Featuring: Jussi Nokkala | Director, Sustainability & Climate change leader | PwC Finland Tommi Ekholm | Research professor, Climate change mitigation | Finnish Meteorological Institute Kimmo Vilske | Partner, Energy utilities & resources leader | PwC Finland
In this event, we will review approaches to supporting decision making for reaching net zero carbon outcomes, focusing on marginal abatement cost curves (MACC). Jussi Nokkala from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) will consider how corporate approaches to climate change have shifted from climate reporting to climate reduction plans. He will then explain the MACC approach at PwC can support these carbon emissions reductions.
Tommi Ekholm from the Finnish Meteorological Institute will then give a commentary on MACC methodology from an academic perspective and how this can be used to support policymaking for a net zero carbon future. After this overview of MACC from corporate and academic perspectives,
Kimmo Vilske from PwC will explain the concrete outcomes of corporate emission reduction plans, looking at resulting projects and transactions for low carbon energy systems. Overall the event will inform the audience on the tools to support decision making for a net zero future, their application in different contexts, and the resulting outcomes.
This event will be held as a Zoom webinar. Register here.
We look forward to seeing you online on January 19th
Hosted by:
Prof Fabricio Oliveira, Systems Analysis Laboratory, Aalto University
Dr Sam Cross, Manager – Energy, Aalto Networking Platform
Are you interested in climate change, and willing to learn about it from a systemic point of view?
Aalto and three other universities are again organizing a multi-disciplinary course SystemsChange.now on how to apply systems thinking in the context of climate change,in periods III-IV, 2022. The course offers an introduction to systems analysis and mathemathical modelling, investigation of climate models, and study of human systems via a negotiation simulation.
This master-level, 5 credits course is held as an online course 19.1.-23.3.2021 and co-hosted by teachers from four universities (Aalto, Helsinki, Tampere and Turku universities). The course is open for all students regardless their study background. SystemsChange.now is part of Climate University courses.
Please find more information on the course below and register in Sisu by January 10th.
Seminaarissa esitellään syksyn aikana Espoossa alkaneiden robottibussikokeilujen ja -selvitysten tuloksia sekä keskustellaan robottibussien tulevaisuudesta kaupunkiympäristössä. Robottibussikokeiluissa on selvitetty, miten automaattisen liikenteen tunnettuutta voidaan edistää, kuinka robottibusseilla voidaan parantaa joukkoliikenteen kustannustehokkuutta ja miten robottibussit vaikuttavat joukkoliikenteen esteettömyyteen. Lisätietoa robottibussikokeiluista löydät täältä.
Robottibussiseminaari – näkökulmia liikenteen tulevaisuuteen -tapahtuma on osa 6Aika: Vähähiilinen liikkuminen liikennehubeissa -hanketta.
Ohjelma:
8:30–9:00 Aamiaistarjoilu
9:00 Tervetulosanat
Visio ja kehityspolku: Mari Päätalo, Espoon kaupunki
Robottibussikokeilut ja selvitykset toteuttaneiden Ramboll Finland Oy:n, WSP Finland Oy:n, Roboride Oy:n ja Sitowise Oyj:n puheenvuorot.
Keskustelua
AutoMod-hankkeen terveiset: Kati Borgers, Espoon kaupunki
12:00 Tilaisuus päättyy. Mahdollisuus jäädä lounaalle verkostoitumaan ja jatkamaan keskustelua.
Ilmoittaudu mukaan tästä linkistä. Toivomme ilmoittautumisia 18.11.2021 mennessä.
Kutsun saa välittää eteenpäin. Ohjelmaa tarkennetaan lähempänä tapahtumaa. Mahdollisia lisätietoja tilaisuudesta saa allekirjoittaneelta tai Tuomas Kiuru: tuomas.kiuru@espoo.fi, +358 40 552 2646.
Lämpimästi tervetuloa mukaan!
Minna Salaspuro projektikoordinaattori, vähäpäästöinen ja älykäs liikenne minna.salaspuro@espoo.fi 040 636 8978
”Järjestämme kaikille avoimen robottibussin esittelytilaisuuden Matinkylässä kauppakeskus Iso Omenan edessä sunnuntaina 31.10. klo 15–18. Robottibussi on nähtävillä Markkinakadun puoleisen sisäänkäynnin ulkopuolella.
Samana päivänä järjestetään myös vastaava tapahtuma Espoon keskuksen kauppakeskus Espoontorin ulkopuolella klo 10–13.
Esittelytilaisuudessa yleisö pääsee tutustumaan robottibussiin ja kysymään siihen liittyviä kysymyksiä. Robottibusseja esittelee yrityskumppanimme Roboride Oy. Robottibusseilla ei tilaisuuksissa ajeta.
Tilaisuudet ovat osa syksyllä alkaneita robottibussikokeiluitamme, joilla edistetään automaattista ja vähähiilistä liikkumista. Espoon kaupunki on sitoutunut olemaan hiilineutraali vuonna 2030, joten hyvin palveleva ja kustannustehokas joukkoliikennejärjestelmä on meille välttämätön. Tulevaisuuden tavoitteena on tehdä robottibusseista pysyvä osa kaupunkien joukkoliikennettä.”
Mark Wednesday 14 October 2021 from 13:00 to 15:00 (EEST) on your calendar and participate online! See the exciting event programme and register here.
What is Mökki?
Come and hear more about the new learning environment that will change the world. You can also come up with ideas and participate in designing content and programmes for Mökki that can help many people. Mökki has been developed to quickly take the latest knowledge and expertise to where it is needed – or better: Mökki helps create interaction between different actors in order to learn and develop something new. Mökki has been created to promote sustainable development. New technologies will also play a role in future learning environments and development.
Mökki means a variety of things. Mökki is still in its fledgling stages. Come and help it grow. It may lead you to new and incredible pathways. Come and leave your own mark on Mökki!
5G Mökki is a place to:
enjoy yourself and do what you want
drop by, experience things, find new interests
meet people you know and new people from your own campus, and other campuses and companies
learn quickly about 5G and other new technologies, and apply them immediately
gain insights and invent something new
present demos, projects and campaigns, and hold quick info sessions.
More officially 5G Mökki:
is a new tool for bringing and creating fast-paced information and content for universities and companies. It encourages people to develop their knowledge and expertise related to new technologies, such as 5G, AI, VR/AR, Blockchain, and helps companies and other organisations to deploy the new knowledge quickly and flexibly.
connects universities/universities of applied sciences, companies and other organisations more closely, in direct and immersive interaction.
offers companies an easy and fast way to find new technology experts and to launch development projects.
With the help of Mökki, companies and other organisations gain a competitive advantage and enhance their productivity through the latest technology. This, in turn, encourages the employment of new experts and successful career and entrepreneurship paths.
The Mökki concept is based on the work of a number of leading technology professionals and top companies and universities.
The first 5G campuses in the world are Nokia Corporation Garage, Espoo, Aalto University Design Factory, Espoo; Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Hämeenlinna; South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk), Kouvola and Mikkeli; Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Vantaa. The Mökki network is currently expanding nationally and internationally.
Kiitämme kaikkia jäseniämme, yhteistyökumppaneitamme, ja asiakkaitamme upeista vuosista 2013 – 2021, jotka olemme saaneet jakaa kanssanne Urban Mill –yhteistoimintatilassa Betonimiehenkuja 3:ssa. Näistä vuosista voisi kirjoittaa tuhansia tarinoita. Ja tarinoita tullaan vielä kokoamaankin! Vaikka yhteinen luomuksemme, Otaniemen rouhein innovaatiopaja, alueen yhteinen ”olohuone” siirtyy nyt historiaan, uutta luova yhteisömme ja sen henki eivät poistu mihinkään. Ne ponnistavat edelleen Otaniemen innovaatiokujalta tulevaisuuteen uuden monipaikkaisen ja hybridin palvelumallimme tukemana ja siivittäminä. Vuoden lopulla juhlistamme sekä mennyttä että tulevaa järjestämällä innovaatiokujallaGet together – tilaisuuden kaikille nykyisille ja entisille mylläreille, joten pysy kuulolla!
We would like to thank all our members, partners, and customers for the wonderful years 2013 – 2021, which we have been able to share with you at the Urban Mill co-working and co-creation platform at Betonimiehenkuja 3. Thousands of stories could be written about these years. And we promise to collect these stories later! Although the roughest innovation space & “living room” in Otaniemi, co-created by all of us together, is now going down in history, our innovative community and its spirit will not go away. They will continue to strive from Otaniemi Innovation Alley to the future, supported and driven by our new multi-location and hybrid service model. At the end of the year, we will celebrate both the past and the future by organizing a Get together event for all current and former millers at Otaniemi Innovation Alley, so stay tuned!
Terveisin / with Best Regards
Kari, Lars, Marjukka, Tomi ja muu Myllyn väki!
TIEDOTE YHTEISTYÖKUMPPANEILLEMME, JÄSENILLEMME JA ASIAKKAILLEMME – ANNOUNCEMENT TO OUR PARTNERS, MEMBERS AND CUSTOMERS 1.10.2021
Palvelumallimme muuttuessa siirrämme kotipesämme pihan yli naapurimme ja pitkäaikaisen yhteistyökumppanimme Aalto Design Factoryn tiloihin. Uusi osoitteemme on 1.10.2021 lähtien:
Urban Mill Innovation Platform Betonimiehenkuja 5 C 02150 Espoo
Siirrymme uuteen palvelumalliin, koska se vahvistaa mahdollisuuksiamme keskittää voimavaramme entistä paremmin kumppaneidemme ja asiakkaidemme palvelemiseen strategisella painopistealueellamme, joka on edelleen Creative Sustainable City.
Muutoksen taustalla on myös koronapandemia, joka pakotti meidät muuttumaan, sillä kokoontumisrajoitusten myötä oman ison kohtaamistilan operointi ja ylläpito ei enää ollut taloudellisesti kestävällä pohjalla. Business Finlandin myöntämä koronarahoitus mahdollisti uusien palvelujen kehittämisen ja pilotoinnin 2020-2021.
UUSI PALVELUMALLIMME PÄHKINÄNKUORESSA
Välitämme Otaniemi-Keilaniemi innovaatioekosysteemin tuottamaa tietoa ja osaamista alueen ulkopuolelle. Fasilitoimme alueen osaajien ja alueen osaamista tarvitsevien toimijoiden yhteisten kehityshankkeiden syntyä sekä fyysisesti että digitaalisesti.
Tuemme asiakkaitamme virtuaalitapahtumien järjestämisessä, tuotamme avointa sisältöä yhdessä kumppaniemme kanssa, järjestämme hybridivierailuja alueelle ja fasilitoimme toiminnastamme kumpuvien uusien virtuaalitiimien syntyä ja työskentelyä.
Tavoitteenamme on kertoa kattavasti alueen moninaisista mahdollisuuksista, parantaa alueen tutkimus-, kehitys- ja kokeilutoiminnan globaali tarjoutuvuutta ja edistää näin erityisesti kestävää kehitystä tukevien ja luovaa osaamista hyödyntävien uusien yritysten ja yhteisöjen syntyä.
Toivomme, että uusi konseptimme palvelee myös sinua ja organisaatiotasi. Ota yhteyttä ja kerro olisiko sinulla jo jotain tarpeita mielessäsi?
HUOM! Muutoksen myötä olemme luopuneet omien tapahtumatilojen operoinnista ja ylläpidosta Betonimiehenkuja 3 E -kiinteistössä. Voit tehdä aikamatkan ”vanhan” Urban Millin tiloihin alla olevasta linkistä, joka vie yhteistyökumppanimme Aalto-yliopiston Mittauksen ja mallinnuksen instituutin (MeMo) viime joulukuussa tekemään Urban Millin virtuaalimalliin: https://modus3djournal.fi/demot/urban-mill/ tai selailemalla Dutch Design Week 2020 esittelyämme: https://www.thinglink.com/video/1377992839434076161.
Honey harvest Sunday 🍯! The Test Site’s little workers finished their part for the season and the produce is ready. We spent a couple of hours at the Urban Mill on 22.8.2021 doing the honey harvesting.
The Test Site Honey started off as part of a project at the ”How to change the world” course about 2 years ago. The project spun off to the Test Site adding to the biodiversity of the area 🌺. The garden group at the site planted plenty of flowers for the bees to pollinate so we have high hopes for some delicious honey 💛.
As the new school year is about to start, we are planning on setting up a stand at the Test-Site where you can fill your own jar. Follow Aalto Test-Site on Instagram for the latest announcements: https://www.instagram.com/aaltotestsite/
To whom? – Urban Energy Ecosystem actors Objectives: – To accelerate Urban Energy Ecosystems Services uptake – Strengthen collaboration within and with Otaniemiinnovation ecosystem
Join the event to discuss this hot topic together with industry experts, researchers, entrepreneurs and policy makers. In the event you will also hear some of the latest findings from novel Smart Energy research. The event is free of charge.
14:00 OPENING SESSION – SUSTAINABLE ENERGY CHALLENGES?
Pasi Laitala, Director of Sustainable development at City of Espoo
Janne Laine, Vice President, Innovation, at Aalto University
Erja Turunen, Executive Vice President, Smart industry and energy systems at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Jari Jokinen, CEO, Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK
14:10 TOPICAL URBAN ENERGY RESEARCH
CO2 emission reductions with sector coupling of electricity and district heat, Matti Lehtonen, Professor, Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering at Aalto University
Aalto Center for Autonomous Systems and Aalto Autonomous Car, Ville Kyrki, Associate Professor, Intelligent Mobile Machines, Aalto University
Practical tools to solve the last mile challenge of decarbonisation, Antti Arasto, Vice President, Industrial energy and hydrogen at VTT
14:40 FUTURE ENERGY SERVICE ECOSYSTEMS – KEY QUESTIONS
Helena Sarén, Head of Smart Energy at Business Finland and Chairperson at Nordic Energy Research
Ecosystems: from Value Creation to Value Capture, Sari Kola, Entrepreneur and co-author of Ecosystem Handbook, Innovaatiotohtori.fi
15:00 EXEMPLARY ENERGY ECOSYSTEM PILOTS
Aalto Works Bloc: low-carbon heating and cooling system, Antti Säynäjoki, Development Manager, Aalto University Campus & Real Estate
How to build sustainable and resilient energy networks, Simo Säynevirta, Vice President, Digital Lead, ABB
LuxTurrim5G ecosystem for Smart Urban Energy, Juha Salmelin, Ecosystem Leader at Nokia
Sustainable Energy Positive & Zero Carbon Communities (SPARCS): Elina Wanne, Development manager, Sustainability, City of Espoo
15:30 SMART URBAN ENERGY – EMERGING ROADMAPS TO 2035? DIALOGUE WITH CITIES
City of Espoo • Tampereen kaupungin kasvupalvelut • Oulu Startup Incubator Oy • EnergyVaasa • Lappeenranta Greenreality
16:10 VIRTUAL PARALLEL SITE VISITS TO ADVANCED APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS
Smart Otaniemi 2.0, hosted by Sanna Öörni, Co-Creation Manager at VTT and Tatu Koljonen, Executive in Residence at Aalto University
Sustainable City of Espoo – Building ecosystems together, hosted by Mari Päätalo, Development Manager, Sustainability, City of Espoo
Aalto EIT Services, hosted by EIT experts and project managers Zoltan Javor and Petri Allekotte
Aalto Startup Center’s Ecosystem, Marika Paakkala, Head of Aalto Startup Center
TEK – Community of Professionals, hosted by Jussi-Pekka Teini, Engineering Sustainability at Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK
16:40 PITCHES ON SMART HEATING SOLUTIONS
Introduction by Samuel Cross, Manager for Energy, Aalto Networking Platform
Clean Heat Otaniemi challenge
Books like it Hot! Tony Salomaa, M.Sc. student, Aalto University
SolarVenue – Heat in the moment, Doctoral student Tero Koivunen, M.Sc. Irina Safonova, and M.Sc. student Abhishek Dahiya, Aalto University
Helsinki Energy Challenge – Beyond Fossils, Tomi J. Lindroos, Senior scientist, VTT
17:00 CLOSING
INTERACTIVE BREAKOUT SESSIONS DURING THE EVENT
FACILITATORS: Sami Kazi, VTT and Elina Wanne, City of Espoo
With this event, free of charge, we want to get you access to new knowledge, practical experiences, contacts and collaboration opportunities. Not to forget new creative insights it may trigger!
The event is jointly organized by City of Espoo, 6Aika: Ecosystems of Growth-project, Business Espoo, Enter Espoo, Aalto University, Aalto Networking Platform, Aalto Startup Center, Aalto EIT Services, Aalto Design Factory, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Smart Otaniemi, Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK, Urban Mill Innovation Platform and CRESCENDO@CC project. Producer: Urban Mill Innovation Platform, Otaniemi, Betonimiehenkuja 3E, 02150 Espoo, Finland.
Biotechnology innovations for a circular bioeconomy – Harnessing the world’s underutilized waste streams with microbes
Microbes are well adapted to use various waste streams as feedstock to produce fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials. Using the tools of synthetic biology we can further enhance this capability in applications on an industrial scale.
We invite companies, students and researchers from all over the world to participate in the SynbioPower Pitch 2021. This year’s challenge is to find innovative ways to use biological feedstock and waste streams into added-value products, using the tools of synthetic biology and biotechnology.
We are looking for early and more mature ideas, startups and more mature companies to participate in the call (DL 10.6.). Simple and fast to apply.
We are studying volume and maturity of Finnish synbio/biotech deal flow. We are currently studying the possibility and making plans for a synbio-focused early fund. We need to show the deal flow to understand the feasibility. Therefore, please, apply so that we shall become aware of your case. (Do not mind the maturity of your case and do not disclose confidential information).
The top cases will be selected for coaching and mentoring and feedback and providing connections from June to Sep/Oct. The jury consists of among others Perttu Koskinen (Neste), Rasmus Pinomaa (Kemira), Miika Mähönen (HMD Global), Janne Mieck (European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Juha Lindfros (Lifeline Ventures). The jury will select finalists for the final. The final synbio power pitch will happen during Slush 1.12. You have a good opportunity to showcase your idea/company. There is also a small award of 5000 e for the winner of the final. We have also a few Slush tickets for 2.12. to share for the finalists. The final will be a hybrid one – remote & face-to-face (if possible). You can choose how you participate if you are selected among finalists.
Are you interested in being a pioneer in a global technology with only a limited number of experts available? What even is 5G and what can be done with it?
The leading summer course on 5G, is now available for experts of all fields, for free. The course is organised as a virtual intensive course on weekdays from 7 to 18 June 2021. The course is organised by Start North, Aalto University and the FITech Universities.
There is a global high demand for understanding in a revolutionary technology, as 5G will impact the society in a whole new way. The course is worth 6 ECTS credits, accredited by Aalto University. We aim for multidiscipline-based learning during the course, combining expertise of all fields. We hope to see you as a part of our course! Prior knowledge on 5G is not required. During the course, you will learn about 5G technology and key applications such as autonomous cars, extended reality content and artificial intelligence.
As part of the course, students work as groups towards a project work for a leading company or an organisation on how it can leverage 5G technology in its operations. The need is real, as 5G technology makes unprecedented performance and efficiency possible. A good project is not only technical, it should include user-centric design, business-orientation, sustainability measures and solutions to societal issues.
Urban Mill – Building IntenCity! 