Alpine Summer University

Economics and Business
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Engineering and Technology
Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Fall, Spring

28/06/2025

The two-week block event will bring together students from various countries in Falera, Switzerland, at the end of August and beginning of September to exchange ideas with more than a dozen experts on the status and development of renewable energy technologies, sustainability and their economic and political implementation.
Students from the ten EELISA partner universities are also particularly welcome. (For more information and a detailed programme and timetable, see here).
It will cover a broad spectrum of renewable energies, from the fundamentals of the technologies and their development to the industrialisation of component production and the implementation of sustainable energy systems through to the political framework conditions. This enables a holistic view of the complex interrelationships for the success or failure of the energy transition to a sustainable economy. Benefit for your career by acquiring knowledge about sustainable energy generation, distribution, storage and utilisation and by networking with experts and students from different countries.

Renewable Energy Technologies

• Wind power plants
• Photovoltaics (PV), solar cell, PV module, power electronics, PV plant
• Material Science of PV
• Solar thermal

Storage and Grid Integration

• Smart Grid, in the building, with electric cars, power grid
• Batteries, Lithium, material basics and products
• Thermal storage and networks
• Hydrogen, electrolysis, fuel cells, H2 turbines, H2 grids, green fuels

Realisation and Sustainability

• Business models
• Solar architecture, sustainable buildings
• Sector coupling, power to heat
• District heating and cooling networks
• Circular economy
• Model regions, political success stories

Students will be familiar with the principles and modes of operation of different renewable energy technologies, the challenges in materials research, production and application and their trends, in particular wind energy, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy and solar thermal energy.

In the implementation of the change in energy systems towards more sustainability, students are familiar with the relevant business models and successful examples of solar architecture and networks for heating and cooling buildings and settlements, including combined heat and power. The importance of the circular economy for a sustainable energy future and the political framework conditions for the creation of such successful model regions are known and can be further developed.

In project work, new solutions with renewable energy technologies, storage and grids as well as sustainable economic realisations are developed in teams and presented in plenary sessions.

All information regarding

• conditions
• application and documentation
• selection criteria
• nomination
• payment of participation fee

are published here.

4

written + oral

65

English

In progress

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences