Energy services are essential for the development of any society. Sri Lanka has an energy growth of 6-8% every year, starting at a more than 60% fossil-fuel dependency. To fulfill its commitment towards the Intergovermental Panel och Climate Change to decarbonize the country it needs to rapidly transform the sector towards renewable energy sources of a varity of kind, using the abundant in-country energy resources.One of the essential steps in this process is to develop a high-level, efficient higher education, with a perspective of increased collaboration between academia and industry. This education must reach out to the different parts of the country. The Sri Lanka universities have also a need to modernize the higher education in so that students will be more prone to create new companies in the renewable sector, with a societal perspective. The education should thus become more student-centered, allowing for the students to explore new avenues through global learning options.The EUSL-ENERGY project takes these perspectives into account and creates a high-level, so far not yet existing joint MSc program in the energy sector between four universities. The project take a full circular economy, as well as ecological, perspective with raw materials and considerations of how the waste from this, and other, sector(s) can be re-utilized towards a more energy-efficient society in a financial sustainable way. The EUSL-ENERGY Master program uses the latest pedagogical developments towards “flipped classrooms”, case- and challenge-based digital education, shareable learning units and MOOCs. All the education is performed within the framework of the EIT-label perspective innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as ensuring that the graduates possess the “21st century soft skills” that employers ask for. The program is as such at the forefront of contemporary educational methodology, and introduces a new educational dimension in the energy sector in Sri Lanka.

EUBBC-Digital will create a completely new way of educational collaboration between 8 universities in Bolivia, Brazil and Cuba, with the support of 7 universities & 3 SMEs in Europe. The partners will prove that it is possible to, in the digital environment of today, create a set of “global but local” “Dilpomado programs” of interest to the Latin American partner universities through re-using and sharing a number of available digital learning units, adapting these towards the local environments for the respective regions and by creating new units for global use. It will be proven that re-use of such learning units will allow for efficient creation of local degree-awarding programs, in which the teacher-collaboration will become extremely powerful and efficient. It will furthermore be proven that such a system will allow universities in less advanced economic regions to leap-frog a significant number of barriers and collaborate on more equal, but less broad, terms with highly reputed global HEIs.The project emphasizes several new aspects: • Sharing/re-using high-quality educational units from various sources allows the partners to create new, modern courses without having all the competences and human resources within the whole program area• This “share-economy” allows a “global but local” perspective in which the degree-awarding HEIs in emerging economies combine expertise from international and local specialists, offering courses and programs based upon the local community/citizens needs• Sharing and combining expertise from international and local specialists increases the quality of the educational material• It gives learners the freedom to learn from a broad perspective of international teachersEUBBC-Digital builds, through participation of academic & administrative staff, capacity towards detailed learning units as well as new types of degree-awarding academic programs created through enhanced international collaboration with globally developed OERs