Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: The International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi formalised a Framework for Action (FFA) to deepen their partnership in advancing solar energy skills and capacity building across ISA member countries.
The agreement focuses on strengthening human resource development, academic collaboration, and technology cooperation to support the global energy transition.As per the press release, the framework aims to train renewable energy engineers, research professionals, and Solar Technology Application Centre (STAR-C) trainers.
The partnership builds on existing cooperation between the ISA and IIT Delhi’s Department of Energy Science and Engineering, which has previously supported M. Tech. programmes for professionals from 18 developing countries across Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.
Director General of the International Solar Alliance, Ashish Khanna, said, “Over the last five years, over a hundred students undertook masters in renewable energy through our partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where they are now taking on leadership roles across Africa, SIDS, and neighbouring regions, driving solar deployment and energy access where it is needed most.”
The new framework expands these efforts by launching a one-year post-graduate diploma programme based on a “Train-the-Trainers” model. This initiative, conducted in collaboration with Institute National de l’Énergie Solaire (France), seeks to establish a global framework for clean energy capability. Future plans include expanding academic opportunities to include Master’s programmes in Public Policy and Ph.D. pathways specifically for the solar energy sector.
