Leire Gorroño-Albizu

• Researcher and Lecturer at Mondragon University

Since 2022, Modragon University has implemented Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) in the teaching and learning process of the Master’s in Logistics and Productive Operations Management (MUDOLP) program. This article describes the application of CBL in four companies from different industrial sectors during the second semester of the 2022–2023 academic...

The long-term ambition of the European Union (EU) is to become the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Amongst others, meeting this target requires the decarbonisation of the energy-intensive and hard-to-abate industries, such as the steel and foundry industries. According to data from the European Environment Agency, the metal sector...

To address the complexities associated with transitioning towards sustainable energy solutions, there are increasing demands to employ interdisciplinary approaches. However, these still represent a minority of research projects. This is due to the well-known understanding that researchers’ skills and methods are largely anchored within their nested...

District heating is expected to play an important role in the EU for the implementation of a low carbon energy system with high shares of renewables. Empirical examples from several countries show that district heating companies can misuse their monopoly position, hampering district heating adoption. To address this issue, it is necessary to develo...

Smart energy systems (SESs), with integrated energy sectors, provide several advantages over single-sector approaches for the development of renewable energy systems. However, cross-sector integration is at an early stage even in areas challenged by the existing high shares of variable renewable energy (VRE). The promotion of cross-sector integrati...

Important progress has been made in the understanding of citizen ownership. However, confusion persists about distinct characteristics of different models and particularly about the concept of community energy. Moreover, quantitative understanding of the contribution of citizen ownership to energy transitions is limited. This study advances the kno...