Modelling approaches to support Kenya’s sustainable development
This course is organised and led by the Technical University of Mombasa, with contribution of trainers from the Technical University of Mombasa, Politecnico di Milano, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, National Technical University of Athens, Meru University, and Strathmore University.
Objectives and contents of the course
The course covers multiple dimensions of sustainable development, ranging across the environmental, economic and social spheres. It aims to provide the students with theory and practice on the use of modeling tools to analyse the interactions between climate, energy, land use, water supply and the national economy.
It is structured into a series of weekly online sessions guided by teachers and related weekly home assignments. Throughout the course, the students will also work on a modelling project in groups.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will be able to:
Evaluate common energy, economy, environment systems modeling and scenario analysis approaches and critically discuss their key strengths and limitations in addressing Sustainable Development issues.
Analyse through modelling and scenario techniques various sample national development situations and appropriately ditil insights, given limited and uncertain information.
Design and construct a thorough and detailed energy-environment-economy analysis of Kenya with modelling approaches learnt during the course, including independent data processing, problem definition, generation of solutions and interpretation of the results in light of the country’s sustainable development challenges.
Duration
Approximately 23 two-hour sessions, starting February 12th, 2024.
Registration and achievement
The course is intended for students at TUM who had participated in our capacity development workshop back in August 2023. Registration information and the course agenda is available in the communication sent to students. Between the classes, the home assignments and the project work, the overall effort required will amount to ca 160 hours over the course of six months, the equivalent of 6 ECTS.
