CODE 108136 ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026 CREDITS 3 cfu anno 1 MANAGEMENT FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSITION (MEET) 11939 (LM-77 R) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/08 LANGUAGE English TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: MANAGERIAL PILLARS OF MEET OVERVIEW The course aims to encourage students to learn the fundamental knowledge about the energy sector and the main business strategies connected to it. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES This module analyzes key strategies for promoting environmental sustainability in the energy sector, including green innovation. These strategies will be examined in relation to the specific characteristics of different energy sub-sectors, providing students with a structured understanding of how companies compete and adapt while promoting sustainable practices in a dynamic and complex environment AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand and apply the theoretical and application tools learned. In particular, the expected learning outcomes are the following. - Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to identify the qualitative and quantitative aspects that determine the energy sector at an international level and how the industry is evolving in the light of the changes from sustainability. - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: students will be able to use the knowledge learned to analyze the most appropriate business strategies for business development related to sustainable energy sectors. - Autonomy of judgment: students must be able to use the acquired knowledge both on a conceptual and operational level with autonomous assessment skills and skills in the various application contexts. - Communication skills: students must acquire the technical language typical of the discipline to communicate without ambiguity with specialist interlocutors in the energy and sustainability sector. - Learning skills: students must develop adequate learning skills that allow them to continue using the assimilated tools also for future disciplines. PREREQUISITES Fundamental knowledge of management. TEACHING METHODS The central part of the class is lectures, seminars (held by entrepreneurs and managers of the energy sector), and classroom work activities carried out directly by the students with the teacher's supervision. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Introduction Definition, meaning, and characteristics of a sector; strategies of the firms; The energy sector qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis; The strategy of the energy sectors the most common strategies used; emerging path and new direction in terms of strategic perspective; Sustainability for energy sectors the environmental change; the sustainability in general; sustainability and energy sector. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD SIMONE POLEDRINI Ricevimento: Reception: during the period of the lessons, the student reception is in person at the university campus of La Spezia (before or after the lesson). To set the time, make an appointment by contacting the teacher by email at simone.poledrini@unige.it. At the end of the course, the reception will be carried out on the Teams platform or in person in Genoa at the DIEC. LESSONS LESSONS START The central part of the class is lectures, seminars (held by entrepreneurs and managers of the energy sector), and classroom work activities carried out directly by the students with the teacher's supervision. from February 2025 Timetable: see EasyAcademy. Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam will take place orally. However, if there are more than 20 students, the teacher reserves the right to have a first written test and a second subsequent oral evaluation for all those students who have reached the assessment of at least 18. Moreover, if the oral examination is preceded by the written one, it will involve a final evaluation which will be no more or less than three marks compared to the written grade. ASSESSMENT METHODS The exam will evaluate students' knowledge of the topics covered during the course and their ability to think and analyze the problems about main course issues.
