Green Campus

The training course for the public sector will be on Thursday, 30th January, from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Note: staff must register through the SEAI Energy link. Please apply using your official National University of Ireland, Maynooth email address. Applications using a generic email address (e.g. gmail, hotmail, outlook, etc.) will be declined.

Course content:
Understand energy terminology and the challenges and opportunities facing Ireland and the Public Sector. Gain the confidence to contribute to these challenges.

This half-day introductory course aims to teach basic energy terminology and concepts in plain English. It will provide context to the energy challenges and opportunities facing Ireland and corresponding Public Sector obligations and introduce commonly used terms, units of measure and technologies. The course will introduce renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency opportunities around building fabric and commonly used equipment such as boilers, lighting and transport.

The intent is to provide attendees with knowledge to understand their energy consumption and confidence to contribute to improving it.

At the end of this course, you will:
* Understand energy jargon/terminology such as kW and kWh, U-values
* Be able to work out a simple payback calculations
* Recognise technologies commonly used in the energy/energy efficiency sector

AGENDA
Topics include brief introductions to the following:
1. Understand Energy
* Global Energy Challenge and how it relates to Ireland and the Public Sector
* Some principles (energy units and terminology)

2. Use Less - Energy Efficiency
* Energy Awareness, People & Behaviour
* Building Fabric, Heat Loss & Ventilation
* Boilers & Controls
* Lighting
* Appliances & IT
* Transport

3. Go Green - Renewable Technologies
* Solar, Wind, Biomass & Heat Pumps

TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is specifically designed for non-technical public sector staff with very little knowledge or experience in energy management, who have a minor involvement, but it is not their core role.

TBC

The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC: Learn) is a joint initiative of more than 30 multilateral organizations helping countries achieve climate change action both through general climate literacy and applied skills development. UN CC:Learn provides strategic advice and quality learning resources to help people, governments and businesses to understand, adapt, and build resilience to climate change. UN CC:Learn is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Note: These courses are free short courses to introduce you to the relevant subject. 

Please see the full course catalogue here or if you prefer, go directly to some of the very relevant courses:

Climate Change:

• Becoming a climate champion
• From Learning to Action

Human Health:

• Human Health and Climate Change

Sustainable Development:

• Introduction to Sustainable Development Practice and Advancing Sustainable Development in Practice

Waste and Circular Economy

• E-Waste
• Food waste