Clean Molecules for the Energy Transition
3 weeks
3 weeks
The 2025 ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ provides a clear framework to link decarbonisation with economic resilience and competitiveness. By accelerating the deployment of clean energy and manufacturing, fostering lead markets, and promoting renewable and low-carbon hydrogen, it aims to scale both supply and demand. Moreover, bio-based gases have become much more competitive since the energy crisis, whilst their local availability and links to circular economy objectives have repositioned them as an important means of supporting various cross-sectoral objectives. Understanding the strategic role, regulatory context, and business case for these energy products is challenging but extremely stimulating and timely.
The ‘Clean Molecules for the Energy Transition’ course at the Florence School of Regulation is designed to bring you up to speed. Over three weeks – two weeks of independent study followed by one week of live sessions – you will gain in-depth insights into EU and global strategies, engage with real-world case studies, and participate in expert-led discussions and high-level panel debates, ensuring you stay ahead in this fast-moving field.
The course is delivered by leading professionals from academia, policymaking, and the world of practice. Registration is open to professionals from institutions, utilities, associations, academia, and research, who are engaged in the debate on energy sector decarbonisation.
Despite a big ‘electrification first’ push in the EU, molecules still account for nearly 80% of the total energy mix. In pursuit of climate targets, strategic autonomy, and industrial reinvigoration, these largely fossil molecules are increasingly being replaced by electrolytic and bio-based ‘clean molecules’. The speed and depth of the transformation is creating significant complexity and uncertainty for business, governments, and citizens.
Clean molecules often require new technological value chains, new regulatory frameworks, and new business models. Moreover, in an era of rapid geopolitical change, the pace of policymaking and the strategic role of these versatile energy vectors is evolving more quickly than ever. The traditional energy trilemma of sustainability, security, and affordability has become more and more interconnected in the process, pushing clean molecule value chains into the focus of key industrial and security policy agendas.
This intensive online training is expected to engage you for approximately 8 hours/week (excluding live classes).
The course comprises two preparatory weeks followed by one week of online sessions. From 2 to 20 June 2025, you will have access to our learning platform, allowing you to progress through the course materials, quizzes, and activities at your own pace.
During these self-paced weeks, you have the flexibility to manage your time according to your schedule, as there are no scheduled live classes, except for a one-hour welcome session.
The week of live sessions (16–20 June 2025) includes online classes and expert panels. Your active participation is required for a substantial portion of the day, spanning from 09:30 to 14.30 CET.
Week 1 & 2 (2-15 June 2025) | Preparatory weeks
Week 3 (16-20 June 2025) | Live sessions
Each day of the live classes will be structured as follows:
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
Registration is open to all professionals (institutions, utilities, associations, academics and researchers) following the debate on decarbonisation of the energy system who are interested in having a deeper understanding of the future role of gas and its support to the energy transition.
No specific academic background is required. The language of instruction is English.
Each year, the Florence School of Regulation – Energy and Climate (FSR Energy & Climate) awards scholarships for a wide variety of training courses targeting a broad audience of professionals and academics.
Applications will be assessed by a Selection Committee of FSR members on a yearly basis. The successful candidates will be informed after February 2024 and will be provided with all relevant information on how to enroll in the online course or residential training of their choice.
Send your application by 2 February 2025.
Cancellation policy
Paid registration fee is non-refundable. However, registrant substitution may be made up to 20 days before the start date of the course.
For more information, please read the full FSR cancellation policy.
*Please kindly send your certificate of current studies with the stamp of your university to FSR secretariat (fsr.secretariat@eui.eu).
The start and end dates of your studies should also be clearly mentioned on the document. Please make sure that your period of studies fully covers the training course duration.
Clean molecules are now a key priority for policymakers and industry, making the debate around their uptake in strategic areas an important EU policy and regulatory focus
This course is perfect! I have improved my knowledge on Clean Molecules so much, and I hope it could be longer!! The panelists and also the stuff of the course were amazing. They exceeded my expectations!
I got a great feedback from one of last year's attendees about clean mollecules. After I checked out the course program, and saw that topics really interesting and the lecturers are absolutely the best in their field. Now after the course has finished, I can say with 100% confidence, that the course is relevant to the conditions we are facing today. Strongly recommend!
It was a horizon broadening and enlightening training. Thanks to the highly qualified trainers and the effective documents they prepared, we had the chance to improve our knowledge and to evaluate and digest this knowledge through active discussions.
I would definitely recommend this course to anyone in the energy industry as this course give a broad perspective of the energy transition scenarios and what it means for not just the EU, but for other regions.
This is a great course, I recommend it to anyone who is willing to develop their competence in the renewable energy landscape
I would definitely recommend this course to anyone in the energy industry as this course give a broad perspective of the energy transition scenarios and what it means for not just the EU, but for other climes.
It was a horizon broadening and enlightening training. Thanks to the highly qualified trainers and the effective documents they prepared, we had the chance to improve our knowledge and to evaluate and digest this knowledge through active discussions.
The course provided a good insight into future energy solutions based on clean molecules. The course program covered strategic, technical, regulatory and economic issues on a specific topic. The meeting with experts in panel discussions was a good opportunity to discuss current issues with industry decision-makers.
The course opened up the opportunity for me to learn more about the topic of Clean Molecules: the broad scope of topics, the current relevance to the European discourse and, most importantly, the access to renowned personalities in the field were unique. After "Regulation of the Power Sector" and "Executive Course on Electricity Markets", this course was another great experience with the Florence School of Regulation for me! (Marc Bahlo)
It was a very usefull course, with all the new topics concernig H2 and renewable gases being discussed in EU and all over the world.
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