Sick of energy poverty: How to create programs that improve health and eliminate energy poverty in our cities?
30 March 2022, 11-12h30 (Paris time)
What are the challenges and successful approaches to design programs that improve health, wellbeing and equality for city residents, especially those affected by energy poverty? Learn how to develop new innovative health-focused approaches to alleviate energy poverty amongst the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, while promoting energy-efficient behaviors and reducing energy demand in those households. Based on the experiences from cities and their academic and non-profit partners, we also want to hear your own ideas for a massive, EU-wide deployment of health solutions by policy-makers and city practitioners.
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AGENDA
11-11:05 Welcome and intro
Miriam Eisermann, Energy Cities
11:05-11:08 Poll with audience
11:08-11:25 How unhealthy is energy poverty?
We will expose and discuss what type of health issues are caused by energy poverty, who is most affected by it. We will share concrete examples from cities and affected people.
Moderation: Miriam Eisermann, Energy Cities
Intro speeches by:
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- Joao Pedro Gouveia – CENSE, NOVA University of Lisbon; EPAH Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (and WELLBASED Advisory Board Expert)
- William Baker, Catapult Energy Systems
Reactions from audience
11:25-12:05 Data mining for energy poverty: how to get health data without ‘exploiting’ vulnerable people?
The work on health and energy poverty remains a real gap. This is also due to the difficulty in getting data. In this part, speakers and participants will share experiences with study interventions in vulnerable households, but also elaborate on how big data will be leveraged to evaluate health factors impacting urban wellbeing.
Moderation: Vassilis Voulgarakis, Vilabs
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- Merel Stevens, Junior Researcher Public Health, Erasmus Medical School (WELLBASED project)
- Melda Karademir, Sustainability Consultant for Edirne City Council (WELLBASED project)
Q&A with audience
12:00-12:25 What solutions to alleviating health injustices in our cities?
Let’s put the spotlight on individual, community and macro-political support to increase wellbeing for the weakest members of the population.
- How to bridge different areas in governance (energy, social, health etc.)?
- How to co-design those solutions with communities?
- What do cities need to be more effective in eradicating those injustices?
- How do these efforts need to extend across disciples and agencies?
Moderation: Jaideep Visave – Institute of Advanced Studies, Pavia
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- Anna Jensen – Aarhus University about the critical issue of health in cities
- Fien Vandebeke, Climate and Energy project manager, City of Eeklo (Belgium) about how health/EP can be part of a same cause-and-effect loop and some of the measures the city is investigating to have a positive impact on people’s health and living conditions
- Prof Richard Laing from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
12:25-12:30 Wrap-up
Tags : @wellbasedEU #socialenergyplayers
Event page: TNOC Festival 2022
TNOC Festival
The festival focuses on facilitating transdisciplinary dialogue, small group workshops, arts engagement, and fostering a collaborative spirit around solutions for how to build cities that are better for nature and all people. We believe the route to cities that are better for both people and nature is through transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. The event spans across 5 regional times zones and it is available in multiple languages. Last year it counted with the participation of 2300 people from 72 countries.