
Project Erasmus+ KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education
Project’ title: ENERGET: Empowering Next-gen Energy Leaders for a Green Energy Transition
Duration: 1.10.2025 – 30.09.2027
Total Budget: 120,000.00 EUR.
Empower next-gen energy leaders for the green transition through a 24-month Erasmus+ KA220-HED partnership
Co-create an interdisciplinary master’s course on energy communities, pilot it in a summer school, and produce localized playbooks for North Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Greece and Poland.
Accelerate citizen-driven renewable energy adoption through education and practical guides
Partners role:
Team from UKIM (FME Skopje):
prof. Dr. Dame Dimitrovski, Project Leader
prof. Dr. Risto Filkoski
Asst. prof. Dr. Nikola Manev
Asst. Dr. Monika Uler-Zefikј
MSc. Nenad Aleksikј
Team from Kielce University of Technology:
Dr hab. inż. Artur Bartosik, prof. KUT, Co-ordinator
Mgr Anna Kasztelewicz, Assistant
Mgr inż. Artur Pawelec
Mgr inż. Agnieszka Pawlak
Mgr inż. Aleksandra Pyk-Kałaska
Work Packages (What We Do)
WP1: Project Management
Ensures smooth coordination, progress reporting, and financial transparency throughout the 24-month duration.
WP2: Curriculum Creation
Development of a 12-week interdisciplinary master’s course integrating the policy, technology, environment, society, and economics of energy communities.
WP3: Testing & International Summer School
A 5-day intensive summer school hosted in North Macedonia. Twelve selected students (3 per partner university) will test the curriculum through lectures, workshops, and real-world case studies on energy-community projects
WP4: Localized Playbooks on Energy Communities
This package, led by Kielce University of Technology (KUT), focuses on creating four country-specific practical guides.
- Step-by-Step Advice: Guides for municipalities, citizens, and SMEs to establish energy communities.
- Student Mobility in Poland: KUT will host a 5-day student mobility event where master’s students will actively participate in drafting these playbooks.
- Language versions: Manuals will be published in Polish, Macedonian, Greek, and Bosnian.
Partners role:
UKML
Project coordination
UNBL
Curriculum Contextualization & Internal Review; Co-leads WP2 contextualization with UKIM, organises internal review workshop (2 days in B&H), drafts Bosnian playbook.
IHU
Curriculum development, brings interdisciplinary curriculum experience, co-develops master’s modules, supplies sustainable-energy case studies, participates in summer-school delivery, drafts Greek playbook
KUT
| Playbook development & mobility; Brings interdisciplinary curriculum experience, supplies sustainable-energy case studies, facilitates student mobility, drafts Polish playbook |
Kintegra
Co-creates curriculum inclusivity module, guides stakeholder-engagement methodology, supports playbook practical tools and evaluates social-impact indicators.
Overviev and activities:
- Oct – Dec 2025: needs assessment and course structure design
- Jan – Sep 2026: course content development
- Feb – April 2026: internal review workshop
- May – Sep 2026: Summer School preparation and organisation
- Oct 2026 – Sep 2027: playbook draft, refinement, dissemination and course implementation
- Mar – June 2027: students’ mobility
Key milestiones:
- Completion of course structure and content development
- Summer School
- Playbook drafting
- Final course implementation