LOCOMOTION Summer School 2022

Application deadline

Application for the Locomotion summer school is open till 01st of July 2022.
Chosen candidates should be informed till 15th of July 2022.

How to apply ?
In the application form you will need to submit your CV (doc. or pdf) and a motivation letter (doc. or pdf). Motivation letter should be a maximum of 2 A4 pages where you need to show why you are the best candidate for the LOCOMOTION Summer school. Be concise with your background and expectations you have from Locomotion Summer school.

Scope

Who is the course aimed at?
To students who want to start their pre-doctoral training in the field of integrated energy-economy-environment assessment models and (E3- IAMs) researchers in general who want to know the WILIAM model.

Objective :
Give initial training to pre-doctoral students (last year master students with the potential of starting a PhD) and PhD students, so that they can develop their doctoral thesis in the field of WILIAM, its possible improvements and the exploitation of its results for different cases of policies and scenarios. Priority should be given to PhD students while last year master students will need to be carefully examined, in order to be sure whether they can follow the course. The LOCOMOTION consortium encourages female participants to apply. At the end of the course, students should be able to work with the WILIAM model to obtain results and simulate policies and scenarios. Those researchers who know other IAMs will be able to know the different characteristics of WILIAM and take advantage of its potentialities.

Schedule

Agenda:

Programme

Date of Event: 4 September - 15 September 2022

Brief Description:
The main topic of the summer school is energy and climate planning and modelling of smart systems and exchange of experiences with experts in the field. A special focus will be on the improved integrated assessment models (IAMs), with improved data management, policy and scenario assessment, as well as systematic dynamic modelling of relevant environmental, economic, social, technological and biophysical variables. Finding a new and improved representation of smart energy systems in IAMs is a key issue in calculating policy scenarios and their emissions.

Lecturers:

Name	Institution	Field
1. Prof.dr.sc. Neven Duić	University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Croatia	Energy systems modelling
2. Dr. Inigo Capellan Perez	University of Valladolid, Spain	Energy, Economy and System Dynamics
3. Asst.prof.dr.sc. Tomislav Pukšec	University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Croatia	Energy systems modelling
4. Prof.dr.sc. Simone D'Alessandro	University of Pisa, Italy	Economic modelling
5. Professor Inaki Arto	Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain	Energy, Environmental, Economic modelling
6. Professor Luis Javier Miguel González	University of Valladolid, Spain	Energy, Economy and System Dynamics
7. Dr. Robert Oakes	United Nations University, Japan	Social and demographic modelling
8. Lukas Eggler, MSc, BA	Austrian Energy Agency, Austria	Energy systems modelling
9. Prof. Dr. Sci Natasa Markovska	Research Center for Energy and Sustainable Development - Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, North Macedonia	Baseline and Policy scenarios
10. Prof.dr.sc. Nikola Rajaković	University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Serbia	Energy systems modelling
11. Dr.sc. Ilija Batas Bjelić	Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA, Serbia	Energy systems modelling
12. Dr.sc. Margarita Mediavilla	University of Valladolid, Spain	Environmental modelling
13. Paola López Muñoz	University of Valladolid, Spain	Energy, Economy and System Dynamics
14. Noelia Ferreras Alonso	CARTIF, Spain	Climate and sustainable policies modelling
15. Tomás Calheiros	University of Lisbon, Portugal	Climate Change Impact Adaptation and Modelling
16. Nathalie Wergles	University of Valladolid, Spain	Baseline and Policy scenarios

Invited lecture

Prof. Şiir KILKIŞ

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
Ankara, Turkey

Şiir Kılkış is alumna of KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Georgetown University, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors as the gold medalist in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. She serves as a Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change with a focus on urban systems. She is Senior Researcher and Advisor to the President at The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). As Associate Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, she is the coordinator of sustainable development in the Earth System Science Graduate Program of Middle East Technical University. Based on her research work, she takes place among the world’s top 2% scientists in the areas of energy, environmental science, and emerging/strategic technologies and is an International Scientific Committee member of the SDEWES Center. Her research accomplishments include the SDEWES Index benchmarking 120 cities, novel net-zero district concepts, and the Rational Exergy Management Model to curb CO₂ emissions. She is an editorial board member of The Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water & Environment Systems, Smart Energy, Energy Storage and Saving as well as Guest Editor in Energy Conversion and Management. She is a member of the Earth Commission Working Group on Translation and Methods and Steering Committee of Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network.

Effective Mitigation of Climate Change: Modelling Advances and Priorities for AR7

Effective climate mitigation requires increasing renewable energy penetration, improving system integration, increasing co-benefits for sustainability, and steering in the direction of a safe and just corridor. Based on the mitigation focused modelling contributions to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, illustrative mitigation pathways have emphasized the importance of renewable energy, low demand, and ways of shifting development pathways towards sustainability. Urban emissions scenarios were also provided for the first time. In looking ahead to the next assessment cycle, more needs to be done considering at least five priorities: 1) ensuring cross-sectoral integration in modelling for more energy system flexibility, 2) utilizing more granular inputs related to land, water and socio-ecological systems, 3) being explicit on the urban share of emissions across scenarios, 4) better linking scenarios with co-benefits, and 5) ensuring comparability with earth system boundaries across domains. In addition to advances in climate science and feedbacks, scenario based experiments in the next Coupled Model Intercomparison Project could be designed to account for these opportunities. This invited lecture will represent advances and priorities in ways that relate with the modules of the summer school for the new WILIAM model followed by an interactive discussion.

Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik : www.iuc.hr
Don Frana Bulića 4
HR-20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

Useful links to explore while planning your trip to Dubrovnik:

Dubrovnik Tourist Board: www.tzdubrovnik.hr

Dubrovnik Card: www.dubrovnikcard.com

LOCOMOTION Summer School participants will have the accommodation and breakfast booked at Student dormitory Dubrovnik (single rooms) (Studentski dom Dubrovnik): www.scdu.hr. Accommodation costs will be covered by the organizers.

Address: Marka Marojice 2B, 20000 Dubrovnik.

Lunch and coffee breaks will be covered at the Summer School venue by the organizers.

Fee

LOCOMOTION Summer School fee: 0 EUR.