The Clean Cooling Academy offers a growing range of educational and professional development courses covering a variety of general and cooling specific topics.
We are working with industry and other partners to develop and deliver a series of training programmes and modules around cooling and cold-chains.
Training at CCN
Educational and professional development courses for you and your workforce.
Delivered by experienced specialist practitioners.
Available to all.
Upcoming Academy courses
Foundation in Cold-chain
13th October to 17th October, HACE, Haryana, India - Last few days to apply
Essentials in Cold-chain systems
22nd October - 3rd November 2025 (Fully online - Self-paced) - New dates added
Cold-chain specifications and commissioning course
7th November 2025, ACES, Kigali, Rwanda
Essentials course on Phase Change Materials
17th to 28th November 2025, ACES, Kigali, Rwanda
1st to 12th December 2025 ACES, Kigali, Rwanda
Essentials in Brazing Techniques for Refrigeration Systems
24th to 28th November 2025 ACES, Kigali, Rwanda
1st to 5th December 2025 ACES, Kigali, Rwanda
8th to 12th December 2025 ACES, Kigali, Rwanda
Cold-chain for Global Health
24th November to 19th December 2025, ACES, Kigali, Rwanda
Learning at the CCN Academy
All courses are delivered by experienced specialist practitioners.
Some courses are fully online, others in-person or hybrid. Many of our in-person courses are repeated multiple times a year, in different countries. We have just launched our first fully online course, and we expect this range to grow through 2025 and onwards.
A key objective running through the core of our activities will be integrating women and youth into our training platforms and maintaining one of our core initiatives to promote Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) through both the delivery and running of our training programmes.
Featured Courses
Essentials in Brazing Techniques for Refrigeration Systems Course
This course teaches not only how to braze, but why it's essential for safety, reliability, and energy efficiency. With the right training, you'll gain a valuable skill that lowers maintenance costs, extends equipment life, and sets you apart as a skilled professional in a high-demand field.
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Essentials course on Phase Change Materials (PCMs)
This four and a half day essential course is designed to balance theory and hands-on practical experiments on Phase Change Materials both on-site at the ACES Rubirizi campus and online.
Featured course lead
Find out more about who will be teaching and supporting you through your training journey.
Dr. Athanase Dalson Gace
Academic Head
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
Gace is currently an Academic Head at the African Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES), coordinating strategies and overseeing academic programs. He contributes significantly to ACES' mission of advancing sustainable cold chain technologies.
Gace has published several papers in prestigious journals and conferences and led as Principal Investigator transformative projects like the Solar-Powered E-tractor Development initiative. His research portfolio spans diverse areas, from applied metrology, refrigeration, cold chain, and solar energy systems, and their application for social and economic growth.
He is a reviewer for prestigious journals, including Flow Measurement Instrumentation, Measurement Science and Technology published by Elsevier, the Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and the Journal of Advanced Thermal Science Research.
Latest CCN Academy news
The brazing torch comes back longer and stronger!
30th Sep 2025
Building on the success earlier this year of our first brazing course, which was held at ACES in Kigali, Rwanda, we are pleased to announce that we are now relaunching the training in a redesigned format.
Getting specification and commissioning right
18th Sep 2025
CCN is launching a new one-day course on cold-chain specification and commissioning, to be delivered at its Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES) in Kigali - dedicated to training sector professionals in cold-chain specification and commissioning.
Strengthening cold-chain capacity in Africa: CCN successfully hosts pivotal foundation course
10th Sep 2025
The five-day training brought together 14 participants for an intensive learning experience on cold-chain systems and their applications in the food and pharmaceutical sectors.
Learning with ACES/CCN is taking off fast and innovative training is at its core
5th Aug 2025
At ACES, programme participants are not only trained to become fully equipped technicians/engineers capable of handling sophisticated technical tasks in the industry, but also developed into forward thinkers able to tackle pressing climate change issues and social challenges.
Find out about CCN Courses
For all general course enquiries, please contact us at [email protected]. And we will direct your question to the right team.
