Workshop Sustainability Days 2024

To commemorate World Environment Day, 5 June, the Eco-Schools FE - Faculty of Engineering coordinators and the BioRG research group are pleased to invite all students, staff and teachers to take part in the 2024 Sustainability Days.

Programme

Workshops

11h00 -12h00 - ‘Uncomplicating Recycling: Practices for Separating Waste’ Room A.1.5

• Joana Lage and Elisabete Mauricio (Coordinators of the Eco-Schools project, Faculty of Engineering, Lusófona University)

13h30 - 14h30 - ‘Artist's book display and handling session & Letterpress printing workshop’ Room F 3.4

• Inês Marques and Rita Carvalho (CICANT, CEIED, DESIGN ID)
• Oral Communications (Auditorium S 0.9):

15h00 - Reception for participants

15h15 - Welcome session

• Cristina Guerra (Director and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University)

15h30 - ‘NOxAqua - an innovative platform for monitoring nitrogen compounds and the sustainable management of aquatic resources’

• Gabriela Almeida (Associate Professor at the Egas Moniz School of Health and Sciences; Researcher at UCIBIO-i4HB; CEO at Nitrogen Sensing Solutions)

15h50 - ‘Application of sensors in monitoring the comfort of spaces and their efficiency’

• João Canto (Associate Professor and Director of the Electrical Engineering degree programme at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University; Researcher at COPELABS, Lusófona University)

16h10 - ‘Sustainability Research on the University Campus - Presentation of a case study’

• Elisabete Mauricio (Researcher at BioRG and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University)
• Adilia Charmier (Researcher at BiORG and Director of the Biotechnology programme at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University)

16h30 - ‘Green Hydrogen, raw material and energy vector for sustainability’ - practical case ‘how to build an alkaline electrolysis cell to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water’

• Rui Neto (Researcher at IN+, IST, Lisbon and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Lusófona University).

17h00 - Coffee break

18h00 - Webinar ‘What impact does the air we breathe while we sleep have on our health?’

• Joana Lage (lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University, IST researcher and coordinator of the HypnosAIR project)
• Joana Belo (Researcher, Assistant Professor and Director of the Degree Course in Clincal Physiology at ESTeSL)
• Miguel Meira-Cruz (European Specialist in Sleep Medicine and Director of the Sleep Unit at the Cardiovascular Centre of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Medicine)