The partnership between The University of Winnipeg and NTNU in Gjøvik (former GUC) in Sustainable Energy System Design, Evaluation and Governance draws on complementary expertise in these two partner universities to cultivate an academic partnership that can make important contributions to the mobilization of technologies, governance frameworks, and evaluation methodologies for sustainable energy systems in the High North and in regions powered by resources extracted from the North.
Through shared curriculum, international field trips, exchanges, and research placements for students, new research collaborations and academic exchanges among members of faculty from partner institutions, and the leveraging of existing relationships with the private sector to enhance knowledge of sustainable energy in the high north in business communities in Canada and Norway this project represents an important contribution to increasing higher education cooperation about a subject that is very topical for the High North: energy systems.
This work will facilitate important academic exchanges that can bring together shared realities and experiences in Norway and Canada related to the development of oil and petroleum products, hydropower, and renewable energy in the High North. These include legal issues related to oil and gas exploration in the Arctic and the role of Indigenous peoples in energy governance, as well as technical and economic issues related to increasing the availability and use of renewable and sustainable energy options, reducing over-dependency on fossil fuels, increasing energy security, among other challenges associated with a changing energy mix in the High North.
