Clean Energy Café Romania · Participant Guide
2 - 6 November 2026
Welcome to the Clean Energy Café Romania (2–6 November 2026, Bucharest). This page is your practical guide for the five days.
Use the sections below to prepare before each session, follow the activities throughout the Café, and access the daily resources, deliverables, and supporting materials for each day.
Agenda
Sessions
Sessions run from 9:00 to 16:30 (Monday to Thursday) and close at 13:00 on Friday. On the first day, please arrive at 8:45 for registration.
This is the summary view. For the full session-by-session detail, including learning outcomes and resources, see the Detailed Programme below.
Agenda
| Time | Day 1 · Understanding DisinformationMonday 2 November | Day 2 · Clean Energy SolutionsTuesday 3 November | Day 3 · Disinformation Narratives & StrategiesWednesday 4 November | Day 4 · Communicating Science EffectivelyThursday 5 November | Day 5 · Practical ApplicationsFriday 6 November |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00–9:15 | Welcome & Registration | Day Opening & Recap | Day Opening & Recap | Day Opening & Recap | Day Opening & Instructions |
| 9:15–10:00 | Pre-test Assessment | Lecture: Clean Energy Technologies | Lecture: Disinformation Drivers & Modus Operandi | Lecture: Principles of Science Communication | Workshop: Integrated Campaign Development |
| 10:00–10:30 | Lecture: Foundations of Disinformation | Interactive Session: Energy Mix Analysis | Case Study: The Spain Blackout (April 2025) | Interactive Session: Counter-narrative Strategies | |
| 10:30–10:45 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 10:45–11:15 | Team Formation & Project Introduction | Fact-checking Methodology | Effective Debunking on Social Media | Storytelling for Counter-narratives | Final Campaign Development & Rehearsal |
| 11:15–13:00 | Workshop: Narrative Mapping | Workshop: Building a Fact-checking Sheet | Workshop: Creating a Debunking Thread | Workshop: Counter-narrative Comic (Pixton) | Campaign Pitch Presentations |
| 13:00–14:15 | Lunch · at the Academy | Programme ends 13:00 | |||
| 14:15–16:30 | Scenario 1 · Disinformation Investigators — Malta | Scenario 2 · Hydropower Disinformation — Romania | Scenario 3 · Spot, Check & Counter | Energy Stories | |
Detailed Programme
The full day-by-day guide to the five-day programme: sessions, scenarios, deliverables and all linked learning resources. Flip through it below.
Venue
The Clean Energy Café takes place at the Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy (Academia Națională de Informații „Mihai Viteazul”).
Academia Națională de Informații „Mihai Viteazul”
Șoseaua Odăii 20–22
Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania
⚠️ Please note: bring your national ID card / passport — it is required to access the Academy’s campus. Taking photographs on the premises is strictly forbidden. Lunch and coffee breaks are provided at the Academy.
📍 How to get there: Open the route in Google Maps
First-day registration
We will welcome you on Monday 2 November at 9:00 at the access point of the Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy. Please remember to bring your national ID card / passport, as it is required to enter the campus. There, the POWER team will give you your accreditation and course documentation.
A bus to the Academy is provided by the organizers. The meeting point is the bus stop at Piața Presei Libere, where the bus will be waiting at 8:30 in the morning. If you prefer to travel on your own, get to the Piața Presei stop and take Bus 304 to the stop “Ferma Odăii”, right in front of the Academy.
Coffee break & lunch
Lunch and coffee breaks are provided each day at the Academy.
You’ll find all the essential information on this page. For a printable summary to take with you — airport transfer, hotels, money exchange and things to do in Bucharest — you can also download the practical guide:
Working in international teams
The Clean Energy Café is a hands-on, learning-by-doing experience. Throughout the week you’ll work in international teams of four, bringing together participants from different countries and backgrounds.
Teams are pre-assigned by the organisers and announced on the first morning, so there’s nothing to prepare in advance — just come ready to collaborate. Each team stays together across all five days, building a single counter-narrative campaign step by step, from the initial narrative map on Day 1 to the final pitch on Day 5.
Equipment & computer access
The training room at the Academy is equipped with computers for use throughout the course, so you don’t need to bring your own laptop unless you prefer to.
Login details to access the computers will be provided on-site at the start of the course.
For some activities you’ll use your own smartphone — for the augmented-reality scenario — so please bring it fully charged each day.
⚠️ Please note: taking photographs on the premises of the Academy is strictly forbidden. If you take any, you will be kindly asked to delete them.
Course Materials & Tools
Prepare for the week ahead with a set of interactive materials designed to get you practising before you arrive. You’ll explore how clean energy disinformation spreads, work through real cases such as the 2025 Spanish blackout, and get familiar with the fact-checking and counter-narrative tools used throughout the course.
You’ll also find all the supporting resources and tools in two places: the Online Learning Modules and the Interactive Tools section of the POWER website.
There’s no need to work through everything in advance — we’ll go through each resource and tool step by step during the course. Exploring them beforehand simply means you’ll arrive ready to make the most of the in-person sessions.
Certification & badge
All participants who complete the Clean Energy Café receive a certificate of attendance and the Clean Energy Disinformation Analyst digital badge, which formally recognises the skills you’ve developed during the week.
To earn them, you’ll need to:
- Attend at least 90% of the five-day programme, including the experiential scenarios.
- Take part actively in group discussions, workshops and the collaborative team project.
- Complete the practical exercises, contributing to your team’s deliverables across the five days.
- Complete the assessments, including the pre-test on Day 1 and the post-test on Day 5.
The badge is aligned with European frameworks such as DigComp 2.2 and ESCO, highlighting your competence in digital literacy, communication and content creation. It’s a shareable digital credential you can add to your CV or professional profiles such as LinkedIn.
In addition, URJC undergraduate students will receive academic recognition of 1.5 ECTS credits towards the RAC (Reconocimiento Académico de Créditos) requirement.
Discover Bucharest
Sessions end in the afternoon, leaving you free to enjoy your stay. Make the most of it by exploring Bucharest.
Bucharest
A lively capital where royal, communist and contemporary heritage meet. While you’re here, you can:
- Visit the Museum of Recent Art (MARe) — Bulevardul Primăverii 15. Open Wed–Mon, 11:00–19:00 (closed Tuesdays). mare.ro
- On a sunny day, explore the open-air Village Museum — Șoseaua Pavel D. Kiseleff 30. Open Mon–Sun, 9:00–17:00. Tickets
- Tour the monumental Palace of Parliament — Strada Izvor 2-4. Open 09:00–17:00. Must be booked in advance (1–9 people by phone 24h before, +40 733 558 102 / +40 733 558 103; groups of 10+ by email cic.vizite@cdep.ro at least 3 days before). Valid ID card or passport required.
- Discover the Ceaușescu Mansion — Bulevardul Primăverii 50. Open Tue–Sun, 10:00–17:00. Tickets
Contact
If you have any questions before or during the course, you can reach the MVNIA team (“Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy) at: 📧 buluc.ruxandra@animv.eu
We’ll be happy to help with any practical or organisational queries about the Clean Energy Café.
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