1. Willkommen WELCOME Bienvenue
MUSIC* Info Day
Energie Planung und CO2 Reduzierung im
Urbanen Raum
Luxemburg, 8 October 2012
*Mitigation of CO2 Emissions in Urban Areas: Solutions for Innovative Cities

2. Mitigation of CO2 Emissions in Urban Areas:
Solutions for Innovative Cities (MUSIC)
15.00h Welcome
Dr. Paul Schosseler – CRTE / CRP Henri Tudor
15:15h The MUSIC Project
Ulrich Leopold – CRP Henri Tudor
Climate Alliance Ghent
Indra van Sande – Stadt Ghent
The Rotterdam Energy Approach
Roland van der Heijden – Stadt Rotterdam
iGUESS: Ein integriertes GeoInformationssystem für Urbane
Energie Planung
Ulrich Leopold, Christian Braun – CRP Henri Tudor
Discussion
17.00h Drink
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3. Public Research Centre Henri Tudor
Mission statement
CRP Henri Tudor is an autonomous Luxembourgish Research and Technology Organisation (RTO)
that acts as an essential link between research and society as a whole and reinforces in a sustainable
way the economic competitiveness of enterprises and the social environment at a national, regional
and international level.
Scientific & Technological Domains
• Information and communication technologies
• Business organisation and management
• Materials technologies
• Environmental technologies
• Health care technologies
Key Economic Sectors
Service Industry, IT, Multimedia and Communication, Finance and Banking,
Industrial Production and Manufacturing, Construction and Building, Transport and Logistics,
Healthcare, Medical and Social, Governmental and Public Organisations
Key Figures (2011)
460 employees (56 PhD, 19 PostDoc), 36 nationalities
Total income: 44,6 Mio € (20 Mio € research contracts), 156 on-going RDI projects (82 in EU
programmes – FP, CIP, LIFE+, Interreg,..), 246 publications
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4. Resource Centre for Environmental
Technologies (CRTE)
Science-based Environmental Policy support on Integrated Pollution Prevention
and Control (IPPC), EU Water Framework Directive, REACH / CLP – national
helpdesk
• Common structure of CRP Henri Tudor and the Ministry
for Sustainable Development and Infrastructures (MDDI)
• Formalised collaborations with Ministry of Interior and Spatial Planning, Ministry
of Economy and Foreign Trade for Science-based Environmental Policy Support
Multidisciplinary team of 56
collaborators (4 PhD): environmental,
mechanical, civil engineering;
process engineering; (bio)chemistry;
physics; geography
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5. CRTE – Priority Research Domains
The CRTE research activities aim at increasing the knowledge on material,
energy and pollutant flows generated by human activities and at providing
tools, concepts and technologies for an integrated protection of the
environment and the implementation of sound environmental policies,
taking into account also economic and societal needs.
Five priority research domains:
1. Environmental assessment of systems
2. Chemical risk assessment and management
3. Urban Water Systems Engineering
4. Energy systems Engineering
5. Integrated Modelling and Geocomputation for Natural and Urban systems
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6. CRTE within Tudor
Corporate Innovation Programmes (CIPs)
Environmental Policy
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7. The MUSIC project (2010-2014)
Mitigation in Urban Areas: Solutions for Innovative Cities
Transition
Management stakeholders vision agenda
DRIFT: Dutch Community and place Transition Agenda;
Stakeholder analysis
Research Institute driven workshop to integral part of the city’s
in the city
For Transitions integrate vision sustainability policy
GIS Mapping
Data storing, data maintenance,
visualisation, combining and
decision support system,
CRTE / CRP Henri
connecting with other local
Tudor,
project initiatives
Luxembourg
Pilots Cities: Rotterdam (NL), Ludwigsburg (D), Aberdeen (UK), Montreuil (F), Gent (B)
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8. Discussion (1/2)
• Where do you see links to your daily work and/or life?
Wo sehen Sie Verbindungen mit Ihrer täglichen Arbeit / Leben?
• What are the needs of your city / municipality to set up a more targeted and
efficient energy policy?
Welches sind die Bedürfnisse in Ihrer Stadt / Gemeinde für eine
zielgerichtete und effiziente Energiepolitik?
• Do you have the necessary information to build future energy scenarios for
your city?
Sind Sie im Besitz der notwendigen Informationen, um zukünftige
Energieszenarien für Ihre Stadt/Gemeinde zu entwerfen?
• Are GIS tools used to plan energy related topics in your field? How?
Werden GIS Instrumente genutzt, um energierelevante Themen in Ihrem
Bereich zu bearbeiten? Wenn ja, wie?
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9. Discussion (2/2)
• Would you like to collaborate on an implementation of similar approaches in
Luxembourg?
Sehen Sie Möglichkeiten, Sich einzubringen bei der Entwicklung von
ähnlichen Ansätzen hier in Luxemburg?
• What kind of information should tools, such as iGUESS, contribute to make
your work easier?
Welche Art von Informationen sollten Tools wie iGUESS bereitstellen, um
Ihre Arbeit zu erleichtern?
• Do you feel inspired by such tools to start new initiatives / business
opportunities or enhance existing ones with respect to energy policy?
Eröffnen solche Tools in Ihren Augen die Möglichkeit, neue Initiativen
/Dienstleistungen in der Energiepolitik zu entwickeln oder zu verstärken?
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