The course was held in October 2025 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

The PhD course FME3550 “Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives” is an interdisciplinary course package that offers doctoral students a training in energy innovation and technology management as well as sustainable business perspectives. The course deals with the challenges and opportunities that drive transformations of energy systems and energy-related industries. This includes discussing the relevance of global challenges like climate change and sustainable development and analysing how they contribute to transformations of energy systems and energy-related industries, including technical perspectives, sustainability transition perspectives and finance and management perspectives. This will provide an interdisciplinary and holistic perspective to analysing complex energy system transition dynamics to achieve decarbonisation, climate change mitigation and sustainability. In addition to these subjects, there will be practical training provided on research methods by experienced scholars in the energy transitions and sustainability field. The PhD course will start with technical and engineering knowledge for energy systems, then move towards sustainability transitions and end with sustainable business and management perspectives.

The course targets PhD candidates with interest and documented fundamental knowledge in one or several aspects of sustainable energy transitions.

The intended learning outcomes of the course are to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of energy systems today, integrated with energy storage and renewable energy.
  • Demonstrate the ability to assess sustainability of energy systems and energy-related industries from both technology and management perspectives.
  • Demonstrate understanding of holistic appraisals of sustainability transitions of energy systems and energy-related industries.

The course brings together well-respected lecturers from industrial economics and management, energy engineering and sustainability accounting at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Sweden, Hanken School of Economics in Finland and the Danish Technical University DTU.

Course faculty
Course Co-Examiners and Co-Responsibles:

  • Frauke Urban, Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Industrial Economics and Management. (Email: frauke.urban@indek.kth.se)
  • Saman Nimali Gunasekara, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Energy Technology. (Email: saman.gunasekara@energy.kth.se)

Teachers:

  • Hanna Silvola, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
  • Gerald Englmair, Associate Professor, DTU Danish Technical University, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Denmark
  • Adam Uhrdin, Researcher, KTH, Department of Industrial Economics and Management
  • Francesco Gardumi, Researcher, Docent, KTH, Department of Energy Technology
  • Saman Nimali Gunasekara, Assistant Professor, KTH, Department of Energy Technology
  • Frauke Urban, Professor, KTH, Department of Industrial Economics and Management
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