The final conference of the GECKO Marie Curie Doctoral Fellowship was hosted at the University of Strathclyde, bringing together supervisors and GECKO PhD candidates to present their research achievements. This event marked the culmination of years of dedicated work in advancing knowledge in the program’s focus areas. Attendees had the opportunity to engage in discussions on innovative methodologies, share insights gained during the fellowship, and explore future collaborations.
| Day 1 9 September 2024 University of Strathclyde, GlasgowLearning & Teaching Building, TL330 Jocelyn Bell Burnel Wing | ||
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome message | |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | GECKO: Research and Impact | Vladimir and Lina Stankovic |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | From Buildings to Cities: Patterns of Energy Consumption/Production in Norway and Greece | Apostolos Vavouris Fernanda Guasselli Sotiris Athanasoulias VIBBPleg.ma Labs |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Resilient Island Energy Communities | Chiara Tellarini MD Shajalal Aran Islands Energy Co-op |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Flexibility for Grid Services | Stavros Sykiotis Christoforos Menos-Aikateriniadis Intracom |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Smart by Design: Unveiling Sustainable Homes through User Insights, Co-Design, and Empirical Studies | Joe Llewellyn Vinicius Pereira Lu Jin Delong Du MIT Senseable City Lab Energy Systems Catapult |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | AI-driven Sustainability: Towards net-zero Dairy Farming | Apostolos Vavouris Tamara Sobot |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Explainable AI: Intelligible navigation through innovations | MD Shajalal Djordje Batic AGENTS Inc. |
| 14:10– 14:30 | Diversity and Inclusion in Smart Urban Technologies | Nickhil Sharma Djordje Batic Citizen Advice |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Break & Networking: Poster / Demo Session | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Beyond GECKO | Short introduction to ongoing and emerging projects: Go-green, Erongo, Picture IT, JED-AI, Hugo Technologies, Energy Systems Catapult, FIT |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Closing: Dimitris Doukakis (Advisory Board Member) | |
| 19:00 | Dinner – The Barony Hall | |
| Day 2 [GECKO team only including partners] 10 September 2024University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Learning & Teaching Building, TL330 Jocelyn Bell Burnel Wing | ||
| 09:30 – 10:05 | GECKO: Training and Secondment Experiences | Gunnar Stevens Alexander Boden Sidra Naveed |
| 10:05 – 10:15 | Interdisciplinary research: Intro/warm-up (Charlie Wilson) | |
| 10:15 – 10:40 | Break | |
| 10:40 -11:30 | Interdisciplinary research: Discussion | |
| 11:30-11:45 | Introduction to ESRs Training and Interdisciplinary Working Activity | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Reflection journey / Break | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | SB Meeting / ESRs Working Activities | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Feedback from ESRs Working Activities | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Closing | |