# (Re)Energize – The Transformation of Power

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How to secure our energy demands in a sustainable way, now and in the future, is one of the main challenges we are currently facing.

Since 2022, UvA’s interfaculty Research Priority Area Energy Transition through the Lens of Sustainable Development Goals (ENLENS) has delivered many valuable insights on how to accelerate the shift towards more a sustainable energy regime in Europe. In a series of Future of Energy seminars, a wide range of issues that are implied in this challenge have been addressed, as well as their relation with the Sustainable Development Goals. Jointly, they generate key findings that can help us tackle the multiple challenges the transformation of our energy systems poses for us.

In this course, we invite leading researchers to share their insights on how we can attain sustainable energy production and use as fast as possible. They will address important questions such as: How can we get rid of our fossil fuel dependency and its undesirable side effects? Where do energy and climate policies complement each other, and where do they clash? Can we design cities that are energy neutral? What is the role of legislation in the sustainable energy transition and how does this relate to ethical issues such as energy democracy and energy justice? Together with the guest lecturers, we will examine how to go about making public policy that incorporates scientific, economic, and political realities, but which is also sensitive to relevant moral values and considerations of justice. Taken together, the intersecting perspectives can help us understand how we can try to attain the Sustainable Development Goals.

### **Coordinator**

Dr. Coyan Tromp

### **Timetable**

You can find the timetable on [Datanose](https://datanose.nl/#course[144118]).

### **Entry requirements**

Open to second-year and third-year UvA Bachelor's students and other interested parties, such as contract students or students from other Dutch higher education institutions. Master's students can only participate if there are still spots available.

### **Registration**

UvA Bachelor's students can register from **1 to 8 December 2025** in [the GLASS registration rounds](https://glass.uva.nl/). Master’s students can send a short motivation to [keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl](mailto:keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl "mailto:keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl").

‘Bijvak’ students and contract students can register **from 1 December 2025**until **two weeks prior to the start of the course**, by completing the [online registration form](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatanose.nl%2F%23enrolnr(IIS)&data=05%7C01%7Cr.j.vervelde%40uva.nl%7Ca08ff8f053304950c07c08db41a72a12%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C0%7C0%7C638175958434172376%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VBtfGHL2iNCMh3b2OUaYlEZdz46XPBJORRoimsB3UHE%3D&reserved=0).

If you have any trouble while registering, please contact us at [keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl](mailto:Keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl).

*Please note: as a contract student you can choose to participate either **including** or **excluding**assessment. If you choose the latter, you only have access to the seven lectures of the course. If you also wish to attend the seminars, please choose 'including assessment'*.

### **Costs**

Prices can be found on [the IIS website](https://iis.uva.nl/onderwijsaanbod/iis-keuzevakken/iis-keuzevakken.html#Kosten).

### **SDGs in education**

The IIS strives to reflect current societal issues and challenges in our elective courses, honours modules and degree programmes and attempts to integrate the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in this course. For more information about these goals, [please visit the SDGs website.](https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/)

Facts & Figures

Mode
:   Open UvA Course

Credits
:   6 ECTS,

Language of instruction
:   English

Starts in
:   February