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  • On Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October, the open conference ‘The UPV-City alliance for the Valencia 2030 Climate Mission’ will be held
  • The first day will deal with the role of the UPV and other Spanish universities in the university-city binomials for the urban energy transition
  • The second day will address the role of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Valencia in the Mission towards climate neutrality that the city of Valencia has approved.
  • Free attendance, with prior registration: https://bit.ly/3fC45Ln

We are forging the generation of researchers who will decarbonise Spanish cities.

On 27 and 28 October 2022, the UPV will host the open conference ‘The UPV-city alliance for the Valencia 2030 Climate Mission’. The conference is co-organised by the UPV Chair of Urban Energy Transition and the Vice-Rectorate for Sustainable Development of the Campuses.

The background to the conference is the university-city binomials that are being deployed by the seven Spanish cities participating in the European Mission of Cities towards climate neutrality, including Valencia.

On the first day, the technical work of the UPV and other Spanish universities for the energy transition of their cities towards climate neutrality will be presented. Elements such as positive energy districts, solar resource mapping in cities, energy community modelling and innovation in the fight against energy poverty will be discussed. The conference will conclude with the presentation of the proposal for the energy transition of the Campanar neighbourhood by the winning team of the Smart & Sustainable Valencia 2030 programme, the result of collaboration between the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the Chair of Urban Energy Transition and the City Council of Valencia. The conference on Thursday 27 October will take place in the auditorium of the Red Cube at the Polytechnic City of Innovation.

The second day will present the most recent advances in the UPV-Valencia and UV-Valencia binomials for the Valencia 2030 Climate Mission. The conference will present the actions that the UPV and the UV are deploying in their respective university-city binomials. On the UPV side, the progress made in the UPV Living Lab since its launch in October last year will be presented. The conference on Friday 28th will be held in the Aula Magna of the School of Architecture.

THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER – Assembly Hall of the Cubo Rojo, Polytechnic City of Innovation UPV

UNIVERSITY-CITY ALLIANCES FOR URBAN ENERGY TRANSITION

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9:00 Institutional welcome

Pedro Fresco. General Director of Ecological Transition of the Generalitat Valenciana

José Villalba. Head of the Climate Emergency and Energy Transition Service of the Valencia City Council

Carla Montagud. Director of the Chair of Urban Energy Transition UPV

9:45 Keynote: ‘Building alliances for climate neutrality’

Guillermo Palau. INGENIO Institute CSIC-UPV

Jaime Moreno. Viable Cities and UPM

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Round table: The university researches for the energy transition of cities

Ignacio García. Public University of Navarre

Jon Terés. University of the Basque Country

José María Yusta. University of Zaragoza

Carmen Sánchez-Guevara. Technical University of Madrid

Tomás Gómez. Technical University of Valencia

12:30 Studies by the UPV for the Fair and Inclusive Energy Transition Strategy of Valencia

Presentation of the Strategy and the projects that develop it. Corentin Girard. Valencia Climate and Energy Foundation. Victoria Pellicer. Las Naves.

‘Mapping the carbon footprint in districts and neighbourhoods of Valencia‘. Mireia Roncero and Lucas Martínez. Chair of Urban Energy Transition UPV

‘Methodology for estimating the decarbonisation potential of neighbourhoods: the case of Benicalap, Valencia’. Carlos Vargas. Institute of Energy Engineering

‘Modelling and optimisation of local energy communities’. Álvaro Manso. Chair of Urban Energy Transition, UPV

1:30 p.m. Event with the KTH students who won the KTH Stockholm-Valencia City Council programme ’Smart & Sustainable Valencia 2030’

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER – Main Hall, School of Architecture, UPV

UNIVERSITY-CITY ALLIANCES FOR THE CLIMATE MISSION VALÈNCIA 2030

9:30 Institutional welcome

Celsa Monrós. General Director of Climate Change, Valencian Regional Government

Salvador Coll. Vice-rector for Innovation and Transfer, UPV

Pilar Serra. Vice-rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living, UV

Iván Cabrera. Director of the School of Architecture

Carla Montagud. Director of the Chair of Urban Energy Transition at the UPV

10:00 Keynote #1: “The Sustainable Campus – Designing universities as if it is 2050 today’

Andy van den Dobbelsteen. Sustainability Coordinator TU Delft

10:30 Keynote #2: ‘The living lab approach to innovation and co-creation – a place, a method and a model for partnership’

Per Lundqvist. Vice-Rector for Sustainability, KTH

11:15 Coffee break

12:00 Examples of initiatives by the university-city binomials at the UPV and the UV

University of Valencia | Fair trade and local trade. Public procurement

University of Valencia | Improving urban green infrastructure to promote high-quality biodiversity

Polytechnic University of Valencia | The Polytechnic University of Valencia in scenarios of climate neutrality

Polytechnic University of Valencia | The Great Survey on actions to decarbonise the Polytechnic University of Valencia

Polytechnic University of Valencia | Living Lab ETSII 5N

13:30 Launch of the call for projects from the Living Lab UPV

José Luis Alapont. Director of the Green Transition Area UPV

Closing

Attendance at the conferences is open to anyone interested and is free of charge, but registration is required due to limited capacity.

Registration is through the Continuing Education Centre: https://bit.ly/3fC45Ln