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.
Upcoming Academy courses
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
Foundation in Cold-chain - India
15th to 19th December 2025 HACE, Haryana
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.
Go Solar Energy Training
Solar energy plays a crucial role in powering sustainable and off-grid solutions for various applications, including agriculture, cold-chain management, and rural electrification.
Creative Storytelling for a Cooler World
Calling all young aspiring photographers from Rwanda and Kenya! A photography course produced in cooperation with the renowned international photo-agency Panos Pictures. A two month programme with a five day, fully funded in-person training workshop.
GESI in Cooling and Cold-chain Foundation
This foundation course introduces the importance of GESI in the cooling and cold-chain sector, focusing on the opportunities it unlocks. Cold-chain stakeholders need to be GESI aware, ensuring all marginalised members have equal access to cold-chain opportunities.
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
Visual storytelling for a Cool World – CCN to collaborate with Panos Pictures
22nd Oct 2025
Through the partnership with Panos Pictures, the Clean Cooling Image Database will serves as a dedicated professional asset for sharing images with external clients, stakeholders, and the media.
Strengthening Africa’s Cold-chain Capacity: Lessons and Impact from Four Foundation Course Cohorts
6th Oct 2025
Over 55 early-career professionals, agripreneurs, engineers, and health specialists have now graduated from the four cohorts of the Cold-chain Foundation Course delivered between May 2024 and August 2025.
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.
Harnessing Thermal Energy: Essentials Course on Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for Sustainable Cooling
25th Sep 2025
Apply to the Essentials Course on Phase Change Materials (PCMs) course by October 20th, 2025 and unlock the power of thermal energy with Phase Change Materials — where science meets sustainable cooling!
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.
