In dialogue with GrInn Lab students, Dr. Zanchini, head of the City of Rome’s “Climate” Scoping Office, will be present on April 14, 2023 at the House of Emerging Technologies in Rome.
The GrInn Lab has for years been delivered with the support of the LabGov ETS Association engaged in the development of methods, policies and projects that enable collaborative governance of the city as a common good, delving into the themes of sustainability, energy transition, social and economic innovation.
The theme of GrInn Lab 2023 is dedicated to energy communities. The students, supervised by arch. Claudia Meloni from ENEA, Prof. Iaione from LUISS with the support of Dr. Tatì (LUISS researcher for the House of Emerging Technologies project) and LUISS industrial P.HD. students Alberica Aquili and Adriano Contardi, are introduced to the theme both through theoretical lectures and testimonies (for example, representatives from Acea, Zétema, Biblioteche di Roma, and smaller municipalities such as, Reggio Emilia were sent), and through laboratory work.
LUISS Institutional Relations Manager – LabGov Wiame Bounejar and several trainees of LabGov that attend LUISS Master’s degree in Law, Digital, Innovation and Sustainability, then, collaborated in the lab, working alongside colleagues enrolled in the third year of the LUISS University. Special thanks go to: Chiara Scalia, Edoardo Carminucci, Francesco Schirripa, Magloire Tene Fopokam and Silvia Cavicchioli.
For this 2023 edition, in particular, the laboratory work is inspired by an already existing platform (CO-ROMA, https://co-roma.it/), the result of a series of past research financed with European and national funds in LUISS and the subject of future developments also in the context of CTE and Integrated Urban Plans, especially in the perspective of being able to elaborate a useful tool to map the supply and needs of equitable and sustainable innovation on the territory of Rome. Students are asked to identify themselves as individual or associated citizens and rethink the various sections of the platform to facilitate the establishment of energy communities with a bottom-up approach, generating input to offer a set of integrated services that facilitate the process of creating and mapping energy communities themselves.
The event on April 14 will provide an opportunity for the students to interface with the city both as citizens, in an experience of active participation and feedback to the presentation of policies for the city on climate change and energy transition, and as students and future social innovators, being able to address more specific questions to the host related to the workshop’s subject matter, namely, the promotion and formation of energy communities and the role of digital platforms for bottom-up engagement of the population.
The open discussion will be enriched by the presence of qualified interlocutors such as architect Claudia Meloni (ENEA), among the lecturers of the workshop, and Dr. Alessandro Piperno, program director of the House of Emerging Technologies in Rome.
The event is also open to all LUISS students, teaching staff, doctoral students and researchers interested in the topic of land development in an equitable and sustainable direction, starting with a focus on climate change and energy transition.
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