The Energy Transition Research Team (STE)

This is an interdisciplinary space associated with the University of Magdalena, primarily comprising young people who research, create, and support territorial processes related to a just energy transition in the Colombian Caribbean. Through science, art, technology, and knowledge exchange, the team works hand in hand with rural communities, workers in transition, social organizations, women, youth, and diverse populations to build processes from the bottom up, with social, gender, environmental, and territorial justice, reimagining the future and transitions with communities, not without them.

STE articulates academic research, audiovisual production, and cultural processes to understand and transform the realities left behind by mine closures, socio-environmental inequalities, and the challenges of renewable energy. In addition to accompanying communities on issues such as job retraining, climate justice, solidarity economy, popular pedagogy, territorial memory, and organizational strengthening.

 Through international and national projects, podcasts, documentary series, community theater, books, booklets, and participatory science, STE amplifies the voices of the territories and promotes forms of research that recognize ancestral knowledge, life experiences, and local knowledge as integral to the energy transition.

 

 

 

Caribbean Contact Point, Colombia

Coordinated from Colombia, the Latin American regional center manages academic and administrative activities related to regional exchange and cooperation, supporting mobility for students and researchers connected to the Colombian Caribbean.

The National Contact Point (NCP) at Universidad del Magdalena in Santa Marta facilitates communication among regional network partners and promotes knowledge exchange and collaborative strategies on Just Transitions to Sustainability.