The SMARTATHON'18 is a challenge aimed at fostering co-creation to address Smart City key-challenges such as: climate, energy, data, housing, (urban) space, water, wastes, mobility, work, and people and communities centric urban life.
The Smart City paradigm is opening new opportunities for cities. Science, knowledge, data-driven innovation are critical to build-up climate friendly, environment responsible, socially valuable, citizen-centric smart solutions. New challenges to design, create, procure and integrate smart city solutions are emerging – the present co-creation action contributes to address those solutions.
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This co-creation area is aimed at the promoting integrated and scalable energy solutions and targeting 100% renewables off-set, with a specific focus on local renewable energies and energy efficiency measures, smart grids, energy storage and on the spread of green power procurement, electric mobility and intelligent charging stations.
The main objective of this co-creation area is providing cities with ICT solutions to support public realm regeneration, urban management efficiency, development of multiple functions and activities using public space, coordination with greener, healthier and safer mobility solutions and enhanced urban spaces liveability.
This topic relates to supporting urban strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Reducing greenhouse gas emission, incrementing the use of local supply, supporting local utilities, sustaining new climate-friendly business models, integrating climate changed adapted solutions into new urban liveability models and promoting overall resilience of cities and communities.
The aim of this co-creation area is to develop ICT solutions to support smart water management solutions such as monitoring and control on pollution, real-time water consumptions monitoring, efficient and sustainable use of the resources and new water primary and secondary uses along the urban water cycle.
The aim of this co-creation area is to support deployment of innovative street light solutions that help cities to be more efficiently illuminated, to reduce costs, save energy, simplify maintenance and move towards service-based business models, automated control of street lighting diming and colour and green energy supply.
The core of this co-creation area is to adopt a city-centric approach to digital information systems in order to generate data-driven innovative knowledge, namely through modelling, aimed at improving decision making processes, policy making, citizens participation, innovation and urban competitiveness.
This co-creation area is aimed at implementing fully adaptive, citizen driven and demand-side oriented, urban mobility and transportation integrated solutions, developing opportunities for more enhanced use of the city and facilitated access to urban services and spaces.
This co-creation area is related to supporting city investments regarding the adoption of a large ICT solutions, including urban e-platforms which may serve citizens, engage business and support decision-making process as well as helping citizens’ access to government services. Also, this co-creation area involves the development of urban platform interfaces for urban services, infrastructures, facilities companies and collaborative citizens platforms as well as ICT solutions for urban health, safety, environment, sustainability, security, protection and care.
This co-creation area is aimed at implementing an environment for the creation of new business initiatives in the cities, promoting incubation of innovative solutions, supporting an entrepreneurial attitude among citizens, and supporting development of new co-working space clusters.
This co-creation area is aimed at supporting innovative concepts of urban housing, towards a more inclusive and cohesive sense of community, a more efficient use of energy, water and construction processes, improved interconnection and interoperability environments for domestic consumers and prosumers, and a urban sustainability oriented relationship between housing and public space.
This co-creation area focus on smart urban waste management systems, processes and solutions implementation, namely by promoting sustainable, automated, clean solutions for urban waste management cycle, adopting a sustainable waste management policy by engaging citizens and providing them with all necessary information, rising awareness into recycling, reusing and reducing waste measures.
This co-creation area’s objective is to involve citizens in different areas of urban governance and so contribute to build an inclusive, engaged and empowered community, to improve urban level decision making, to easy access to public services, and to facilitate acceptance of new technologies and solutions and so improving urban competitiveness.
February 9th 2018, Vilnius Municipality
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and registration
09:30 – 10:00 Openning session
Povilas Poderskis, City of Vilnius
Antanas Čenys, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
10:00 – 10:20 DREAM Smart Cities objectives and programme
Marcos António Nogueira, IrRADIARE, Science for Evolution
10:20 – 10:40 Vilnius Smart City, view from industry and technology
Rolandas Urbonas, Lithuanian Energy Institute
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:15 Smart and Real Vilnius: From Challenges to Solutions
Gintaras Stauskis, VGTU - Department of Architecture
11:15 – 11:30 Energy efficient, Smart & Knowledge Based Urban Community
Kestutis Valancius, VGTU - Department of Building Energetics
11:30 – 11:45 The Evaluation and usage of municipal waste incineration bottom ash in the Civil Engineering
Saulius Vasarevičius, VGTU - Department of Environmental Protection
11:45 – 12:50 Discussion and pitches session
12:50 – 13:00 Final remarks and closure
Vice-Rector for Research at Vilnius Gediminas Technical
University (VGTU).
Head of IT security Lab at Vilnius Gediminas Technical
University from 2006 to 2014.
He is the Head of the Lithuanian cluster responsible
for carrying out the R&D&I activities. G. Stauskis is a
Doctor of Humanities in Architecture, Professor at the
Department of Architecture at VGTU with research
and management skills in design of built environment
and industrial products. He has long and successful
record in leading the research projects under different
EU programmes.
Gintaras Stauskis is managing the Green Building
Council activities in Lithuania with training, certification
and lobbying processes to impact transformation
of the construction and product’s market towards
sustainable development and green economy. G.
Stauskis has a long and successful experience of
collaborative research and demonstration projects in
the EU. Activities within the project: EV interior design,
user’s interface, project management.
He is assoc. prof. dr. in the Department of Building
Energetics at VGTU. His specific fields of expertise
include Energy efficiency evaluation and optimization
of building thermal services, Building energy
consumption monitoring; Energy efficient building
energy management.
K. Valančius has experience participating in participating
in several EU projects from which the most relevant
were: Sustainable Energy Buildings, Energy Research to
Innovation: Reinforcing cooperation with ENP countries
on bridging the gap between energy research and
energy innovation, ENER2i and Sustainable Production
of storage technologies, SusPIRE.
Konstantinas holds a Master’s degree International and European public law and during his professional career in both public and private sector has worked on a number of large scale international projects related to new innovative solutions for the public sector.
Currently Konstantinas is heading the Projects Department at the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists.
Master in Mechanical Engineering, Energy. As a
researcher in the field of mathematical modeling, was
the author of a substantial number of publications
and systems used by international industry groups. As
a consultant, support the development of a significant
number of public, national, local and regional entities
with special emphasis on innovative models, programs
and platforms for cities and regions.
Managing partner, IrRADIARE Science for Evolution.
Mindaugas Danys holds a Master degree of Public administration and during his professional career of nearly 20 years in private and public sectors has been engaged in shaping and implementing economic development, SME promotion and social innovation policies in Lithuania.
He was managing SME department at the Ministry of Economy in Lithuania in 2012-2014. He has been an expert and project manager of multiple EU funded projects. In the context of urban innovation, he has practical experience with shared spaces, sustainability, tactical urbanism, open data, startups and urban gardening.
CEO of Vilnius Municipality administration.
Director and co-founder of Kompiuteriukų paramos
fondas, studied Electronics and Telecommunication
in Kaunas University Tecnhology.
Dr. Rolandas Urbonas, male, within Lietuvos energetikos
institutas since 1997; Deputy Director for Science and
International Affairs since 2014. In 2002 he received
his Dr. degree in the study field of Energy and Thermal
Engineering.
His research experience lies in simulation thermal hydraulic
systems, managing national and international projects,
organising conferences and events. Participated in
H2020, FP7, FP6, national programmes.
Since 2014 – Representative from Lithuania for H2020
priority “Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy” Programme
Committee.
Professor, Head (from 2014) at the Department of
Environmental Protection, Faculty of Environmental
Engineering. Expert on waste management in the
international and national projects (sustainable recovery
of materials from waste, evaluation of waste flows,
evaluation the impact on environment, evaluation of
waste as secondary row materials etc.).
He has published more than 100 research papers,
supervisor of 5 defended PhD thesis. His research areas
of interest is waste management, waste prevention, and
environmental technologies.
Vilma Purienė is a Head of Knowledge and technology transfer centre at VGTU. She has extensive
experience in national and international project management. She was a project manager of
“New financing scheme: Innovation Voucher” (2010–2012); “Green Innovation Programme”
(2012–2014); and Co-leader of the flagship project under EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy “BSR Stars
Programme” (10 countries, programme for innovation, clusters & SMEs networks, 2012–2014); Coleader,
Communication WP in “StarDust” project (10 countries, 32 partners & 33 assoc. partners,
2011-2014).
She is an Innovation policy expert and participated in the design and implementation of EU
and national (State) research and innovation policy. She worked for more than 8 years in the
Ministry of Economy of Lithuania and was responsible for the State Innovation policy formation.
Areas of expertise: demand driven innovation policy, IPR, commercialization, science & business
cooperation, clusters, innovative SMEs and innovation support infrastructure policies.
Knowledge and Technology Transfer Centre
vilma.puriene@vgtu.lt
Paula Peiró García has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration by the University of Valencia.
Paula works since 2013 in IrRADIARE in collaboration with ISG University, Lisbon, in the international
department as Project developer in European funding programs like H2020, Interreg and Erasmus
+ among others.
She participated in a TEMPUS project “Inter-university Start-up centers for students’ innovations
development & promotion” and FABLAB “University-business-industry networking on fablab
platforms”. Paula Peiró is operating as project developer for DREAM.
IrRADIARE, Science for Evolution
paula.peiro@irradiare.com
The SMARTATHON’18 best ideas, according to the Jury’s proposal and City of Vilnius acceptance, will be associated partner to DREAM Smart City proposal, conditioned to H2020-LC-SC3-SCC-1-2018 funding rules.
This Smartathon is currently open for participation for 2-3 members teams representing entities with registered Expression of Interest. In case of academic teams of students, a mentor jury member is designated. The mentor represents the participating academic team and institution in jury meetings with supervisor role.
Send us your expression of interest for participating on the SMARTATHON'18. The expression of interest should include:
(1) Name and email contact of each team member;
(2) Entity;
(3) Faculty and course or degree, in case of academic teams of students;
(4) Area of interest, among the 12 challenge areas;
(5) One sentence about Smart Cities agenda and idea (mandatory);
(6) After the SMARTATHON event, one abstract (1000 chars) about a project for development with a DREAM consortium city – Guimarães, Vilnius, Trieste, Thessaloniki, Krakow, Timisoara, Kharkiv, Koper – is due for evaluation. In case of selection further expanded abstract is due for integration in the Vilnius DREAM Smart City programme and H2020-LC-SC3-SCC-1-2018 proposal.
