ESSENCE project: how to adapt engineers’ education to a changing environment

The European Project ESSENCE (Establishing Smart Energy Curriculum at Vietnamese and Russian Universities), which runs from October 2017 to October 2020, is funded by the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ programme.

Grenoble INP Institute of engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes is involved in this project, through its School Grenoble INP - Ense3, graduate school of engineering Energy, Water and Environmental sciences, along with 9 other universities from Slovakia, Latvia, Russia and Vietnam.

The current high level of technological innovation worldwide in the field of Smart Energy Systems (SES) requires engineers to be able to cope with these new systems as well as to conceive, develop and implement innovative SES projects according to local conditions. For future engineers to be well prepared in this field, existing programmes should be modernised to include adapted training in terms of approach, methodology and even facilities, or new educational programmes should be developed.

ESSENCE project’s aim is to help Russian and Vietnamese universities adapt their current engineering master level curriculum in Smart Energy Systems to meet technological evolution demands. This project is implemented in close cooperation with industry and in accordance with the European Qualification Framework.

New curriculum will be developed based on assets of each consortium member, using European experience in creation of educational programmes aligned with the Bologna process. Within the framework of the project, core curriculum will be developed to be embedded into existing master programmes and implemented during the year 2020.