The Active and Assisted Living (AAL) programme holds one of the largest annual forums in the field of technology for ageing, and Insight has been working closely with AAL on this since the partnership began nine years ago. Over the years we’ve seen both this collaboration and the programme blossom twofold. The AAL Forum take […]
Projects Magazine is back in circulation and in this special energy edition, produced in partnership with Sustainable Places 2019, we showcase some of the excellent European research that is tackling the broad issue of energy in addressing key sustainability and climate change targets. The topic of energy is broad and complex. As the issue of […]
EU-funded project VIRTeu is creating tools and activities to help Internet of Things developers take a deeper look into the ethical considerations of their creations. Their latest exploit, an immersive experience called Bear & Co, was showcased at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems between 4-9 May. Bear & Co is an immersive experience that plunges participants into […]
Insight will be attending this year’s Sustainable Places conference, providing coverage on the latest developments in the field of sustainable built environments and supporting our partner project Sim4Blocks host their workshop on demand response. Sustainable Places 2019 will take place in Cagliari on the island of Sardinia between 5-7 June, bringing together experts and other […]
Responding to the ambitious targets set in the EU’s Europe 2020 strategy of sustainable patterns of consumption and production, Rehap is an EU-funded project facilitating a significant step towards a better use of natural resources by creating novel materials from agricultural and forestry waste, whilst decreasing the use of fossil resources and energy in the […]
Workshop Barriers and progress for demand response in Europe Fri 7 June, 9am – Grotta di Nettuno room Sim4Blocks will be attending this year’s conference, hosting a workshop on demand response in Europe alongside DR.BOB, NOVICE and HOLISDER – three leading projects in the energy market. Sustainable Places 2019 will take place in Cagliari on […]
A new immersive experience called Bear & Co sets participants the tricky task of trying to run a tech startup without abandoning all of their values. Google’s infamous “Don’t be evil” motto laid out the core values of its founders in the simplest terms (whether or not you think they have stuck to their promise […]
The AAL Forum is back for its 11th year, bigger and better than ever before, and returning to Denmark after 10 years the vibrant Danish city of Aarhus is this time set to be its grand stage for September 2019 As media partners for another year running, IPL is once again leading this year’s AAL […]
With ambitious targets set by the EU to significantly reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases, workable strategies for flexible energy use are fast becoming essential. Sim4Blocks is an EU-funded project developing the best way of delivering demand response services to the market while ensuring commercial viability for energy suppliers. The project recently held its first webinar, coordinated through Sim4Blocks’ dissemination partner IPL, titled […]
BIOWAYS, the project that aimed to increase awareness of bio-based products and applications supporting the growth of the European bioeconomy has come to the end of its two-year research. BioWatch, one of the projects online tools has remained a valuable output and continues to help strengthen the bioeconomy outside of BIOWAYS. The EU-funded H2020 project, […]
