10th Annual Edition of Sustainable Places (SP2022)

Sustainability targets and climate change objectives cannot be met without addressing buildings and the built environment at the building, district and urban scale to include our transport and energy infrastructures. Renowned for showcasing results coming out of the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme via the participation of cutting-edge research and innovation projects, the scope of Sustainable Places is captured directly in its name. It involves designing, building and retrofitting the places we live and work in a more sustainable way.

Sustainable Places prides itself on being an ideal platform for the dissemination of research, the conduct of workshops, EU project clustering and networking between stakeholders of all types. SP2022 will be held over four days in a hybrid (digital + in-person) event format. Between opening and closing keynote sessions, parallel technical sessions and project-organized workshops will explore the various conference themes. Given world events we encourage submissions on technology transfer, renewable energy implementations and energy security with the aim of facilitating actions that increase the rate of renovation and renewable energy implementations.

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Organize: R2M Solution

Engaging people and technologies in the future of energy

LocalRES, in collaboration withthree Horizon 2020 sisters’ projects (Creators, Hestia and Lightness) will actively join the conference with the workshop “Engaging people and thechnologies in the future of energy”. The workshop intends to shed light on the importance of engaging people and unlocking the potential of technologies to promote Energy Communities and meet the EU’s ambition of a joint net zero emission of greenhouse gases by the year 2050. To ensure a people-centred, sustainable, just and innovative energy future, citizens and experts must be brought into dialogue to co-design new ways of organising around energy. During the workshop, key experts will illustrate approaches, strategies and solutions being tested in different typologies of Energy Communities. Instead of a techno-centric approach, these projects will present their methods to engage people and co-design technologies to forward a clean and fair energy transition.

The annual edition of Sustainable Places has been a place to shape and reflect how we think about buildings and the built environment. The event will be followed by a networking session and welcoome cocktail, allowing the international Sustainable Places community to connect and co-create research and market opportunities within the vibrant French clean-tech and sustainability ecosystem.

Event Agenda

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Decarbonising Cities with Uconventiona Sources

ReUseHeat joind by Celsius initiative organises their final public events in a joint conference on 7 September 2022 in Brussels.

Key finding on the waste heat potential and urban waste heat recovery and along with all the experience from the demonstration sites will be presented by ReUseHeat.

Programme

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome coffee

9:30 – 9:45 Intro from project coordinators

9:45 – 10:15 Keynotes from EU guest speakers

10:15 – 11:30 ReUseHeat & Celsius major outputs

— Urban waste heat potential

— ReUseHeat demo sites: waste heat recovery from hospital (Madrid), dashboard (La Seyne-sur-Mer), metro (Berlin), data centre (Braunschweig)

— Celsius key outputs

— Roundtable discussion

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 -13:00 Parallel sessions

— Targeting industry (technical solutions) in cooperation with LIFE4HeatRecovery,

— Targeting local stakeholders (cities) by Celsius Initiative

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00 Hands-on sessions

— ReUseHeat Handbook and stakeholder dialogue

— Contracts & Business models for urban waste heat recovery

— Replication experiences

15:00 – 15:30 Conclusions & outlook

15:30 – 16:30 Marketplace for cities and companies and investors

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Organize: ReUseHeat

More info: ReUseHeat Final Conference

Smart People – Smart Economy – Smart Cities

The Smart Cities and Communities project mySMARTLife is finalisd at the end of September 2022 and with it comes its final conference. The consortium would like to share its experiences and results celebrating its final conference in the Lighthouse City Hamburg (Germany) during 14th and 15th of September.

The mySMARTLife Final Conference has a two-pronged approach- the first day focuses on the successful interventions of mySMARTLife and the acivities in the Lighthouse Cities Nantes and Helsinki. A special focus of the first day will be on knowledge transfer to engage with the representatives of the mySMARTLife Cities Network.

The second day will be hands-on and on-site-exploring and learning about the interventions in Hamburg, the third Lighthouse City in mySMARTLife, in their demo-site Bergedorf.

Agenda of the event

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Organize: mySMARTLife

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On 14th of September, ECOFACT will be hosting a webinar that will give and update on the progress of the project from the period of Month1 to Month 24. The webinar will be an in-depth discussion about ECOFACT platform from project members.

Agenda

10:00 welcome speech from the moderator; Serena Scotton (RINA Consulting s.p.a)

10:10 “Short project presentation, status of ECOFACT as of M24”; Francisco Morentin (CARTIF)

10:20 “Architecture design for decentralized monitoring networks in manufacturing environments”; Talib Sankal (Fraunhofer IPT)

10:35 “ECOFACT digital twin platform and OptimiST”; Riccardo Merizzi (One Team srl) and Matteo Porta (RINA Consulting s.p.a)

10:50 “Dynamic LCA”; Emilia Ingemarsdotter (PRé Sustainability)

11:05 Q&A session

11:15 End of the event

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Organize: ECOFACT 

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The Scientific Conference Programme is coordinated by the European Commission Joint Research Centre and covers the entire range of PV research,technologies and applications focusing on bringing the latest scientific and technological research trends to the market.

It also offers a variety of broader insights into the current developments in the sector, acknowledging that PV integration needs to be approached from all dimensions- scientific, technical, economic, political, business and also social and educational aspects.

While the focus of the event is set on the scientific findings researchers from all aorund the globe are contributing and sharing, the WCPEC aims to broaden the scope of content by also strengthening further topics like energy transition or policies and societal issues, and acknowledging that PV development and integration must be conidered from all angles.

Programme

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Organize: WIP Renewable Energies

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The INTERPRETER project ends on 30/09/2022. This final conference will present the results achieved and discuss exploitation opportunities.

The conference will give a complete overview of the results achieved, including the interoperable tools developed and how these are helpful to increase the efficiency of the grid management and improve its stability. Distributors involved in the project will share experiences and lessons learnt on how the tools have helped improve their network models.

In addition, several speakers from related projects will participate to an interactive session to share results and best practices, as well as synergies between projects, paving the way for future collaborations.

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Organize: INTERPRETER

More info: INTERPRETER