Webinar | 2030: A journey towards climate neutral and smart cities in Europe

This seminar will highlight existing actions in the alliance towards the goal of achieving smart and climate-neutral cities amongst our regions and will inspire innovative actions to take place within our community, including citizens, academia, and businesses and implement transformative processes.

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Webinar | 2030: A journey towards climate neutral and smart cities in Europe
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COMPASS Webinars

Intro

Ulysseus European University introduced in 2021 a brand new series of webinars on key regional and local challenges. These are part of the calendar of activities of “COMPASS: Leading Ulysseus to become a European University excellence model through Research and Innovation”, a Horizon 2020 project of Ulysseus and the flagship for its R&I agenda and strategy.

Organised by Ulysseus Innovation Hubs, these webinars bring together experts from academia, industry and NGO’s, among other organisations to discuss key regional and local challenges.

2030: A journey towards Climate Neutral and Smart Cities in Europe

A hundred cities from the European Union member states plus 12 cities from associated countries have been selected to join the EU Mission: 100 Climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 to pursue ambitious goals to slash emissions rapidly and pioneer innovative approaches with citizens and stakeholders.

Seville, Helsinki and Košice are three of the selected cities in the EU and home of three partner universities of the Ulysseus alliance.

This seminar will highlight existing actions in the alliance towards the goal of achieving smart and climate-neutral cities amongst our regions and will inspire innovative actions to take place within our community, including citizens, academia, and businesses and implement transformative processes.

See below our panel of the experts:

  • Begoña Chiquinquira Arrue Ulles, Associate Professor at the Systems Engineering and Automation Department of the University of Seville (Spain)
  • Blanca Gómez Dominguez, Innovation and Project Leader at Cartuja Science & Technology Park, Seville (Spain)
  • Ricardo Chacartegui Ramírez, Professor at the Energy Engineering Department of the University of Seville (Spain)
  • Maroš Halama, Vice-Dean for Research, Innovation & International Relations at the Technical University in Košice (Slovakia)

Speakers

Begoña Chiquinquira Arrue Ulles

University of Seville

Begoña holds a PhD (1993) and MA in Electrical Engineering (1991) by the University of Virginia (USA) and is graduated in Computer Science (1987) by the University of Deusto (Spain). In 1994, she joined the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation of the University of Seville (Spain). Later, in 1998 she became Associated Professor at this very same University.

During her career, she has been a Lecturer in Industrial Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Automation and Industrial Electronics Engineering and Electronics Engineering, with a focus on the areas of Systems Engineering and Automation. Her areas of expertise include Robotics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering and Automation, and Signal Theory and Communications. With regards to robotics, she is specialized in aerial and multi-robotics, Bio-Inspired aerial soft robotics, AI in robotics, Perception, Manipulation and planning, and intelligent systems, among others.

She has a wealth of experience in research and has published articles in prestigious journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. She has participated in more than 30 research projects – including EU funded projects – such as EUFIRELAB project (Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. EVG1- 2001-00024. 2002-2006.) where she was the Principal Researcher of the Spanish team. Currently, she is working in various projects (GRIFFIN, AERIAL-CORE, PILOTING, RESIST) and she is co-responsible of the European projects TERRINET and RIMA.

She coordinated 3 contracts of technological transference to companies of productive sectors like AIRBUS MILITARY and ABENGOA, and she has participated, with different degrees of responsibility, in more than 15 in companies such as ITURRY, FAASA, among others. Currently, she coordinates a contract with DRONETOOLS, S.L and another with ELIMCO AEROSPACE.

She is an IEEE Senior. Furthermore, she is European and ANEP’s R&D project evaluator and of different autonomous government agencies (UNIBASQ and AVAP). ANECA panel expert since 2012 and reviewer in prestigious international conferences in the field of robotics such as ICRA, IROS, and international journals such as SENSORS, JINT, FSJ, RIAI.

Blanca Gómez Dominguez

Cartuja Science & Technology Park, Seville

Ricardo Chacartegui

University of Seville

Ricardo is Professor in the Energy Engineering Department of the University of Seville. His research is focused on thermal energy systems: design, development, and optimization. Its current main activity can be classified into two wide groups: energy storage systems and Low Carbon Economy systems.

His R&D interest areas integrate the development of novel materials and thermal systems for sustainable energy systems applications. Since 2006 he has had more than one hundred publications in Scopus and more than 80 contributions to international congresses. They are directly linked to his R&D activity in more than 80 R&D collaborative projects with the energy and transport industries. They include seven European Union, three national and two regional funded projects. They were oriented to product development, analysis or optimization of energy storage systems, concentrated solar systems, biomass burners, bifacial PVs, CHP district heating and cooling networks and sustainability education. Recently he has coordinated the H2020 Project SOCRATCES, GA 727348 for a novel concept of a thermochemical energy storage system based on Calcium looping to integrate into concentrating solar power plants and under execution is the project ECF4CLIM ( GA 101036505) for developing a European competence framework for a low carbon economy and sustainability through educationP

Maroš Halama

Technical University of Košice

Vice-dean for Research, Innovations and International Relations at Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, head of the Corrosion Testing Laboratory at the Promatech Center for Advanced Materials and Technologies at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Vice-president at Slovak Association for Surface Treatment.

His actual research focusing on safety of advanced materials for Li-ion batteries and hydrogen technologies, application of nanotechnologies in different environmental applications, application of artificial neural networks in material science and nanosafety.

He obtained M.Sc. in Chemistry at UPJS Kosice (partly Aristotle Uni. of Thessaloniki) and PhD at TUKE in Material Science. Between 2005-2007 he coordinated project with Technische Univesität Wien, TVFA Institute, later CTA. He was invited lecturer at Ecole Nationale de Chemie Paris-Tech, KIMab Stockholm, IST Lisboa, CEST Wiener Neustadt, Uni. Barcelona, ​​Institute for Work and Health in Lausanne, World Trade Center Moscow, Martin-Luther Uni. Halle-Wittenberg, Westfälische Wilhelms. Munster, Kurt-Schwabe Mittweida, AAMC Miami, World Trade Center Dubai, Global Science & Technology Forum in Singapore, Nanotech in Tokyo, Peter the Great Petersburg Polytechnic University, European Defence Agency and others. Since 2006 he took part on several European Science Foundation’s annual trainings on advanced materials, nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, nanosafety and others. In 2014 he was visiting scientist at Jan Dlugosz Uni. Czestochowa. He participated on industrial inquires and failure analysis within the industrial sector in the field of energy, oil & gas, coating industry (eustream a.s., SPP-distribution, ENEL, SES Tlmače, Bukóza holding a.s., Matador automotive, Kerex a.s., U.S Steel, VÚZ PI etc.).

He was awarded by president of IAAM prof. Hisatoshi Kobayashi with prestigious International Association for Advanced Materials Scientist Medal 2016 in Miami congress, US. Since July 2017 he acted as member of the Steel Advisory Group, since 2020 as member of COSCO group at Research Fund Coal and Steel (RFCS), European Commission and since April 2019 as CnGE representative of the Slovak Republic in the Captech Group at European Defence Agency, since August 2019 he has been working in the Presidency of the Slovak Battery Alliance (SBaA), since 2019 in Slovak National Hydrogen Association and since 2020 in Advisory Council in Kosice Self-Government Region.

More details about this webinar

Facilitator:

Erica Romero Pender, Innovation Hub Officer at the Energy, Transport, Mobility and Smart cities Innovation Hub of the University of Seville, will facilitate this seminar. 

Day | Wednesday, 22 June 2022.

Time | 09:45-11:15 CET.

Host | Ulysseus Energy, Transport, Mobility and Smart Cities Innovation Hub, University of Seville.

Location | Pabellón de Mexico, P.º de las Delicias, s/n, 41013 Sevilla and online.  

Language | This seminar will be in English.

Format | Hybrid (in person and online). This seminar will take place in person during the course of the COMPASS Researchers’ Days in Seville (22-23 June) but will also be livestreamed on the YouTube channel of Ulysseus. 

Registration | Registration is mandatory.  

Certificate of attendance  | At the end of the webinar a link will be supplied to request your certificate of attendance for this webinar.

Register at this seminar

Registration is mandatory to access the link for the livestreaming.




About COMPASS

COMPASS: Leading Ulysseus to become a European University excellence model through Research and Innovation” is a Horizon 2020 project of Ulysseus and the flagship for its R&I agenda and strategy.

COMPASS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 101035809. The views and opinions expressed in this communication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.

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