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, available to all.
Upcoming Academy courses
Applications are open for the following new courses at the Clean Cooling Network:
Train the Trainer
6th October 2025 (10 x Non-consecutive weeks)
Foundation in Cold-chain
13th October to 17th October, HACE, Haryana, India
Essentials in Cold-chain systems
15th to 29th September (Fully online - Self-paced)
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 Cold-chain systems
This is an online introduction course designed to equip participants with fundamental knowledge and competencies in clean cooling technologies and their applications across key sectors.
Train the Trainer Programme
Comprehensive knowledge in refrigeration, cold chain applications, cooling hub design and essential business models for food and pharma. Aimed at community leaders and partners looking to to develop business plans for community cooling hubs/solutions.
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
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.
Launch of the First Clean Cooling Academy online course
4th Aug 2025
The new e-learning course, “Essentials in Cold-Chain Systems”, has been jointly developed by experts from CCN/ACES and the University of Birmingham, London South Bank, and Cranfield University.
Breaking Biases and Barriers: Diverse professionals unite at the ACES for ‘GESI Sensitisation and Integration Workshop’
25th Jul 2025
A dynamic and diverse group of 16 professionals spanning a range of backgrounds, ages and geographic origins have convened at the ACES campus for a week-long intensive workshop on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) - within a cooling and cold-chain context.
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.
