In order to share information about the call and facilitate partner search and matchmaking these webinars will follow up former webinars and the UERA matchmaking event. A further purpose is to facilitate match-making and partner search between international partners. Participants are encouraged to prepare a three-minute pitch of their projects and define what partners they are looking for.
For your pitch you can send a 2 slide powerpoint presentation until 15:00 CET on February 15 to magnus.brink@iqs.se and it will then be displayed when you do your pitch on February 16.
We also encourage publishing information on the Linkedin page and the Future Earth platform. Attending the webinar is free of charge and details on how to access the webinar is in the menu on the right. Stay tuned to both the Belmont Forum and JPI Urban Europe websites for further information on the call.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
15:00 | Central European Time (Amsterdam, GMT+01:00)
9:00 am | Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) | 2 hrs
Meeting number (access code): 747 615 287
Meeting password: pSEpYi*9
> Invitation with login details (PDF)
> Instructions how to use Webex software
The Sustainable Urban Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a call jointly established by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. The cooperation was established in order to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge.
The call aims to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions that bring inter- and trans-disciplinary research and innovation together from across the globe, to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The rapid urbanization of the world’s population underscores the importance of this focus. JPI Urban Europe and Belmont Forum have partnered to ensure a maximum audience across physical, natural, social sciences and arts and humanities as well as policy and decision makers and stakeholders. Webinar The aim of the webinar is to give information on the call to potential applicants; companies, cities, municipalities, regions, consumers, citizens’ representatives, NGOs and research organisations.
Agenda
– Presentation of the JPI Urban Europe and the Belmont Forum
– Presentation of the Joint Initiative SUGI/Food-Water-Energy Nexus
– Matchmaking including pitching of projects’ ideas and concepts
– Q&A