Category: Event

The second Annual Meeting of eMOTIONAL Cities project will be held on July 29^th in Tartu, Estonia, embedded in the IUPE Conference (July 29^th – August 1^st, 2022).

a pre-organized session will take place on July 31^st, under the scope of the eMOTIONAL Cities project (10:30am – 12:30 am):

• Urban built environment and mental health: A scoping review | Zeenat Kotval and Zenia Kotval (Michigan State University)
• Urban science and brain research. A systematic review of the literature | Leonardo Ancora, Inês Alves, Diego Mora, Ana Bonifácio, Paulo Morgado, Bruno Miranda (University of Lisbon)
• Spatial analysis of urban health. An eMOTIONAL Cities project protocol | Ana Paula Seraphim, Haifeng Niu, Elisabete A Silva (University of Cambridge)
• A wearable platform integrating environmental and health sensors in virtual and augmented reality: novel approaches for urban planning and design | Gonçalo Lopes, André Almeida, Filipe Carvalho, Ata Chokhachian, Daniele Santucci, Bruno Miranda (University of Lisbon)
• Estimating and mapping human-level particulate matter concentrations through satellite-based data | Rajchandar Padmanaban and Paulo Morgado (University of Lisbon)

Please check here the Conference Program.

Our partner, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet – DTU has hosted an internal webinar (only for eMOTIONALCities’ partners) in February, 25th 10h-12h CET where, beyond presenting their plan for mobility and health data collection in Copenhagen, an external speaker, Zhaoxi Zhang, a Ph.D. student from the University of Aarhus (Denmark), is going to share her experience with health data collection in Copenhagen.

eMOTIONAL Cities are glad to invite you for the Annual Meeting that will take place on November 23^rd at 9h30 (Lisbon time)  in Great Hall of the Rectory of the University of Lisbon (Portugal).

This event, addressing the theme eMOTIONAL Cities: Debate on the future of urban health, will include the participation of:

• Angela Million | Director of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University (TU) Berlin
• Miguel Telo de Arriaga| Head of the Healthy Lifestyles Division (DGS)
• Paula Castro| Director of CIS-IUL
• Mário Vale | Professor IGOT-ULisboa, CEG-Associated Lab TERRA
• Susana Macedo | Clean&Safe – Turismo de Portugal

 Registration | View the agenda

This event will be held in person and  broadcast live through the link: https://youtu.be/iMirrs003G8

eMotional Cities organized a webinar about Visual Identity on September 7th at 2:00 PM (Lisbon time). The purpose of this webinar is to explain the use of brand manual and templates to the partners. 

On the 1st of September, a Researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow at Lisbon University, Diego Mora participated in the virtual EEG Symposium ‘Analytical Approaches and applications’ as a representative of eMotional Cities project. Diego’s presentation encompassed the unraveling emotions across the urban environment with EEG.

The “Open co-design workshop on next generation tools to manage ALS and MS” took plane on June 3rd and follows a series of two previous events opened only to the project’s consortium members aimed at exploring and defining the BRAINTEASER stakeholders’ ecosystem, the user’s needs and profiles and the potential clinical use of the project’s technology. During the open co-design workshop, the initial BRAINTEASER technical solution was presented. The external experts and the audience was involved in a collaborative and participative discussion on clinical unmet needs, disease course, clinical practice and new emerging research on ALS and MS to assess the BRAINTEASER solution and propose possible refinements.

The eMOTIONAL CITIES Launch Event was held on April 13th with the presence of Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education. The opening dissemination event was organised in Lisbon (Portugal) to communicate and disseminate the project’s objectives and action plan.

The project kick-off meeting took place on April 8th and 9th, during which the general features of the project were presented, as well as the nine workpackages (WP). On the second day there were also presented the other Urban Health Cluster projects, namely ENLIGHTENme, WELLBASED, HEART, RECETAS and URBANOME.

The Environmental Sensors Workshop took place on March 12th and aimed:

1) Discuss the optimal solutions to collect environmental data from existing infrastructure, sensors grids, and open data already available in the involved cities (i.e. Lisbon, Madrid, Turin, and Pavia);

2) Find the best solutions to enhance and integrate environmental data infrastructures with novel sensors;

3) Define synergies and collaboration paths with other projects such as eMOTIONAL Cities, 4) Outline the strategies and methods to define the “personal exposure” to pollutant for each patient so to integrate it into our AI models.