The project “ENERPHI” (under Teaching Benefit Grant I and II) promotes a students’ Web-Delphi platform for participatory processes in Energy decision-making contexts and assists the development of attractive and intuitive audio-visual pedagogical tutorials to enable the use of the platform through a hands-on-approach.

By making use of the WELPHI © technology, “ENERPHI” allows students to implement the Delphi method in their own projects, retaining the Delphi main features (anonymity, iteration, controlled feedback and statistical aggregation) and creating questionnaires for collecting the views and opinions of different participants that may be geographically dispersed, and therefore avoiding the need for them to physically meet.

“ENERPHI” is aligned within the ‘Decision Support Models’ (with application to Energy) course, a mandatory course run to the EIT InnoEnergy Masters at IST. The course aims to make students familiar with methods and software tools for helping them structure and explore decision support models in Energy contexts. Nowadays, the involvement of decision-makers, experts, stakeholders and/or policy-makers in the development of tailor-made models is core, and therefore the teaching of participatory processes is highly relevant.

Using “ENERPHI” students will be able to apply the Delphi method within their own projects and Master theses.