Race to zero emissions and pollution: projects, practices and recommendations
TIME
Friday 22 September
15.45 – 17.15
TRACKS
Green Transition
ORGANISER
LOCATION
Sala Àgora
DESCRIPTION
AGENDA
SPEAKERS
Valentino Piana
Green Transition Track Chair
Valentino Piana
Green Transition Track ChairValentino Piana is an economist and international consultant. Coordinator of the ENoLL Energy & Environment Working Group. Senior Academic Associate at the Institute of Sustainable Energy of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Valais/Wallis), where the Energy Living Lab is established. KTT manager for the http://www.sweet-lantern.ch project putting Living labs at the forefront of the energy transition. IPCC Reviewer. Author e.g. of "Innovative economics policies for climate change mitigation".
Mauro Ostinelli
Energy Efficiency and Facility Management Specialist; Representative of LIFE-BECKON
Mauro Ostinelli
Energy Efficiency and Facility Management Specialist; Representative of LIFE-BECKONMauro has an environmental sciences degree with a master's degree in Energy Efficiency in Building, Industry and Transport. His professional career accumulates more than three years of experience in various sectors related to energy efficiency and facility management. Mauro has accumulated a strong experience in energy audits (+50 reports made) in industrial and commercial clients and in photovoltaic solar energy projects in medium and large companies. Also he worked in maintenance projects of Data Center facilities and monitoring systems in order to propose solutions for reducing energy consumption. His most recent experience was in the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE, acronyms in Spanish) in European Energy Efficiency Projects in the FEDER and Next Generation EU (DUS and DUS5000 programs) financial aid.
Dr. Salem S. Gharbia
Leader of the H2020 SCORE project and Principal Investigator and Head of Department at Atlantic Technological University
Dr. Salem S. Gharbia
Leader of the H2020 SCORE project and Principal Investigator and Head of Department at Atlantic Technological UniversityDr. Salem S. Gharbia is the leader of the H2020 SCORE project, a Principal Investigator and Head of Department at Atlantic Technological University, Ireland. Water resources, climate change and integrated environmental systems modelling with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are his main fields of interest. Dr. Gharbia worked for both academia and consultancy and he holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. Gharbia has excelled and been distinguished in all his studies, and he has received many awards and grants, such as Trinity College's prestigious Ussher award. Dr. Gharbia is a Principal investigator on a number of large-scale research and innovation projects such as EmpowerUS, Pro-climate, OPERANDUM and Pro-coast.
Germain Adell
Deputy Director International Strategy and Development NOBATEK/INEF4 METABUILDING LABS Project
Germain Adell
Deputy Director International Strategy and Development NOBATEK/INEF4 METABUILDING LABS ProjectGermain has more than 30 years of academic, research and practice experience in the fields of Sustainable Architecture & Urban planning, R&D in Construction Technologies, and Innovation Ecosystems. He is currently the Managing President of Built Environment Commons, a French associative agency specialised in Innovation and Communication of Built Environment R&D results. Until very recently, and for the last 6 years, he has been Deputy General Director of NOBATEK/INEF4, the French National Institute for the Energy Transition in the Building Sector, while he was still coordinating several Horizon 2020 projects, like most recently Metabuilding and Metabuilding Labs. Following his coordination position in the latter, Germain is expected to have the managerial role in the new Metabuilding Association (HQ in Brussels) that will be the single-entry point of the Metabuilding Labs Open Innovation Test Bed while also providing the metabuilding.com Open Innovation digital platform to all EU Built Environment stakeholders. Germain has also been these years very active at the construction sector EU advocacy level, where he notably is, since 2015, a Steering Committee member of the European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP) while also sitting on its Built Environment Decarbonization Committee Executive Board. He has also recently been appointed to sit on the External Advisory Board of Construct Innovate, Ireland’s National Research Centre for Construction Technology & Innovation.
Thomas Meister
Research Associate at Department of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum & TRANSFORMER Coordinator
Thomas Meister
Research Associate at Department of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum & TRANSFORMER CoordinatorThomas Meister serves as the Project Coordinator for the TRANSFORMER project and holds the position of a post-doctoral research associate in the Urban and Regional Economics Working Group at the Institute of Geography at Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests include geographical perspectives on transformation processes, sustainable economies, and energy geography, with a particular focus on "community energy" and energy cooperatives.
Karel van Oordt Montalvo
Co-responsible for the UTMC Knowledge Repository & Project Coordinator at Eurocities
Karel van Oordt Montalvo
Co-responsible for the UTMC Knowledge Repository & Project Coordinator at EurocitiesI am a strategic professional specialized in sustainable urban development, governance and infrastructure with more than 10 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Examples of my work include the operational, financial and innovation management of local, national and international urban development and infrastructure programs and policies. My passion is creating public value by implementing local solutions with global impact. Always working hand in hand with the communities and their ecosystems.