event 10 Jul 2018

Documentation Kick Off Meeting // The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)

Researchers and project partners from the 15 projects funded in the JPI Urban Europe and Belmont Forum joint call “Sustainable urbanization global initiatives – food water energy nexus” met in London for a two days’ kick-off meeting in the beginning of June.

Sugi square kopie

The Kick Off Meeting was organized with the aim to give the projects valuable information and to encourage collaboration across projects from the start. It was held to share expectations for the coming three years, comparing different approaches to food-water-energy nexus in urban transitioning, and identifying topics for further collaboration. Hassan Virji, Chair of the SUGI Expert Committee on Innovation and Impact Delivery, explained how the monitoring activities will support projects to succeed.

Programme

Programme SUGI Kick Off Meeting

Presentations

Overall programme overview

Day 1

  • Katrina Hayter
    Innovate UK
    Welcome address
  • Ewa Bloch
    Innovate UK (presentation from Maria Yeroyanni)
    Welcome address
  • Maria Uhle
    National Science Foundation
    Presentation
  • Margit Noll
    JPI Urban Europe
    Presentation
  • 15 SUGI projects
    Speed presentation
  • Joe Ravetz
    CURE; Manchester University
    Presentation

Day 2

  • Daniela Melandri
    Coordinator of SUGI, Future Cities Catapult
  • Susanna Ehlers
    SUGI Theme Programme Office (TPO) Lead, National Science Foundation
    The SUGI overall framework and timeline
  • Hanna Scheck
    SUGI call secretariat, FFG
    Formal reporting and requirements
  • Tina Vuga
    ARRS, Hassan Virji, Chair of the SUGI Expert Committee on Innovation and Impact Delivery
    Monitoring projects’ progress and impact
  • Katarina Schylberg and Magnus Brink
    IQS, JPI Urban Europe management board
    Communication, support activities and events
  • Josh Tewksbury
    Future Earth
    Future Earth cross- project synthesis activities
  • Kirsten Rowell
    University of Colorado Boulder
    Global Sustainability Scholars
  • Clement Ng
    JST
    Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management– expectations on open data policy and data management and potential training opportunities

SUGI Projects Catalogue and Guidelines

  • SUGI Projects Catalogue
  • SUGI Guidelines to projects

More information

Source: JPI Urban Europe

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