The event is organized to introduce scientists to the cutting-edge achievements in the fields of energy systems and environmental engineering and to provide researchers – especially doctoral students – with the opportunity to publish the results of their work.
Each year, CONECT brings together around 200 scientists and researchers from more than 25 countries.
The main focus of this year’s conference will be on:
- Bioresources;
- Biotechnologies;
- Climate Communication;
- District Heating;
- Energy Efficiency;
- Environmental and Energy Policy Frameworks;
- Low Carbon Development and the Bioeconomy;
- Renewable Energy Technologies;
- Sustainability and Resilience.
Conference papers are published in an Open Access journal Environmental and Climate Technologies https://ect-journals.rtu.lv/ and are indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. A selection of papers is recommended for submission as extended publications to other journals, which are also indexed in the Scopus database.
We invite you to take the opportunity to participate in the conference with your research by submitting:
- Abstracts by February 3rd;
- Papers by March 17th ;
- Posters by April 14th;
- Presentations by May 11th.
Early Bird registration will be available until March 31st; thereafter, registration will continue at the standard fee until May 1st . To apply, please visit: https://conect.rtu.lv/registration/
]]>The webinar will be held on January 23 from 10.30-12.30 (EET) on the MS Teams platform.
The webinar will be in English.
Registration for the seminar is open until January 22. The registration form is available below. After registration, a link to the MS Teams platform will be sent to the e-mail address specified in the form a day before the seminar.
The webinar is implemented in the framework of the Nordic Energy Research project WasteHeatSES.
]]>The seminar will be held on the 11th and 12th of April at the Polytechnic of Turin in the classrooms of the Valentino Castle (address: Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli, 39 – 10125, Torino).
This two-day seminar looks into energy efficiency in buildings and building deep renovation, analysing technical, economic, and financial solutions. The seminar also goes beyond the simple concept of project appraisal, introducing specific environmental approaches like Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
This seminar introduces the use of two software packages: TRNSYS, used to simulate the behaviour of transient systems and SimaPro, used to collect, analyse and monitor the sustainability performance data of products and services.
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With this aim, a full capacity building program dedicated to improving energy performance through direct training and e-learning has been designed and created by a team of experts coming from both the private and public sectors.
ICCEE invites you to participate in our e-learning training course on energy efficiency in food and beverage cold supply chains designed for experts and non-experts in this field. The course is accessible by anyone, free of charge and prepared for self-studying.
The platform selected for the e-learning has been Moodle as it provides several advantages versus other platforms, as the possibility to use mobile devices as smartphones or tablets.
The ICCEE e-learning includes the following contents:
1. A set of downloadable materials with key information of food and beverage cold supply chains that constitute the “Main Course” and that should be read by the user. These materials include the following topics:
- ICCEE project description;
- Energy efficiency issues;
- Energy performance indicators (EnPIs);
- Energy Management System based on ISO50001 and Measurement and Verification (IPMVP);
- Energy saving opportunities in the complete cold chain;
- Financial analysis and funding opportunities;
- LCA and LCC;
- Non Energy Benefits (NEBs) and behavioral aspects;
- ICCEE tool introduction;
2. A set of secondary materials which provide additional information to the user and are recommended to be used, but not mandatory
In order to share experiences and introduce your comments, an open Forum is available
You might check the knowledge acquired by answering the “Final Test”, to be completed after learning the contents. Also, you are suggested to provide feedback on the e-learning by means of the “Quality Test”, which allows us to improve the training.
Are you interested? You might start immediately with the registration process, by clicking on the following link and selecting the language, and creating your new account: http://escansa.org/?lang=en and by using the attached “Register and use platform manual”
If you have any questions or comments, contact us at: [email protected], [email protected].
More information about ICCEE project: https://iccee.eu.
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Please fill out this ONLINE FORM to apply for a conference grant.
The deadline for applications is the 3rd of September 2021!
]]>This year in order to comply with COVID-19 restrictions, the conference was held online combined with on-site presentations from RTU scientists. Altogether we had participants from 24 countries, including South Korea, India, Mexico, also representing different universities from Latvia.
During the first two days of the Conference, scientists gave their presentations on their latest research and results. Following they had the opportunity to test their strength of generating new ideas and use of their knowledge in the creative group event “Apple Garden” and tried to build models to solve institutional capacity issues.
We thank everyone for their participation and shared energy during CONECT 2021!
We sincerely hope to see you also next year on May 11 – 13, 2022 at the CONECT 2022!
More information at CONECT website
]]>Processing of resources and production of innovative products is essential to get and use knowledge in cleaner production, environmental technologies, energy efficiency, waste management, and other aspects, using resources effectively and reducing a negative impact on the environment. Implementation of bioeconomy is a key to self-sufficient and sustainable cities and regions. Bioeconomy is an essential part of the circular economy.
Bioeconomy defines the aspects of bioresource use and technological problems connected with the bioresource extraction and processing technologies and new product uses and eco-design. Participants will get to know raw bioresources, processing industries, technologies, innovations, and product eco-design within the summer school. The summer school participants will learn bioeconomy from A to Z by practical examples of specific local resources.
Other topicality of summer school will be connected with the introduction of research methodology in bioeconomy: data collection, processing and analysis of results using different computer models (multi-criteria analysis, different models of regression analysis, geographical information systems and system dynamics modelling).
The goal of the summer school is to teach participants how to mitigate climate change by implementing bioeconomy, sustainable use of bioresources and creating innovations and spreading the knowledge in their countries. The summer school participants will gain knowledge, contacts for further cooperation, practical experience, and self-confidence in the bioeconomy.
The programme includes workshops and lectures in:
- Climate Change Analysis and Possible Mitigation Mechanism Determination
- Sustainable Use of Biological Resources
- Creation of Innovative Products
- Usage of Environmental Technologies in Practice
- Research Methodology in Bioeconomy: Data Collection, Processing and Analysis.
Within the summer school will be an organized role game, which takes part in the second week of summer school from 05.07.-09.07.
Specific details:
- Where? Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia (Online)
- When? 28.06.–09.07.2021. from 9:00-15:00 at Riga time
- How long? 2 weeks
- The OUTCOME: in all summer school [certificate, 6 ECTS] and practical experience; only in summer school [attendence paper]
- !!! An application form is below.
In case any questions regarding registration and organisation issues occur, contact:
Jelena Pubule ([email protected]) or Lauma Zihare ([email protected]).
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Therefore, in the framework of the project CIC2030 (Climate Investment Capacity 2030) workshop is organized to bring together policy makers, project developers, researchers, and financiers to exchange on lessons learned and discuss future perspectives on energy efficiency project financing.
We invite you to join the online seminar “Financing Energy Efficiency in Baltic countries: lessons learned and future outlook”, which will take place on February 23, from 14:00 to 16:30 on the online Zoom platform. Working language: English
Participation in the seminar is free of charge, please apply in advance by filling in the registration form below. After registration, you will be sent a link to the Zoom platform.
The online seminar takes place in the framework of the project “Climate Policy Investment Capacity 2030: Investment Dynamics of Energy and Climate Projects & Structure for Achieving Energy and Climate 2030 Goals”.
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We invite you to join the online seminar “Solutions to reduce energy costs in companies”, which will take place on December 11, from 14:00 to 16:00 on the online Zoom platform. Working language: Latvian.
Participation in the seminar is free of charge, please apply in advance by filling in the registration form below. After registration, you will be sent a link to the Zoom platform.
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The online seminar takes place in the framework of the project “Climate Policy Investment Capacity 2030: Investment Dynamics of Energy and Climate Projects & Structure for Achieving Energy and Climate 2030 Goals”.
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During the conference Best Paper Awards were given for two papers:
Best Senior Paper: Spatial Economic Modeling of the Waste-driven Agricultural Biogas in Lubelskie Region, Poland by Andrea Bartoli, Nosra Ben Fradj, Malgorzata Galczynska, Anna Jedrejek, Stelios Rozakis, Kesheng Shu
Best Junior Paper: Bioeconomy investments: market considerations by Lauma Zihare, Dagnija Blumberga
The next CONECT 2021 conference will take place in Riga, Latvia from May 12-14, 2021. Below is link to the CONECT website where we will add important dates of the next conference and the new formatting rules of articles.
More information at CONECT website
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