Combining urban planning and energy management, in-depth engineering skills and innovation management techniques, studying for the MSc Energy for Smart Cities enables students to play a critical role in shaping a rapidly urbanising world, and exploring how to create smarter, more sustainable and resource-efficient communities.
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Programme journey
Master's in Energy for Smart Cities has strong partnerships with internationally renowned businesses, smaller companies and a network of start-ups, who actively participate in the programme to ensure it remains current and relevant to their needs – and to yours. Partners are involved in curriculum design, selection processes, internships, support for Master’s theses, and job opportunities. Experts from the private sector, municipalities and other government bodies also take classes and give guest lectures.
Year 1
For the first year of the MSc Energy for Smart Cities programme, you can choose to attend eitherKU LeuvenorKTH: Royal Institute of Technologyin Stockholm. In your first year, you will combine electrical and mechanical engineering courses with energy-related socio-economic subjects.
The choice of courses in the second year will determine which university you attend.
Your Master Thesis
During your second year, you will also undertake a research project on electrical or thermo-mechanical energy, or on one of energy’s technical-economic aspects for your Master’s thesis. During your thesis you will learn to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the programme. Each year, the programme directors and the directors of InnoEnergy Benelux award a prize for the best thesis on innovation and the best on entrepreneurship.
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Journey
Ideate, experiment, innovate. Take on real-world business challenges and travel from Barcelona to Antwerp to Amsterdam, mastering the analytical skills, the market insights, the entrepreneurial techniques and the strategic networks to take your idea from concept to prototype – and beyond.
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Engage with industry
During the programme, all students have the opportunity to visit at least one international Smart Cities event, two energy companies and an energy research institute. In addition, all students engage with at least one start-up company that is working with EIT InnoEnergy Business Creation Services – our business accelerator and investor.
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The partners in the InnoEnergy Master’s School ecosystem are driving the energy transition in many different ways. The real-life challenges they set are a core part of our programmes. This challenge-driven approach to education gives you practical experience of how they are driving change, the issues they have to consider, the problems they have to solve, and the ways they measure success.
Barcelona: Smart Cities Week
In Year 1, you will spend a week in a Catalan capital analysing and selecting one of the challenges issued by our partners. Here you explore the basics in innovation methodology – from rapid prototyping to effective communication to investigating future trends in energy for smart cities – before presenting your proposal.
In Year 2, coinciding again with the Smart City Expo World Congress. Here you will have the chance to present your idea to real-world stakeholders, to validate your theories and assumptions, test the market conditions and spark potential interest in your initiative.
Antwerp: BIZBootcamp Week
In Year 1, you will take part in the BizBootcamp Week, where you will build your business model using creativity and brainstorming techniques, market research, modelling methodologies and Intellectual Property (IP) tools. Your innovation prototype and model is then presented to a jury of experts in innovation, IP and digital prototyping.
in Year 2, using Bill Aulet’s Disciplined Entrepreneurship methodology, you upgrade your startup proposal, focusing on things like market segmentation, value proposition and business model.
Amsterdam: Entrepreneurship School
In Year 1, you will apply the finishing touches to your final prototype. You will use effective communication tools from storytelling to elevator pitch techniques to present your work to the Innovation Competition Jury – Smart City experts drawn from academia, enterprise, startups and the public sector.
In Year 2, you will identify and validate key assumptions, finalise your pitch deck template and present your final product plan to an external jury.
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Qualifications and learning outcomes
The Master’s in Energy for Smart Cities is the perfect launchpad for an exciting future – whatever you want it to be. Find out how you get your double degree, as well as the learning outcomes and skills that it represents.
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In-demand business skills and innovation management
The MSc Energy for Smart Cities programme takes you across Europe to explore the future of urban living and the resources that will support it. In particular you will gain:
Deep knowledge of electrical energy processing, mechanical technology, and applied thermodynamics, plus the design and operation of electrical and mechanical energy systems
Understanding of wider socio-economic contexts and insight into ethical, social and economic frameworks for sustainable energy in the smart-city context
Communications skills that allow you to discuss ideas with a non-technical audiences and to present ideas and innovative solutions in a structured way
Executive, management and entrepreneurial skills and an understanding where and how to use them
Double degree
After successfully completing the MSc Energy for Smart Cities programme, you will receive a degree from each of your chosen universities.
INP: International Master of Science in Electrical Engineering for Smart Grids and Buildings
The EIT Label is a quality seal awarded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to a KIC educational programme that has been assessed positively by the EIT on the implementation of the EIT Quality Assurance and Learning Enhancement (EIT QALE) system and the application of specific quality criteria with focus on the EIT Overarching Learning Outcomes (EIT OLOs), robust entrepreneurship education, highly integrated, innovative ‘learning-by-doing’ curricula, international mobility and outreach. For more information please checkhere.
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