ENERGY HUB is an initiative launched by the Energy Department at Aalborg University (AAU). The vision is to establish a new interconnected educational ecosystem at AAU offering students, teachers, children and the public access to research-based state-of-the-art knowledge about sustainable energy systems.
In the long term, the aim is to secure public support as well as build the competencies and the workforce needed to drive the societal transition to green energy, helping Denmark to realise its declared goal of eliminating its fossil fuel dependence by 2050.
The central mission of ENERGY HUB is to combine a new teaching infrastructure – Denmark’s first mini energy park for educational purposes – with didactic innovation and focus on student-centred learning, improving interdisciplinary sustainability education across the university.
The mini energy park will be built by students and researchers across AAU as a modular infrastructure for real-time experimentation with energy system elements (e.g. solar, wind, hydrogen, storage, Power-2-X and carbon capture) as well as simulation of scenarios for including new energy sources or improving energy distribution processes.
In addition to facilitating student-led projects and hands-on, problem-based learning at university level, the ENERGY HUB will offer training and capacity building for lecturers and schoolteachers as well as engagement activities such as science camps, workshops and school visits.
The ambition is for ENERGY HUB to become a reference model for integrating research, education and collaboration in sustainable energy across Denmark and Europe.
Led by the Energy Department at AAU, the ENERGY HUB initiative is realised in collaboration with the Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science and Sustainability (under UNESCO), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University College of Northern Denmark as well as several Danish primary and secondary schools.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded up to DKK 53 million to ENERGY HUB for the period 2026-2032.
