Framework to design water-energy solutions based on community perceptions: Case study from a Caribbean coast community in Colombia

Abstract

The off-grid communities in Colombia are characterised by the diversity of their geography, socio-cultural contexts, and structures of the system. Despite their potential, the opportunities for access to energy and therefore other conditions to develop education, productivity, health, technological projects, and recreation are highly limited. Under those conditions, the implementation of projects with water and/ or energy solutions based on renewable sources would bridge the gaps of isolation and social marginalisation that have detained the future of these communities for years. Projects around water and/or energy require the input of external stakeholders to communities, despite of the willingness to change their realities towards a better lifestyle. To achieve a common point of interests among stakeholders, the dialogues, the understanding of the community cosmovision and the ethical perspectives

Learning and Teaching Styles in a Public School with a Focus on Renewable Energies

“…In this sense, modern education needs new contemporary teaching and learning practices, which use inclusive learning programmes [37]. Consequently, technology transfer is related to knowledge transfer, supporting growth in the capacity for innovation and invention [38,39]. Bearing this in mind, the new form of validation and use of systems is mediated by virtuality, which resembles a real industrial environment, in which there is a safe place for the student to train before facing a problem in the real world [40].…”