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UN-HABITAT: World Habitat Day

1st October 20202nd December 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

Copenhagen Business School's Associate Professor and REFLOW's Project Coordinator, Cristiana Parisi, will speak at this years's UN-HABITAT World Habitat Day and World Cities Day virtual events. This year's events will take departure in discussing strategies and tools for the human-centred sustainable development of cities with special attention on the circular economy model. REFLOW at UN-Habitat Cristiana's talk will discuss the circular economy within contemporary cities, drawing upon the work within the REFLOW Project and bring forward some considerations based on her research. She will join a group of international experts, researchers, and other actors to discuss and exchange knowledge on strategies and tools to face the challenges of our century. Join the Event World Habitat Day takes place online, 5 October 2020 starting at 11:00 - and wrapping up at 14:20. You can access the event here. Download Programme World Cities Day: 31 October 2020, online, TBA Read more about UN-HABITAT World Habitat Day here and World Cities Day here. ...

Kick-Off Webinar: LET’S RE-OPEN A SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR SOCIETY

11th August 20202nd December 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

Associate Professor and REFLOW Project Coordinator, Cristiana Parisi has been invited to speak at the Kick-Off Webinar hosted by DTU about how universities can support a re-opening of a sustainable circular society. Cristiana's talk will address the Urban Circular Economy: how can we enable the transition towards circular and regenerative cities? Photo by Lacey Williams on Unsplash Cities are complex networks of interrelated actors whose task is to achieve challenging goals that range from efficiency to social and environmental impact and circularity. Based on the project REFLOW, this talk will present the model developed to perform the circular transition of six European cities, ranging from small towns to capital cities. It will present the key building blocks implemented as well as the challenges and opportunities linked to urban circular economy. The event will take place on Thursday, August 13, 2020 online. Find the programme here. You can sign up here. Source: DTU Skylab: Department for Innovation and Sector Service, 2020 ...

The First Year of REFLOW

2nd June 20202nd December 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

Over the past twelve months, the REFLOW team has been working hard to produce and submit 15 deliverables across the consortium. These showcase the efforts and work completed during the first year of the REFLOW journey. The team has collaboratively and successfully submitted 6 deliverables and reached 2 milestones in May 2020, M12 of the project. Read more about REFLOW You can find all of our publicly available deliverables here. ...

Circular Economy Virtual Workshop & REFLOW

26th May 20202nd June 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

REFLOW's Project Coordinator and Associate Professor, Cristiana Parisi and Rossana Torri (Project Manager at the Municipality of Milan) were invited by the European Commission to present the REFLOW project and the Milan Pilot City at the City Science Initiative's virtual workshop on Circular Economy. The virtual workshop was held on 25 May 2020 online. You can find the presentation here. Source: European Commission, JRC Science Hub Communities Virtual Workshop on Circular Economy Read more about the virtual workshop here. ...

An Update from REFLOW

6th April 20202nd December 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

Through efforts to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, governments across the EU have implemented measures to practice social distancing within their communities. As a result, public institutions and workplaces have closed down and activities have shifted online. Despite these closures, research at the Copenhagen Business School alongside the network of the REFLOW consortium and pilots still continues remotely. Adapting to the Changes With the approaching deadline of six upcoming deliverables in M12, the REFLOW team at CBS and across the consortium are going through a challenging transition of redefining the way they function and operate across online platforms. Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Last month’s project meeting in Vejle had been cancelled due to coronavirus, resulting in a modification of the REFLOW team’s efforts to arrange an online meeting space. Participants across Europe virtually met on March 11 and 12 to discuss and partake in roundtable discussions via Zoom breakout rooms. While these obstacles have changed the way that communication and work is being carried...

REFLOW’s Kick-Off Meeting

30th January 202030th October 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

REFLOW began its journey at the kick-off meeting at Copenhagen Business School in June 2019. The Project Coordinator (PCO) Associate Professor Cristiana Parisi welcomed the whole partnership to Copenhagen as well as the European Commission Project Advisor (PA) Emanuela De Menna, who attended the first day of the meeting. The PCO kicked off the meeting by providing a strategic and organizational view of the project to illustrate REFLOW’s approach to circular economy, encompassing social, environmental and economic aspects. Throughout the two-day event, project leads presented their plans for the upcoming years, and the six cities presented their ideas for the development of the city pilot. Over the next three years, the REFLOW team is excited to continue its collaboration and progress towards the Circular Economy. ...

Open Living Lab Days: Scaling-Up Challenge

30th January 20202nd June 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

The Project Coordinator Cristiana Parisi (CBS), alongside Lucia Scopelliti (Municipality of Milan), and the Polifactory team were invited to the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) Research and Innovation Conference workshop during the Open Living Lab Days in Thessaloniki, Greece. The event hosted 120+ participants who partook in a large scale co-creation session reflecting on the main theme of the conference, co-creating innovation: scaling up from local to global. REFLOW met its counterpart within the European Commission and was provided an opportunity to collect positive feedback about the project. The workshop targeted the transfer of knowledge across different programmes that cities and urban actors alongside teams of policy makers, academia, civil servants, and those in the private sector were working on to identify solutions to their shared and individual challenges. The event provided REFLOW with the recognition of its position as a best practice towards the integration of social aspects of the Circular Economy (CE) and exploring the measurement of CE practices from...

Responsible Use of Blockchain Technology Debate Days

29th January 20202nd June 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

From 25-27th of September 2019, Copenhagen Business School Office of Responsible Management Education (CBS PRME) organized a Hackathon event on the “Responsible use of Blockchain Technology”. Cristiana Parisi (CBS) and Andrea d’Inmtino (DYNE) were invited to moderate a panel on the interlinkages between technology and sustainability. The two debate days brought together speakers and panelists focusing on the future of blockchain technology to foster sustainable development and to explore solutions to address the challenges associated with pressing developments on society and industry. Moreover, participants heard about how higher education should change and what competencies will be needed to have a responsible digital future. The keynote speakers for the days included, Anders Hvid from Dare Disrupt and Martin von Haller Groenbaek from Bird&Bird. The event was organized by CBS PRME in collaboration with researchers from the Danish Technical University (DTU), Dare Disrupt, and the Nordic Blockchain Association with support from Tuborgfondet. ...

Co-Creation Workshop I

29th January 20202nd June 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

On November 20-21, 2019 the Copenhagen Business School hosted the first co-creation workshop in REFLOW. The Project Coordinator, Cristiana Parisi welcomed the pilot and project partners breaking down REFLOW’s approach to the circular economy and the work progressed in the project so far. This was followed by brief pilot presentations, from Amsterdam, Berlin, Cluj-Napoca, Milan, Paris and Vejle highlighting what the pilot is about, the flows of material and information, key stakeholders involved and possible scenarios. The two-day workshop provided an opportunity for pilot and project members to continue their collaborative work within the different aspects of REFLOW and to build a better understanding of the individual work packages and their engagement with the pilots. Two key performance indicator sessions were also held to co-create the framework that will help the project measure the transition to circular and regenerative cities and to explore pilot-specific goals. Members also led round tables administered between groups and pilot cities to address six topics within...

CBS Visits Vejle

29th January 20202nd June 2020 By cpa.acc Comment Closed

In December 2019, members from Copenhagen Business School visited Vejle to see the pilot’s activities and the FabLab at Spinderihallerne. The team in Vejle is working on designing sustainable solutions to make the use of plastic more circular while also reducing the need for plastic (read more about the pilot’s activities here). The team has been very successful in setting up citizen engagement workshops and has already set up a steering group consisting of multiple local actors. Besides understanding the pilot’s activities and challenges, the CBS team also experienced firsthand how plastic is sorted at the “Tour de Vestby” and how the pilot is undertaking waste and plastic analysis. The CBS team hopes to visit the other pilot cities soon. ...