Nueva propuesta transversal de emprendimiento e innovación para programas educativos en el tercer nivel de educación

The modern world grows according to a model based on fossil fuels; a model that presents serious sustainability problems. Likewise, this study seeks to illustrate one of the new alternative energy schemes that could replace fossil fuels in the future: hydrogen. This transformation will lead to significant social impacts. Social entrepreneurship can integrate socio-economic agents and help them implement new forms of energy innovation, which will open spaces for new business models.This study conceptualizes the connotations of the hydrogen economy in a current context, its implications for society, and its synergy with social entrepreneurship. It shows the role of social entrepreneurship as a key element in the implementation of the hydrogen economy, as well as the way in which and how the processes and models used to manage these undertakings play a vital role in the present and future economies

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The COVID-19 pandemic-induced worldwide contingency has significantly disrupted the way education has been delivered, going through a crucial period of change and adaptation. But how does this dynamic impact both students’ and teachers’ educational process? This research on the teaching of renewable energies at the higher education level in engineering programs reveals the main challenges to this transformation as well as how they were overcome. The methodology is qualitative with two-way dynamic reflection, between the facts and their interpretation, and impacts 130 engineering students, from all of Colombia’s regions. Among the main results, six challenges stand out, which were addressed through different strategies.

The world is growing at an ever-increasing rate, but this growth has occurred alongside an energy model based on fossil fuels, which presents serious sustainability problems. The current study seeks to illustrate one of the new alternative energy schemes which could replace fossil fuels in the future: hydrogen. The promise of hydrogen fuel has led large nations to invest in transitioning their fossil fuel economies to a hydrogen-based model. This will result in significant social impacts, leading to the question, How should it be done? Social entrepreneurship can integrate socio-economic actors and agents and help them to devise and implement new forms of energy innovation, which will open spaces for new business models. The current study conceptualizes within a present-day context the connotations of the hydrogen economy at an international level, its implications to society, and its synergy with social entrepreneurship. The authors observed the rapid growth that these entrepreneurship initiatives are generating and how the models used to manage these undertakings play a vital role.