MYANMAR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION – Developing a Partnership on Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing

Myanmar is in a critical time in its energy transition. To be able to attract investors in the renewable energy sector and re-investigate the governments RE targets, enhancing access to energy and electrification, as well as reducing CO2 emissions and environmental pollution from fossil fuels there is a dire need for nationally grounded energy expertise. In the quest of developing energy self-sufficiency to detach from fossil fuel based energy infrastructure while improving energy access and security requires skilled experts, cross-sectoral cooperation and understanding of the multifaceted implications in long-term. The project aims to contribute to the Myanmar energy sector development via capacity enhancement in partner institutions by providing future oriented environment and sustainable energy planning and energy entrepreneurship, participative teaching methods, innovation and business development, sustainable energy engineering tools and approaches, environmental impacts of energy, research skills, and quality project management through training of trainers approach. Further, MEEE will establish and strengthen cooperation with critical actors in the sector for more integrated and holistic impacts. The project also engages stakeholders from ministries, civil society and the private sector for modernizing and enhancing relevance in energy education and meeting the needs of the sector as a whole.The overall objective of MEEE is to ensure that the Myanmar partner HEIs are better able to provide quality education on environment and sustainable energy for growing societal needs through 1) Improved Knowledge and skills of partner HEIs to provide up-to-date teaching and research on sustainable energy and environment by 2022 2) Improved institutional capacities of partner HEIs through up-to-date curricula, methods, tools and equipment to provide expertise needed in the energy sector in Myanmar by 2022 and 3 ) Internationalisation of partner HEIs