ISOCARP Institute Seminar | 55th World Planning Congress
ISOCARP Institute Seminar “Solutions towards better Cities”
11 September 2019 – 11.30 – 13.00
Cities are the place of economic production, knowledge and innovation – together with connectivity, creativity and services. As cities are dense, they also offer high potentials for energy savings and low carbon economies.
However, cities are also today confronted with several challenges: unemployment, segregation, climate change issues. Our ISOCARP Institute Seminar will focus on the implementation of good practices, by listening from leading companies from the private sector, and solutions developed by leading international organisations, partners or members of the ISOCARP Institute.
The Institute Seminar will present several initiatives and urban solutions from partners and members of the ISOCARP Institute: it will focus on training and capacity building and the initiative of ISOCARP Institute together with UN-Habitat; further, it will develop the topic of Smart Cities at the European level and demonstrate the results of European projects. Furthermore, our partners from ENGIE Tractebel will explain their best experiences in achieving urban solutions, and finally, our partners from STRELKA KB will present their achievements in Russia and abroad on urban guidelines and urban competitions.
The Institute Seminar will cover the topics of capacity building, research and practice, which correspond to the three pillars of activities of the ISOCARP Institute: Academy, Research and Practice.
The ISOCARP Seminar, a complete session towards integrated sustainable urban development.
Programme
11:30 Welcome
Didier Vancutsem, Moderator, Director ISOCARP Institute
11:35 Better cities and better training: UN-Habitat Strategic Plan and the Global Training initiative
Shipra Narang Suri, Director Urban Planning and Design Branch UN-Habitat, Nairobi
11:50 Evolution to Smart Cities – Key findings for European Cities
Daniele Vettorato, EU Project Manager, EURAC Trento
12:05 The EU Research Project on Smart Cities – Positive CityxChange
Tjark Gall, Project Manager, +CxC Project, ISOCARP Institute, The Hague
12:20 Towards solutions for better cities: How ENGIE is developing global urban solutions
Etienne Drouet / Charles-Marie Delpierre, Senior Urban Specialists, ENGIE Paris
12:35 Urban Guidelines and Urban Competitions – How cities can become better – the experience from Russia
Alexei Muratov, Partner Head of Strategies for territorial development / Ekaterina Maleeva, Project Leader STRELKA KB, Moscow
12:50 Podium Discussion + Attendance interaction
Speakers + Moderator ISOCARP
13:00 Closing + continuing discussion during lunch break
