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UNAM Europe Permanent Seminar — Session on Energy Transition: Glocal Views

At a historic moment when the energy transition has become a global imperative, the UNAM Offices in Europe are organizing a new session of the UNAM Europe Permanent Seminar. The meeting aims to foster dialogue toward a sustainable and fair energy transition, exploring both global challenges and local realities across Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Mexico.

This session will feature five invited presentations from experts in five countries, as well as a collaborative workshop designed to identify joint research projects on the energy transition.

The discussion will address key questions such as:

• How can renewable energy sources complement each other in diverse regional contexts?

• What lessons can Europe and Mexico share to overcome technical, political, and social challenges?

This seminar represents an opportunity to analyse the complexity of integrating renewable energy systems and the importance of international collaboration in developing local solutions to global needs.

📍 Colloquium: January 26, 2026.
📍 Host: UNAM-UK, King’s College London.

Confirmed speakers:

• Dr Eva M. García Frutos - Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC.

• Prof Barbara Shollock - Department of Engineering, King's College London.

• Dr Isabelle Hillenkamp - Socioéconomist, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) - Centre d'Etudes en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains, Américains et Asiatiques (CESSMA)

• Prof. Dr. Ing. Daniel Navarro Gevers - Institute for new Energy-Systems (InES)

• Dr Miguel Robles - Instituto de Energías Renovables, UNAM.

• Dr Osvaldo Rodríguez -Instituto de Energías Renovables, UNAM.

More details, programme updates and previous editions are available on the UNAM Europe Seminar Blog.