The document outlines an agenda for a presentation on the Bioenergy for the Region Cluster in Lodz, Poland. It discusses the Research and Innovation Center Pro-Akademia, defines what a cluster is, describes the activities and target groups of the Bioenergy for the Region Cluster, and gives examples of networking projects and ways the cluster supports science and industry cooperation. The overall purpose of the Bioenergy for the Region Cluster is to promote sustainable development of bioenergy in the Lodz region through collaboration between businesses, researchers, and local authorities.
This document summarizes a conference on advancing EU-Ukraine research cooperation. It discusses the benefits of scientific cooperation, including access to complementary knowledge and resources. It outlines Ukraine's existing cooperation with the EU through agreements and programs like Horizon 2020. It emphasizes that innovation is key to sustainable economic growth and that cooperation helps address challenges like climate change. The document also summarizes Ukraine's involvement in several EU programs that aim to strengthen cooperation, including through information sharing, networking, and support for Ukrainian institutions.
This document discusses designing knowledge and skills sharing systems for open innovation. It describes several projects at Eindhoven University of Technology focused on open innovation including the CRISP Smart textile services project and IOP data fusion project. It also discusses potential systems for sharing design knowledge and skills such as a Library of skills, Infoshare, Luciole, an Open Innovation platform, Philips Information Interface, Value Vault and Scenario Cards. The goal is to encourage the exchange of skills and knowledge between industry and research.
The Virtual Dimension Center (VDC) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 that operates as a network for digital product development and production planning in the Stuttgart region of Germany. The VDC has around 70 members and partners and focuses on virtual engineering, virtual reality, 3D visualization, and content creation. The VDC's goals are to support its members, initiate collaborations, promote digital product development technologies, and foster open innovation through knowledge sharing and technology transfer.
The Zala County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion was established in 1992 in Zala County, Hungary to promote economic development and support small- and medium-sized enterprises. It provides microcredit, consulting, education, project implementation, and other services to improve business skills and innovation. Its activities also include an incubator program, cluster initiatives, and participation in the Enterprise Europe Network and Regional Innovation Agency. The foundation collaborates on the Interregional Innovations System project to promote innovation and business ideas across the Austria-Hungary border region through knowledge sharing, cluster analysis, and location assessments.
Cross-border management of natural resourcesProAkademia
This document discusses several European Union-supported projects focused on sustainable management of natural resources across borders. It describes projects aimed at improving energy efficiency, developing renewable energy, protecting water resources and managing waste. Specific projects highlighted include developing common models for reducing energy use in municipal buildings in Poland and Russia, installing solar energy and biomass equipment in Poland and Ukraine, extending sewage treatment systems along the Bug River between Poland and Belarus, and fostering partnerships for cross-border water protection among Poland, Lithuania and Russia. The document emphasizes how such cross-border cooperation projects can promote sustainable development, reduce environmental threats, and improve quality of life in border regions.
This document summarizes a conference on advancing EU-Ukraine research cooperation. It discusses the benefits of scientific cooperation, including access to complementary knowledge and resources. It outlines Ukraine's existing cooperation with the EU through agreements and programs like Horizon 2020. It emphasizes that innovation is key to sustainable economic growth and that cooperation helps address challenges like climate change. The document also summarizes Ukraine's involvement in several EU programs that aim to strengthen cooperation, including through information sharing, networking, and support for Ukrainian institutions.
This document discusses designing knowledge and skills sharing systems for open innovation. It describes several projects at Eindhoven University of Technology focused on open innovation including the CRISP Smart textile services project and IOP data fusion project. It also discusses potential systems for sharing design knowledge and skills such as a Library of skills, Infoshare, Luciole, an Open Innovation platform, Philips Information Interface, Value Vault and Scenario Cards. The goal is to encourage the exchange of skills and knowledge between industry and research.
The Virtual Dimension Center (VDC) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 that operates as a network for digital product development and production planning in the Stuttgart region of Germany. The VDC has around 70 members and partners and focuses on virtual engineering, virtual reality, 3D visualization, and content creation. The VDC's goals are to support its members, initiate collaborations, promote digital product development technologies, and foster open innovation through knowledge sharing and technology transfer.
The Zala County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion was established in 1992 in Zala County, Hungary to promote economic development and support small- and medium-sized enterprises. It provides microcredit, consulting, education, project implementation, and other services to improve business skills and innovation. Its activities also include an incubator program, cluster initiatives, and participation in the Enterprise Europe Network and Regional Innovation Agency. The foundation collaborates on the Interregional Innovations System project to promote innovation and business ideas across the Austria-Hungary border region through knowledge sharing, cluster analysis, and location assessments.
Cross-border management of natural resourcesProAkademia
This document discusses several European Union-supported projects focused on sustainable management of natural resources across borders. It describes projects aimed at improving energy efficiency, developing renewable energy, protecting water resources and managing waste. Specific projects highlighted include developing common models for reducing energy use in municipal buildings in Poland and Russia, installing solar energy and biomass equipment in Poland and Ukraine, extending sewage treatment systems along the Bug River between Poland and Belarus, and fostering partnerships for cross-border water protection among Poland, Lithuania and Russia. The document emphasizes how such cross-border cooperation projects can promote sustainable development, reduce environmental threats, and improve quality of life in border regions.
The document outlines the activities of the Bioenergy for the Region Cluster in Poland. The cluster is a cooperation platform between 40 companies, 10 R&D institutions, 6 governmental units, and 7 business support organizations in the Lodz region working in renewable energy. The cluster aims to promote sustainable bioenergy development and integration between members to increase renewable energy usage. Key activities include projects, research, networking events, and supporting science-industry cooperation through programs like training renewable energy managers. The cluster collaborates with various regional partners from academia, government, and industry.
For more information about the Informed Cities initiative visit http://informed-cities.iclei-europe.org or join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/InformedCities
The document discusses using open innovation and living labs to improve competitiveness in the Danube region. It proposes that a transition from closed to open innovation models is needed to increase cooperation. Specifically, it suggests embracing the living lab concept on a regional level to facilitate transforming the region into a "smart region". Living labs allow businesses, universities and governments to jointly develop new products by involving users early on. The document calls for more living labs, especially in eastern parts of the region, to help drive economic and social innovation.
Research Council of Norway on eGov R&ITrond Knudsen
Short presentation from the Research Council of Norway on Research for Public Sector Innovation and Renewal, given at National Science Foundation, Washington DC, USA, March 18th, 2010.
The document discusses the 5TOI project and its innovative Nexus approach to living labs in the Mediterranean region. The project aims to (1) support strategic priority setting for international cooperation on water, energy and food using a Nexus approach, (2) audit existing EU-MPC cooperation programs to increase coordination, and (3) promote deeper R&I cooperation between EU and MPC countries to establish innovation hubs. Key outputs include an action plan, Nexus think tank, committees on societal challenges, a common knowledge and innovation space, and support for H2020 programs. Living labs would co-create, test and develop innovations across sectors like agriculture, food and energy through collaboration between stakeholders.
Olav Bardalen, Presentation at the TCI2018 European Conference SofiaTCI Network
This document discusses Norway's cluster program and how clusters can act as partners for change processes in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The program aims to help SMEs start or accelerate change processes to renew their products, services, processes and business models. Mature clusters will share their expertise with SMEs through tailored services and programs. The goal is for 220 companies to receive support in 2018 on digital transformation and advanced manufacturing from two selected cluster partners. Clusters can build technology bases and open innovation platforms to help SMEs transform and explore new opportunities.
Malopolska - Podkarpacie Clean Energy Cluster, Ireneusz SolinskiBusiness Finland
The Małopolska & Podkarpacie Clean Energy Cluster was established in 2006 with the goal of building cooperation between enterprises, universities, and regional authorities in southeastern Poland to promote clean energy development and environmental protection. Over time, the Cluster has grown to include 42 member institutions from industry, academia, and regional governments. In 2012, the Cluster adopted a new management structure to diversify its activities, including organizing business networking events, promoting new members, and facilitating commercialization of research outcomes through new companies. The Cluster's main program involves modernizing the regional energy system through implementation of renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, and biomass.
Innovation week Instruments of support to business creation in Euro-Mediterra...Maghrenov
The document discusses innovation projects between the EU and countries in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region. It outlines the objectives of the projects, which are to strengthen cooperation between research and business, enhance innovation capacity, improve knowledge transfer, and foster public-private partnerships. It also describes some of the actions taken, such as developing directories of stakeholders and roadmaps, networking and training activities, and organizing international events. Finally, it provides examples of innovation clusters that have been established in Mediterranean partner countries focused on topics like energy, agriculture, water treatment, and health.
The newsletter provides updates about the Greenov project, including:
- Greenov is a transnational cooperation project between partners in Northwestern European countries to develop sustainable renovation practices.
- Four Greenov partners will launch pilot renovations of existing buildings to demonstrate exemplary sustainable renovation approaches. Results will be analyzed and disseminated.
- Stoke on Trent City Council replaces Birmingham Chamber of Commerce as a Greenov partner. Stoke has two projects relevant to Greenov's mission around sustainable refurbishment training and supporting local companies.
This document discusses interregional cooperation in innovation between European regions. It outlines reasons for cooperation, including critical mass, visibility, complementarity of products/services/competences, and integrating value chains. It presents examples of pilot projects between regions in advanced manufacturing areas like 3D printing, efficient and sustainable manufacturing, and manufacturing for energy applications in harsh environments. The Vanguard Initiative involves over 20 regions working together on these types of cross-border innovation projects.
The Future Envelope 12
Interreg IT-AU FACEcamp project
------------
Conference on Building Envelopes
20-21 May 2019, NOI Techpark, Bolzano (Italy)
"It’s all about performances".
The document summarizes the results of the WinWind project. The project received funding from the European Union to develop a methodology to increase social acceptance for wind energy in regions with low wind energy capacity. It involved stakeholders from Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland and Spain. Key results included identifying barriers and solutions to wind energy development, characterizing 40 best practices, and selecting 10 case studies. One best practice highlighted was the repowering of wind farms in Abruzzo, Italy, which reduced visual impacts through community engagement in the planning process.
Regional Development-Susan Kinnear, Ian OgdenEidos Australia
This document discusses the role of innovation in sustainable regional development, using Central Queensland as a case study. It proposes that CQUniversity can act as a hub to bring together regional stakeholders like industry, government and community leaders to collaborate on innovation projects. This regional collaborative would establish an open innovation pipeline to identify, fund and implement ideas that deliver social, economic and environmental benefits for the region. The collaborative aims to strengthen linkages between these groups, build regional capacity, and influence policy, demonstrating a new model for universities to facilitate regional development through innovation.
Role of Clusters in smart specialisationAgencia IDEA
The document discusses the role of clusters in smart specialization strategies. It describes how the Smart Specialization (S3) Platform, established by the European Commission, aims to support regional policymakers in developing smart specialization strategies. The strategies are meant to foster economic growth by prioritizing research and development investments based on each region's strengths. The S3 Platform provides guidance, tools, and opportunities for peer learning to help regions design and implement their own smart specialization strategies. Clusters are identified as important actors that should be involved in the strategies to bring outward perspectives and support the regions' innovative environments.
Puglia is a region in southern Italy that has become a leader in renewable energy production. It generates over 42% of its energy from renewable sources like wind, biomass, and solar power. The regional agency ARTI was established in 2004 to support Puglia's innovation strategy and strengthen relationships between regional innovation players like businesses, universities, and research centers. ARTI promotes technology transfer, manages regional initiatives, and seeks international cooperation opportunities in green energy and energy efficiency.
The document outlines the activities of the Bioenergy for the Region Cluster in Poland. The cluster is a cooperation platform between 40 companies, 10 R&D institutions, 6 governmental units, and 7 business support organizations in the Lodz region working in renewable energy. The cluster aims to promote sustainable bioenergy development and integration between members to increase renewable energy usage. Key activities include projects, research, networking events, and supporting science-industry cooperation through programs like training renewable energy managers. The cluster collaborates with various regional partners from academia, government, and industry.
For more information about the Informed Cities initiative visit http://informed-cities.iclei-europe.org or join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/InformedCities
The document discusses using open innovation and living labs to improve competitiveness in the Danube region. It proposes that a transition from closed to open innovation models is needed to increase cooperation. Specifically, it suggests embracing the living lab concept on a regional level to facilitate transforming the region into a "smart region". Living labs allow businesses, universities and governments to jointly develop new products by involving users early on. The document calls for more living labs, especially in eastern parts of the region, to help drive economic and social innovation.
Research Council of Norway on eGov R&ITrond Knudsen
Short presentation from the Research Council of Norway on Research for Public Sector Innovation and Renewal, given at National Science Foundation, Washington DC, USA, March 18th, 2010.
The document discusses the 5TOI project and its innovative Nexus approach to living labs in the Mediterranean region. The project aims to (1) support strategic priority setting for international cooperation on water, energy and food using a Nexus approach, (2) audit existing EU-MPC cooperation programs to increase coordination, and (3) promote deeper R&I cooperation between EU and MPC countries to establish innovation hubs. Key outputs include an action plan, Nexus think tank, committees on societal challenges, a common knowledge and innovation space, and support for H2020 programs. Living labs would co-create, test and develop innovations across sectors like agriculture, food and energy through collaboration between stakeholders.
Olav Bardalen, Presentation at the TCI2018 European Conference SofiaTCI Network
This document discusses Norway's cluster program and how clusters can act as partners for change processes in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The program aims to help SMEs start or accelerate change processes to renew their products, services, processes and business models. Mature clusters will share their expertise with SMEs through tailored services and programs. The goal is for 220 companies to receive support in 2018 on digital transformation and advanced manufacturing from two selected cluster partners. Clusters can build technology bases and open innovation platforms to help SMEs transform and explore new opportunities.
Malopolska - Podkarpacie Clean Energy Cluster, Ireneusz SolinskiBusiness Finland
The Małopolska & Podkarpacie Clean Energy Cluster was established in 2006 with the goal of building cooperation between enterprises, universities, and regional authorities in southeastern Poland to promote clean energy development and environmental protection. Over time, the Cluster has grown to include 42 member institutions from industry, academia, and regional governments. In 2012, the Cluster adopted a new management structure to diversify its activities, including organizing business networking events, promoting new members, and facilitating commercialization of research outcomes through new companies. The Cluster's main program involves modernizing the regional energy system through implementation of renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, and biomass.
Innovation week Instruments of support to business creation in Euro-Mediterra...Maghrenov
The document discusses innovation projects between the EU and countries in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region. It outlines the objectives of the projects, which are to strengthen cooperation between research and business, enhance innovation capacity, improve knowledge transfer, and foster public-private partnerships. It also describes some of the actions taken, such as developing directories of stakeholders and roadmaps, networking and training activities, and organizing international events. Finally, it provides examples of innovation clusters that have been established in Mediterranean partner countries focused on topics like energy, agriculture, water treatment, and health.
The newsletter provides updates about the Greenov project, including:
- Greenov is a transnational cooperation project between partners in Northwestern European countries to develop sustainable renovation practices.
- Four Greenov partners will launch pilot renovations of existing buildings to demonstrate exemplary sustainable renovation approaches. Results will be analyzed and disseminated.
- Stoke on Trent City Council replaces Birmingham Chamber of Commerce as a Greenov partner. Stoke has two projects relevant to Greenov's mission around sustainable refurbishment training and supporting local companies.
This document discusses interregional cooperation in innovation between European regions. It outlines reasons for cooperation, including critical mass, visibility, complementarity of products/services/competences, and integrating value chains. It presents examples of pilot projects between regions in advanced manufacturing areas like 3D printing, efficient and sustainable manufacturing, and manufacturing for energy applications in harsh environments. The Vanguard Initiative involves over 20 regions working together on these types of cross-border innovation projects.
The Future Envelope 12
Interreg IT-AU FACEcamp project
------------
Conference on Building Envelopes
20-21 May 2019, NOI Techpark, Bolzano (Italy)
"It’s all about performances".
The document summarizes the results of the WinWind project. The project received funding from the European Union to develop a methodology to increase social acceptance for wind energy in regions with low wind energy capacity. It involved stakeholders from Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland and Spain. Key results included identifying barriers and solutions to wind energy development, characterizing 40 best practices, and selecting 10 case studies. One best practice highlighted was the repowering of wind farms in Abruzzo, Italy, which reduced visual impacts through community engagement in the planning process.
Regional Development-Susan Kinnear, Ian OgdenEidos Australia
This document discusses the role of innovation in sustainable regional development, using Central Queensland as a case study. It proposes that CQUniversity can act as a hub to bring together regional stakeholders like industry, government and community leaders to collaborate on innovation projects. This regional collaborative would establish an open innovation pipeline to identify, fund and implement ideas that deliver social, economic and environmental benefits for the region. The collaborative aims to strengthen linkages between these groups, build regional capacity, and influence policy, demonstrating a new model for universities to facilitate regional development through innovation.
Role of Clusters in smart specialisationAgencia IDEA
The document discusses the role of clusters in smart specialization strategies. It describes how the Smart Specialization (S3) Platform, established by the European Commission, aims to support regional policymakers in developing smart specialization strategies. The strategies are meant to foster economic growth by prioritizing research and development investments based on each region's strengths. The S3 Platform provides guidance, tools, and opportunities for peer learning to help regions design and implement their own smart specialization strategies. Clusters are identified as important actors that should be involved in the strategies to bring outward perspectives and support the regions' innovative environments.
Puglia is a region in southern Italy that has become a leader in renewable energy production. It generates over 42% of its energy from renewable sources like wind, biomass, and solar power. The regional agency ARTI was established in 2004 to support Puglia's innovation strategy and strengthen relationships between regional innovation players like businesses, universities, and research centers. ARTI promotes technology transfer, manages regional initiatives, and seeks international cooperation opportunities in green energy and energy efficiency.
Similar to Bioenergy for the region cluster.01 (20)
110912 deutsche klima- und energiepolitikProAkademia
The document discusses Germany's climate and energy policy, including its goals of improving energy efficiency, expanding renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and upgrading its electricity grid. It outlines Germany's plans to phase out nuclear power by 2022 and transition to renewable sources that have grown to supply 20% of its electricity. It also notes the challenges in managing costs and integrating renewable energy into the grid, and emphasizes the need for cross-border cooperation with countries like Poland to balance renewable generation and develop efficient electricity infrastructure across Europe.
110912 deutsche klima- und energiepolitikProAkademia
Warschau
The document discusses Germany's climate and energy policy and opportunities for cooperation with Poland. It outlines Germany's goals of improving energy efficiency, expanding renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and modernizing its electricity grid. Some key challenges include keeping renewable energy costs low, further integrating renewables into the market, and expanding cross-border grid infrastructure to balance renewable generation across Europe. Overall, transforming Germany's energy system presents opportunities for German-Polish cooperation on issues like grid stability, energy security, and reducing technology costs.
This document summarizes a workshop on implementing information processing tools in open innovation spaces. The workshop brought together members of two research groups to discuss experiences using different tools, reflect on results, and assess the maturity of information processing. Next steps include further analysis of workshop results, running additional workshops, and comparing feedback to develop recommendations for open innovation spaces.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
Contact us: info@mydbops.com
Visit: https://www.mydbops.com/
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/mydbops
For more details and updates, please follow up the below links.
Meetup Page : https://www.meetup.com/mydbops-databa...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mydbopsofficial
Blogs: https://www.mydbops.com/blog/
Facebook(Meta): https://www.facebook.com/mydbops/
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
2. Agenda of presentation
1. Research and Innovation Center Pro-Akademia
2. Cluster localization / Lodz Region
3. Definition of Cluster – scientific point of view
4. Bioenergy for the Region Cluster as a cooperation platform
5. Cluster main target groups
6. Cluster activities
7. Networking projects/activities
8. Research in the field of economics
9. Supporting science and Industry cooperation
10.Cooperation within Bioenergy for the Region Cluster
3. Research and Innovation Center Pro-Akademia
NGO established in April 1996
Public benefit organization
Over 100 active members
Portfolio of 120 projects
One of the largest NGOs in Poland working abroad for the benefit of developing
countries, especially those mentioned in the European Neighbourhood Policy
Certificate of Quality Management System confirming satisfaction of requirements of
the PN-EN ISO 9001:2008 standard pertaining to provision of:
- general consultancy services,
- training services,
- information services,
- organization of economic missions,
- social integration.
4. RIC Pro-Akademia - key fields of activity
Environment
Enterpreneurship
protection and
and
sustainable
innovativeness
development
Regional
development Human resource
and cohesion development
policy
5. RIC Pro-Akademia - key forms of activity
Trainings
Foreign
economic Consulting
missions
Charitable Economic
and social research and
projects analyses
Scholarship
Publications
funds
8. Definition of Cluster
Cluster- a geographic concentration of interrelated companies, specialized suppliers, service providers,
companies which operate in the same field and associated institutions (for example universities,
supervisory units, trade associations and financial institutions) in their respective fields, competing but
also cooperating. 1
1 Porter M. E., The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Macmillan Press, Hampshire and London 1990
Innovative clusters - concentration of independent businesses - newly founded innovative companies, small,
medium and large enterprises and research organizations - operating in a particular sector, region and founded
to stimulate innovative activity by promoting intensive connections, sharing background facilities and
exchange of knowledge and expertise and by contributing effectively to technology transfer, networking and
sharing of information among companies within the cluster. Member countries should aim to achieve a proper
balance between SMEs and large companies in the cluster to achieve certain critical mass, especially by
specialization in a certain area of R & D & I and taking into account the existing clusters in the Member States
and at Community level.2
2 Definition of an innovative cluster by European Commission
9. Bioenergy for the Region Cluster as a cooperation platform
Bioenergy for the Region Cluster – Cooperation platform between:
40 companies,
10 R&D,
6 governmental units,
7 institutions of business environment,
acting in terms of RES.
The main aim of the Cluster activity is sustainable development of bio-energy in region
of Lodz in the context of an integrated energy and climate change package to cut
emissions for the 21st Century
Cluster aims to achieve its purposes through:
complex solution of issues concerning the regulation of the RES market in the Lodz region, in
particular the methods of collection, processing and use of RES
integration between members of the Cluster - businesses, researchers and local authorities in
order to increase the share of solar and wind energy in the energy balance of the region
educational and information activities, promoting the use of available in region of Lodz renewable
energy and energy efficiency
increase international visibility, markets knowledge, competence and ability to operate on
international markets
10. Cluster main target groups
Business
support Government
Research
Enterprises Individuals institutions and
institutes
and local autorities
NGOs
11. Cluster activities
Cluster activities
Projects Meetings & Conferences Other activities
Research in Supporting
science & Forum,
the field of Networking Events
economics industry Workshops
cooperation organized in which
by Cluster
Projects Co-financed by: Bioenergy Experts and
members
EU funds – ESF, ETC for the
EEA Grants are
Region
National Funds – NFEPWM participating
Cluster
13. Networking activities
Regional Energy Concepts in Baltic Sea Region
Bioenergy for the Region – development of cooperation network between science and economy in the
field of renewable energy sources in region of Lodz using solutions of German deENet network
PROJECT AIM
Elaboration and implementation of effective cooperation network model of RES industry, between entities acting in the
field of research and industry in the Lodz Region using the solutions of the German Partner – deENet Network – and
tightening the cooperation between Bioenergy for the Region Cluster and deENet Network.
18. Research in the field of economics
Open Information Processing within Innovation Networks InfoPro
Aim of the project:
InfoPro aims to identify and transfer best practices on how to process information to support the network members at best.
Partners:
• Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach / GERMANY
• Zala County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion / HUNGARY
• Eindhoven University of Technology / HOLLAND
• Research and Innovation CenterPro-Akademia / POLAND
Raising the Awareness of a European Multi-Actor Network Acting for the
Enhancement of Agriculture In Sub-Saharan Africa
Survey: Impact of Common Agriculture Policy of the European Union on Situation and Development of
Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Partners : Spain, Belgium, Austria, Poland
19. Research in the field of economics
Monitoring and evaluation of the North-East cluster of digital education
Study on management of economic changes in Warsaw Region
(Masovia Voivodeship)
Objective: to develop adaptive strategies for regional economy in the context of transition to energy-
efficient technologies in the energy sector, construction and transport
20. Supporting science & industry cooperation
Integrated programme of Ph.D. students’ development
48 participants
a scholarship of 500,000 €
2 304 consultancy hours with experts
from business and academia
48 applied research for local businesses
10 patents
Subprojects:
• The local energy powerplant, basing on integrated sources of energy: biomass and sun,
including production of hydrogen which will stabilize the system
• Zero-energy house 2020 with the implementation of an innovative architecture and
construction technology, micro energy power plant, which will be based
on biomass, system of recuperation and the micro management net
• Mapping the industrial polutted soil in Lodz Region and selection
of the proper energy plants.
21. Supporting science & industry cooperation
Renewable Energy Manager – training programme
150 trainees
126 hours of lectures/person, workshops in cooperation with Technical
University of Lodz, Institute for Fuels and Renewable Energy, Ministry of
Economy, RadScan (SE)
Transfer of best practices from Italy in the scope of passive building - in
cooperation with Technical University of Torino and a spin-off company KEO
Ltd. (IT)
22. Cooperation within Bioenergy for the Region Cluster
• County Office in Skierniewice
• Bioenergy Ltd.- Parzęczew
• County Office in Poddębice
• JAMIR Renewable
• Municipal Mayor Parzęczew
Technologies Ltd. – Las
• Municipal Mayor Daszyna
• Enterprise Agrocent Ltd.-
• Municipal Mayor Wodzierady
Złoczew
• Municipal Mayor Lipce
• Mamut - Services - Machinery,
Reymontowskie
Equipment, Technology - Lipce
Reymontowskie
• "KENERGY" Ltd. Krzysztof
Jankowski – Głowno
• Trimen Chemicals Ltd. – Lodz
• INSIGHT - Michalow-Grabina
• PPH MaWi – Lodz • Technical University of Lodz
• ELBIS Ltd. – Rogowiec • University of Lodz
• TOPO-WIND – Lodz • International Center for Ecology
• Research Institute of Pomology
and Floriculture
• Institute of Power Engineering
• Lodz Regional Park of Science
and Technology Ltd.
• The Agency of Power Usage and
Conservation
• The Polish Chamber of Biomass
• Board of Agriculture Province of
Lodz
• Łódź Agricultural Advisory
Center
• TVP o/Lodz • ASM Market Research and
• Radio P III Analysis Center Ltd.
• Local TV – TOYA
• Local newspapers
23. TH@NK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
AEC Pro-Akademia
aleksandrow@proakademia.eu
tel. +48-42-636-12-59
www.bioenergiadlaregionu.eu