"The School of Energy at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) educates trades people, technicians, technologists and engineers for work in the energy sector and the wider industrial sector in the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. We see the future of energy education in providing …

Hydrogen is emerging as a key element of Europe’s clean energy transition, creating an urgent need for specialised skills across the hydrogen value chain. The GreenSkillsforH2 project addressed this challenge by developing a comprehensive blueprint for upskilling and reskilling, implementing targeted …

This article presents the SEED PV Summer School, a blended international training that combined theory and hands-on learning in solar photovoltaics. The programme brought together VET and higher-education learners, teachers and industry partners from five SEED regions. Feedback confirmed that collaboration …

CoVE SEED is an EU-funded ERASMUS+ project aiming at developing regional centres of vocational excellence (CoVE) on sustainable energy education. In the project, collaborative design practices (codesign) were employed to engage partners and regional stakeholders in the development of regional strategies, …

Personalised interventions are recommended to optimise participation in prehabilitation programmes, but this requires insight into what motivates patients to participate in, and complete, such programmes. We investigated the experiences of patients with oesophageal cancer who had participated in a prehabilitation …

The visibility of sustainable energy measures is a channel of social influence, a means of conspicuous consumption, and affects the aesthetics of an environment. This study investigates how the visibility of sustainable household energy measures (i.e., installation of renewable energy and energy efficient …

Household food waste has a significant impact on the environment and to diminish this, understanding the effectiveness of different types of interventions, alone and in combination, is key. To better understand what makes waste-reduction interventions effective, we need to disentangle different intervention …

Routine maintenance of commercial aircraft requires reliable detection and repair of corrosion to ensure structural integrity. Post-repair inspections are commonly performed using manual ultrasonic point measurements of residual thickness, a process that is time-intensive and constrained by limitations …

Introduction The Dutch Medical Doctor-Global Health (MD-GH) prepares to work in low-resource settings (LRS) by completing a hybrid postgraduate training program of 2 years and 9 months, with clinical and public health exposure in the Netherlands and a Global Health residency in LRS. The objectives of …

Pregnancy can be challenging for women as they experience various physical, psychological, and social changes that can lead to stress and potential mental health concerns. Being neglected in the long-term, sustained stress can increase the likelihood of postpartum depression, which can have significant …