āFuture of Energy Business Courseā is intended to bring engineering students the business perspective of the energy transition. The course targets energy-interested 3rd-yearĀ bachelor and master students across all faculties from four technical universities (4TU) in the Netherlands: Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, University Twente, and Wageningen University and Research. It is open to PhD candidates as well. Topics include decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, scenario development, and the business perspective around solutions such as hydrogen, power and CCS, and the future of work in a net-zero-context.
This course is co-organized by Deloitte and 4TU.Energy, with the local support from the 4 technical universities. This course is set up as a 6-week business course, incorporating an introduction session, weekly content workshops, weekly project team sessions, and one final festive pitch session to conclude the business course.
From the version starting from November 2024, there will be a co-mentor team toĀ help students reflect on the workshop content and assist project teams in idea acceleration, one mentor from 4TU - academic perspective, the other from Deloitte - industry perspective. The end results are assumed to be a co-created pitch presentation on future energy business acceleratorĀ ideas from each student team.Ā The accelerator ideas will be sourced through members of the technical universities and candidate applications; they will be selected by a panel consisting of topic experts from Deloitte and 4TU.Energy.
The program of the weekly content workshops in 2024 is planned as the following: