Renewable and distributed energy generation for sustainable development in low income contexts

Open Seminar

March 26th 2013 - 9.15 a.m.
Via Durando 10, building N, aula CT 57
Scuola del Design
Politecnico di Milano -Campus Bovisa

AGENDA:
Promoted by Carlo Vezzoli (Head of Design and Innovation for Sustainability - Design department)

9.15-10.00 Emanuela Colombo (Rector's Delegate to Cooperation and Development - Department of Energy - Unesco Chairholder in Energy for Sustainable Development)
- Cooperation and development within access to energy in low and
middle-income countries

10.00-11.30 Lorenzo Mattarolo (Department of Energy - Program Manager, Unesco Chair in Energy for Sustainable Development)
- Renewable and distributed energy for a local and sustainable development

11.30- 12.15 Emanuela Colombo and Lorenzo Mattarolo
- partecipatory discussion on "what else behind technologies for sustainable development": competence and capacity building, institutional building, local development, ownership and commitment, role of different players (private/public partnership...)

12.15-13.15 Irene Bengo (Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, President of Ingegneria senza Frontiere - Milano)
- Social enterprises and its role in achieving energy access for all

The seminar (english) is part of the System Design for Sustainability course held by Prof. Carlo Vezzoli and it is open to any interested students, professors and researchers. Speakers from Unesco and Ingegneria senza Frontiere - Milano have been invited to intervene on the themes of renewable and distributed energy, cooperation and development and social enterprises in low-income and emerging contexts. The themes of the seminar integrate the activities of the two
following projects promoted/partnered by DIS - Design and Innovation for Sustainability:

- LeNSes (the Learning Network for Sustainable energy systems), EU funded (Edulink II program), is a multi-polar and open network for curricula and lifelong learning capacity development focused on locally-based, secure and cleaner energy services, based on the promising models of Product-Service Systems (PSS) and Distributedn Energy (DE), involving 3 Higher Education Institutions in Europe and 4 in Africa; to be coordinated by DIS of Politecnico di Milano. www.lens.polimi.it

- Sustainability Maker is an innovation and demonstration project, funded by the European LIFE Program, which will create an open innovation, crowd-sourcing, crowd-voting, crowd-funding platform and an online marketplace for Sustainable Solutions. www.sustainabilitymakers.org

Please, register at: emanuela.delfino@gmail.com

The event will be held in English