EVENTS AND DISCLOSURE
31
JAN 2023
14:00 – 15:30h
Online via Zoom
Local Energetic Communities are born with the purpose of facilitating the participation of new actors in a strategic and essential sector for sustainable development. In this sense, they constitute a powerful instrument to impulse energy transition, betting on a fast and profound change towards a more participatory, sustainable and resilient energy model. Nevertheless, the rapid technical advance, the legal limitations or modifications, as well as the implementation capacities, require a profound debate among the actors involved in their development.
This seminar has the objective to open up a dialogue space about the different challenges, opportunities and difficulties about the design, implementation and operation of Local Energetic Communities in Spain. For this purpose, UPM TULE and EELISA DISCOVERY communities, organizers of the meeting, bring together different actors so they can share their vision and experience about the subject. Likewise, speakers are invited to debate about the possibility of creating Local Energetic Communities on university campuses, as they are the natural elements where researchers, professors, students, workers, etc., converge in a single urban ecosystem.
22
NOV 2022
16:00 – 19:00h
📍Conama (National Environmental Congress), IFEMA Madrid, Bratislava Hall
Conference held at the 16th National Environmental Congress (CONAMA 2022). It has the objective to raise awareness directly in schools, and indirectly in the actors surrounding them (institutions, district neighbours, mothers, fathers, children, etc.), about climate change, decarbonisation and the important role that schools can play in transforming cities in this context. Because schools are precisely strategic nodes by which is possible to activate transformation levers, for example: governance models, mobility and consumption habits, citizen involvement, regeneration of public spaces connected to the urban fabric, cities dynamics, etc.
18
NOV 2022
10:00 – 13:00h
📍Ave María School, Madrid
“Climate Fresk” workshop at the Science and Innovation Week
Within the framework of Science and Innovation Week, a workshop called “Climate Fresk: a playful, collaborative and creative workshop about climate change” was taught at Ave María School in Madrid. It was an interactive activity with the main idea of motivating students to actively generate and/or increase their awareness about climate change through the participation in the activities designed for workshop purposes. The workshop lasted 2 hours and was attended by 30 students between the ages of 12 and 13 years old.
04
NOV 2021
16:00 – 17:30h
📍Online via Zoom
Science and Innovation Week: Have you ever wondered which are the forms of sustainability?
In the Science and Innovation Week, under the title “Have you ever wondered which are the forms of sustainability?”, a virtual event was held with the objective of building narratives with citizens, around technological solutions that contribute to adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Through a dialogue between UPM male and female researchers and representatives of some companies and European projects, a design approach of sustainability-based technologies and their implementation in cities was provided. Delved into projects related to the introduction of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), decentralised energy generation, launch of energetic communities, and the importance of interdisciplinarity when launching these initiatives.
24
SEP 2021
17:00 – 19:00h
📍Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid
This scientific dissemination event aims to bring the work of researchers closer to society. Technology in action for a greener and more sustainable world was the motto of the last edition of the European Researchers’ Night at the UPM, that took place from morning to night. In this gymkhana, the families who participated in the different thematic stations were able to know the benefits of mediterranean diet, advantages of having urban forests in our cities, the difference between centralised and distributed electricity generation, or how reducing noise can improve our health.
29
JUN 2021
15:00 – 16:30h
📍Online via Zoom
This seminar took place during the 22nd edition of the program UPM Seminars: Technology and Innovation for SDGs within the framework of the cycle “Healthy and Clean Cities”, the third one organized by the UPM Research Communities. The objective has been to comprehensively address, through the participation of experts, the different dimensions that contribute to the improvement of urban health.
25
MAY 2021
15:00 – 16:30h
📍Online via Zoom
This seminar took place during the 22nd edition of the program UPM Seminars: Technology and Innovation for SDGs within the framework of the cycle “Healthy and Clean Cities”, the third one organized by the UPM Research Communities of UPM. The objective has been to comprehensively address, through the participation of experts, the different dimensions that contribute to the improvement of urban health.
27
NOV 2020
16:00 – 17:00h
📍Online via Zoom
The TULE UPM community organized an informative activity within the framework of the European Researchers’ Night, in collaboration with the Co-laboratory for decarbonisation. By means of different games, researchers built with the public friendly definitions of concepts related to climate change that frequently appear on the media: decarbonisation, self-consumption, energy community, nature-based solutions, sustainable diet. The objective was to bring the scientific knowledge about climate change closer to citizens and involve them in the development of these concepts. The setting for this activity took place on a virtual platform, for which a stand representing the TULE Community was prepared, in which information, articles and results obtained by researchers involved in the community were also displayed for free access. Mainly related to green infrastructure, photovoltaic solar energy, energy communities and sustainable agri-food systems. As a result of this activity, a co-designed definition of terms that form a structural part of the research lines of the TULE UPM Community was reached with the participants: sustainable diet, nature-based solutions, energy community, self-consumption and decarbonisation.
