Call for co-mentors with Deloitte for Future of Energy Business Course

Deloitte’s “Future of Energy Business Course” is intended to bring engineering students the business perspective of the energy transition. The course targets energy-interested 3rd-year bachelor and master students across all faculties from Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, University Twente, and Wageningen University and Research. It is open to PhD candidates as well. Topics include decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, scenario development, and the business perspective around solutions such as hydrogen, power and CCS, and the future of work in a net-zero-context.

“Alongside my studies, I recently had the opportunity to complete the Future of Energy Business Course, organized by Deloitte in collaboration with 4TU Centre for Energy. This program offered valuable insights into the evolving energy landscape, covering key topics such as decarbonizing heavy industries, the future of hydrogen as an energy carrier, and innovative carbon reduction technologies. A highlight of the course was working in a team to develop and pitch an AI-powered solution for smart grid management, addressing the growing complexities of electricity distribution.”

Giovanni Angelucci

Student participant 2024 | M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, TUDelft

This autumn (November to mid-December) it will be the 4th time! The course will run and also this year the course will be co-organized by Deloitte and 4TU.Energy, and supported by the 4 technical universities locally. This course is set up as a 6-week business course, incorporating an introduction session, weekly content workshops, weekly project team sessions, and one festive pitch session to conclude the business course.

This is where we need you! We are looking for enthusiastic co-mentors who together with Deloitte specialists would like to help students reflect on the workshop content and assist project teams in idea acceleration and pitch creation, from both industry and academia perspectives. Mentors are also welcome to join the content workshops. The workload for students and mentors is estimated to be 4 hours for each weekly content workshop on specific energy transition topics, excluding some time to go through the weekly pre-read.

“...having an additional engagement with a consultancy practice (Deloitte), showed me how consultancy practices can materially impact the early days of an early-career researcher’s journey....Significant professional relationships were established which contributed to meaningful personal growth and challenged the participant’s conceptual understanding, as well as broadened the participant’s understanding of novel frameworks such as SWOT analysis... the course content reflecting cutting edge energy transitions e.g. offshore wind and green hydrogen production fitted debates and policy initiatives well.
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These experiences suggest that the collaboration with 4TU.Energy and Deloitte will be both interesting and useful to continue, I found great contacts Helmi and Oscar but also contacts from peers in Wageningen and Eindhoven universities. Involving additional industry partners would create a broader perspective of energy transition, and the role different market actors and regulatory frameworks play...”

Zia-Melchior Hoseini

Co-mentor 2024 | Researcher - ‪Wageningen University & Research‬

“The afternoon was a different kind of journey—this one more personal. I’ve been co-mentoring for Deloitte’s Future of Energy Business course organized by 4TU Centre for Energy and Deloitte. As a Ph.D. student working on electrochemical processes for carbon capture, I’ve always been curious about how different sectors fit together in the energy transition. What drives decisions? What are the trade-offs? This course gave me so much to think about.”

Mu Lin

Co-mentor 2024 | Researcher at Wetsus & Wageningen University

The final product is a pitch for each accelerator idea, to be presented to a panel of Deloitte and 4TU experts. The accelerator ideas will be sourced through members of the technical universities and candidate applications; they will be selected by a panel consisting of topic experts from Deloitte and 4TU.Energy.

For the course edition 2025, we expect 50 selected student participants from 4TU and, additionally, 10 traineeships from companies in the Energy sector to be enrolled. 

Extra information about this course can be found here.

For program questions, please address to:

Dr. Oscar Kraan (okraan@deloitte.nl), Senior Manager Strategy at Deloitte who is responsible for this course setup.