February 4 – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The UNIgreen International Conference ‘Building Partnerships between Academia, Industry and Community for the Green Transition: the Role of UNIgreen’ is taking place on 4 February at 15:00 CET in the Auditorium of Coimbra Business School, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, as part of the UNIgreen International Summit and Conference.
Here is the link to live stream the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju7-F9OKRn0
Programme
14:00 – 14:30
Registration
14:30 – 15:00
Welcome & Opening
Cândida Malça, President of Polytechnic University of Coimbra
Tomás Lorenzana, UNIGreen General Coordinator
Ana Cristina Perdigão, Diretora Nacional Agência Erasmus
15:00 – 15:50
Expert Lecture “Some Experiences on Building Partnerships between Academia, Industry and Community for the Energy Transition”
UNIgreen’s Guest Speaker
Carlos Henggeler Antunes
Full Professor at University of Coimbra and Director of INESC Coimbra
Carlos Henggeler Antunes holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (specialization in Optimization and Systems Theory) from the University of Coimbra (UC). He is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC, Director of the R&D institute INESC Coimbra, member of the coordination committee of the Energy for Sustainability Initiative at UC, and president of APDIO – the Portuguese Operational Research Society. His areas of interest include multi-objective optimization, meta-heuristics, multi-criteria analysis, bilevel optimization, energy systems and policies with focus on energy efficiency and demand response. He is co-author of the book “Multiobjective Linear and Integer Programming“ (Springer, 2016) and co-editor of the book “Energy and Behaviors” (Academic Press, 2019). He is senior editor of Energy Policy and editor of the EURO Journal on Decision Processes.
15:50 – 17:30
Roundtable Discussion on the topic of “Green Transition Within Academia-Industry-Community Partnerships”
Conference Moderator
Joana Loureiro, Coimbra City Council
Conference Speakers
- CoLAB FORESTWISE – José Gaspar, CTO – Chief Technology Officer
- ECLECTIC Project – Chiara Pellegrini
- Coimbra LLM – SHIFT COIMBRA – Ângela Fernandes, Project Manager SHIFT Coimbra
- Portugal – FAIRe – European Students’ Union – Daniel Aragão – Chairman of the Executive Committee of FAIRe Portugal
17:00 – 18:30
Post Conference Cocktail at “Beirão d’Honra”
