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Floriade Dialogue #27: Climate Responsive Cities

Almere, Netherlands 03 October 2022 at 10:00 CEST

Meet Harmonia at Floriade a world horticultural exhibition that takes place in the Netherlands only once a decade, and discuss how cities and the health of its citizens are being impacted by the climate change, and most importantly, how can we make the cities more resilient.

The workshop and discussion will be covering 3 main perspectives of Decision Support System to mitigate climate change:

• The health-impact perspective on environment and human health, discussing the challenges caused by pollution and climate change in urban environments as well as the potential benefits of greener cities.
• The Earth Observation (EO) perspective. How can EO data be used and implemented in urban environments, what information could EO provide.

• The municipality perspective. How do municipalities do EO projects and what is their current experience.

SBEfin 2022 - emerging concepts for sustainable built environment [TBC]

Helsinki, Finland (virtual event) - 23-25 November 2022

HARMONIA: strategy of an integrated resilience assessment platform (IRAP) with available tools and geospatial services

AUTHORS:

• Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi1;
• Anastasios Doulamis2;
• Ioannis Rallis2;
• Maria Stella Lux1;
• Giovanni Barbotti1;
• Ioannis Tzortzis2

AFFILIATION:

GEO Week 2022 - GEO Initiatives and European Projects: Synergies for Urban Resilience [TBC]

Accra, Ghana 31 October - 4 november 2022

The session will be focused on the ways European projects and GEO initiatives targeting climate change in urban environment can form synergies. To do so, we plan for a round table gathering various stakeholders, from the end-users (municipalities) to European projects to GEO initiatives and the facilitators putting municipalities in contact with EO tools.

International Conference on Changing Cities V: Spatial, Design, Landscape, Heritage & Socio-economic Dimensions

Corfu Island 20-25 June 2022

Changing Cities for Resilience against Climate Changes: Architectural, Engineering and Human Health Implications – The H2020 Project HARMONIA

ORGANIZERS:

• Lab of Urban Morphology and Design
• Department of Planning & Regional Development
• University of Thessaly
• Volos
• Greece

In co-organisation with Τhe Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu Island Greece.

AUTHORS:

• Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi (POLIMI)
• Giovanni Barbotti (POLIMI)
• Carlo Andrea Castiglioni (POLIMI)
• Antonio Voza (Humanitas Research Hospital)

Eura2022 Conference - EU research in support of local decision-making for urban adaptation: the experience of HARMONIA project

Milan 16-18 June 2022

ORGANIZERS:

• European Urban Research Association (EURA)
• host by Polytechnic of Milan
• Department of Architecture and Urban Studies

PLACE: Polytechnic of Milan, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies

TRACK: track 04 – Institutions politics and policies between crisis and transitions

PANEL DISCUSSANT:

• Giovanni Barbotti (POLIMI)
• Silvia Rossi (COMUNE DI MILANO)
• Yulia Barsukova (URBASOFIA)

ABSTRACT 1

TITLE: Cross-domain collaboration in defining shared adaptation strategies: the composition of HARMONIA’s consortium and the identification of expertise requirements

AUTHORS: Prof. Dr. Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi, Maria Stella Lux, Giovanni Barbotti

AFFILIATION: Politecnico di Milano, DABC

ABSTRACT 2

TITLE: Harmonia Project: Pluralist engagement to enhance cities’ Climate Change preparedness

AUTHORS: Dr. Pietro Elisei1, Duivon Laurine2, Barsukova Yulia2

AFFILIATION: 1URBASOFIA/ ISOCARP, 2URBASOFIA

ABSTRACT 3

TITLE: Taking advantage of H2020 HARMONIA project to push forward Milan municipality’s Climate Change adaptation program

AUTHORS: Piero Pelizzaro, Silvia Rossi, Sofia Grecolucchina

AFFILIATION: Comune di Milano

EXPANDEO & FIRE FORUM 2022

Brussels 15 June 2022

FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT: A MULTI-SCALAR ENDEAVOR

Harmonia’s workshop will focus on shedding light on the various administrative levels that contribute to tackling Climate Change within the project, from the pilot cities to the national and European levels. The aim of this workshop is to connect the urban and Earth Observation (EO) communities as well as increase awareness in regards to EO-based solutions tackling climate change in an urban environment.

This workshop includes a round table gathering:

1. EVANGELOS GERASOPOULOS, Research Director, IERSD/NOA
2. JULIA NERANTZIA TZORTZI, Project Coordinator, HARMONIA
3. DIMITRI BANOUSIS, Expert of Green Fund, Ministry of Environment & Energy (GR), Technical support of National Focal Point on LIFE program

GEO Week 2021

Brussels 25 November 2021

HARMONIA was presented by Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi (Politecnico di Milano) in front of 200 participants during the third day of the GEO Week, in the side event: Showcasing the EuroGEO Regional Initiative. The HARMONIA project was presented as a Support System for Improved Resilience and Sustainable Urban areas to cope with Climate Change and Extreme Events based on GEOSS. The project team looked in particular at the challenges to be addressed, the project´s priorities and its needs for data.

Other participants to the event included: Dimitris Bliziotis MSc., MEng. presenting eiffel4climate project, Mikko Strahlendorff presenting Arctic PASSION project, Claudio Rossi presenting SAFERS project and Lieven Raes presenting ComPair Project.

SCOUT workshop - UAUIM

Bucharest 25 November 2021

Project coordinator Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi (Politecnico di Milano) also presented HARMONIA in the SCOUT workshop on urban planning in a changing climate, in the session called Best practice example from a H2020- funded project. The presentation focused on the achievements and technology of the HARMONIA platform.

Participatory Lab Conference

Athens 19 November 2021

On Friday 19 November, our partners from URBASOFIA participated in the Conference: Participatory Design: city, environment and climate change, experiences, challenges & potentials, organized by participatory LAB and Commonspace Coop. Laurine Duivon, Yulia Barsukova, Pietro Elisei and Sabina Leopa (URBASOFIA) presented HARMONIA in the session Stakeholder engagement: Shaping vertical and horizontal governance frames to get real impact through locally rooted projects.

Prezentarea unui proiect de succes “Harmonia”

Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică UVT, Timisoara 3 November 2021

Virtual workshop on financial and legal issues, best practices in the Horizon Europe framework programme and developing a gender equality plan organized.

ORGANIZERS: Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara – Support TM Activități

AUTHOR OF THE PRESENTATION: Marian Neagul, Universitae de Vest din Timisoara (UVT)