Program Overview

Doctoral School in Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEED)

The main objective of this Sustainable Energy Engineering Doctoral program (SEED) is to develop capacities of PhD researchers for complex developmental challenges and solving them with holistic and innovative system solutions; make them competent to work in multidisciplinary research to address the complex developmental societal challenges.

Project Information

• Project Manager: Brijesh Mainali (Coordinator at Linnaeus University)
• Other Project Members:
  • Brijesh Mainali (Linnaeus University)
  • Krushna Mahapatra (Linnaeus University)
  • Anders Malmquist (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Dilip Khatiwada (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Misse Wester (LTH, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering)
  • Sunil Prasad Lohani (Katmandu University)
  • Anwer Naqui (TERI School of Advanced Studies)
  • Evelyn Cardozo (University of San Simón)
• Participating Organizations:
  • Royal Institute of Technology, Linnaeus University, and Lund University from Sweden
  • Kathmandu University from Nepal
  • TERI School of Advanced Studies from India
  • Universidad Mayor de San Simon from Bolivia
• Financier: The Swedish Research Council
• Timetable: Not specified
• Subject: Sustainable energy engineering (Department of Built Environment and Energy Technology, Faculty of Technology)

More About the Project

The main objective of this graduate doctoral program called Doctoral school in Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEED) is to develop capacities of PhD researchers from Nepal, India, and Bolivia for conducting research on complex developmental challenges and solving them with holistic and innovative system solutions; enhance their competencies to work in multidisciplinary research to address the complex developmental societal challenges.

PhD School Highlights

• Research mobility in Sweden (course work, research/publication work)
• A 2-days workshop on Multidisciplinary Developmental Research
• A 5-days course on Gender, Disaster, and Climate Risk (3 ECTS) - offered by LTH, Lund University
• Four PhD Courses are the core of the mobility program
  • Sustainability Assessment and Policy Evaluation (6 ECTS) - offered by Linnaeus University
  • Diffusion of Innovations and Socio-technical transition (6 ECTS) - offered by Linnaeus University
  • Circular Economy, Energy systems, and Poly-generation (6 ECTS) - offered by KTH
  • Nexus and climate agenda in energy systems (6 ECTS) - offered by KTH
• Co-supervision by a cross-country supervision team
• Bimonthly Webinar Series inviting prominent speakers who will address specific topics within Sustainable Energy Engineering Doctoral program (SEED) - hosted by Linnaeus University

Staff

• Brijesh Mainali: Associate professor
• Krushna Mahapatra: Professor, head of department

PhD Courses Offered by Linnaeus University Under SEED Programme

• Diffusion of innovations and sociotechnical transition
• Sustainability Assessment and Policy Evaluation

Research Areas

The project is part of the research in the research group Sustainable Built Environment Research (SBER).