Date: November 18, 2019

Location: Jean-Chapdelaine Room, 1st floor
Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie (MRIF)
525 René Lévesque Boulevard East, Quebec City, Quebec

Registration: free

For more information, please contact stephanie@irh.ca

On the sidelines of the Québec Mines + Énergie 2019 conference, which will take place in Québec City from November 18 to 21, the Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation is organizing, in collaboration with the Réseau québécois sur l’énergie intelligente (www.RQEI.ca), a workshop with the RLS-Energie (https://www.rls-energynetwork.org) network. This workshop will be held on Monday, November 18, at the offices of the Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie (MRIF), located near the Québec City Convention Centre, where Québec Mines + Énergie 2019 is taking place.

Scientists from the Shandong, Upper Austria, Bavaria, São Paulo and Western Cape regions will be present.

Objectives of the workshop:

1. Ensuring the exchange of information and expertise on renewable energy use and energy efficiency
2. Identify possible forms of cooperation (e.g. H2020 multilateral cooperation, bilateral cooperation, e.g. smart campuses, etc.)
3. Sharing best practices in energy transition
4. To define new ways of thinking about international research collaboration in the field of energy innovation
5. Recognize the work of researchers from the RQEI and the seven partner regions of the RLS-Energy Network

Program

Presentations will be held in English.

9:30 a.m. Welcome (Department of Economy and Innovation) – Patrick Hyndman, Director of Canadian and International Partnerships and Programs

9:40 a.m. Presentation of the Fonds de recherche du Québec’s international orientations – Nature et technologies – Janice Bailey, Scientific Director

9.45 a.m. Remarks by the President of the RLS-Science and RLS-Energy Scientific Coordinator for Upper Austria – Sebastien Goers (Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)

10 a.m. REDEFINE H2020, multilateral project – Sebastien Fendt (Technical University of Munich)

COFFEE BREAK

10:45 a.m. Smart Cities – Benoit Béchard (Joint Urban Sciences Research Unit (UMRsu))

11:15 a.m. Smart Mobility – Hélène Filion (InnovÉÉ)

11:45 a.m. Smart Grids – François Bouffard (McGill University)

12:15 p.m. LUNCH

13.15 European cooperation project with partners RLS-Energy: DanuP-2-Gas – Reinhart Schwaiberger (Hochschule Landshut / University of Applied Sciences)

1:45 p.m. Renewable Hydrogen – Mihaela Cibian and Pierre Bénard (Hydrogen Research Institute)

2:15 p.m. Energy Efficiency – Louis Gosselin (Université Laval)

COFFEE BREAK

15:15 RLS-Energy Roadmap and SWOT Analysis, Linz 2020 (Smart Regions) – Sebastien Goers (Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)

3:30 p.m. Smart Campuses – Simon Barnabé (Institute for Innovation in Ecomaterials, Ecoproducts and Ecoenergies)

3:45 p.m. Synthesis and prospects for international collaborations

4:30 p.m. Closing remarks