Environmental Intelligence Summer School

Second edition of the International School in the field of Ambient Intelligence, dedicated to the digitisation of natural environments.

The event aims to provide society with a vision of the different approaches to the natural environment in terms of access to useful information using new tools.

The event will take place on 19, 20 and 21 June 2024, at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Edificio E (escuela técnica superior informática), organised in cooperation with the WATCHPLANT and SMARTLAGOON project.

Wednesday 19th June

9:00h Opening

Belén Picó Sirvent (Researcher vice rector at The Technical University of Valencia, UPV)
Laura García Carmona (WATCHPLANT project coordinator. Head of Biosensor and Biofuel cells at ITE)
Alfredo Quijano (WATCHPLANT member. R&D vice-president at ITE)
Javier Senent Aparicio (SMARTLAGOON project coordinator. Full Professor of Planning and Management of Water Resources at UCAM)
José María Cecilia Canales (Professor of Systems and Computer Informatics department at UPV)

9:30h Round Table. Environmental Intelligence scope and significance

Darina Botsova (European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency)
Laura García Carmona (WATCHPLANT project coordinator. Head of Biosensor and Biofuel cells at ITE)
Javier Senent Aparicio (SMARTLAGOON project coordinator. Full Professor of Planning and Management of Water Resources at UCAM)

10:00h Session 1. Environmental Intelligence

•  WatchPlant project. Laura García Carmona (Watchplant project coordinator. Head of Biosensor and Biofuel cells at ITE).
• SMARTLAGOON. SMARTLAGOON project coordinator. Full Professor of Planning and Management of Water Resources at UCAM).
• I-Seed project. Marilena Ronzan (Researcher at Instituto Italiano di Tecnología)

11:30h – 12:00h Coffee break

12:00h -14:00 h

RAMONES. Theodoros J. Mertzimekis. (Project coordinator and professor at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

ReSET. Mark Mulligan (Professor at King’s College London).

14:00h -15.30h Lunch break

15:30 – 17:00 Session 2.A Parcel monitoring

Portable sensors for in situ monitoring of key biomarkers
Beatriz Lucas Garrote (WATCHPLANT. Main researcher at ITE)

Thursday 20th June

09.00h – 10.00h Session 2.B. Parcel monitoring

Sensing for plant hydric resources management. Antonio Diaz Espejo (CSIC-IRNAS, Researcher at Spanish National Research Council)

10:00h- 11:30h Session 3.1 Watershed models

Waterford I: basis and demo. Arnout Van Soesbergen (ReSet. Professor at King’s College London)

11:30h – 12:00h Coffee break

12:00h -14:00h WaterWorld II: FreeStations

Practical activity

14:00h -15.30h Lunch break

15:30h – 17:00h Session 3.2 Watershed models
SWAT I: Model Theory and Introduction to SWAT+ Interface
Adrián López Ballesteros, Gerardo Castellanos-Osorio (SMARTLAGOON. Researchers at UCAM)

17:00h Cocktail

Friday 21st June

09:00h – 11:30h Session 3.2 Watershed models

SWAT II: Practice activity. SWAT+ application example development

11:30h – 12:00h Coffee break

12:00h – 14:00h Session 4. Working group activity

Students’ application of the SWAT+ model in an assigned study basin.

14:00h -15.30h Lunch break

15:30-17:00h Students’ presentation of the model results in their assigned study basin.

17:00h Awards & Closure