MBA Renewables Alumni Conference

The DAAD grant

We are pleased to announce that the German Academic Exchange Service has awarded the MBA Renewables a grant to support the programme's third alumni conference. The largest amount of the funding is earmarked for travel grants for our international alumni.

All MBA Renewables alumni are invited to take part in the conference, the travel grants are limited to 30 alumni:

• 10 travel grants for alumni from Europe: up to €500 per alumni,
• 8 travel grants for alumni from America (North America, Latin America): up to €1,300 per alumni,
• 8 travel grants for alumni from Asia and Australia: up to €1,300 per alumni,
• 4 travel grants for alumni from Afrika: up to €1,250 per alumni,

The conference will commence on 9 September 2024 in the afternoon with a reception at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik.

The conference will take place over 5 days and will include presentations of experts, fieldtrips, practical trainings and alumni panels on the topics of Hydrogen, Digitalisation as well as Energy Storage.

Background: Why „Renewables now! But what’s next?”

In 2023, the MBA Renewables team asked alumni about their interest and possible topics for an alumni conference in 2024. As a result, the conference concept was developed under the motto: "Renewables now! But what's next?"

The conference will deal with the methods of futurology (futures studies) and design thinking, as these concepts are relevant for shaping the future.

Futures studies and design thinking are two concepts that are closely linked and complement each other. While futures studies aim to generate information about future trends, scenarios and developments, design thinking focuses on creating innovative solutions to complex problems. Together, they can provide a powerful tool set for shaping the future.

Introduction to both methods will be the input given by the facilitators – the outcome: to draft energy concepts will be done by the alumni of the MBA Renewables.

The MBA Renewables alumni is the right group for the conference concept, as they have a sense for future topics and careers in the (renewable) energy industry.

Outcomes

• Networking and cooperation: International Alumni network and cooperate with German universities and companies on issues of future sustainable energy supply in international cooperation.
• Drafting solutions for sustainable energy generation with renewable energy, the production of green hydrogen, energy storage and the digitalisation of the energy industry.
• Alumni have expanded their expertise and present the developed concepts as multipliers in their professional context and invite contacts from their professional network.