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
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.
• What is Radical design? Everything needs to become Radical?
• What is Boundary crossing Creativity?
• Building bridges between countries and people – how to implement it in design communities?
• How to co-create over boundaries (social, economical, technological, cultural, environmental, political or legal)?
• How does serendipity take place in virtual collaborations?
• Creative Collaboration within multidisciplinary and multicultural teams?
• Creative Solutions for Global challenges – synchronous and asynchronous cocreation?
• Creativity within the universe – leaving the earth?
Welcome!
Background:
As part of the European Design Upgrade (EDU) initiative, Urban Mill in collaboration with KFund and Creative Brussels organized an Online hackathon on 28-30th of August, 2020. EDU programme included three stages starting with online courses from mid-June onwards, leading to a hackathon at the end of August, after which, the best teams received an opportunity to get visibility during Dutch Design Week in October, 2020.
We have a pleasure to invite you to High-level Webinar of Baltic Sea Region – Towards Sustainable Economic Transformation over Zoom on the 28th of September 2020 with Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight, European Commission and Markku Markkula, Vice President, European Committee of the Regions.
The event focuses on the future opportunities of the Baltic Sea Region in order to speed-up sustainable economic transformation and implementing SDGs, while contributing to the post-crisis’s recovery and resilience.
We attempt to look behind the scenes at how regions embed Smart Specialisation Strategies in their regional, economic, and spatial development policies. By working with nine regions in each of the Baltic Sea Region countries we have intended to get an insight into how Smart Specialisation Strategy affects the future prospects of the regions. During the event a new book ‘Sustainable Baltic Sea Region – towards Economic Transformation by Smart Specialisation Strategies’ will be launched.
The Webinar agenda addresses these main topics (timing EEST):
10.00 Opening remarks
Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight, European Commission
Paula Lehtomäki, Secretary General, Nordic Council of Ministers
Markku Markkula, Former President, European Committee of Regions (CoR)
Hosted by Taina Tukiainen, Professor, Aalto University
10. 30 Policy discussion on ‘Sustainable Economic Transformation’ in the Baltic Sea Region
Alessandro Rainoldi, Head of Unit, Territorial Development, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Reinar Kneifel-Haverkamp, Director General for European and International Affairs, Ministry of Finance
and European Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, Germany
Sille Kraam, Director, Economic Development in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia
Gunars Ansins, Deputy Chair, Development and Cooperation of Liepāja City Council, CoR Member, Latvia
Steen Bording Andersen, Aarhus City Council Member, CoR Member, Denmark
Sari Rautio, Vice Chair of the Board, Association of Finnish Municipalities, CoR Member, Finland
Moderated by Markku Markkula, Former CoR President, President of the Board, Helsinki Region
11.20 Launch of the Book ‘Sustainable BSR Towards Economic Transformation by Smart Specialisation Strategies’
11.50 Panel on ‘Leadership & Innovation – Future invented with Youth’ in Baltic Sea Region
Inge Relph, Executive Director, Global Choices
Wiktor Sawaryn, Dansk Youth Council & Jonna Rönn, Finnish Youth Agenda 2030
Satu Haapanen, Chair of Education and Culture Board, City of Oulu, CoR Member
Tomasz Szymczak, CEO, Inkubator STARTER
Marianne Ping-Huan, Professor, Aarhus University
Moderated by Taina Tukiainen, Professor, Aalto University, Finland
12.40 Introduction to “BSR Strategic Instruments for Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Capacity Building”
12.50 Experienced Insights – How to Move Forward to Actions
Registration for the webinar is open and is possible through the above-mentioned website or directly here: https://webropol.com/s/bsrconference. Deadline for the registration is 25.9.2020. Please, register as soon as possible.
Feel free to forward this invitation to the interested experts in your own region.
We warmly welcome you to the webinar!
Taina Tukiainen
On the behalf of the organizing Committee
Professor, Aalto University
Creative Otaniemi Talks
Friday 28.8.2020 12:00 – 14:00 EEST Virtual Espoo day event in Zoom
Join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81382473540 Zoom Waiting room opens at 11:45 If Meeting ID is asked, type: 813 8247 3540 Inspirational talks about creativity & sustainability in Otaniemi, in the very heart of Espoo Innovation Garden. Join and find out what already happens and what will happen in the future!
Virtual presentations in Zoom by the City Espoo, Aalto University and creative designers followed by the opening session of the Hackathon for creatives and startups from Espoo, Kiev and Brussel.
Programme
12:00 – 13:00 TALKS ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, CREATIVITY AND CO-CREATION
Opening, Kari Mikkelä, Executive Producer, Urban Mill Innovation Platform
Co-creative Communities and Ecosystems in Sustainable Espoo, Markku Markkula, Chair of the Board at City of Espoo
Aalto University Campus – Creative and Sustainable Landscapes, Aapo Pihkala, Project Manager, Campus Development, Aalto University
The event is produced by Urban Mill Innovation Platform in collaboration with the City of Espoo, Aalto University and European Design Upgrade (EDU) programme co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Background: European Design Upgrade (EDU) is launched for a community of designers from Ukraine, Belgium, and Finland. Participants of the project will be able to implement their unique concepts and present them at the international level.
The first ever virtual Summer Celebration with Otaniemi startups, creatives and sustainability professionals was a refreshing dive into Espoo innovation ecosystem scene.
The event was arranged on June 11 in Zoom and broadcasted from Urban Mill, in the heart of Espoo Innovation Garden at Aalto University campus. It attracted 170 participants to learn and discuss about collaboration in the Otaniemi innovation ecosystem. The recording can be watched on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlAD5KCmaM&t=1s
The celebration began with a musical performance by Retuperän WBK, the legendary Fire Brigade Band of technology students from Aalto University.
In 2018 the City of Espoo was nominated the most intelligent city in the world. Mayor Jukka Mäkelä emphasized that the point is not to be the most intelligent city but to be the most intelligent community.
“That means that we have to do it together with our citizens, but also it is very important for to the city of Espoo to collaborate with Aalto University, research centers like VTT and with the companies. Collaboration is the key word” he continued.
Keynote speakers were Jyri Engeström, Partner & Co-Founder at Yes VC and Patrick Shulist, Assistant Professor of Sustainability in Business in Aalto University.
The celebration ended with artistic performances by aerial artist Ilona Jäntti and RWBK student orchestra.
The whole event was streamed on Start North’s Youtube channel for everybody to experience. You can watch the recording of the event from here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlAD5KCmaM
Watch, listen and enjoy the artistic performances recorded in the event:
Virtual networking platform Deal Room was offered 11.-12.6.2020 for all participants to make virtual 1-1 meetings with other participants before and after the celebrations in Zoom. Over 200 persons registered to this platform, which was also the place where to register to the celebrations and for startups and innovation enablers to set up their virtual booths.
The event was organized by Urban Mill, the City of Espoo, Business Espoo, 6Aika Ecosystems of Growth project, EDU programme, Aalto Startup Center, VTT and Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK in collaboration with Start North, Innovation House Finland, Crazy Town and Otaniemi startup communities.
Miten kaikki muovi kiertää: Aika: 2.4. 9.00 – 10.00 Liitythän mukaan jo klo 8.45. Esitykset alkavat klo 9.00
Paikka: Zoom etäyhteys, linkki toimitetaan ilmoittautuneille
Koronatilanteen vuoksi järjestämme tilaisuuden Zoom-etäyhteydellä. Ilmoittaudu mukaan tai vahvista aiempi ilmoittautumisesi alla olevasta linkistä. Zoom-kutsulinkki lähetetään vain ilmoittautuneille.
Pääkaupunkiseudulla vain kuusi prosenttia muovista kiertää uudelleen materiaaliksi. Tavoitteena on nostaa muovijätteen kierrätysaste 60 prosenttiin. Onnistuminen tässä saisi aikaan päästövähenemän, joka vastaa noin 80 000 pääkaupunkilaisen henkilökohtaisia CO2 päästöjä.
Haluatko sinä olla mukana rakentamassa tätä konkreettista muutosta kiertotalouteen?
Tervetuloa aamukahveille kuulemaan lisää kokonaisuudesta ja verkostoitumaan eri toimijoiden kanssa. Teoista ja rooleista keskustelemassa muun muassa Espoon kaupunginjohtaja Jukka Mäkelä, Fortumin Kierrätys- ja jäteliiketoiminnan johtaja Kalle Saarimaa ja Lassila & Tikanojan yhteiskuntasuhdejohtaja Jorma Mikkonen.
Smart & Clean – säätiö on talven aikana kerännyt dataa, analysoinut sitä ja tunnistanut vaikuttavimmat teot muovijätteen vähentämiseen, kierrätyksen lisäämiseen ja uusiomuovituotteiden kysynnän kasvattamiseen. Avainkumppanit ovat sitoutuneet kunnianhimoiseen tavoitteeseen – pakkausmuovin kierrätysaste nostetaan 50 prosenttiin ja muovin kokonaiskierrätysaste 20 prosenttiin vuoteen 2025 mennessä. Tule kuulemaan ja keskustelemaan, miten tämä on mahdollista saavuttaa sekä miten sinä voisit tähän vaikuttavaan työhön osallistua.
Ohjelma:
Miten tehdään systeemisiä ilmastoratkaisuja? Esimerkki: Kaikki muovi kiertää Iina Oilinki ja Jaana Pelkonen, Smart & Clean -säätiö.
Keskustelu:
Kaikki muovi kiertää: miten toteuttaa vaikuttavat teot – kuka tekee mitä? Jukka Mäkelä, kaupunginjohtaja Espoo Kalle Saarimaa, liiketoimintajohtaja Fortum Jorma Mikkonen, yhteiskuntasuhdejohtaja Lassila & Tikanoja
Loput keskustelijat varmistuvat myöhemmin
Tapahtuman tiedot:
Rekisteröidy: Avoin ilmoittautumislinkki
Tilaisuuden nimi: Miten toteutetaan muovin suljettu kierto
Paikka: Zoom-etäyhteys
Osoite: Zoom-kutsulinkki lähetetään vain ilmoittautuneille
Aika: 2.4.20209:00 – 10:00
Viimeinen ilmoittautumispäivä: 31.3.2020 12:00
Urban Mill – Building IntenCity! 