Her Excellency Trine Jøranli Eskedal, the Ambassador of Norwegian Embassy in Colombo and the Vice-Chancellor, University of Jafna, Professor S. Srisatkunarajah inaugurated ‘Master of Clean Energy Technologies’ Programme in collaboration with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences on 19.09.2020. In the first batch, sixteen students (15 from Sri Lanka and 1 from Norway) enrolled for the degree programme. Due to the pandemic situation, lectures were conducted through zoom by lecturers from the University of Jaffna, University of Moratuwa , University of Peradeniya, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, University of Washington, USA, Arizona State University, USA, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, and PSG College of Technology, India and Chalmers University, Sweden. Dr. M. K. Ahilan and Dr. T. Pathmathas have been serving as joint coordinators of the programmes since September 2020.