Empowering Ghana’s Engineering Future: A Model for Professional Education in Renewable Energy—and beyond

Across the globe, the transition to renewable energy is redefining how we live, work, and think about development. Yet, one urgent question persists: how do we prepare the next generation of engineers not just to participate in, but to lead this transformation? The answers lie not only in laboratories or power grids, but in the classrooms, workshops, and collaborative spaces where young minds are shaped In Ghana, the ProREG project (Professional Education for Renewable Energy in Ghana) emerged as an ambitious response to this challenge. Anchored in a strategic partnership between the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi) and the University of Energy and Natural Resources (Sunyani)—working closely with the Technische Universität Berlin and leading companies from both Ghana and Germany—ProREG set out to bridge the persistent gap between academic training and professional practice in the renewable energy sector. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and implemented between late 2022 and 2025, the project embraced a bold vision: to co-create and institutionalise a practice-oriented, industry-relevant, and scalable model for engineering education that could help future-proof Ghana’s energy workforce—while offering a model for the wider world. This book is a record of that journey. It tells the story of an innovative collaboration across borders, sectors, and disciplines. It captures the hopes and questions we started with, the methods we tested, the obstacles we encountered, and the impact we achieved. More than a project report, this publication offers insights, frameworks, and inspiration for anyone seeking to modernise engineering education in service of sustainable development.