Learn how to turn your green transition goals into long-term sustainable strategies and actions

The new and free SPARKLE online training “Planning the Energy and Climate Transition for Cities”, will enable you to combine energy transition, climate resilience, and circular economy goals with actionable strategies. Practical tools and real-world examples will equip and inspire you throughout a three-course learning journey.

ACR+ is part of the educational team for the course “Integrated Energy and Climate Transition Planning”.

If you want to shape the future of your territory and align planning with energy transition, climate resilience, and circular economy objectives, this course is for you. Through five practical and interactive modules, you’ll explore how to embed energy and climate priorities into spatial planning processes, leverage data and cross-sectoral collaboration, and develop integrated plans tailored to your local context. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to: 

• Understand why integrated planning is essential to address today’s energy and climate challenges. 

• Identify how to incorporate renewable energy, energy efficiency, and heating/cooling into spatial plans. 

• Learn how to plan for floods, heatwaves, and other climate-related risks. 

• Explore how to embed circularity into your planning strategies. 
• Design and implement an integrated planning process from start to finish.