The LETSEMA project is a collaboration between the University of Turku, Finland, Linnaeus University, Sweden, National University of Lesotho, and Bethel Business and Community Development Centre, Lesotho. It aims to enhance the capacity of educational institutions in Lesotho to provide quality education on sustainable energy, with a focus on inclusiveness, diversity, and the creation of green jobs. As a Strand 1 project, LETSEMA strengthens the sustainable energy ecosystem in Lesotho by improving institutional capacities, access to learning opportunities, and hands-on learning in the field of sustainable energy. The project also adapts to the shift to online and blended learning due to COVID-19, aiming to further develop digital pedagogies in the context of sustainable energy education. By promoting employment sector connections and green job growth, LETSEMA addresses the challenge of climate change mitigation.

The project aims to develop the capacities of NUL and BBCDC to provide equitable, digital, and future-oriented quality education on sustainable energy that promotes inclusiveness, diversity, and creation of green jobs. The project focuses on developing institutional capacities, improving equitable access to digital and high-quality learning opportunities, and enhancing the capacities to provide high-quality experiential and hands-on learning opportunities in the field of sustainable energy. LETSEMA addresses the existential risk imposed by climate change by promoting the employment sector connections of sustainable energy educators in Lesotho, influencing the growth of green jobs in the sustainable energy sector while also promoting mitigation responses to climate change. The project also aims to disseminate and promote the knowledge on sustainable energy to industry, public sector, and society. The project will assess the feasibility of Independent Power Producer (IPP) mini-grid technology in Lesotho, and demonstrate that they can be a superior sustainable solution for rural

The goal of the project is to design and develop new e-learning courses and materials, redesign and digitalize existing courses and materials, provide intensive training periods, facilitate co-creation for a Sustainable Energy course, modernize laboratories, equipment, and material, offer energy-related entrepreneurial education and initiatives, conduct trainings for staff and students to address energy poverty and productive uses of energy, build research capacity, and link the educational sector with energy entrepreneurs and energy initiatives.