Welcome to the course

Welcome to The Clean Energy Transition: Developing a Social Licence for Hydrogen, a short course designed to build awareness and effective approaches to hydrogen projects.

Together we’ll delve into the fundamentals of hydrogen, its role in the green energy transition, and how factors like social license, effective communication, and best practices can shape community attitudes and support.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

1. Recognise the uses of hydrogen from an Australian and global perspective, and its importance in the clean energy transition.
2. Define the concept and process of social licence.
3. Identify why social licence is important for hydrogen.
4. Identify key issues and community attitudes to hydrogen.
5. Determine how to effectively communicate with communities.

Learner Toolkit

As you work through the course, you will create your own toolkit, setting you on the path to building your own social licence project.

• Download the toolkit your own device.
• For full functionality open with Adobe Acrobat (not your browser).
• Complete each section as you work through the course.
• Remember to save as you go.

Meet your teaching team

Your Lead Educators for this course are Professor Joshua Newton and Ailiche Goddard-Clegg. Ailiche will be your facilitator for this course, joining you in conversation as you progress.

If you haven’t already, take a moment to view their profiles and follow them to receive notifications about course updates, announcements and other important course information.

This course will give you a brief context of hydrogen applications, however if you would like to further explore the role of hydrogen in the transition to net zero you can undertake our free open course The Role of Hydrogen in the Clean Energy Transition.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the unceded lands, skies and waterways on which Deakin students and teachers come together. As we learn and teach through virtually and physically constructed places across time, we pay our deep respect to the Ancestors and Elders of Wadawurrung Country, Eastern Maar Country and Wurundjeri Country, as well as the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which you may be learning and teaching, where education has taken place for many thousands of years.

Watch Deakin’s Acknowledgement of Country video to learn more.

Your task

Watch the video to find out more about what you’ll be covering in this course.

When you’re done, take a look around the platform to get used to the navigation. Next, select the “Mark as complete” button and move on to Step 1.2.