Eventos
Brazilian – Finnish Workshop
The São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, TEKES, invite you to the
Finding solutions for urban resilience to nature’s challenges
Brazilian – Finnish Workshop
November, 28 and 29 - 9 a.m
The event aims at fostering the development of new partnerships with research in Finland, besides promoting the results from researches granted by FAPESP in areas like urban resilience, meteorology and water and energy to governmental agencies and to companies of the field.
Registration: www.fapesp.br/eventos/brafinnishws/registration
KEYTOPICS INCLUDE
Nov 28th – “Mapping the challengers”
• Orientation to urban resilience
• Water-related resilience challenges in São Paulo region
• Energy supply and resilience challenges in cities in Brazil
• Air pollution
• Smart Cities
• Demography and urban challenges
Nov 29th – “Innovating solutions and finding further R&D needs”
Funding opportunities for bilateral RDI projects
• Monitoring and analyzing natural disasters in Brazil
• Nowcasting precipitation to improve resilience to floods, mudslides and drought
• Forecasting urban air quality using ENFUSER
• Resilience challenges in agriculture
• Resilience to natural disasters
• How will the INDCs help the improvement of resilience in urban areas in Brazil
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Ari Karppinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Ari-Matti Harri, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Cityzer project funded by TEKES
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director of FAPESP
Gilberto Jannuzzi, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Campinas (FEM-Unicamp)
Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha, The Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of
University of São Paulo (IAG-USP)
José Goldemberg, President of FAPESP
José Marengo, Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN)
Jatta Jussila-Suokas, Innovation director, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Cityzer project
Maria Alexandra Viegas Cortez da Cunha, Fundaҫão Getúlio Vargas
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, University of São Paulo (CENA-USP)
In collaboration with:
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Monday, November 28th – “Mapping the challenges”
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09:00 |
Registration |
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10:00 |
Opening and greetings from the organizers
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10:20 |
Orientation to urban resilience State-of-the art in Brazil, State-of-the art in Finland, |
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11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:20 |
Water-related resilience challenges in São Paulo region Monica Porto, Secretaria de Saneamento e Recursos Hídricos do Governo do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil Humberto Rocha, The Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of University of São Paulo (IAG-USP), Brazil Industry view - (tbd) |
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12:05 |
Energy supply and resilience challenges in cities in Brazil Ildo Sauer, Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP), Brasil (tbc) Gilberto Jannuzzi, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Campinas (FEM–Unicamp), Brazil Industry view |
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12:50 |
Lunch (restaurants around FAPESP) |
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13:50 |
Air pollution Industry view (tbd) |
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14:35 |
Smart Cities Maria Alexandra Viegas Cortez da Cunha, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil |
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15:20 |
Demography and urban challenges Maria Camila Loffredo D’Ottaviano, Architecture and Urbanism College, University of São Paulo (FAU/USP), Brazil Ricardo Ojima, Departamento de Demografia e Ciências Atuariais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (DCAA – UFRN), Brazil Industry view (tbc) |
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16:05 |
Coffee break |
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16:20 |
Plenary session |
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17:20 |
Closing words |
Tuesday, November 29th – “Innovating solutions and finding further R&D needs”
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09:00 |
Registration |
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09:30 |
Opening and goal setting for the day, |
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09:40 |
Funding opportunities for bilateral RDI projects Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director of FAPESP, Brazil |
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10:00 |
First invited scientific speech |
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10:30 |
Nowcasting precipitation to improve resilience to floods, mudslides and drought |
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11:00 |
Forecasting urban air quality using ENFUSER |
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11:30 |
Resilience challenges in agriculture |
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12:00 |
Lunch (restaurants around FAPESP) |
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13:30 |
Resilience to natural disasters |
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14:00 |
How will the INDCs help the improvement of resilience in urban areas in Brazil? (to be defined) |
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14:30 |
Plenary session General discussion and comments on the presented topics |
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15:30 |
Planning for next steps |
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16:00 |
Closing |
Official language: English (simultaneous translation will not provided)