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.
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.
Our dear members of PED-ACT, a diverse group from Austria, Sweden and Türkiye, got the chance to join the 2nd PED-EU-NET Training School titled “Implementing Positive Energy Districts (PED): Learning from Zürich”. This TS is organized by Maria-Beatrice Andreucci, PhD the grant holder of the Cost Action CA1912, and hosted by ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften with local coordinator Matthias Haase at ZKSD Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development in Zurich.
We would like to thank our members Ghazal Etminan, Eylem Keskin, Juveria Shah, and Moa Mattsson for taking this great incentive towards learning the implementation of the PEDs in Zürich in this knowledge-packed Training School.
We are excited to see our pilot areas becoming lighthouses for energy communities and PEDs with further help from our colleagues!
Our members from Karşıyaka Municipality, Izmir Institute of Technology and Middle East Technical University have been to the pilot area in Karsiyaka, Zübeyde Hanim District to investigate the current conditions of the neighbourhood for an energy transition. They have been gathering important data from the area as well as interacting with the locals throughout this process.
We want to thank this hardworking team; Onur Taylan, Hasan Burak Çavka, Didem Karaca, Yasemin Şentürk and Arzu Doğruyol for their contributions and incentives towards creating more sustainable, resilient and participatory communities.
PED-ACT Team visited ODTÜ-GÜNAM the Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications in Ankara. ODTÜ-GÜNAM was founded by an initiative from the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ/METU) in 2009 as a multi-discipliner research center. They explained their visions to strengthen society by creating fundamental knowledge through research that supports innovation in solar energy at national, EU and global levels; facilitating R&I at national, EU and global levels by providing scientific services and access to unique scientific facilities to researchers and industry; developing human capacities through training and education to strengthen R&I capacities and culture in Turkey specifically and at EU and global levels more generally; identifying and exploiting Intellectual Property (IP) created at ODTÜ-GUNAM; and supporting the market-uptake of solar energy technologies in Turkey by providing scientific consulting to ministries to craft appropriate regulations and policies (ODTÜ-GÜNAM, 2023). You can visit https://odtugunam.org for more information.
