Social acceptance of renewable energy sources in Poland - guidelines for education process

Edyta Ropuszynska-Surma and Magdalena Węglarz

No WORMS/17/04, WORking papers in Management Science (WORMS) from Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Abstract: In our article we will present some good examples of non-conventional education project in Poland. Next we will present the results from our project called ‘Modelling prosumers' behaviour on the energy market’. This research investigates the social acceptance of renewable energy sources (RES) from households’ perspective in Lower Silesia region in Poland. In our research we identified the correlation between the behaviours of households and their willingness to install RES, and between some features (including attitudinal variables) and pro-ecological behaviours. We identify segments of the energy end-users who have more pro-ecological behaviours. They are mainly people with the secondary and higher technical education. Therefore, we would like to propose them an appropriate educational course at technical universities. Thus, additionally we conducted survey among students of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WUST) and the Wroclaw University (WU) to verify their pro-ecological attitudes and their knowledge of energy conservation. We created the guidelines for education process at university level, which could be useful to create one-semester course. This solution could influence the social acceptance of RES implementation which is especially important in Poland, where energy and ecological awareness is at low level.

Keywords: Education; Social acceptance; Pro-ecological attitude (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 I25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2017-04-01
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Published in: EDULEARN17 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies; Barcelona (SPAIN) 3td - 5th of Julay 2017; Conference Proceedins No. 5563.

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