From 13 to 24 November, 35 PhD students from seven European and African universities took part in two Sustainable Innovation Schools in Nairobi (Kenya) as part of the AMBITION project (AMBassadors for sustainable transITION), which promotes the mobility of PhD students between Europe and Africa and their training in the field of sustainable transition.

The participants took part in lectures, practical sessions, group work and presentations organised by the Politecnico di Milano and its partner universities.

The AMBITION project is led by Prof. Emanuela Colombo, Professor in the Department of Energy, Rector’s Delegate for Science Diplomacy and UNESCO Chair in Energy for Sustainable Development, together with Diana Shendrikova and other researchers from the same UNESCO Chair.

Activities focused on topics such as the study of the rationale behind global resource management and its implications for managing the sustainable transition; the sustainable development paradigm; integrated energy and energy modelling tools; and the process of evidence-based energy policy-making.

The universities involved in the AMBITION project, funded by the European Union under the Erasmus + initiative, are Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), RWTH Aachen (Germany), Strathmore University (Kenya), TU Delft (Netherlands) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland).