Programme

Day 1

Day / DateTime (CET) Description
Day 1:
Monday,
20th September 2021

10:00-12:00

12:00-13:00


13:00-13:15
13:15-13:45

13:45-14:15

14:15-14:45


15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00


16:15-16:45

16:45-17:00
Subject Area: Socializing & Professional Orientation
• Opening Ceremony
 
Lunch Break

Subject Area: Implementation Examples Mini-Grids
• Introduction
• Asia – Indonesia (Chayun Budiono – GMN Renewable
Energy Technology & Services)
• Asia – India (Dwipen Boruah – Global Sustainable
Energy Solutions
, India)
• Asia – Bangladesh (Shahriar Chowdhuri – United
International University, Bangladesh)
Break
• Africa (Babak Ravanbach – DLR, Oldenburg, Germany)
• Africa – Namibia (Zivayi Chiguvare – Department of Physics,
Chemistry & Material Science, University of Namibia)
Break
• Antarctica (Ramesh Muthya – former Executive
Director, National Institute of Wind Energy, Govt. of India)
• Summary & Closing

Day 2

Day / DateTime (CET) Description
Day 2:
Tuesday,
21st September 2021

09:00-12:00

12:00-13:00

13:00-14:30


14:30-16:00

16:00 – 16:30
Subject Area: Technological Implementation of Mini Grids
• Technical concepts (Dwipen Boruah)

Lunch Break

• Panel discussion (Babak Ravanbach, Zivayi Chiguvare,
Shahriar Chowdhuri, Dwipen Boruah, Chayun Budiono,
Ramesh Muthya)
• World Café (Zivayi Chiguvare, Shahriar Chowdhuri,
Dwipen Boruah, Chayun Budiono, Ramesh Muthya)
• Summary and closing

Day 3

Day / DateTime (CET) Description
Day 3:
Wednesday,
22nd September 2021

10:00-11:15


11:30-13:00



13:00-14:00

14:00-16:00
16:00 – 16:30
Subject Area: Mini-grids and resilience
• Introduction to Resilience (Herena Torio – SuRE, University of
Oldenburg, Germany)
Break
• Resilience and Social-Ecological Transformation (Stefanie
Sievers-Glotzbach & Julia Tschersich – Department of
Economics and Law, University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Lunch Break

• Making the transfer (Herena Torio & Adrian Jimenez)
• Summary and closing

Day 4

Day / DateTime (CET) Description
Day 4:
Thursday,
23rd September 2021
09:00 -10:30

10:45-12:30

12:30-14:00

14:00-14:15
14:15-15:15



15:30-16:30
Subject Area: Mini-grids and resilience
• Transformative research (Willington Ortiz – Wuppertal
Institute
, Germany)
• Fish bowl discussion (Herena Torio, Willington Ortiz)

Lunch Break

• Introduction (Herena Torio)
• Community Owned Mini-Grid in San
Rafael, Colombia (Monica Gutierrez – Apü Üya Wüin)
Break
• Digitalisation in Mini-Grids (Dipta Majumder – INENSUS 
GmbH, Goslar, Germany)

Day 5

Day / DateTime (CET) Description
Day 5:
Friday,
24th September 2021

10:00 – 12:00


12:00 – 13:00

13:00 – 14:45

14:45 – 15:00
Subject Area: In-depth knowledge of selected subject areas
• Focus workshop (Mohamed Elkadragy – Battery
Storage Expert)

Lunch Break

• Lessons learned and the way forward (Dipta Majumder &
Monica Gutierrez)
• Summary and closing

Off-Grid Expo + Conference (OEC)

Day / DateDescription

Thursday, Friday & Saturday
2nd – 4th December 2021
(Digital) visit to the Off-Grid Expo + Conference (OEC)
• Panel discussions and interviews with experts in the mini and off-grid area
• Expansion of networks and socializing at the OEC evening event