Sessions overview Sustain 2017.
Every abstract in the Book of Abstracts has a unique # ID that is also used on the poster session map and in the session programs below.
The sessions are linked with the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) illustrated above and their targets (SDT) and indicators (SDI).
Topics Overview
The sessions cover the following broad topics
Sessions and Ideation overview
Session A: Marine Environment
- Challenges and solutions to the marine environment
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Excess nutrients, heavy metals and toxic substances, oil, marine litter including microplastics, invasive species, noise – the list of man-induced disturbances to the marine environment is long. While ca. 80% of the marine pollution originates from land, construction projects, oil exploration, off-shore aquaculture and shipping all contribute with different point-sources to ocean pollution. The effects of most pollutants in marine ecosystems are poorly known, particularly since different pollutants interact with each other, and with other stressors in marine ecosystems. In fact, there is no area in the ocean which would not be influenced by one or another human activity, with coastal areas as typical hotspots of multiple stressors. In this session we want to give an overview of contributions to a cleaner ocean, both concerning ecological effects of maritime or land-based pollution in marine ecosystems, and ways to mitigate them. |
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SDG14 Life below water
SDT 14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
SDT 14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
SDT 14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
SDT 14.a "Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology..."
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Morning Session
10-11.30
Room S12
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Invited Speakers:
- 10:00 Torkel G. Nielsen - The potential impact of microplastic in the marine Food web
Contributed talks from selected abstracts:
- 10:15 #A-1 Khuong V. Dinh and Torkel Gissel Nielsen. Effects of global warming and pollutants on marine copepods across space and time
- 10:30 #A-5 Kirstine Toxværd1, K.Van Dihn, M. Hjorth, T. G. Nielsen. Preliminary results: Deep sea oil spill in the Arctic – effects of pyrene on overwintering Calanus copepods
- 10:45 #A-4 Lisbeth M. Ottosen, I.M.G. Bertelsen, M. Charter, N. James. Circular Ocean. Environmental challenges related to waste fishing nets and innovative use as resource in fiber-reinforced concrete
- 11:00 #-A-3 Bastian Huwer, M. Kloppmann, C. Loots, C. van Damme, R. Nash, B. Bland, L. Ritchie. Spatial distribution, origin and source and sink areas of marine litter in the water column of the North Sea
- 11:15 #A-2 Jane Behrens, M. van Deurs E. A. F. Christensen. Will salinity hinder the ongoing northward dispersal of the invasive round goby into the oceanic North Sea?
Pitches and posters in glassalen:
- #A- 11 Bastian Huwer and Cornelia Jaspers - The invasive comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi in Europe and in the Baltic Sea: Invasion history, distribution, phenology and ecosystem impacts
- #A-9 Marja Koski, Colin Stedmon, Stefan Trapp. Ecological effects of scrubber water discharge on coastal plankton: Potential synergistic effects of contaminants reduce survival and feeding of the copepod Acartia tonsa
- #A-8 Sabrina Beer, A. Garm, B. Huwer, J. Dierking, T.G. Nielsen. No increase in marine microplastic concentration over the last three decades – A case study from the Baltic Sea
- #A-10 Kristiansen, M. H., Iversen N. H., Koski M., Trapp, S. Acute and semi-chronic toxicity of vanadium tested on copepods of the species Temora longicornis
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Room S06
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What new activities and projects can be formed in the field, based on roundtable discussion of the synergies in research on marine / maritime pollution, and potential gaps-in-knowledge from the perspective of authorities and industry.
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Session B: Bioeconomy |
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In this session, we invite industry actors to address opportunities and challenges in the bioeconomy and related technologies. How do we bring the Danish innovation and research solutions to the global, sustainable bioeconomy?
Biobased economy cuts across sectors and industries and includes production of renewable biological resources as well as the use of side-streams and rest products to produce high-value products within food, feed, biobased materials, chemicals, cosmetics, medicinal goods, energy. The precondition for the bioeconomy is new knowledge, new technologies, new business models, and new value chains.
We have invited representatives from the industries related to bioeconomy to tell about their strategies for the bioeconomy and address the challenge and opportunities for business and research related to bioeconomy. Session B is part of DTU’s sector development project on bioeconomy with representatives from DTU’s departments.
Nicolai Hansen is CEO of KMC and has the overall responsibility for KMC, which supplies potato-based ingredients - of the highest quality and with documented provenance - to food industry clients throughout the world. Nicolai is chairman of the Danish Agricultural & Food Council’s Research Board and one of the main contributors to the newly published Industry strategy from Danish Agricultural & Food Council and DI: "World Class Food innovation towards 2030 - Bringing Danish Research Solutions to the Global, Sustainable Food Production"
Michael Persson is Head of Bioenergy at Danish Industries Association (DI) and chairing the association’s work within bioeconomy and is member of the Danish Government’s newly established bioeconomy panel
Lene Lange is Professor at DTU Chemical Engineering and member of the Danish Government’s bioeconomy panel and a number of international bioeconomy panels. She is one of the initiators of the DTU Sector Development project on bioeconomy.
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SDG02 - Zero Hunger
SDG03 - Good health and well being
SDG07 - Affordable and clean energy
SDG15 - Life on land
SDT 2.3 ...double agricultural productivity and income of small-scale food producers...
SDT 2.4 "ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality"
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Morning Session
10-11.30
In Oticon
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Invited Speakers:
- Nicolai Hansen, CEO KMC. Chairman of Danish Agricultural Council’s Research Board
- Michael Persson, Head of Bioenergy at Confereration of Danish Industry, Member of the Danish Bioeconomy Panel
- Lene Lange, Professor, DTU Chemical Engineering, Member of the Danish Bioeconomy Panel·
- Asbjørn Børsting, CEO Dakofo, Chairman of The Danish Government’s Panel on Bioeconomy
- Tobias Lau, Entrepreneur, Beyond Coffee
Session B is for invited talks only. Talks and poster abstracts will be sent to session R about biorefining or F on Food.
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Join BF in Room S01
Join BR in Room S10 |
Two ideation workshops will be held related to session B:
- “New Health-related opportunities in the Bioeconomy?” Joint ideation of session B (Bioeconomy) & F (food)
Biomass conversion and Biorefinery Technologies were in its initial phase focused on biofuel; now focus is much broader, aiming at unlocking the full potentials of the biomass; not just the energy content; and ensuring to use each biomass component to its highest value. Thus the value cascading use of biomass includes conversion to food and feed ingredients, biobased chemicals, materials and fuels. Further the circular approach is adhered to by ensuring that nutrients are circled back to the soil. However, new research is now opening for that Biorefineries, converting plant, algal, fungal and animal derived biomass, can lead to production of products with specific Health benefits. The ideation session will expand on such, highly interesting new opportunities. It will be done in a cross disciplinary approach, involving DTU VET, DTU Food, DTU Nano and DTU KT/BioEng.
Chairs: Peter Rudahl and Pedro Moreno, Food and Lene Lange, Chemical Engineering
- “Emerging Technologies supporting Circular Bioeconomy” Joint ideation of sessions B (Bioeconomy) & R (biorefining)
Chair: Irini Angelidaki, DTU Environment. Contact Irini before the session if you think there are interesting topics to include in the group discussions.
15:00-15:05 Robert Arendal, Honorary member of NISA's Board of Directors, NISA (Nordic Initiative for Sustainable Aviation): Example of bioeconomy, focusing on challenges
15:05-15:10 Borja Valverde Pérez (DTU): Types of bioeconomy (agriculture; urban)
15:10-15:15 Irini Angelidaki (DTU) Introduction and division to groups of 4-6 participants
15:15:15:35 Group discussions
1) What is Bioeconomy – sustainability aspects
2) Challenges for bioeconomy
3) What biomasses we can consider for bioeconomy
4) Bioeconomy types (agricultural bioeconomy, urban bioconomy, holistic bioeconomy)
5) Which emerging technologies can contribute to bioeconomy
6) Suggested topics
15:35-15:55 Presentation of each groups outputs up. 3-4 mins for each group.
15:55-16:00 Final conclusion
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Committee |
The committee is formed by the initiators of the DTU sector development project
- Professor Lene Lange lenl@kt.dtu.dk, DTU Chemical Engineering (also part of biorefining session)
- Group leader Simon Bolwig sibo@dtu.dk, DTU Management Engineering
- Assistant professor Anne Nygaard Tanner anny@dtu.dk, DTU Management Engineering
- Chair: Anders Pall Skött anps@dtu.dk, DTU Office for Innovation and Sector Services, Project leader DTU Sector Development Project on Bioeconomy
Associated representatives from the DTU bioeconomy working group:
- DTU Bioengineering: Professor, Head of Department Bjarke Bak Christensen
- DTU Biosustain: Group Leader Solange I. Mussatto and researcher Sheila Ingemann Jensen
- DTU Compute: Professor, deputy director Jan Madsen
- DTU Environment: Professor Irini Angelidaki and Post doc Borja Valverde Pérez (also part of biorefining session)
- DTU FOOD: Associate professor Timothy John Hobly and Professor Charlotte Jacobsen
- DTU Mechanical Engineering: Associate professor Lasse Røngaard Clausen
- DTU Vet: Head of Life Science and Bioengineering Innovation Thomas Kledal (also part of health session)
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Session C: Catalysis |
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The increasing energy demands and impending global warming require us to urgently develop sustainable fuels and chemicals through fossil-free pathways. Conversion of simple molecules into valuable fuels and chemicals by means of chemical or electrochemical ways will play a critical role in the future. To improve reaction kinetics and selectivity, catalysts are indispensable. This session focuses on the design, synthesis, advanced characterization, and performance test of catalysts for important chemical, electrochemical reactions with industrial applications. |
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SDG07 - Affordable and clean energy
SDI 7.1.2 Proportion of population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technology
SDT 7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
SDI 7.2.1 Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption
SDT 7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
SDI 7.3.1 Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and GDP
SDT 7.a By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology
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Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
Room S12
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12:30-13:40 Invited speaker (Oral presentation):
- 12:30-12:40 #C-7 Prof Jingdong Zhang, DTU Chem: Electrocatalysis of Gold Nanostructures for Electrochemical Energy Conversion
- 12:40-12:50 #C-1 Dr.Khurram Saleem Joya, DTU energy, Chem: Materials for Catalysis, Synthetic Fuels and Chemical Energy Conversion
- 12:50-13:00 #C-2 Dr. Sungeun Yang, DTU Phys, V-sustain: Single-Atom Catalysts of Platinum for Electrochemical Reactions: Activity, Selectivity, and Support Effect
- 13:00-13:10 #C-3 Irene Tosi, DTU Chem: Off-Pathway Intermediates in the Conversion of Sugars to Plastic
- 13:10-13:20 #C-5 Assistant Professor Marie Lund Traulsen, DTU energy: Electrocatalysis caught in the act
- 13:20-13:30 #C-6 Professor Anders Riisager, DTU Chem: Hydrodeoxygenation of Bio‐polymer Precursors with Base Metal Catalysts
- 13:30-13:40 #C-4 Dr. Dmitry Pankratov, DTU Chem: Bioenergy conversion and storage systems: from conventional electrochemical cells to hybrid bioelectronic devices
13:40-14:00 Laptop/Poster Pitch Presentations from the posters in glassalen
(2 minutes each presented from your own laptop)
- #C-9 Murat Nulati Yesibolati, DTU Nanotech: New In-situ electron microscopy methods for studying catalysts, electrocatalyst and other functional materials processes
- #C-10 Andreas Eschenbacher, DTU Chemical Engineering: Optimizing catalytic deoxygenation of biomass derived fast pyrolysis vapors
Poster Presentations:
- #C-12 J. Quinson, Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, A toolbox to study precious metal nano- catalysts: surfactant free synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity
- #C-13 Wei Huang, DTU Chem, Metal-Organic Framework Derived FeP/C Interlocked Graphene Hybrid Composite for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
- #C-14 Zhiyong Zheng, DTU Chem, Electrocatalytic oxidation of K4[Fe(CN)6] by metal-reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
- #C-15 J. Tang, DTU Chem, Graphene-glucose oxidase bioanodes for enzymatic biofuel cells
- #C-16 Mezzavilla S. DTU Phys, V-Sustain: Structure sensitivity in the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 with gold catalysts
- #C-17 Alexander Søgaard, DTU Chem: Convenient and Sustainable Hydrogen Storage using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) Technologies
- #C-18 Marinkovic, DTU Chemistry, Hydroformulation with integrated catalytic-membranes separation reaction system
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint CMP Room S09 |
Sustainable Materials Ideation Workshop
The sessions (C) Catalysis, (M) Materials and (P) Polymers will have a joint ideation session.
Here we will start by a “scientific speed dating”, where you have a quick 1:1 chat with other participants. Instead of just saying what you work with, think about:
- What can I contribute with (unique synthesis technique, material with specific properties, characterization etc.) ?
- What challenges would I like help solving (a better materials synthesis/characterization technique etc.) ?
We will then conclude the ideation session with a moderated common discussion to summarize some of the generated ideas and how they can be taken further through the Sustain Ideation framework.
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session D: Drones
- Air-based monitoring of the environment, buildings and cities |
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In the future drones will play an important role in environmental monitoring. Drones are today being used for environmental monitoring, for instance to gather gas emission data and hydraulic data in rivers and streams.
This is just the beginning. This session will present case studies on innovative uses of drones and will explore perspectives and potential for future applications related to environmental challenges. |
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SDG13 - Climate action
SDG15 - Life on land
SDT 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
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Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
Room S07 |
- 12:30-12:35 Welcome
Speakers from companies:
- 12:35-12:50 "Measuring emissions from ships", Jon Knudsen, Explicit
- 12:50-13:05 "Detection of leakages from the district heating", Michael Noer-Hvarre, Dronesystems
- #D-4 13:05- 13:20 “Drone-mounted technologies for sampling and/or detecting the Real Time three dimensions extent of contamination”, Angelo Fienga, ATLASS
- #D-2 13:20 -13:35 “Bringing the drone industry to the next level” Christoffer Greenfort, DroneDanmark, Dansk Erhverv
Speakers from research and technology institutions
- 13:45-14:00 Monitoring rivers and streams with unmanned airborne vehicles, Peter Bauer-Gottwein, DTU Environment
- #D-1 14:00- 14:15 Dronebased gas measurements – detections of leakages of methane, Christian Juncher, Force Technology
Poster pitches from the posters in glassalen
- #D-6 14:15-14:20 Gisele A. dos Reis Benatto "Outdoor luminescence imaging strategies for drone-based PV array inspection"
- #D-7 14:20-14:25 Cloud-shadow removal for Unmanned Aerial System multispectral imagery based on tensor decomposition methods - Andreas Baum
- 14:25-14:30 Concluding remarks
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Room S14 |
We will work on how to develop new solutions for industrial challenges within this topic:
- Energinet needs inspection and maintenance of a large amount of assets distributed across all of Denmark - how might drones solve or help solve our challenges? By Sigurd Mathiasen, Digital Business Developer, Energinet.
- Can drones be used in connection with the innovative water treatment facility ’Marselisborg Rewater’? a presentation of the innovative challenges, by Inge Hansen Chief Engineer, Head of Innovation, Aarhus Vand
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session E: Energy
- How to create cleaner and more renewable energy supplies |
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As part of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), SDG-7 specifically addresses the challenge of “ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all”. The focus of this session will be on the sustainability dimension of energy systems. In our striving towards sustainable societies, the development of energy technologies need to be accompanied with comprehensive and quantitative sustainability assessments, which do not only encompass climate change but also other environmental impacts of energy products, technologies or systems at large. Such approach thus enables to identify, develop, refine and/or prioritise energy solutions that are as sustainable as possible. Contributions providing case studies and potential challenges associated with the development of energy technologies and the modelling of energy trajectories (e.g. national scale) together with quantitative sustainability assessments are thus welcome in this session. |
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SDG07 - Affordable and clean energy
SDT 7.1 By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
SDI 7.1.1 Proportion of population with access to electricity
SDI 7.1.2 Proportion of population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technology
SDT 7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
SDI 7.2.1 Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption
SDT 7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
SDI 7.3.1 Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and GDP
SDT 7.a By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology
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Morning Session
10-11.30
Room S09
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Programme for Session E – Energy session (a)
- #E-3 10.00 – 10.15 Peter Blennow: Perspectives with Electrolysis and Electrification for Making Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals
- #E-1 10.15 – 10.30 Martin Høj: Hydrogen assisted catalytic biomass pyrolysis for green fuels
- #E-7 10.30 – 10.45 Natalia Alfaro: Intermittent provision of H2 and CO2 in up-flow reactors for ex-situ biogas upgrading
- #E-5 10.45 – 11.00 Mohamad Kharseh: Energy Retrofitting Measures in Buildings: Optimization Tool
- #E-2 11.00 – 11.15 Monia Niero: On the importance of including a life cycle perspective in assessing the environmental performances of renewable energies
- 11.15 – 11.30 poster highlitght pitches (5 minutes each from own laptop):
- #E-9 Per Nørgaard: Bottom-up energy service solutions and long term system planning
- #E-10 Maria E. Mondejar: Multi-disciplinary optimization of organic Rankine cycle power systems
- #E-11 E. Mancini: Acclimation of ammonia tolerant methanogenic consortia using different bioreactor types
Laptop/posters in the ensuing poster session in Glassalen
- #E-8 Salil Joshy: Reliability of electronics to humidity-related failures
- #E-9 Per Nørgaard :Bottom-up energy service solutions and long term system planning
- #E-10 Maria E. Mondejar: Multi-disciplinary optimization of organic Rankine cycle power systems
- #E-11 E. Mancini:Acclimation of ammonia tolerant methanogenic consortia using different bioreactor types
- #E-12 Fei Shen: Nanoscale engineering of 3D graphene foams for enzyme immobilization and enhanced bioelectrocatalysis
- #E-13 Jessica Lefevre: Surface characterization of coated cathodes with lithium phosphorous oxynitride thin film for all-solid-state Li-S batteries
- #E-14 Sara Engberg: Spray-coated Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films for large-scale photovoltaic applications
- #E-15 L. Paci: Elastic moduli, stiffness and effective stress of chalk from Zealand (Denmark) and from Dan field (North Sea)
- #E-16 M. Nielsen "Can Polynuclear Metal Clusters Behave as "Extended" Organometallic Complexes? "
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Room S04 |
How to assess if your technology is really sustainable?
To ensure we move towards more sustainability, it is important that the development of new energy technologies or systems goes along with a careful integration of the associated environmental impacts to obtain as low impacts as possible. To comprehensively assess and allow management of these environmental impacts, such as climate change, resource depletion or chemical pollution, life cycle assessment (LCA) is a very useful tool.
Based on a speed-dating format, this workshop will be centred on the integration of LCA as part of your technology/system development.
After a 5-minute introduction to LCA, you will be invited to move into one-to-one meetings or in small group meetings, where you will be able to directly exchange with LCA experts to discuss how to assess environmental impacts associated with your technology/system development and what LCA can bring as added value to demonstrate the environmental sustainability nature of your activities/projects.
If you are interested in participating to the workshop, we invite you to reflect on your projects/activities, where you would need quantitative sustainability assessments, so you already have some thoughts prior to the meetings. To facilitate the organisation and logistics of the workshop, please let us know if you would like to have a 1-to-1 meeting (ca. 30 minutes) to discuss the potentials of applying LCA to your specific case; you may do so by sending an email to Alexis Laurent (alau@dtu.dk) with 2-3 words on your activities/projects/ideas. Else, we will organise the workshop in small groups, depending on the number of participants.
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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- Chair: Alexis Laurent, alau@dtu.dk, DTU Management Engineering
- Chair: Poul Norby, pnor@dtu.dk,DTU Energy
- Jens Juul Rasmussen, jjra@fysik.dtu.dk, DTU Physics
- Rasmus Fehrmann, rf@kemi.dtu.dk, DTU Chemistry
- Peter Hjuler Jensen, peje@dtu.dk, DTU Wind Energy
- Ulla Høeberg Jørgensen, uhoej@dtu.dk, AIS
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Session F: Food Resources
- Food supply & security, agri- and aquaculture
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Supplying the world’s population with food is the most resource consuming human activity. Finding solutions to ensure that agri- and aquaculture remain within the carrying capacity of the ecosystem, and at the same time that our food supply is stable, affordable and secure is the topic of this session. |
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SDG02 - Zero Hunger
SDG03 - Good health and well being
SDG12 - Rresponsible consumption and production
SDG15 - Life on land
SDT 2a … enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries...
SDT 12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
SDT 12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
SDT 15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially
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Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
Room S10 |
Oral presentations (15 min each)
- #F-6 Sustainable dairy production in a life cycle perspective - Jan Dalsgård Johannesen (ARLA)
- #F-5 Food ingredients from protein residues - Egon Bech Hansen (DTU Food)
- Resource recovery in bio-based industries - Krist V. Gernaey (DTU Chemical Engineering)
- #F-3 Protein from green biomass as a food resource - Daniel Stender Nørgaard (DTU Food)
Short talks (5 min each)
- #F-1 Critical review of life cycle assessments conducted on aquaculture systems: identification of environmental improvements - Florence Bohnes (DTU Management)
- #F-2 Nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor of seaweed varies with season – Susan L. Holdt (DTU Food)
- #F-4 Humidification of fresh produce: evaluating potential for reducing postharvest losses and environmental impacts of food supply chains - Serena Fabbri (DTU Management)
Poster presented in Glassalen
- #F-8 Detection of melamine in milk using nanopillar filters and Raman spectroscopy - Michael Stenbæk Schmidt
- #F-10 Seaweeds as a new food resource from Greenland - Katharina Kressig
- #F-11 Insect value chain in a circular bioeconomy (inVALUABLE) - A Jensen
- #F-12 alue utilization of discarded fish livers for production of omega-3 rich oil - Ann-dorit Sørensen
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Room S01
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“New Health-related opportunities in the Bioeconomy?” Joint ideation of session B (Bioeconomy) and F (food)
Biomass conversion and Biorefinery Technologies were in its initial phase focused on biofuel; now focus is much broader, aiming at unlocking the full potentials of the biomass; not just the energy content; and ensuring to use each biomass component to its highest value. Thus the value cascading use of biomass includes conversion to food and feed ingredients, biobased chemicals, materials and fuels. Further the circular approach is adhered to by ensuring that nutrients are circled back to the soil. However, new research is now opening for that Biorefineries, converting plant, algal, fungal and animal derived biomass, can lead to production of products with specific Health benefits. The ideation session will expand on such, highly interesting new opportunities. It will be done in a cross disciplinary approach, involving DTU VET, DTU Food, DTU Nano and DTU KT/BioEng.
Chairs: Peter Rudahl and Pedro Moreno, Food and Lene Lange, Chemical Engineering
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session G: Green Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Sustainability and business development
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Given the increased emphasis on sustainability spanning the consumers, the legislation and the investors, and even UN development goals, the scene is changing for both start-ups and existing companies. What are the challenges and opportunities? |
SDGs

 
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SDG08 - Decent work and economic growth
SDG09 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
SDG12 - Rresponsible consumption and production
SDT 8.2 "Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors"
SDT 9.4 "By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities"
SDI 9.4.1 "CO2 emission per unit of value added"
SDT 12.1 Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
SDT 12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
SDT 12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
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Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
In Oticon |
Introduction to the Session G by Stig Irving Olsen, DTU Man
Short pitches with ideas or examples of Green innovation and Entrepreneurship
Topic |
Presenter |
Green and digital growth |
Bjarke Kovshøj, CLEAN |
#G-2 Cloud Service for Strategic Management of Inflow and Infiltration in Sewer Networks |
Morten Grum, WaterZerv |
The WISE project, Water DTU |
Katrine Nielsen, DTU ENV |
#G-1 DripView: a smart water sensor to take control of your water use |
Peter Nortoft, Aqubiq |
Regreen your garden |
Stine Hansen, Kompostbudene |
Temporary flood protection and liquid storage |
David Konge, Environment Solutions
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Using Skylab in innovation |
TBA, Skylab |
#G-3 Fragrant plants used as air fresheners in private households |
Henrik Toft Simonsen, DTU Bioengineering and Mosspiration Biotech IVS
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#G-4 Rest to Resource – Circular Innovation and Business Development in SMEs |
Maj Munch Andersen, DTU Man |
#G-5 Access to electricity in rural Africa - from donor support to innovative business models
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Thomas Hebo Larsen, DTU Man |
Closing remarks and introduction to the ideation workshop by Stig Irving Olsen, DTU Man
Posters presented in the Poster session in Glassalen:
- #G-8 A Guide for Evaluating the Environmental Performance of Product/Service-Systems - Louise Laumann Kjaer
- #G-9 Scientific support for business with implementing circular economy for enhanced competitiveness and sustainability - Fenna Blomsma
- #G-10 Making the Transition to Circular Economy through readiness assessment - Lærke Spaabæk Perrild
- #G-11 The integration of Sustainable Development Goals into sustainability reports - Lourenço G. D. Faria & Francesco Rosati
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Room S12 |
Active session with matchmaking based on walking between small posters to discuss future perspectives and joint projects. Presenters from the afternoon session and poster presenters will participate, given the opportunity to discuss problems and solutions with them.
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session: H: The future of Healthcare
- Ensure healthcare, quality of life and wellbeing in the light of demographic change
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How do we ensure good healthcare and wellbeing in the light of demographic change and current trends?
As the population increases in number, wealth and age, it becomes ever more challenging to ensure people’s wellbeing and health with increasing efficiency, reduced cost and environmental impact.
This session covers prevention, diagnosis, treatments and targeted therapies that offer better solutions to ensure a long life of high quality in the future, or showcasing emerging technologies that might lower the cost of better and more widespread healthcare in the future.
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SDGs

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SDG03 - Good health and well being
SDT 3.3 "By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases"
SDT 3.4 "By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being"
SDI 3.4.1 "3.4.1 Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease"
SDT 3.b "Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines..."
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Morning Session
10-11.30
Room S06
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Invited Speakers
- 10:00-10:15 Marianne Thellersen, DTU Senior Vice President - Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Talk: Personalised Medicine a Possible Lever for Sustainability in Health Care
- #H-3 10:15-10:30 Leigh Brody, Desktop Genetics Ltd - Director of Genomic Services. Talk: CRISPR Genome Editing with Artificial Intelligence
- #H-4 10:30-10:45 Leticia Hosta-Rigau, Associate Professor, DTU Nanotech. Talk: Biomimetic Approaches Towards the Creation of Artificial Cells and Organelles for Future Healthcare Solutions
- 10:45-11:00 Thomas N Kledal, DTU Vet, Head of Life Science & Bioengineering Innovation. Talk: Yes, Technology Can Change Healthcare
Contributed talks from selected abstracts:
- #H-5 11:00-11:05 En-Te Hwu, Associate Professor, DTU Nanotech. Title: The Wireless Powered Lab-on-Disc Platform for Measurements on the Spin
- #H-2 11:05-11:10 Jon Ashley, Postdoc, DTU Nanotech. Title: Dispersive Molecular Imprinting of Proteins for the Production of Plastic Antibodies
- #H-6 11:10-11:15 Diego Calvo, Data Scientist, DTU Bioinformatics. Title: Deep Feature Learning for Virus Detection using a Convolutional Neural Network
- #H-7 11:15-11:20 Line Hagner Nielson, Assistant Professor, DTU Nanotech. Title: Microcontainers for Oral Vaccine Delivery
- #H-1 11:20-11:25 Fatemeh Ajalloueian, Postdoc, DTU Food, Title: Biomechanical Study of Porcine Urinary Bladder Wall: Matter of Isotropy or Anisotropy
Posters and laptop presentations in Glassalen
- #H-9 Photovoltaic subretinal implants for blind patients - Rasmus Davidsen
- #H-11 Impact of physiological shear stress on cell association/uptake with a novel multicompartment carrier - Maria J. York-Duran
- #H-12 Artificial Organelles: Intracellular Sub-compartmentalized Microreactors to Conduct Enzymatic Cascade Reactions - Maria Godoy-Gallardo
- #H-13 Microfabrication of grating for X-ray phase contrast imaging - Jens H. Hemmingsen
- #H-14 Development of silk fibroin weft-knitted fabric for tissue engineering applications -Sanaz Khademolqorani
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Room S07 |
This ideation session, will concern the future of healthcare (in one hour!). Co-chaired by Thomas Kledal and Nazila Kamaly
Acknowledging that we at DTU can develop novel technologies that may improve more people’s lives, the session will focus on the question ‘how can we optimize our impact on future healthcare?’ Hence, we will discuss how we identify, select and address the healthcare needs, where our technology may play the biggest role and provide the biggest health and economic benefit. The participants will provide input and raise additional questions related to this issue and further discuss who (we should engage with), where we should work, and how? For inspiration, we will draw attention to the UN, Sustainable Development Goal 3, ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’.
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session K: Deep Retrofit of Buildings
- A new perspective on renovation of buildings in our cities
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Deep Retrofitting – a new perspective on renovation of existing building stock in our Cities
Cities and real estate owners need a new perspective on renovation of buildings to the "(near) zero energy level" with a scalable approach: Deep Retrofitting. Renovating existing buildings must focus on breaking down silos between the various components, pushing for co-creation between suppliers, manufacturers and the demand side. Business as usual is not enough. There is a need to develop sustainable housing taking a user-centric approach, balancing occupant health and well-being with optimal energy efficiency.
Climate-KIC Nordic will hold a workshop as part of the annual Sustain conference, at Core Partner DTU, where VELUX and ROCKWOOL will set the scene presenting their ideas on sustainable buildings and outline the need for innovation to tackle the challenges and find solutions. REALDANIA, a philanthropic organisation based on investment activities working with the built environment, will also contribute with their views on these issues.
Come and meet and have a dialogue with companies, researchers and other stakeholders involved in Deep Retrofitting of existing buildings!
This session does not use abstract submissions.
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SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities
SDG12 - Rresponsible consumption and production
SDT 12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse |
Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
Room S06 |
Programme
- 12.30 Introduction to Climate-KIC’s approach to retrofitting – Susanne Pedersen, Nordic Director
- 12.40 Velux - Peter Foldbjerg, Senior manager, Daylight, Energy and Indoor Climate
Status: 82 million Europeans live in unhealthy homes, in homes with damp, lack of daylight, overheating, low temperatures in winter, and other issues. Active House sets a framework for healthy and energy efficient buildings. RenovActive is a concrete case on how replicable and affordable renovation can be applied to a run-down housing unit, with seven generic replication elements as the core elements. BetterHome is an industry cooperation that removes hassle for home owners in the renovation process.
Challenge:
How can renovation solutions be scaled to increase the rate of renovation? How can we ensure that renovation of unhealthy homes addresses the main shortcomings and that a renovated home is healthier than before? Renovation solutions must bring tangible value to occupants. What do dwelling occupants perceive as good daylight conditions, good thermal comfort, fresh air, etc? These answer could be different from the preferences of office workers.
12.50 Rockwool - Jens Eg Rahbek, Development Engineer
Status: Deep Retrofit – How to speed up the transformation of the existing building stock into comfortable low energy buildings. A large part existing buildings have high energy consumption and a challenging indoor environment. There is a need to update these buildings in order to improve the living conditions in the buildings and to save energy and money.
Challenge:
Retrofitting is happening but we need to speed up the rate so that 3 times as many buildings are retrofitted per year than is the case today.
In order to do this the following must be provided:
• Sustainable retrofit solutions and systems that can bring old buildings up to modern standards for energy consumption and indoor environment
• Retrofit solutions that are smart and attractive so that they are prioritised above kitchen and bathroom renovations
• Retrofit solutions that are resilient, safe and that protect the building against future climate change
• Retrofit solutions that reduce the heating demand by improving the insulation value of the building envelope
- 13.00 RealDania By and Byg - Jørgen Søndermark, Architect, Project Manager
Status:
For many years now, focus has been almost unilateral on energy reduction. With good reason, one might add. Danish building codes have reduced the energy frame several times towards a near zero status. This ‘linear thinking’, however, cannot go on forever. When will energy frame reduction compromise one of the very reason we use energy; keeping indoors different from outdoors? Our indoor climate define our life quality; our health, sleep, appetite, performance and overall feeling of content. We spend 90% of our time indoor. 75% of all particles we are exposed to in the indoor climate are produced indoor. Sunde Boliger is a Realdania By & Byg 1:1 project demonstrating new solutions to enhance indoor climate quality at normal building costs, and some of these might be suitable for retrofitting as well.
Challenge:
When retrofitting, how can we ensure a healthy balance between energy reduction, environmental and climate change protection – and a healthy indoor climate? Is it possible to install indoor climate improvements as part of a general retrofit; where are the synergies, and when do we find conflicts of interests?
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint KLSWX
in Glassalen
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"Smart Cities and Societies" - Joint ideation workshop for sessions K,L,S,W, and X
Based on the presentations and discussions in Session K, L, S, and W, this joint ideation session aims at identifying and formulating ideas for research and development projects, which will support sustainable development.
The 1 hour session will be structured and facilitated in accordance with the following structure:
- 20 minutes separate wrap up ideation in respectively K, L, S, and W.
- 20 minutes joint ideation across the four sessions.
- 10 minutes mannning of separate as well as joint project ideas.
- 10 minutes: What happens now? Formulate step for the ideation form and including scheduled Pit Stops
Chair: Jens Rønnow Lønholdt, lonholdt@lyceumconsult.dk
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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- Chair and facilitator: Anne Marie Damgaard, amada@dtu.dk, Climate-KIC Nordic
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Session L: Smart Liveable Cities
- Urbanization, Buildings, Transport, Water, Infrastructure |
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How can urban infrastructure and architectural engineering provide more sustainable and smart liveable cities? Industry and households become ever more integrated with real time control of environmental systems and increasingly optimizing supply control of e.g. district heating systems and intelligent energy systems for variable renewable energy supplies. Drains and automatic flood warning systems may contribute to climate adaptation, and blue-green multifunctional areas may become crucial elements in urban planning together with transport management. All in pursuit to mitigate environmental impacts as the world’s population unavoidably becomes increasingly urbanized. |
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SDG06 - Clean water and Sanitation
SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities
SDG13 - Climate action
SDT 1.5 … reduce exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events …
SDT 11.1 By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums
SDI 11.1.1 Proportion of urban population living in slums, informal settlements or inadequate housing 11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
SDI 11.2.1 Proportion of population that has convenient access to public transport, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
SDT 11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries 11.3.1 Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate
SDT 11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations
SDT 11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management
SDI 11.6.1 Proportion of urban solid waste regularly collected and with adequate final discharge out of total urban solid waste generated, by cities
SDT 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
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Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
Meeting Room 1
Upstairs
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12:30-11:10 Oral session
- 12:30-12:35 Introduction to Session L: Smart liveable cities
Peter Steen Mikkelsen, DTU Environment & Water DTU
- #L-1 12:35-12:45 INUNDO: A network based Danish think tank concerned with rising sea level
Jens Rønholdt Lønholdt, LYCEUM Innovation and Process Consultancy
- #L-2 12:45-12:55 Characterizing climate change adaptation in Copenhagen
Herle Mo Madsen et al., DTU Environment/DTU Management Engineering
- #L-5 12:55-13:05 Cellular networks for reliable urban rainfall monitoring
Martin Fencl, DTU Environment
- #L-3 13:05-13:15 EnergyLab Nordhavn – Physical implementation and perspectives
Chrisoffer Greisen, DTU Center for Electric Power and Energy
13:15-13:30 Discussion
13:30-14:00 Laptop and poster pitch presentations with 1-2 slides and 2 minutes for each pitch before the poster session in Glassalen
- #L-7 Smart campus data system and analysis, Ole Schultz, DTU Diplom Section for Informatics
- #L-9 Enhancing demand side flexibility in Nordhavn buildings for integrated multi-energy systems, Rongling Li/Jiawei Wang, DTU Civil Engineering/DTU Electrical Engineering
- #L-15 Methods for improving the performance of the low-temperature district heating system, Xiaochen Yang, DTU Civil Engineering
- #L-10 Application of the UN SDG’s oin architectural engineering, Timokleia Orfanidou, DTU Civil Engineering
- #L-13 Thesis: Absolute sustainability from a circular architectural perspective, Katja Frankvard/Amalie Nyholm et al., DTU Civil Engineering
- #L-12 Assessment of physical and ecological space consumed by transport modes: A case of Rajkot city India, Marie-Eve Will et al., DTU Management Engineering, Transport DTU
- #L-11 Environmental impacts of electric vehicle deployment in Copenhagen for 2016-2030, Florence Bohnes et al., DTU Management Engineering
- #L-14 Comparative LCA of repairing flooded houses versus construction of a dam, Thomas Hennequin et al., DTU Environment/DTU management Engineering/DTU Global Decision Support Initiative
- #L-17 Integrating physical pressures, hazard prevention and urban development in the COHERENT project, Morten Andreas Dahl Larsen et al., DTU Management Engineering
- #L-16 Simple control rules for mitigating N2O emissions in phase isolated full-scale WWTPs - B Smets
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint KLSWX
in Glassalen
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"Smart Cities and Societies" - Joint ideation workshop for sessions K,L,S,W, and X
Based on the presentations and discussions in Session K, L, S, W, and X, this joint ideation session aims at identifying and formulating ideas for research and development projects, which will support sustainable development.
The 1 hour session will be structured and facilitated in accordance with the following structure:
- 20 minutes separate wrap up ideation in respectively K, L, S, W and X.
- 20 minutes joint ideation across the four sessions.
- 10 minutes mannning of separate as well as joint project ideas.
- 10 minutes: What happens now? Formulate step for the ideation form and including scheduled Pit Stops
Chair: Jens Rønnow Lønholdt, lonholdt@lyceumconsult.dk
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session M: Materials
- Improving performance and reducing footprints |
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Novel materials can enhance efficiency, reduce cost, increase lifetime, or offer new functionalities in many processes and applications. This session focuses on creating, producing and characterizing materials that shrink environmental footprints by for example increase energy efficiency, replace toxic substances, reduce resource consumption, improve life time, or enhance recyclability. |
SDGs

 
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SDG08 - Decent work and economic growth
SDG09 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
SDG12 - Responsible consumption and production
SDT 8.4 "Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries
taking the lead"
SDI 8.4.1 "Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP"
SDI 8.4.2 "Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP"
SDT 9.4 "By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities"
SDI 9.4.1 "CO2 emission per unit of value added"
SDT 12.1 Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
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Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
Room S01
Ground floor
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12.30 Talks
- #M-2 12.30-12.50 Christian Kallesøe (invited) Up-scaling the production of nanomaterials with customized properties: Continuous Solvothermal Flow Synthesis
- #M-3 12.50-13.00 Yu Xu Continuous Hydrothermal Flow Synthesis of Functional Oxide Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion Devices
- #M-7 13.00-13.10 Feng Yu Graphene based coatings for corrosion protection
13.10-13.20 All poster presenters Poster pitches (< 1 min for each poster)
- #M-8 Overcoming barriers of lead-free piezoceramics –Andreas Richter
- #M-12 Life cycle assessment of hydrogen production from water electrolysis - Guangling Zhao
- #M-13 Flexible, lightweight and paper-like supercapacitors assembled from nitrogen-doped multi-dimensional carbon materials - Xianyi Cao
- #M-14 Inorganic ions assisted design and synthesis of all-inorganic halide perovskite nanowires for sustainable solar-energy harvesting - Yingying Tang
- #M-15 Diffusion of dopants in nanostructured black silicon for application in solar cells - Andreas R. Stilling-Andersen and Olga Solodovnikova
- #M-17 Technology for Si/CZTS Tandem Solar Cell - A. Hajijafarassar
- #M-18 Dual phase composites for tubular oxygen transport membranes - Lev Martinez
- #M-19 Biomaterials reaction to fire - Frank Markert & Gabriel-Victor Risco
- #M-20 Giant Electrostriction in highly defective oxides: The next generation of electromechanical materials - Simone Santucci
- #M-21 Wind power material stocks in a circular economy context - Andrea Corona
- #M-22 Self-Reinforced PLA Composites: Bio-based and Biodegradable Polymer Materials for Industrial Applications - Giacomo Schillani
- #M-23 Lead-free, textured piezoelectric ceramics - Astri Bjørnetun Haugen
13.20 Talks
- #M-5 13.20-13.30 Stéven Pirou Development and Performance of Zirconia Based Oxygen Transport Membranes for Carbon Capture Processes
- #M-1 13.30-13.40 Andrea Crovetto Sustainable solar fuels and electricity through discovery and prototyping of new materials
- #M-4 13.40-14.00 Jean-Claude Grivel (invited) Chemical solution deposition on textured metal substrates: Enabling sustainability with large-scale and flexible functional thin films
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint CMP Room S09
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Sustainable Materials Ideation Workshop
The sessions (C) Catalysis, (M) Materials and (P) Polymers will have a joint ideation session.
Here we will start by a “scientific speed dating”, where you have a quick 1:1 chat with other participants. Instead of just saying what you work with, think about:
- What can I contribute with (unique synthesis technique, material with specific properties, characterization etc.) ?
- What challenges would I like help solving (a better materials synthesis/characterization technique etc.) ?
We will then conclude the ideation session with a moderated common discussion to summarize some of the generated ideas and how they can be taken further through the Sustain Ideation framework.
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session P: Polymers
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Novel polymeric materials and polymer metasurfaces for reduction of the environmental footprint by product lifecycle enhancement and reduction of CO2 emission. |
SDGs

 
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SDG08 - Decent work and economic growth
SDG09 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
SDG12 - Responsible consumption and production
SDT 8.4 "Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries
taking the lead"
SDI 8.4.1 "Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP"
SDI 8.4.2 "Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP"
SDT 12.1 Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
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Morning Session
10-11.30
Room S07
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Invited Speakers
- #P-1 10:00-10:15: Xiaolong Zhu, Assistant Professor DTU Nanotech, Invited, “Digital resonant laser printing: manipulating optical meta-elements on demand”
- 10:15-10:30: Swathi Murthy, Scientist, Inmold A/S, Invited, “Roll-to-roll fabrication of nanostructured functional surfaces”
- 10:30-10:45: Maria Matschuk, CTO, Heliac A/S, Invited, “ Polymer technology for concentrated solar power in Denmark”
- #P-3 10:45-10:55: Francesco Pastorelli, DTU Energy, Contributed, “Thin film organic materials: from nanoscale to smart windows”
- #P-2 10:55-11:10: Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Professor DTU Management Engineering, Invited, “If bio-based plastics is the answer, what was the question?”
- #P-4 11:10-11:25: Anders Damgaard, Senior Researcher DTU Environment, Invited, “What type of shopping bag to use? Perspectives on the functionality and recycling of polymers”
Poster pitches 11:25-11:30 before the poster session in glassalen:
- #P-6 Nastasia Okulova, Industrial PhD student Danapak Flexibles, Poster pitch “The future of the packaging industry: Roll-to-roll production of lotus leaves and rose petals”
- #P-7 Life Cycle Assessment of Fiber-Reinforced Additive Manufacturing for Injection Molding Insert Production - Thomas Hofstätter
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint CMP Room S09
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Sustainable Materials Ideation Workshop
The sessions (C) Catalysis, (M) Materials and (P) Polymers will have a joint ideation session.
Here we will start by a “scientific speed dating”, where you have a quick 1:1 chat with other participants. Instead of just saying what you work with, think about:
- What can I contribute with (unique synthesis technique, material with specific properties, characterization etc.) ?
- What challenges would I like help solving (a better materials synthesis/characterization technique etc.) ?
We will then conclude the ideation session with a moderated common discussion to summarize some of the generated ideas and how they can be taken further through the Sustain Ideation framework.
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session R: Biorefining
- From renewable plant- and algae-based biomass to biofuels, biomaterials and high added-value biochemicals |
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Integrated production of food and feed ingredients, chemicals, materials and energy carriers from residual biomass within the so-called biorefinery (biomass-based refinery) is an essential part of a sustainable future. Identification and development of optimal combinations of substrates, conversion processes and utilization of the final products is a very complex process. This session invites speakers to present new, innovative and promising technologies for sustainable production of valuable commodities in a biorefinery context. Conversion routes include, but are not limited to, biological processes. |
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SDG07 - Affordable and clean energy
SDG12 - Responsible consumption and production
SDG15 - Life on land
SDT 12.1 Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries |
Afternoon
Session
12.30-14
Room S09
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12:30 – 13:00 Invited speaker:
- Robert Arendal, Honorary member of NISA's Board of Directors, NISA (Nordic Initiative for Sustainable Aviation)
“Sustainable fuels for aviation - challenges and possibilities”
13:00 – 13:50 - Contributed talks from selected abstracts (8+2 min each)
- #R-2 Nannan Zhao, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.
“Bioelectricity production and microbial communities in microbial fuel cell powered by macroalgal biomass”
- Yuhong Huang, Center for Bioprocess Engineering, DTU Chemical Engineering.
“Enzymatic treatment of bristles and hooves for animal feed”
- #R-3 Svetlana Galkina, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU
“DD-DeCaF: Data-Driven Design of Cell Factories and Communities”
- #R-4 Hailin Tian, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
“Microbial community dynamics during a successful acclimation process to extremely high ammonia levels in continuous anaerobic digester”
- #R-1 was unfortunately hindered in joining on the day
13:50-14.03 Poster pitch (1 min max each) before the poster session in Glassalen
- #R-7 Early stage Life Cycle Assessment of different Green Biorefinery configurations: assessing the utilization of the press-pulp - Andrea Corona
- #R-10 Evaluating Climate Change Mitigation potential of Carbonaceous Materials: Do Different Indicators Point to the Same Conclusion? Mikołaj Owsianiak
- #R-11 Co-cultivation of Green Microalgae and Methanotrophic Bacteria for Single Cell Protein Production from Wastewater - Borja Valverde-Pérez
- #R-12 Natural antioxidants derived from seaweed material - Ditte B. Hermund
- #R-13 Memote, the genome-scale metabolic model test suite - Moritz Beber
- #R-14 Roles of extracellular polymeric substances in microbial extracellular electron transfer - Yong Xiao
- #R-15 Biological systems for simultaneous methanation of CO2 and H2 by anaerobic microorganisms - Panagiotis G. Kougias
- #R-16 Enzyme discovery for tuber processing pulps - Kristian Barret
- #R-17 Having the End in Mind ‐ The Pre‐Pilot‐Plant at DTU Biosustain - Andreas Worberg
- #R-18 Insights on the activity of the anaerobic digestion microbiome by means of metatranscriptomic functional investigation - L. Treu
- #R-19 In vitro evaluation of the feed quality of enzyme treated bristles and hooves - Yuhong Huang
- #R-20 Macroalgae-based biorefineries - George E. Anasontzis
- #R-21 Title TBA - Ksenia Chekina
Only presenting in the poster session in glassalen:
- #R-8 Engineering Lactococcus lactis into a cell factory for production of butanol isomers - Joakim Mark Andersen
- #R-9 Toward meaningful evaluation of climate change impacts in sustainability assessment of bioplastics - Serena Fabbri
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint BR
Room S10
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“Emerging Technologies supporting Circular Bioeconomy” Joint ideation of sessions B (Bioeconomy) & R (biorefining)
Chair: Irini Angelidaki, DTU Environment. Contact Irini before the session if you think there are interesting topics to include in the group discussions.
15:00-15:05 Robert Arendal, Honorary member of NISA's Board of Directors, NISA (Nordic Initiative for Sustainable Aviation): Example of bioeconomy, focusing on challenges
15:05-15:10 Borja Valverde Pérez (DTU): Types of bioeconomy (agriculture; urban)
15:10-15:15 Irini Angelidaki (DTU) Introduction and division to groups of 4-6 participants
15:15:15:35 Group discussions
1)What is Bioeconomy – sustainability aspects
2)Challenges for bioeconomy
3)What biomasses we can consider for bioeconomy
4)Bioeconomy types (agricultural bioeconomy, urban bioconomy, holistic bioeconomy)
5)Which emerging technologies can contribute to bioeconomy
6) Suggested topics
15:35-15:55 Presentation of each groups outputs up. 3-4 mins for each group.
15:55-16:00 Final conclusion
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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- Chair: Georgios E. Anasontzis, gean@kt.dtu.dk, DTU Chemical Engineering
- Lene Lange, lenl@kt.dtu.dk, DTU Chemical Engineering
- Anne S. Meyer, am@kt.dtu.dk, DTU Chemical Engineering
- Irini Angelidaki, iria@env.dtu.dk, DTU Environment
- Ioannis Fotidis, ioanf@env.dtu.dk, DTU Environment
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Session S: Smart cities in Smart Societies
- The session aim to inspire and identify potential project ideas and new
partnerships
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Creating smart cities in smart societies demands a holistic approach combining academic disciplines and breaking down silos between the technical, the political and the user level. It also requires a close dialogue between cities, companies and researchers.
This workshop will provide concrete examples from "Smart Cities Accelerator" (SCA, Interreg project) of how to improve indoor climate in local schools in a Danish municipality. Through collaboration between the municipality and the users, DTU Compute and Civil Engineering develop and test possible solutions. The whole process is closely followed by Institute of Anthropology (University of Copenhagen).
The session will also address some of the legal barriers moving towards green transition and more renewable energy. (Data Protection rules, energy taxes, framework conditions, CO2 impacts ) |
SDGs

 

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SDG06 - Clean water and Sanitation
SDG09 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities
SDG13 - Climate action
SDT 1.5 … reduce exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events …
SDT 11.1 By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums
SDI 11.1.1 Proportion of urban population living in slums, informal settlements or inadequate housing 11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
SDI 11.2.1 Proportion of population that has convenient access to public transport, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
SDT 11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries 11.3.1 Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate
SDT 11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management
SDI 11.6.1 Proportion of urban solid waste regularly collected and with adequate final discharge out of total urban solid waste generated, by cities
SDT 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
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Morning Session
10-11.30
Room S01
Ground floor
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Invited speakers
- Morten Koed Rasmussen, Høje Taastrup Municipality (10 min)
- Peder Bacher, DTU Compute (10 min) + See also Davide Cali poster S-4.
- Simon Lex Westergaard, Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (10 min)
- Anita Rønne, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (15 min)
- #S-2 Torben Funder-Kristensen, Danfoss (20 Min) "Release the flexibility potentials by detoxifying the tax systems"
Contributed Pitches from selected abstracts for posters presented in Glassalen
- #S-3 A Dynamic Characterization of Energy Flexibility - R. G. Junker
- #S-4 skoleklima.dk – A platform to monitor air quality and thermal comfort in classrooms, developed for teachers and students - Davide Calì
- #S-5 Heat Pumps for Efficient and Flexible Heat Supply in Copenhagen - Brian Elmegaard
World Café – 25 min
The interventions will be followed by a “world café”. A facilitated discussion where all participants will be invited to discuss solutions and ideas with the speakers.
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint KLSWX
in Glassalen
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"Smart Cities and Societies" - Joint ideation workshop for sessions K,L,S,W, and X
Based on the presentations and discussions in Session K, L, S, W and X, this joint ideation session aims at identifying and formulating ideas for research and development projects, which will support sustainable development.
The 1 hour session will be structured and facilitated in accordance with the following structure:
- 20 minutes separate wrap up ideation in respectively K, L, S, W and X.
- 20 minutes joint ideation across the four sessions.
- 10 minutes mannning of separate as well as joint project ideas.
- 10 minutes: What happens now? Formulate step for the ideation form and including scheduled Pit Stops
Chair: Jens Rønnow Lønholdt, lonholdt@lyceumconsult.dk
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session U: Sustainability in a Chemical World
- Chemicals and Nanoparticles, their toxicology and risks |
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The societal challenges related to chemicals and nanoparticles in the environment are profound, multifaceted and with wide ranging consequences. The question is how we can achieve sustainability and a future circular economy in a world that unavoidably relies heavily on access to industrial chemicals. The session discusses improved uses of chemicals, substitution options, the challenges related to assessing risks in relation to human health and the environment, aiming at finding ways to achieve sustainable uses of chemicals in the future. |
SDGs
 
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SDG08 - Decent work and economic growth
SDG12 - Responsible consumption and production
SDT 8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
SDI 8.8.1 Frequency rates of fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries, by sex and migrant status
SDT 12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
SDT 12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
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Morning Session
10-11.30
Room S10
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Invited Speakers:
- 10:10:15 Chemicals in the Circular Economy – EEA perspective, Xenia Trier, Ph.D., Project Manager on Chemicals, Environment and Human Health, European Environment
- 10:15-10:30 Circular economy and chemicals from an NGO's perspective, Lone Mikkelsen, Ph.D., Danish Ecological Council
- #U-4 10:30-10:45 Construction products in a more material circular world, Jakob T. Rørbech, Product Sustainability Expert, Velux
Contributed talks from selected abstracts
- #U-5 10:45-11:00 Recycled paper for food packaging: burden of disease methodology to link sustainability and safety, Elena Boriani, Ph.D., DTU Food and DTU’s Global Decision Support Initiative
- #U-2 11:10-11:15 Quantifying shape, size, and composition distributions of nanoparticle aerosols by impaction and electron microscopy, Anders Brostrøm, DTU Nanotech and National Research Centre for the Working Environment
11:15-11:30 Panel discussion Circular Economy and Chemicals: Identification of key challenges to be addressed in the ideation
Posters presented in glassalen:
- #U-7 Risk governance framework for nanomaterials: Case studies and lessons - Ana Sofia Fonseca
- #U-8 Worker exposure during handling of manufactured nanomaterials in fume-hoods - Ana S. Fonsec
- #U-9 Categorization of Advanced Materials and European Environmental Regulation - Steffen Foss Hansen
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Room S16
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During the ideation, the key challenges highlighted by the invited speakers during the panel discussion will be put under intense scrutiny and we will try to come up with ideas/methods/projects/research that is needed to address these challenges. Specifically, we will mingle around two essential questions: How can the specific challenge be addressed and how can DTU researchers assist in addressing this challenge?
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session W: Water sector development
- This is a closed meeting in room S04. For water relevant abstract submissions consider session A or L. |
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This will be a closed meeting on Water Sector development in room S04, and the participants will join the conference afterwards.
The Water meeting organizer Mads Odgaard invites the participants directly and registers them to the conference.
DTU conducts a technology foresight project about water technology research.
A SWOT workshop is organized with DTU researches, trade organization representatives and private companies. The purposes of the SWOT workshop are to:
Do a comprehensive analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within the Danish water technology ecosystem (research institutions, industry, public authorities and funds/programmes)
Investigate what could be a prioritization of actions within:
– The development of the market for water technology in Denmark and on a global scale
– Research and education
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SDG06 - Clean water and Sanitation
SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities
SDG13 - Climate action
SDG14 - Life below water
SDT 6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
SDI 6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services
SDT 6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
SDI 6.2.1 Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water
SDT 6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
SDI 6.3.1 Proportion of wastewater safely treated
SDI 6.3.2 Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality
SDT 6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
SDI 6.4.1 Change in water-use efficiency over time
SDI 6.4.2 Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources
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Morning Session
10:00-13:00
Room S04
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Closed meeting - contact the Chair if you need information about it. Consider joining those in session A or L instead. |
Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint KLSWX
in Glassalen
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"Smart Cities and Societies" - Joint ideation workshop for sessions K,L,S,W, and X
Based on the presentations and discussions in Session K, L, S, and W, this joint ideation session aims at identifying and formulating ideas for research and development projects, which will support sustainable development.
The 1 hour session will be structured and facilitated in accordance with the following structure:
- 20 minutes separate wrap up ideation in respectively K, L, S, and W.
- 20 minutes joint ideation across the four sessions.
- 10 minutes mannning of separate as well as joint project ideas.
- 10 minutes: What happens now? Formulate step for the ideation form and including scheduled Pit Stops
Chair: Jens Rønnow Lønholdt, lonholdt@lyceumconsult.dk
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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Session X: Regional Transformation for Sustainability
- Economic growth, infrastructure, and organisational capacity |
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What are the best strategies and means for ensuring regional sustainability for well defined geographic areas, especially areas in need of economic growth?
Three important issues to answer this question will be addressed:
- A comprehensive and cross-cutting discussion of the most important drivers and barriers for ensuring sustainable regional growth and development especially in needed areas.
- Discussion of strategies and means on how sustainable business development and sustainable economic growth can be coordinated in a synergetic way and timely done, in tandem with the necessary infrastructure development including transportation and energy systems and water, wastewater and solid waste systems based on the principles of sustainability.
- The necessary and timely organisational capacity within regional and local authorities providing the enabling framework for the above.
Case studies will be presented from invited speakers and submitted abstracts.
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SDG06 - Clean water and Sanitation
SDG09 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
SDG10 - Reduced inequalities
SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities
SDG13 - Climate action
SDT 1.5 … reduce exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events …
SDT 2.3 ...double agricultural productivity and income of small-scale food producers...
SDT 2.4 "ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality"
SDT 11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations
SDT 11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management
SDI 11.6.1 Proportion of urban solid waste regularly collected and with adequate final discharge out of total urban solid waste generated, by cities
SDT 11.a Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning
SDT 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
SDT 17.6 "Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge-sharing on mutually agreed terms..."
SDT 17.7 "Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed..."
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Morning Session
10-11.30
Room S16
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- 10.00 - 10.05: Opening of the Session by Session Chairman Jens Rønnow Lønholdt.
- #X-3 10.05 - 10.15: Rising Sea Levels - Seeking A Regional Response: Dr. Glenn Frommer, International Sea Level Institute.
- #X-7 10.15 - 10.25: Coastal communities and climate change - addressing needs for capacity building and collaboration: Chief Consultant Carlo Sørensen, DTU Space and Danish Coastal Authority, and Professor Per Knudsen, DTU Space.
- #X-2 10.25 - 10.35: Coastal Climate Risk Coping and Sustainable Development Goals for Cities: Professor Kirsten Halsnæs DTU Management Engineering.
- #X-4 10.35 - 10.45: Sustainable climate adaption in a regionale perspective: Architect MAA MDL Eva Sara Rasmussen, Gottlieb Paludan Architects.
- #X-5 10.45 - 10.55: Sustainability labelling of climate mitigation actions relevant to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: Senior Researcher Karen Holm Olsen and Researcher Fatemeh Bakhthiari, UNEP DTU Partnership DTU Management Engineering.
- #X-6 10.55 - 11.05: Bornholm - regional transition through food production: Project Manager Lena Schenk and Consultant Louise Groth-Michelsen, Regional Municipality of Bornholm.
- #X-1 11.05 - 11.15: Supporting Sustainable Economic Growth in Greece through Pilot and Demonstration Projects: Director Jens Rønnow Lønholdt, LYCEUM Innovation and Process Consultancy.
- 11.15 - 11.30: Discussion and closing of the Session by Session Chairman Jens Rønnow Lønholdt.
Poster presented in glassalen:
- #X-10 “The accountability imperative for quantifying the uncertainty of emission forecasts: evidence from Mexico” - Daniel Puig & Fatemeh Bakhtiari
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Ideation
Workshop
15-16
Joint KLSWX
Meeting Room 1
Upstairs
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"Smart Cities and Societies" - Joint ideation workshop for sessions K,L,S,W, and X
Based on the presentations and discussions in Session K, L, S, W and X, this joint ideation session aims at identifying and formulating ideas for research and development projects, which will support sustainable development.
The 1 hour session will be structured and facilitated in accordance with the following structure:
- 20 minutes separate wrap up ideation in respectively K, L, S, W and X.
- 20 minutes joint ideation across the four sessions.
- 10 minutes mannning of separate as well as joint project ideas.
- 10 minutes: What happens now? Formulate step for the ideation form and including scheduled Pit Stops
Chair: Jens Rønnow Lønholdt, lonholdt@lyceumconsult.dk
Info on the ideation page and use the ideation form.
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