This stakeholder engagement workshop at the Karşıyaka Synagogue Building had attendees from public bodies, citizens, NGOs, the private sector, academia, and local government.
Several bodies from Karşıyaka Municipality attended the workshop as the Climate Change and Zero Waste Directorate, Planning and Project Directorate, Urban Vision Unit, and Citizen Participation Unit, as well as representatives from Demir Enerji Danismanlik and İzmir Institute of Technology. Ozlem Senyol and Alp Erdoğan have presented their work regarding the district of Karşıyaka. PED-ACT project goals and progress were briefly presented by Eylem Keskin (IZTECH).
Wonderland’s Bahanur Nasya moderated the workshop with their collaborative framework for PED-ACT. Each participant joined the discussion and steered the conversation into the prolific realms of co-creation.
Yilmaz Vurucu played their short film in the scope of Open Heritage, the Stara Trznica Old Market Hall. Bahanur Nasya (moderator) and Yilmaz Vurucu have also filmed interviewing actors for the PED-ACT project.
The PED-ACT team also visited the demo site for an updated feasibility study and also examined the Solar Power Plant in the north. We are hoping to deliver more good news from Izmir!
We would like to thank all of our participants and our team members for this fruitful event!
In the PED-ACT project, we aim to make energy consumption and production sustainable in regional units. This project, which is carried out at an international level, carries out studies in five different prototype regions in three countries. It is investigating ways to transform these regions into Positive Energy Regions (PED).
Now, it is time to collaborate and think together about İzmir! PED-ACT’s WP6 “Co-learning Processes and Co-design Strategies” leader Wonderland is going to lead this workshop, hosted by Karşıyaka Municipality and facilitated by Izmir Institute of Technology (WP8 Leader).
The workshop will take place in Karşıyaka Municipality building Kal Kadoş Synagogue on 26th of March, Tuesday starting at 9:30.
PED-ACT’s coordinator Prof. Xingxing Zhang (Dalarna University) and WP8 doctoral researcher Eylem Keskin (Izmir Institute of Technology) attended to the IEA-EBC Annex 83 Working Meeting on 26-27 February 2024 in CENER Headquarters Pamplona, Spain.
As one of the Subtask A leaders Prof. Xingxing Zhang has been working on definition development and development of a classification of PED typologies. For the Subtask A parallel session, doctoral researcher Juveria Shah (Dalarna University) has presented our work online about the PED stories of PED-ACT. Shah elaborated on PED-ACT project as it fosters a collaborative environment through bilateral learning and co-design processes among stakeholders in four specific cities of Borlänge, Umeå, Karşıyaka/Izmir, Ankara and the county of Schönbühel-Aggsbach.
For the PhD Talks Session of Annex 83 Working Meeting, PhD Candidate Eylem Keskin has presented her work “Campus as a Living Lab: Case of IZTECH”.
CENER (National Renewable Energy Center) as the host institution of Annex 83 Working Meeting, Pamplona organized a technical tour on day two to its two important renewable energy research centers: Wind Turbine Test Laboratory and Hygrin Lab: Innovation for Green Hydrogen in Sangüesa; and Biorefinery and Bioenergy Center in Aoiz.
PED-ACT Team would like to thank to the heartwarming hospitality of CENER and the coordinators and other participants of IEA-EBC Annex 83 for their support.
Dalarna University is thrilled to offer a new Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) for graduate-level exchange students. With its two weeks of study (one in Sweden/one online) and international student group, this BIP promises to be a unique educational experience for 3 ECTS credits.
This course will be coordinated by Prof. Xingxing Zhang, the project coordinator of PED-ACT and professor of Energy and Environmental Technology in School of Information and Engineering in Dalarna University.
The two-week programme aims to support the capacity-building of students in Master’s and doctoral programmes. The programme will result in the transfer of essential knowledge to relevant stakeholders in the Erasmus+ network who are committed to supporting the development of PEDs and the transformation of cities to carbon-neutral status. This course will take place in the new campus of Dalarna University, which is one of the most modern campuses in Sweden.
This course is jointly developed by researchers from IEA Annex 83 and EU Cost Action CA19126. For more information, please find the link here.
It is recommended to register your interest (for administrative purposes) by 1 March 2024. From 15 March 2024, you can submit your application on www.du.se/applytocourses.
In addition, Dalarna University will pay for the accommodation fees for the first 15 registered students.
Bahanur Nasya from the Wonderland Platform for European Architecture, moderated this session on behalf of our project. Our first guest was our stakeholder Turkish Cogeneration Association(KOJENTÜRK). Yavuz Aydın and Yağmur Bozkurt represented KOJENTÜRK for this webinar. We would also like to thank our partners from Karşıyaka Belediyesi, Özlem Şenyol and Yasemin Şentürk.
