Living Labs and Partnerships for Progress-How Universities can Drive the Process towards the Sustainable City

Federico Delfino, Paola Laiolo and Federico Delfino
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Paola Laiolo: DITEN-Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy
Federico Delfino: CenVIS-Service Centre (CenVIS) for the management of Ventimiglia, University of Genoa, Italy

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2019, vol. 18, issue 2, 71-73

Abstract: Universities can play an active role in facilitating the deployment at a wide scale of the sustainability concept, strictly cooperating with public-private institutions and civil society. Following this path, the University of Genoa, Italy, decided to transform its Savona Campus into a Living Lab aimed at creating a model of a sustainable urban district, to be replicated at the city level with specific implementation projects. Different actions on sustainable energy, smart environment and social health & wellbeing have been deployed: energy efficiency interventions, smart grid connected to a zero-emission building, electrical mobility and outdoor sport activities. All the projects have been developed with the active involvement and the empowerment of the Campus community (students and faculty) and thanks to important collaborations with local public institutions and industrial companies.

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Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2019.18.555984

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