This document discusses the sustainability of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It notes that while MOOCs aim to be openly accessible, their production costs are high, ranging from $39,000 to $325,000 per course. As such, university and MOOC platform leaders have announced plans to offer some courses with fees to help cover costs. The document predicts that in the future, European universities will no longer be able to afford offering free MOOCs and professional education courses may become an important revenue source, creating a gap between MOOC platforms and universities. It raises open educational resources using Creative Commons licenses as a sustainable alternative business model.
The OSTRICH project at the University of Bath aims to promote the creation, release and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OERs). The project looks to cascade an OER model and adapt it to the University of Bath context, while also evaluating its sustainability. As part of the project, central staff and student support resources as well as some units of study content and lecture recordings will be released as OERs. The project also explores legal and intellectual property issues regarding OER creation at the university and provides advice and support for OER creators and users.
EGI CF2014: ITaaU community building and engagement - 22 May, 2014, HelsinkiSteve Brewer
Presentation for EGI Community Forum 2014 in Helsinki. Audio added to each slide as I had to leave the conference early due to other commitments.
And do join our Community Conference next month in Southampton on the 19-20th June - http://www.slideshare.net/SteveBrewer1/egi-community-building-and-engagement-i-taau-22-may-2014
The educational system needs to add climate change and what can be done about it as a permanent component. Gaia is the our planet. James Lovelock created the Gaia Theory as a way to understand how humanity and the living planet interact.
A few slides to describe what Inspiring Science Education is all about, and what participating schools will gain access to.
For more information see: tinyurl.com/inspiringscience and inspiringscience.eu
SEFI-2013 Online Learning and Higher Engineering Education: The MOOC PhenomenonPieter De Vries
The document discusses the rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and their implications for higher engineering education. It notes that MOOCs provide open access to courses from top universities, reducing costs and expanding reach compared to traditional on-campus classes. Examples are provided of very large enrollments for MOOCs from MIT and Delft University, showing their growing popularity. While MOOCs have the potential to improve teaching and encourage innovation, there are still open questions around developing sustainable business models.
This document summarizes various government supported opportunities in the UK to promote more sustainable practices around plastics, including policy changes, funding programs, and research initiatives. It outlines proposed regulations like bans on certain single-use plastics and taxes on packaging without recycled content. It also details several multi-million pound funding programs supporting plastics research through 2021, as well as numerous academic research projects. Finally, it discusses drivers and challenges around transitioning to a more circular plastics economy in the UK.
This document discusses the sustainability of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It notes that while MOOCs aim to be openly accessible, their production costs are high, ranging from $39,000 to $325,000 per course. As such, university and MOOC platform leaders have announced plans to offer some courses with fees to help cover costs. The document predicts that in the future, European universities will no longer be able to afford offering free MOOCs and professional education courses may become an important revenue source, creating a gap between MOOC platforms and universities. It raises open educational resources using Creative Commons licenses as a sustainable alternative business model.
The OSTRICH project at the University of Bath aims to promote the creation, release and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OERs). The project looks to cascade an OER model and adapt it to the University of Bath context, while also evaluating its sustainability. As part of the project, central staff and student support resources as well as some units of study content and lecture recordings will be released as OERs. The project also explores legal and intellectual property issues regarding OER creation at the university and provides advice and support for OER creators and users.
EGI CF2014: ITaaU community building and engagement - 22 May, 2014, HelsinkiSteve Brewer
Presentation for EGI Community Forum 2014 in Helsinki. Audio added to each slide as I had to leave the conference early due to other commitments.
And do join our Community Conference next month in Southampton on the 19-20th June - http://www.slideshare.net/SteveBrewer1/egi-community-building-and-engagement-i-taau-22-may-2014
The educational system needs to add climate change and what can be done about it as a permanent component. Gaia is the our planet. James Lovelock created the Gaia Theory as a way to understand how humanity and the living planet interact.
A few slides to describe what Inspiring Science Education is all about, and what participating schools will gain access to.
For more information see: tinyurl.com/inspiringscience and inspiringscience.eu
SEFI-2013 Online Learning and Higher Engineering Education: The MOOC PhenomenonPieter De Vries
The document discusses the rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and their implications for higher engineering education. It notes that MOOCs provide open access to courses from top universities, reducing costs and expanding reach compared to traditional on-campus classes. Examples are provided of very large enrollments for MOOCs from MIT and Delft University, showing their growing popularity. While MOOCs have the potential to improve teaching and encourage innovation, there are still open questions around developing sustainable business models.
This document summarizes various government supported opportunities in the UK to promote more sustainable practices around plastics, including policy changes, funding programs, and research initiatives. It outlines proposed regulations like bans on certain single-use plastics and taxes on packaging without recycled content. It also details several multi-million pound funding programs supporting plastics research through 2021, as well as numerous academic research projects. Finally, it discusses drivers and challenges around transitioning to a more circular plastics economy in the UK.
Presentation at the 2008 conference of the European Association for Distance Learning of "Developments to support flexibility and cooperation in online distance education"
EEICTP Activities For Academic Year Sept 2011 to july 2012zedancode
The document outlines project activities for implementing information and communication technology (ICT) services and resources in Saint Lucia from September 2011 to July 2012. This includes conducting a comprehensive situational analysis and needs assessment of existing ICT resources, spaces, and infrastructure in schools and community centers. Specific projects include constructing an ICT lab/classroom, procuring a mobile ICT classroom, and providing equipment to targeted educational institutions. Stakeholder participation and collaboration is required.
Kent Copyright literacy strategy workshop 31 july 2019 Chris Morrison
Slides from second workshop of University of Kent copyright literacy strategy project. The group considered outputs from the previous workshop (see https://www.slideshare.net/ChrisMorrison5/copyright-literacy-strategy-workshop-23-may-2019) discussed amendments to teh copyright policy and commented on an outline of a strategy document
Bunaken Island | Nov-15 | Smart Villages Findings and ProgressSmart Villages
By John Holmes
Off-grid electrification for development of small islands represents a number of unique challenges under the broad category of rural electrification. Small, off-grid island communities are particularly vulnerable to diesel price fluctuations and natural disasters, and thus, enhancing resilience through more sustainable and cheaper energy technologies should be a key priority. Financing the transition to these technologies – usually photovoltaic, micro-hydro or sometimes wind – is an essential hurdle to overcome. Once electricity systems are in place it is equally important that they are sustained in the longer term with effective arrangements for operation and maintenance, cost recovery etc. Related to this, is the productive use of the energy provided to increase islander incomes.
The workshop on Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia from 3 to 5 November 2015, organised by the Smart Villages Initiative in collaboration with Kopernik, will explore these issues and develop recommendations for policy makers, development agencies and other stakeholders in energy provision to island communities.
More info: http://e4sv.org/events/off-grid-islands-electricity-workshop/
This document summarizes a panel discussion on the impact of open educational resources (OER). The panelists discussed OER definitions, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation goals of increasing access to knowledge, and assumptions for OER success including developing an ecosystem through collaboration. The Cape Town Declaration supporting open education was also mentioned. The document concludes by describing UNESCO's online community for discussing OER issues with over 600 members from 98 countries.
The document discusses the EU4ALL project which aims to develop an open architecture of services to support lifelong learning for all learners. It outlines two scenarios of a student named David accessing and being provided customized educational content and assistive technologies. It then provides overviews of the EU4ALL framework, content personalization, e-services, research directions, and concludes that the framework can help institutions improve accessibility through personalized content and support services using different systems and technologies.
Kent copyright community of practice 20210127Chris Morrison
Introductory slides from the first of the rebooted University of Kent Copyright Community of Practice sessions. This session focused on copyright and online learning and featured a guest appearance from the fabulous Dr Jane Secker, Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London
The Urban Community Energy Fund (UCEF) provides grants up to £20,000 for feasibility work and loans up to £130,000 for project development costs to help urban community groups develop low carbon energy generation projects. The UCEF is administered by the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Pure Leapfrog. To apply, community groups should contact the UCEF by email, phone, or visit their website for more information.
The EPA Research programme addresses knowledge gaps and emerging environmental problems. It is responsible for environmental research management in Ireland, funding over 800 researchers and 33 institutions in 2016. The programme focuses on themes like resource efficiency, water, climate and socioeconomics. Annual competitive calls provide desk studies, medium and large projects, and fellowships. The 2017 call deadline is July 3rd and focuses on impacts, research integrity and gender. Partnerships support excellent science, industrial leadership and societal challenges like climate action and sustainable development.
Presentation "Standards, Industry, Open Resources and Massive Access inside the Remote Laboratories World" inside the IEEE Industry Collaboration Initiative for Online Laboratories (19th July 2017) at the LACCEI 2017 as part of the Working Group in "IEEE P1876Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories"
This document discusses EU funding opportunities for third sector organizations in Wales through two programs: the Engagement Gateway and ILM. It provides statistics on funding accessed from 2000-2013, and outlines the goals and progress of the Gateway and ILM programs in supporting small organizations and preparing unemployed individuals for jobs. Examples of funded projects are described briefly, and it encourages organizations to start developing new project ideas for EU funding in 2014-2020.
Presentation on Interacting with EPA Research, A two-way Process given by Marc Kierans, EPA Research at School of BEES Research Day, University College Cork, Friday 9th June 2017
UBC has nearly 50,000 students and over 13,000 faculty and staff located across 500 buildings on 402 hectares of land. UBC has made several sustainability milestones since 1996 including opening green buildings, adopting sustainability policies, and setting targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33% by 2015, 67% by 2020, and become carbon neutral by 2050. UBC's 20-Year Sustainability Strategy addresses sustainability in teaching/learning, operations/infrastructure, and the UBC community. The UBC Sustainability Scholars program provides graduate students practical sustainability experience working with community partners to help achieve sustainability goals and integrate academic and operational sustainability.
Patrick Kenny presenting at the EPA/HSE Environment & Health Conference 2017 on Citizen Science - accessing & gathering Ambient Air Quality data - experiences and innovations.
Exploring the relationship of availability and conditions of reserve housing to hidden homeless among urban First Nation band members.
Dr. Evelyn Peters
Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Geography & Planning, University Of Saskatchewan
This document summarizes a presentation by Michael Shapcott from the Wellesley Institute on the relationship between health and housing. It discusses how housing insecurity and poverty have negative health impacts, but also how good housing can promote health. It notes that federal housing investments in Canada have been declining, leading to a loss of over 130,000 affordable housing units. The document calls for increased and sustained federal investments in affordable housing to improve health outcomes and reduce social costs.
Real estate is the second largest employer of labor in India and contributes about 6% to nation's GDP. Which are the institutes and organizations that carry out necessary research work to boost the real estate, housing, and construction sector? Find it in this document.
Presentation at the 2008 conference of the European Association for Distance Learning of "Developments to support flexibility and cooperation in online distance education"
EEICTP Activities For Academic Year Sept 2011 to july 2012zedancode
The document outlines project activities for implementing information and communication technology (ICT) services and resources in Saint Lucia from September 2011 to July 2012. This includes conducting a comprehensive situational analysis and needs assessment of existing ICT resources, spaces, and infrastructure in schools and community centers. Specific projects include constructing an ICT lab/classroom, procuring a mobile ICT classroom, and providing equipment to targeted educational institutions. Stakeholder participation and collaboration is required.
Kent Copyright literacy strategy workshop 31 july 2019 Chris Morrison
Slides from second workshop of University of Kent copyright literacy strategy project. The group considered outputs from the previous workshop (see https://www.slideshare.net/ChrisMorrison5/copyright-literacy-strategy-workshop-23-may-2019) discussed amendments to teh copyright policy and commented on an outline of a strategy document
Bunaken Island | Nov-15 | Smart Villages Findings and ProgressSmart Villages
By John Holmes
Off-grid electrification for development of small islands represents a number of unique challenges under the broad category of rural electrification. Small, off-grid island communities are particularly vulnerable to diesel price fluctuations and natural disasters, and thus, enhancing resilience through more sustainable and cheaper energy technologies should be a key priority. Financing the transition to these technologies – usually photovoltaic, micro-hydro or sometimes wind – is an essential hurdle to overcome. Once electricity systems are in place it is equally important that they are sustained in the longer term with effective arrangements for operation and maintenance, cost recovery etc. Related to this, is the productive use of the energy provided to increase islander incomes.
The workshop on Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia from 3 to 5 November 2015, organised by the Smart Villages Initiative in collaboration with Kopernik, will explore these issues and develop recommendations for policy makers, development agencies and other stakeholders in energy provision to island communities.
More info: http://e4sv.org/events/off-grid-islands-electricity-workshop/
This document summarizes a panel discussion on the impact of open educational resources (OER). The panelists discussed OER definitions, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation goals of increasing access to knowledge, and assumptions for OER success including developing an ecosystem through collaboration. The Cape Town Declaration supporting open education was also mentioned. The document concludes by describing UNESCO's online community for discussing OER issues with over 600 members from 98 countries.
The document discusses the EU4ALL project which aims to develop an open architecture of services to support lifelong learning for all learners. It outlines two scenarios of a student named David accessing and being provided customized educational content and assistive technologies. It then provides overviews of the EU4ALL framework, content personalization, e-services, research directions, and concludes that the framework can help institutions improve accessibility through personalized content and support services using different systems and technologies.
Kent copyright community of practice 20210127Chris Morrison
Introductory slides from the first of the rebooted University of Kent Copyright Community of Practice sessions. This session focused on copyright and online learning and featured a guest appearance from the fabulous Dr Jane Secker, Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London
The Urban Community Energy Fund (UCEF) provides grants up to £20,000 for feasibility work and loans up to £130,000 for project development costs to help urban community groups develop low carbon energy generation projects. The UCEF is administered by the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Pure Leapfrog. To apply, community groups should contact the UCEF by email, phone, or visit their website for more information.
The EPA Research programme addresses knowledge gaps and emerging environmental problems. It is responsible for environmental research management in Ireland, funding over 800 researchers and 33 institutions in 2016. The programme focuses on themes like resource efficiency, water, climate and socioeconomics. Annual competitive calls provide desk studies, medium and large projects, and fellowships. The 2017 call deadline is July 3rd and focuses on impacts, research integrity and gender. Partnerships support excellent science, industrial leadership and societal challenges like climate action and sustainable development.
Presentation "Standards, Industry, Open Resources and Massive Access inside the Remote Laboratories World" inside the IEEE Industry Collaboration Initiative for Online Laboratories (19th July 2017) at the LACCEI 2017 as part of the Working Group in "IEEE P1876Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories"
This document discusses EU funding opportunities for third sector organizations in Wales through two programs: the Engagement Gateway and ILM. It provides statistics on funding accessed from 2000-2013, and outlines the goals and progress of the Gateway and ILM programs in supporting small organizations and preparing unemployed individuals for jobs. Examples of funded projects are described briefly, and it encourages organizations to start developing new project ideas for EU funding in 2014-2020.
Presentation on Interacting with EPA Research, A two-way Process given by Marc Kierans, EPA Research at School of BEES Research Day, University College Cork, Friday 9th June 2017
UBC has nearly 50,000 students and over 13,000 faculty and staff located across 500 buildings on 402 hectares of land. UBC has made several sustainability milestones since 1996 including opening green buildings, adopting sustainability policies, and setting targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33% by 2015, 67% by 2020, and become carbon neutral by 2050. UBC's 20-Year Sustainability Strategy addresses sustainability in teaching/learning, operations/infrastructure, and the UBC community. The UBC Sustainability Scholars program provides graduate students practical sustainability experience working with community partners to help achieve sustainability goals and integrate academic and operational sustainability.
Patrick Kenny presenting at the EPA/HSE Environment & Health Conference 2017 on Citizen Science - accessing & gathering Ambient Air Quality data - experiences and innovations.
Exploring the relationship of availability and conditions of reserve housing to hidden homeless among urban First Nation band members.
Dr. Evelyn Peters
Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Geography & Planning, University Of Saskatchewan
This document summarizes a presentation by Michael Shapcott from the Wellesley Institute on the relationship between health and housing. It discusses how housing insecurity and poverty have negative health impacts, but also how good housing can promote health. It notes that federal housing investments in Canada have been declining, leading to a loss of over 130,000 affordable housing units. The document calls for increased and sustained federal investments in affordable housing to improve health outcomes and reduce social costs.
Real estate is the second largest employer of labor in India and contributes about 6% to nation's GDP. Which are the institutes and organizations that carry out necessary research work to boost the real estate, housing, and construction sector? Find it in this document.
This document outlines the design thinking process which includes understanding the problem, researching benchmarks and insights, identifying opportunities and problems, designing a strategy, prototyping solutions, and implementing the final solution. The process involves studying the problem, researching other solutions, looking for unidentified opportunities, gathering all potential problems, designing objectives to solve problems, testing prototype models, and developing the best solution.
This very short document does not contain any meaningful information to summarize in 3 sentences or less. It only lists the author and year, as well as a website with no additional context.
Architectural drawings are technical drawings used by architects to develop and communicate building design ideas. They include various standard views like floor plans, sections, elevations, and site plans. Floor plans show the arrangement of a building level and include furniture and fixtures. Site plans show the building footprint and surrounding context. Elevations display the front or sides of a building. Sections cut through a building to reveal interior details. Architectural drawings are scaled and use conventions for accurate representation and understanding of designs.
The document discusses the history and development of artificial intelligence over the past 70 years, from early research into neural networks in the 1940s to modern deep learning techniques. While AI has made tremendous progress, fully human-level AI remains challenging to achieve and raises complex issues around safety, ethics, and its impact on society that require careful consideration and oversight. Overall progress in AI has occurred in steps by incorporating more data and modeling increasingly complex phenomena, but fully general human intelligence remains a long-term goal that will require ongoing research.
Holcim awards 2010 for sustainable construction.holcim
The Holcim Awards is an international competition of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible sustainable construction projects and visions from around the globe and provides prize money of USD 2 million per three-year competition cycle.
It is op open for entries until March 23, 2011.
More information are available on:
http://www.holcimawards.org
The document discusses sustainable construction and the Holcim Global Awards. It provides details about:
1) The large and growing impact of buildings on the environment due to concrete usage and urban growth.
2) The Holcim Foundation's goal of promoting sustainable construction through forums, funding, and global design competitions.
3) The upcoming 3rd Holcim Global Awards competition which is accepting online entries in English until March 23, 2011 and evaluates designs based on progress, environmental performance, economic efficiency, social responsibility, and architectural quality.
The document discusses sustainable construction and the Holcim Global Awards. It provides details about the awards, including that they recognize outstanding construction projects and promote sustainable approaches. The awards have two categories and provide a total of $2 million in prize money. Entries are accepted online and evaluated on criteria like environmental performance, social responsibility, and architectural quality. The competition aims to advance sustainable construction practices globally.
Holcim awards for sustainable constructionLoknath Swain
The document discusses the Holcim Global Awards competition for sustainable construction. The competition seeks to promote sustainability in the built environment. It is open to designs in different stages, for projects of any size or material. Entries are evaluated on their advancement of sustainability in terms of environmental, economic, social and architectural criteria. The competition provides a total of $2 million in prize money across regional and global categories.
Sun exchange, learning, virtual learning pieter valkering&dirkknapenpvalkering
The document summarizes the SUN project, which aims to stimulate sustainable development in seven neighborhoods across the Euregio Meuse-Rhine region. The project involves actions related to energy renovation, green spaces, local economy, and social cohesion. It discusses learning approaches used in the project, including exchanges between partners and stakeholders. Challenges include maintaining focus with a complex project involving different languages and cultures. Web technologies could help improve information sharing but would need to address language barriers.
ISCN 2015 Dialogue 1: Universities and Cities in the 21st Century, Antti Ahlava ISCN_Secretariat
The document discusses the development of Aalto University's Otaniemi campus in Finland as a model of sustainable integration into the urban context. Some key points:
1) The campus aims to be a "living laboratory" for sustainability through aligning its mission, facilities, research, and education with sustainable development goals.
2) The campus promotes cross-disciplinary research and education around sustainability themes, and partners with other universities, the city of Helsinki, and businesses on sustainability initiatives.
3) Plans for the campus include energy self-sufficiency by 2030 through geothermal energy, optimized shared use of facilities, improved mobility options, and protecting biodiversity.
The document summarizes an energy living lab at the University of Otago that brings together academics, facilities staff, and students to conduct applied energy research using university infrastructure. It describes several projects including optimizing the orientation of solar panels, analyzing converting the district heating plant from coal to biomass, and examining opportunities for expanding the district heating network. The living lab provides benefits like access to real data and cross-disciplinary collaboration but also faces challenges in coordinating between traditional university divisions.
Short talk in NTU Doctoral School Postgraduate Research Conference 2016: Sust...Kyungeun Sung
The slides presented as a short talk in NTU Doctoral School Postgraduate Research Conference 2016, in Nottingham, on 3rd of December, 2016. This presentation summarises my PhD research, including introduction, research methods, results, discussions and conclusion.
Presentation on the possibilities of using shared academics as an approach to language learning. Campuses can collaborate to meet the challenges of language teaching and offer more languages.
1. El Programa ECOCASA (“Programa”) es una iniciativa conjunta de la Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal (SHF), el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y el Banco de Desarrollo Alemán (KfW) que persigue contribuir a los esfuerzos del Gobierno de México en reducir las emisiones globales de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GEI) y generar beneficios económicos y sociales a través de la promoción de vivienda social sustentable.
Sustainable production and consumptino by upcycling for the transition to the...Kyungeun Sung
PechaKucha presentation slides used for The Impact of Sustainable Design - A Midlands Green Innovation Network Event at De Montfort University on 20th April 2023.
Horizon Europe Clean Transport Webinar - Cluster 5 Destination 5 | SlidesKTN
This webinar co-organised by KTN Global Alliance in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in Germany, UK Science and Innovation Network and UK National Contact Points (NCPs) from Innovate UK as well as European NCPs focussed on pitching of project ideas and brokering partnerships for European Research and Innovation collaborations and networking.
This document summarizes a presentation about the NEPTUNE 2012 project in Helsinki, Finland. The project brought together students from different European universities to design a sustainable living environment in Helsinki that meets residents' needs while minimizing environmental impact. Students worked in international, multidisciplinary groups for 9 days, visiting the project site and other locations. Their task was to take a holistic view and consider aspects like energy, water, waste, and resident well-being. The winning group designed a concept called "Recolonizing Earth - Intending to Stay" that aimed to make the community self-sufficient with a small environmental footprint.
These slides were presented by Adrian Ely, PATHWAYS network co-lead and Deputy Director and Head of Impact at the STEPS Centre, United Kingdom, as part of an ISSC webinar on transformative knowledge for sustainability. Watch the webinar and find out more about the Transformations to Sustainability programme here: http://www.worldsocialscience.org/2016/06/webinar-transformative-knowledge-networks-solutions-oriented-research-practice/
The document discusses cost effective construction techniques in Ethiopia. It begins by outlining the growing global need for affordable housing. It then examines historical low-cost construction methods, sustainability, and case studies of cost effective housing projects in Ethiopia. Specifically, it details two government projects - the Addis Ababa Grand Housing Program which constructed multi-story apartments using new hollow concrete blocks, and the Integrated Housing Development Program which aimed to address urban poverty through affordable housing construction.
The Holcim Awards is an international competition of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible sustainable construction projects and visions from around the globe and provides prize money of USD 2 million per three-year competition cycle.
It is op open for entries until March 23, 2011.
More information are available on:
http://www.holcimawards.org
This document summarizes a workshop on affordable housing retrofits in British Columbia. The workshop brought together over 40 participants from housing societies, government, academia and industry. Participants discussed the Energiesprong model from the Netherlands which has delivered net-zero energy retrofits at scale. The group explored how a similar approach could help B.C. meet its targets of reducing building emissions by half by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Key topics included retrofit economics, opportunities and barriers, and how to structure market development to support industrialized retrofit solutions.
The document summarizes strategies for sustainable housing in Denmark over the past 35 years, including renovation of existing buildings and new construction projects. It discusses approaches such as energy efficiency, renewable energy integration, and community-based housing cooperatives. It also outlines plans for further reducing climate impact from housing through additional energy savings and renewable energy in both existing and new buildings.
This document provides information about the Master's Degree in Design and Habitat offered by ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona. The one-year program is comprised of two postgraduate diplomas - Strategic Habitat Design: Mobility and Temporality (starting in October) and Eco-Habitat. Designing Eco-Efficient Housing (starting in March). The program explores concepts of habitat and sustainability strategies for housing practices. It focuses on redesign, rehabilitation, recycling and revitalization to foster social cohesion and habitability. The courses provide tools for sustainable neighborhood, building, and renovation design and include workshops, case studies and field visits. The program aims to train professionals in innovative and specialized technical
The Libnam European project aims to support the competitiveness of companies in passive construction through developing green skills and promoting the use of natural materials. The project has 4 partners from France and England and a budget of over 1 million euros. It seeks to identify conditions for transitioning to passive construction through company surveys, workshops, and study visits. It will also create two resource centers on passive construction and natural materials, conduct 20 technical demonstrations of natural materials, and promote project results through communications.
Similar to Housing Research Activities Planned at La Cité collégiale (20)
Le lien qui existe entre la disponibilité et l’état des logements dans les réserves et les sans‐abri cachés parmi les membres de bandes des Premières nations vivant en milieu urbain.
Evelyn Peters, D. Ph.
Professeure et titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada, Faculté de géographie et d’urbanisme, Université de la Saskatchewan
Historique de l’aménagement, planification et vision d’avenir. Le canton de Langley est l’une des municipalités membres de la Région du Metro Vancouver, situé à environ 35 km à l’est de Vancouver, en aval de la vallée du Fraser, dans le Lower Mainland de la Colombie‐Britannique.
Ramin Seifi, ing.
Directeur, Division du développement des collectivités,
Canton de Langley, Colombie‐Britannique
Development history, planning, and future focus. The Township of Langley is one of the member municipalities of the Metro Vancouver Region, located approximately 35 km east of Vancouver in the lower reaches of Fraser Valley in the Lower Mainland of BC.
Ramin Seifi, P. Eng.
Director, Community Development Division
Township of Langley,
British Columbia
The aim of the project is to take a multi‐faceted, holistic approach to recurring homelessness by removing lifestyle, housing, educational and employment barriers. Youth will be supported in learning to live independently and securing opportunities to make healthier lifestyles more sustainable.
Sheldon Pollett
Executive Director,
Choices for Youth
Offre des services de transition, de perfectionnement professionnel et d’entreprise aux jeunes de l’endroit. On y trouve un lieu dynamique et chaleureux où tous les jeunes participent à leur apprentissage et à la création de circonstances opportunes afin de construire leur avenir.
Steve Cordes
Directeur exécutif
Youth Opportunities Unlimited
YOU provides transition, career development, and enterprise services to local youth. They provide a caring and active place where all youth are engaged in learning and creating opportunities to build their future.
Steve Cordes
Executive Director,
Youth Opportunities Unlimited
Cette étude traite du rôle que joue le logement quand il s'agit de recruter et de retenir des étudiants autochtones dans les milieux collégial et universitaire de la région urbaine de Vancouver. Les défis et réussites en matière de logement avec lesquels les étudiants autochtones doivent composer à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur du campus ainsi qu'en résidence individuelle ou familiale sont documentés
Michelle Pidgeon, D. PH.
Professeure agrégée,
Faculté de l’éducation
Université Simon Fraser
This study examines the role of housing in recruiting and retaining Aboriginal students attending college and university in the urban area of Vancouver. The housing challenges and successes that Aboriginal students face on‐ and off‐campus and in single and family residences were documented.
Michelle Pidgeon, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
Une étude, commandée par RHDCC et réalisée par SPARC BC, met en lumière l’efficacité de nombreuses stratégies municipales pour lutter contre l’itinérance, particulièrement les primes à la densité, la fourniture de terrains pour les urgences, la transition, des logements de soutien ou sous le prix du marché et l’autorisation d’aménager des appartements accessoires.
Robyn Newton,
chercheur principal,
Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
A study, commissioned by HRSDC and conducted by SPARC BC, sheds light on the effectiveness of several municipal strategies to address homelessness, especially density bonusing, the provision of land for emergency, transition, supportive or below‐market housing and permitting the development of secondary suites.
Robyn Newton,
Senior Researcher,
Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
L’atlas pilote présente certaines façons de comprendre les questions de structure de l’itinérance au Canada en utilisant des représentations graphiques dynamiques.
Tracey Lauriault,
Chef de la recherche en matière de projet,
Université Carleton
The Pilot Atlas presents a number of ways to understand structural issues of homelessness in Canada by using dynamic graphical representations.
Tracey Lauriault
Project Research Leader,
Carleton University
dans les villes canadiennes
L'Outil de collecte de données municipales est une base de données coopérative en ligne qui permet aux municipalités qui participent au Système de rapports sur la qualité de vie (SRQDV) de compiler et de partager des données administratives municipales dans les secteurs de responsabilité des municipalités.
Michel Frojmovic,
Acacia Consulting and Research
The MDCT ‐ Municipal Data Collection Tool ‐ is a collaborative, on‐line database allowing Quality of Life Reporting System (QOLRS) members to build and share municipal administrative data in areas of municipal responsibility.
Michel Frojmovic
Consultant,
Acacia Consulting and Research
This document discusses approaches to linking socio-demographic and health data to create a micro-territorial picture of low-rent housing populations. It explores recommended methodologies including using a geographic information system (GIS) to map and analyze statistical data from existing databases at dissemination areas and postal codes. The approaches aim to facilitate access to relevant data for housing and health workers and allow improved management of social services. Challenges include limitations of thematic analyses and ensuring understanding of results given interoperability issues between systems.
Quels seront les effets à long terme d'un ralentissement de la croissance démographique et d'une augmentation de l'âge moyen sur la croissance des ménages et le taux de propriétaires‐occupants? Pour aider à répondre à cette question, la SCHL a élaboré des projections démographiques à long terme de la croissance des ménages et du taux de propriétaires‐occupants au Canada.
How will slower population growth and a rising average age affect household growth and the overall rate of home ownership over the long‐term? To help answer these questions, CMHC has developed long‐term, demographics‐driven projections of household and ownership growth for Canada.
Richard Gabay,
Senior Researcher,
CMHC
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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.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
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.
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!
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
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.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
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 .
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
9 CEO's who hit $100m ARR Share Their Top Growth Tactics Nathan Latka, Founde...
Housing Research Activities Planned at La Cité collégiale
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Editor's Notes
Voici une prise de vue aérienne de l’édifice. À noter que les élèves auront la chance de monter et bâtir des structure et des maisons à l’intérieur du campus.