One more interdisciplinary challenge: Incorporating Renewable Energy Teaching and Research at the Postgraduate Programme in Environment and Development of the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Authors

  • S. M. Andersen Author
  • M. V. Lange Author
  • J. C. Pasqual Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24084/repqj14.405

Keywords:

Teaching and Research, Renewable Energy, Interdisciplinarity, Posgraduate Programme

Abstract

This paper discusses the context and challenges of incorporating a new teaching and research nucleus on Renewable Energy in an interdisciplinary postgraduate programme based in the frontier between environmental and social sciences at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. The creation of the nucleus was boosted by a partnership with Itaipu Binational and aims to address the complex relationship among Energy, Environment and Development in a context of global environmental crisis. It gives rise to the beginning of a new phase of the programme with particular academic challenges and opportunities.

Author Biographies

  • S. M. Andersen

    Professor at the Environment and Development Postgraduate Programme, in the Federal University of Paraná Sector of Agricultural Sciences - Rua dos Funcionários 1540, Juveve, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

  • M. V. Lange

    Doctoral student at the Environment and Development Postgraduate Programme, in the Federal University of Paraná Sector of Agricultural Sciences - Rua dos Funcionários 1540, Juveve, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

  • J. C. Pasqual

    Doctoral student at the Master's and Doctoral Programme in Urban Management, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, 
    Curitiba, Paraná, 80215-901, International Center of Renewable Energies – Biogas and International Centre of 
    Hydroinformatics, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil

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Published

2024-01-16

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 5 (2016)

Section

Articles