Reports

Conference for Renewable Heating and Cooling in Integrated Urban and Industrial Energy Systems. In order to implement the agreement on global warming reached at the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December 2015, an almost complete phasing out of fossil energy supply is required by 2050. This presents enormous challenges for the society, but also offers a lot of opportunities for research and industry to make a global contribution to this change.

The event was the -annually organized- Heat Pump symposium, organized by the Heat Pump Platform, a section of the Organisation of Sustainable Energy (ODE-WPP, https://warmtepomp.ode.be)

The theme of this years conference was:
"The heat pump is a smart and controllable device. We would like to highlight this message on 20 October during the 14^th Heat Pump Symposium. After a previous digital edition, this year we would like to welcome you again physically, this time on the Van Marcke site.

The event was the -biannually organized- international conference focusing on the subject of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Power Systems. In particular, multiple parallel sessions were held, in which several scientific and industrial papers were presented, along with a poster session. The conference included a European corner, hosting scientific projects funded by the European Union, oriented towards ORC systems and energy efficiency, in general.

A hybrid event (physical and virtual) - Sustainable Places is a conference held every year dealing with all aspects of sustainability. The scope of Sustainable Places is captured directly in its name. It involves designing, building and retrofitting the places we live and work in a more sustainable way. Sustainable Places provides a platform for the dissemination of research, the conduct of workshops, EU project clustering and networking between stakeholders.