Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry

Hosted workshop for Tekna members

On September 12, SUBSET researchers Lisa Watson, Kenan Dikilitas, and Micol Pezzotta hosted an evening with Tekna members at the Archaeology Museum.

The evening consisted of a visit to the archaeological exhibitions, enjoying the hor's devoures from the cafe, and an overview of the project SUBSET, “Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry”. This is a collaborative project with industry partners and support from interest organizations, including Tekna's local branch in Stavanger.

The project aims to increase the relevance of subsurface course content to actual needs in the energy industry of the future by establishing an arena for dialogue and collaboration between academia and industry.

The audience got an overview of the feedback received from industry partners and survey respondents that helped guide which continuing education courses SUBSET will create and offer. Two courses have been approved by the administration, Carbon Capture and Storage and 4 micro-courses on Python programming. Carbon Capture and Storage starts on September 19 and the Python micro-courses will begin in January. Current registration is limited to project partners.

SUBSET workshop

The projects are to increase work relevance in education, provide new ways of learning and assessment, and to share the learned experiences and knowledge. Both projects are using EVU as a means to do this as it is more flexible for us to try out new courses and programs with a quick turnaround. The project in TN is Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry (SUBSET). SUBSET is a collaboration between IER, Uniped, and EVU. Lisa Watson presented on behalf of SUBSET. The second project is from the Social Sciences Faculty and is led by Rune Todnem By and Trude Furunes and is focused on work relevance education related to leadership for all employees, not just management - Strategic design and leadership in support of the green shift: from ”Strategic design and leadership” to ”Master in Transformation and Innovation”. Kenan Dikilitas, a Professor in Uniped and contributor for SUBSET, led a discussion after the project presentations.

SUBSET presented how we have collaborated with different stakeholders in work relevant education - energy companies, workforce, trade organizations, and academic staff. We are working on 2 courses which were identified as being needed and relevant. One has been submitted for approval and is focusing on carbon capture, use and storage. The second course description is being finalized within the next week to ten days. It will focus on basic skills for coding and programming for those who have other education and to learn to apply these skills to their own work.

The workshop had 16 people physically and 15 people online, including some from HKDIR. Except for HKDIR, this was an internal UiS workshop.

Identification of needs: completed

Kick-off meeting