TU1304 COST Action aims to merge the efforts of the COST countries research groups working on the Wind Energy Technology and design the pathways to introduce it by means of robust applications to the urban and suburban built environment, thus enhancing the concept of Smart Future Cities. This Action revisits safe, cost-effective and societally accepted wind energy technology for consideration in the development of the future urban and suburban habitat.
The principal objectives of WINERCOST is to collect the existing expertise on the Built environment Wind energy Technology (BWT) recently developed as a follow-up of the Onshore/Offshore Wind Energy Technology (ON/OFF-WET) and to investigate effective adoption methods for enabling the concept of Smart Future Cities. In addition, the utmost important issue of the social acceptance strategy will be scrutinized in close collaboration with municipality authorities, industry, manufacturers as well as the international wind energy organizations.
Prof. Charalampos (Lambis) BANIOTOPOULOS, Phd, Prof hc
WINERCOST Chair
University of Florence (UniFI), INARSVILUPPO and COST Action WINERCOST are pleased to announce the Final Conference of the action under the keyword: "WINERCOST’18 – Wind Energy Harvesting (...focusing on exploitation of the Mediterranean area)" that will be held in Catanzaro Lido, CZ, Calabria/Italy, on March 21-23, 2018.
For more information, please read the preliminary announcement document:
The TU1304 COST WINERCOST Action was presented to the 5th International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS5) (https://www.elcasnet.com). ELCAS5 provided a multidisciplinary international forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange information, to present high-quality research results and new developments in the wide domain covered by the tools of Exergy Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and issues relating to the environment, and sustainability. Climate Change, Renewable Energy Systems, Sustainable Energy Systems and in particular, Wind Energy Systems, Smart Energy Systems etc are issues that very much effect the sustainability of countries, regions and cities and had been discussed in depth. All participants had also the chance to discuss the future direction and priorities in the fields.
ELCAS-5 took place at the Zosimopoulion conference room at Nisyros Island that is a volcanic Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea and is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos.
Register now for the Urban Physics Autumn School 2017 (UPAS2017), held on 22-28/10/2017 in beautiful Chalkidiki, Greece. UPAS2017 is an international specialized workshop for doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and beyond, organized by the Eindhoven University of Technology, ETH Zurich and the University of Cyprus. It follows the previous successful Urban Physics Schools organized in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016. The special theme of this edition is: the Road towards Future Smart Cities. The venue is the 5-star hotel Anthemus Sea. 12 lecturers from 8 different universities/institutions will provide inspiring lectures on a wide range of topics in the field of urban physics focused on the theme. For more information on lecturers, topics, venue and registration, see this brochure (pdf) and visit the course website: http://www.urbanphysics.org/up2017
UPAS2017 is organized in the spirit of the European COST Action TU1304 “Wind energy technology reconsideration to enhance the concept of smart cities (WINERCOST)” chaired by Prof. Charalampos Baniotopoulos and Prof. Claudio Borri. Dr. Hassan Hemida, the Chair of the WINERCOST WG1 will provide the lectures on Wind Energy at UPAS2017, and Prof. Bert Blocken, the Co-Chair of the WINERCOST WG1, is the lead organizer of UPAS2017.
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