How to approach climate neutrality step by step and smartly integrate renewable resources? In the seminar, we will look for answers by delving into the synergies of wind and hydrogen, as well as getting to know best practice examples from the Baltic Sea region and discussing the latest policy trends.
We will offer an insight into innovative technologies, current events in the field of emissions and emissions trading, as well as the “hottest” topics that are currently important for municipalities and ministries.
Additionally, there will be an opportunity to get acquainted with the renewable energy transition roadmap and participate in a practical workshop, where we will try out innovative planning platforms for developing local energy strategies.
Participation in the seminar is free of charge, but the number of places is limited! Please register for the event by October 2 here: https://forms.office.com/e/svesRsY832
The seminar language is English, the workshop is in Latvian.
| Time | CONTENT |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Registration |
| 10:30 – 10:40 | Seminar opening |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Wind and Hydrogen Synergy: Pathways to a Sustainable Future, prof. Dagnija Blumberga, Riga Technical University |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Liepāja Municipality’s Development Path towards 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030, Karlis Beihmanis, Liepaja Municipality |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | The Tomelilla Example: A Municipal Perspective on RES Deployment and Tool Application, Ellen Boije af Gennäs Erre, Tomelilla minicipality |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | The Development Journey of Kuldīga Municipality, Agate Zirne, Kuldiga municipality |
| Break | |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Emission trading system for buildings, road transport, and small industry (ETS2): How will we manage it together? Lelde Vistarte, Ministry of Climate and Energy |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Roadmap for renewable energy transition in BSR municipalities, Per-Johan Wik, Sustainable Business Hub |
| Workshop for municipalities* | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Hands-on Workshop: Exploring the EnergyEquilibrium and CommitClimate Platforms, Alīna Safronova, Zane Pīpkalēja and Dace Lauka |
*in Latvian language
Seminar is organized within project Energy Equilibrium and CommitClimate, financed by Interreg Baltic Sea Region program.
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.
]]>Place: RTU Scientific Library, Paula Valdena street 5, 2nd floor, Conference room 2.12A
TREASoURcE is part of the EU’s Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) that seeks to support the implementation of circular economy solutions across Europe’s cities and regions. TREASoURcE project aims to initiate systemic change by developing technologies and systemic circular economy (CE) solutions in cities and regions for currently underutilized or unused plastic waste, end-of-life electric vehicle batteries and bio-based side and waste streams. Implementing these solutions together with companies, societies (including citizens, consumers, communities, and regional actors) and experts in the field is expected to significantly increase product and material circulation in the Nordic and Baltic Sea Regions.
WHO
We welcome local stakeholders from Latvia, like municipality and regional representatives, industry dealing or interested in these streams, as well as supportive stakeholders like policymakers and funding parties to take part in the interactive open discussion on identifying local needs, challenges, and motives to take up developed open access systemic circular economy solutions. In addition, all those who want to share their ideas on ways of developing the circular economy and modern thinking about recycling waste in an environmentally friendly way are welcome.
Attention: The number of participants is limited. The event takes place in English.
Please register by 18.05. via this link: https://forms.gle/mCgBGiqCcK9U1HfN8
WHY
Workshop aims at gathering insights on what kind of factors would have to be taken into consideration locally when circular solutions would be implemented in Latvia and specially in Riga area as well as identify your interests, needs and possible challenges regarding plastic waste recycling, utilization of bio-based side and waste streams for biogas and composting, as well as repurposing electric vehicle batteries as stationary energy storage systems.
We’ll be hosting three parallel sessions for each of the value chains to discuss the developed circular solutions in more detail and identifying potential for further uptake and replication. You can choose the topic that interests you the most.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
Before the workshop you can watch three presentations about the challenges of the plastic, bio-based waste, and battery value chains identified in Nordic countries.
- Plastic waste recycling – Mikko Myrä
- Bio-based side and waste streams for biogas and circular nutrients – Tran Ngo
- Repurposing electric vehicle batteries for energy storage applications – Nina McDougall
Link to the recording: https://treasource.eu/the-first-treasource-results-discussed-in-a-webinar/
- 13:00 Introduction (Pekka Niskasaari, project coordinator, Forum Virium Helsinki)
- Purpose of the workshop
- TREASoURcE in a nutshell
- Practicalities of the workshop
- 13:30 State-of-the-art of circular economy in Latvia (SPEAKER – Julia Gušča)
- 14:00
- Introduction to demonstrations
- Discussion on possibility and mapping activity on demonstrations and replication – potential, interest, needs, challenges
- Parallel workshop sessions: Plastics
- Plastics
- Batteries
- Bio-based side & waste streams
- 15:15 Presentation of results & group discussion
- 15:50 QA and wrap up
- 16:00 Event concludes
For further enquiries and information:
Oskars Švedovs [email protected]
Project is coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Project Website: TREASoURcE – Territorial and regional demonstrations of circular systemic solutions
]]>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!
]]>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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Rainis, “The Golden Horse”
In the energy sector in Latvia in recent years we can observe the implementation of new, innovative and thoughtful projects. One of the last of these is the initiative of “Salaspils Siltums” Ltd. to start using solar energy in district heating. However, at the very core, we are still living the practice and thinking of 10-20 years or even earlier, which has resulted in the energy sector not developing as it could. No one can deny that in Latvia we still have huge potential in this sector that we are not using. Is this why we can also call Latvia “a land of unused opportunities”? Yes, we can.
Over the past 5 years, Riga Technical University, in cooperation with a number of important partners, has been working on modeling and analyzing the energy sector, developing various financial instruments in the energy sector and putting them into practice. A number of lessons have been learned during these years. One is that a great many of us do not want to meet only the energy requirements of Brussels, as is often the case, but do so because we need it ourselves.
It is time to fundamentally change our thinking and approach to the development of the energy sector, as Rainis already aptly wrote 110 years ago “‘What changes, endures”.
If this issue is important to you and we have ideas on how the energy sector could change and how we can influence it together and individually, we invite you to participate in a conference organized by RTU with partners “Is it time for changes in the Latvian energy sector?”, which will take place on Wednesday, November 27, at RTU Scientific Library, Paula Valdena Street 5, Riga. Registration from 9:15.
Participation in the conference is free of charge, please register in advance by filling out the registration form below.
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