Almaty, Kazakhstan – The second regional training on model-based energy and climate analysis organised by the European Union (EU) funded SECCA project took place on 11-13 December 2024. The young professionals from Central Asian countries, members of the Regional Group on Modelling, developed their skills in energy statistics and modelling analyses. They learned to select, collect, elaborate, utilise energy and non-energy statistics and data for quantitative analyses in the integrated energy and climate area.

This event is the second in the series of three planned trainings. The first training was held on 24-27 September 2024, and the third will take place in January 2025. These trainings aim to transfer the basic concepts, and the theoretical and practical approaches, related to analysing and modelling complex energy systems at the national and regional level.

By convening these regional trainings, the SECCA project intends to create a long-lasting virtuous bridge between the SECCA project activities and the local decision-makers, improve the local system-thinking and the knowledge-based data-driven decision making in the energy and climate sectors, enhance the technical and policy dialogue among the different stakeholders within each country, and among the CA countries, in the energy and climate fields, and generate practical impacts (capacity building) that go beyond the duration of the SECCA project.