ANTICIPATING 100 CLIMATE-NEUTRAL CITIES MISSION: LIVING LABS AS ENABLERS OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPEAN CITIES TOWARDS CLIMATE NEUTRALITY
TIME
Thursday 22 September
15.45 – 17.15
ORGANISER
City of Torino, ENoLL, JRC, Politecnico di Torino, 2ISECAP project
LOCATION
Sala Fucine
DESCRIPTION
The main objective of the session is to examine the role that living labs and their network could have in supporting the process toward climate neutrality in cities, focusing, in particular, on the possible positive synergies that can arise from the interaction between the science-based methodologies for supporting the policy decision-making process and the Living Lab approach to co-design and test solutions in real-life. The reflection will be done in the context defined by the EU Mission “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities” and the related objective of supporting 100 climate-neutral cities in the EU by 2030.
The session reunites the experts’ academic insights with the practical experience of working teams based in some European cities.
During the first part, the goals and methods are discussed, while in the second part cities present their experience in the logic of making the difference together.
AGENDA
Welcome address (5 min) JRC – Stefano Tarantola
Introduction (10 min) Dr. Chiara Foglietta, Councillor for Ecological Transition of Torino
Climate Neutral Cities mission (10 min) Laura Hetel, Policy Officer for Urban Systems, DG RTD, European Comission
Science-based support to policymaking. Case-study 1, City of Torino (10 min)
Ettore Bompard, Energy Department, Politecnico di Torino
The Living Lab approach to co-design an Energy & Climate Plan (10 min)
Ioanna Giannouli, 2ISECAP Project coordinator, BPM S.A.
Case Study 2, City of Tartu (10 min)
Olja Fomina, Project Assistant, Tartu City Government
The systemic approach to climate neutrality: the perspective of the NZC project (10 min)
Francesca Rizzo, Politecnico di Milano, NetZero Cities project
Round Table (20 min) with Cities & JRC
Moderator: Joëlle Mastelic, ENoLL, Resp. of Action Task Force Energy and Environment
Conclusion (5 min)
JRC – Stefano Tarantola
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Policy makers & city representatives
- Companies & entrepreneurs
- Researchers & academics
- Living lab representatives and practitioners
- Innovators
SPEAKERS
Elena Deambrogio
Head of Innovation of CTE NEXT, the House of Emerging Technologies of Turin
Elena Deambrogio
Head of Innovation of CTE NEXT, the House of Emerging Technologies of TurinElena Deambrogio, with a background of studying and working in the field of EU Affairs in Brussels, Elena has been working for 20 years at the City of Turin, EU Funds and Innovation Department, in the field of sustainable urban development. Elena is one of the founders of Torino City Lab, Turin's first city living lab, now in its 4th year of operational activity, intended as a place where technology is measured against real needs to offer new solutions to improve the quality of life. She recently curated and submitted the application to MISE for the realization of the House of Emerging Technologies in Turin, winning the call. Today, she is the Head of Innovation of CTE NEXT, the House of Emerging Technologies of Turin, a spin-off of Torino City Lab, which aims to create a diffuse technology transfer center on emerging technologies enabled by 5G capable of promoting business development, skills growth and industrial and urban innovation in strategic sectors for Turin.
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western SwitzerlandDr Joëlle Mastelic is professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. She has been teaching for 12 years in the fields of Business Economics and Energy and Environmental Techniques, in particular in the Energy Management major. She has also developed continuing education courses: CAS on "Sustainable Marketing" and participated in the launch of the interdisciplinary Master "New Product Development";. As a researcher, she is part of the InnoLab Unit (Entrepreneurship and Management Institute) and the Water Group (Energy and Environment Institute). Her area of expertise is innovation and marketing in the field of energy. She is in charge of the Energy Living Lab, a living laboratory whose aim is to put the user at the centre of the energy transition by co- developing innovative solutions with him. This laboratory has notably collaborated with Romande Energie, Transports Publics du Chablais and Losinger Marazzi by proposing service design approaches. It is currently working on disseminating the results by creating social franchises for the Energy Living Lab, with the support of the HES-SO strategic fund. Her publications and interventions focus on the empowerment and engagement of key stakeholders in the process of energy innovation within regional ecosystems. In terms of networking, she is part of the board of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as head of the Energy and Environment Taskforce. She is responsible for the Living Labs for Decarbonisation of Energy national program, financed by InnoSuisse, which brings together more than 20 partners, including Swiss Post and SBB, and whose aim is to develop a portfolio of innovative projects supported by InnoSuisse in the field of decarbonisation of energy. At the European level, it is an expert for the European Commission, and is collaborating in particular on the transformation of the Joint Research Center site in Ispra into a Living Lab dedicated to the energy and mobility of the future. As organizer and moderator, she has organized and facilitated numerous conferences, such as the Energy Forum on the integration of consumers in the energy transition: http://www.energyforum-vs.ch. She also moderated a workshop during the International Days of Sociology of Energy in Tours on the theme Information and support: what tools, what challenges? http://www.socio-energie2015.fr. She was the moderator of the day on Energy Transition: new roles for buildings and neighbourhoods? at the HEIG in Fribourg: http://pst-fr.com/zero-carbone. She has organised and moderated numerous participatory workshops, in particular in the framework of the international conferences Open Living Lab Days https://openlivinglabdays.com and Sustainable Energy Week https://www.eusew.eu. She has co-organised the Open Living Lab Days in Geneva with more than 500 participants and introduced by the UN office director. The participants have worked on the role of Living Labs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN https://www.ge.ch/agenda/open-living-lab-days-2018-olld.
Laura Hetel
Policy Officer for Future Urban Systems at the European Commission
Laura Hetel
Policy Officer for Future Urban Systems at the European CommissionLaura Hetel is a Policy Officer for Future Urban Systems at the European Commission, DG Research & Innovation. She works on the implementation of Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission and on the New European Bauhaus. She is also responsible for international cooperation on urban challenges, including for the global Urban Transitions Mission of Mission Innovation. “
Olja Fomina
Project Assistant, Tartu City Government
Olja Fomina
Project Assistant, Tartu City GovernmentOlja Fomina has worked in Tartu City Government since 2017. She started as the building licensing specialist and currently she is a project assistant, working with different projects related to transport, lighting, circular economy, climate, and sustainability. She has Master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture from the Tallinn University of Technology and in Urban Governance from the Tallinn University. Her research topics were about complete streets, sustainable mobility, and mobility hubs.
Stefano Tarantola
Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre
Stefano Tarantola
Scientific Officer at the Joint Research CentreStefano Tarantola is a Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He graduated in Nuclear Engineering in 1992 and received his PhD in Science and Technologies for Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1996. He works at the Directorate for Energy, Transport and Climate conducting methodological work and pre-normative research in the field interoperability of smart electricity grids and electric vehicles. He currently runs the project for developing a living lab at the JRC Ispra for testing digital energy solutions in the context of the Ispra site modernization program.