can actively participate in it. You can then scale up to build an energy community or work within an energy cooperative. This course will show you the key levers to promote equity so that the energy cooperative model embraces people of all income levels, nationalities, and genders. The course will guide you on how to plan and manage finances, understand funding and invest together in your own region, with case studies to illustrate how to manage finances and funding.
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Your donation, no matter how big or small, supports us in providing free online courses in renewable energy. Your assistance helps us to offer our programmes over the long term, to continue to create new training materials, and to translate our modules into other languages.
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Basic calculation of the energy needs and solar supply in your town or region
In this workshop Daniel Bannasch from the German NGO MetropolSolar will calculate the energy needs and solar supply of two sample towns/regions, one from Germany and one from Vojvodina, northern Serbia.
Afterwards it is up to you to bring in your own town, or region and ask the group to calculate the energy needs and solar supply together.
No prior knowledge needed.
Basic calculation of the energy needs and solar supply in your town or region
In this workshop Daniel Bannasch from the German NGO MetropolSolar will calculate the energy needs and solar supply of two sample towns/regions, one from Germany and one from Vojvodina, northern Serbia.
Afterwards it is up to you to bring in your own town, or region and ask the group to calculate the energy needs and solar supply together.
No prior knowledge needed.