Programme

Take advantage of the summer break to learn more about sustainable urbanism and smart cities at the University of Namur (Belgium)!

Vertech Summer School 

Vertech Summer School aims to provide up-to-date knowledge and an advised outlook about environmental, socio-economic and socio-entrepreneurial issues of cities and regions related to sustainable urbanism.

Green technologies, eco-industrial parks, smart cities, sustainable transport, urban agriculture, waste management, water treatment, sustainable chemistry, etc., will be several of the themes discussed during school.

Highly skilled speakers from VERTECH CITY network will share their experiences and opinions with about thirty students from university, college, public, and private sector, principally from institutions and organizations affiliated to the member cities of VERTECH CITY network.

This Summer School is co-organized by
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Cégep de Victoriaville, University of Lousiana at La Fayette, Université de Namur, Espace Mendes France & CNRS.
 

 

Timing Sat 13/07 Sun 14/07 Mon 15/07 Tue 16/07 Wed 17/07 Thu 18/07 Fri 19/07 Sat 20/07
08:00 Participants arrival

    

 		 Free time Breakfast     Breakfast     Breakfast     Breakfast     Breakfast Free time
08:30
09:00

   

Opening conference

 

 

   Circular economy to create new and unusual local synergies

 Speaker: 
Simon Barnabé
UQTR   		    

 Meeting and discussion with Namur's Mayor - Maxime Prévot, visits of projects implemented in the city 


Public session

Visit

 

Ressourcerie / Mme Ravik Boutique

Team Work Completion

 

Pitch practices 

       
09:30
09:45
10:00

Visit of Namur

Historical center
and Citadel  

       

Panel of elected municipal officials and/or politicians 

Luc Gennart
Maxime Van Wonterghem
Robert Melanson
Vincent Guay
Denis Roy 

Public session
10:15
10:30 Coffee break  Coffee break 
10:45 Smart Cities  

Speaker:
Annick Castiaux
UNamur		    

Urban agriculture

Speaker:

Haissam Jijakli
ULiège 
11:00
11:30
12:00 Lunch       Lunch    Lunch       Lunch       Lunch   
12:30
13:00

Household Waste Management: issues and perspectives

Speaker:

Bernard Hanquet

BEP- Environnement   

  Sustainable chemistry and environment  

 Speaker:
Benoît Moreau
HEPC-Condorcet

  Visit

the "TRAKK"

Incubator prepares the entrepreneurs of tomorrow 

Speaker:

Alexandre Marchal
Haute École de Namur-Liège-Luxembourg     		   Students team work presentation 
in front of a large audience 
at UNamur    
13:30
14:00
14:15
14:30
14:45

 

Hybrid & electric vehicules

Speaker:

Loic Boulon 

UQTR

    Land development : industrial ecology and ecopark

Speaker:
Annick Castiaux
UNamur		  Coffee break
15:00       

Cities & energy transition

Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette 		    Coffee break and deliberation of the judges 
15:15
15:30  Coffee break   Coffee break
15:45

Challenges of education for the cities of tomorrow

 

Speaker:

Julie Henry
UNamur

  		 Sustainable campus : the CUMIN project

Speaker:

Alain Bouscaryol
University of Lille		     Award ceremony 
and closing remarks 
16:00
16:30        Free time
17:00 Team work preparation   Team work preparation Team work preparation Team work preparation Free time     
17:30

Welcome cocktail

at the City Hall
18:00 Celebration of the 40 years of Namur - Lafayette Twining

Networking cocktail - Cajun Mea
Concert of Emilie Vidrine
18:30
19:00
19:30  Free time  Dinner at "Tasty Bar"  Formal Gala / Vertech Dinner  Dinner at "Fenêtre sur Cour"  Closing dinner at "Brasserie François"