Global Renewable Energy Education and Training (GREET) programme

The GREET work programme which aims to promote institutional and human capacity-building reflects the need, particularly pronounced in developing countries, for education in fundamental disciplines, specialized training for professionals at different levels of responsibility, and networkbuilding. The programme meets this need through: the organization of training programmes at different levels; the setting of standards and definition of energy training curricula; design and field implementation of training tools and learning/teaching material; and promotion of national/ regional training centres. UNESCO’s concrete achievements in this area include the following: regional expert meetings/ seminars for knowledge-sharing and capacity-building (Benin, Guinea, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Qatar, Uruguay); regional expert meetings for the promotion of energy policies, management and conservation for sustainable development (e.g., Morocco, Niger, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia); initiation of summer schools in renewable energy (e.g. Malaysia, Mali, Uzbekistan and the Caribbean); support to the Cariscience Network for the implementation of two regional workshops on renewable energy; and the promotion of the concept of energy self-sufficient villages (ECO-villages) through lectures broadcast to twenty five universities throughout South and South-East Asia.