ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS:

   The Smart Islands and Villages Lab (SILA2021) conference is organized as  SDEWES pre-conference  on island Mljet .

   The goal of SILA 2021 conference is to act in accordance with the EU strategy on islands development and launching new projects.
 
    SILA2021 invites you to discuss how digital technologies, science-society and international cooperation, social innovation and Living Labs could address global challenges of smart islands and rural communities. It includes the challenges of COVID pandemic and climate change - economic development, physical, social and mental well-being of local population, resilience and the development of sustainable tourism, green energy, and mobility on islands in rural areas
 
   The conference promotes and support dialog, cooperation and exchange of experiences between Southern Dalmatia and Central Baltic region and countries

  The conference invites online participation, presentations, participation in panel and co-creation sessions addressed concrete problems, challenges and projects in these fieled .
Participants at SILA 2021 need to fill in the registration form the registration link: https://forms.gle/5rbB2RYsgNbyoNc9A
 
All those interested can get additional information from MIPRO office: mipro@mipro.hr

The conference program can be found below

SILA2021 conference invites you to join Smart Islands and Villages Innovation Network and to participate to  Smart Island Digital Nomads and Remote Workers virtual community Lab and projects. The expressions of interests to be submitted at: http://www.smartislandregion.com/eoi-in-sila-network-and-island-community.html

Southern Dalmatia and Central Baltic regions, archipelagos, islands, rural areas have a lot of similarities and complimentary features, synergies that could benefit the regional development and their  countries     

Conference scope:

    The SILA2021 hybrid inter-regional international conference is aiming to regional development and COVID post-pandemic recovery of coastal smart regions, islands and rural areas of Croatian Adriatic and Central Baltic Seas regions.    
    It addresses complex problems and challenges of island and regions sustainability, energy, tourism, resilience, economic development, well-being and health - many of them are related the local impact of global processes and crises such as COVD pandemic, climate change, environment, migration.

• The conference is aiming to:  to address global, pandemic and environmental challenges, sustainable development of islands and rural areas and well-being of population mobilizing multidisciplinary science - smart ICT & digitization - society cooperation 
• to establish international cooperation network and Smart Island Lab project interest group  

 
  The conference concept follows the vision of Croatian Academy of Science Bisevo island multidisciplinary sustainable development project concept presented on the pictures below.  

by applying:
 
- scientific research multidisciplinary knowledge based on cooperation between different areas of science: system complexity science, social – human and medical science, ICT and smart digital technologies, regional science  others
 
- smart digital/ICT technologies and digital innovation (hubs) capacities to create digital platforms and electronic services for businesses, authorities, tourists and local population to help pandemic recovery and to facilitate economic and social developments
 
- social innovation and Living Labs methods and tools

by connecting local,  regional and international communities: 
  aiming to mobilize local activities, capacities and interests in new technologies, educations, communities and civil society dialogs and active participation in smart islands and village developments and to facilitate interest in learning and international cooperation.
 The conference provides discussion platform and presentation floor for local people, communities and organizations from different parts of EU including Southern Dalmatia/Croatian Adriatic and Southern Finland/Central Baltic  regions to help them to explore the complimentary between local business ecosystems ,  to allow to discuss cooperation, partnerships and new projects to help to reestablishment tourism and local economies to facility post COVID recovery .
  The conference will discuss opportunities and concrete steps in post COVID smart tourism development, new forms of tourism like digital nomads and remote (DNRW) island , green mobility and energy, mental wellbeing,  economic recovery of Croatian Adriatic/South Dalmatia  and Central Baltic/ Southern Finland regions  which could benefit from inter-regional exchange of views, experiences , best practices and to leverage from complimentary of smart regions policies and capacities in  ICT, tourism, environmental protection green blue energy, mobility,   public health and education sectors. 

it includes interactive co-creation and panel sessions focused on practical implementation  of key topics, providing discussion platform for further developments, establishing network and projects and Smart Island Lab 
 
discussion topics:

• the complementarities, common interests and opportunities, cooperation between Croatian Adriatic and Central Baltic Regions addressed sustainability , resilience, economic development, well-being and health in COVID pandemic recovery 
• new forms of smart sustainable tourism on islands and in rural areas during COVID pandemics - recreational tourism, tourism safety, thematic tourism, digital nomads and remote workers (DNRW) tourism
  
• system complexity and view of global vs regional challenges, socio-technological system of systems resilience and modelling, the impact  (pandemic, climate , migration, resilience, international relations) on  islands and regional areas
  
• the role of digital smart technologies and digital platforms  in islands and regional areas COVID recovery, resilience,  economic development, well-being and sustainability with concrete practical examples of implementations and roadmaps   
• COVID pandemic and mental well being and health, the role of media, social impacts, systematic view and the role of ICT, digital services and social media 
• Smart island and regions science network, DNRW community, smart island lab   
• other topics

 
Island as a Lab and Digital Nomads and Remote Workers (DNRW)  community
This initiative and effort targeted to establishing Smart Islands Innovation Living lab on island in cooperation with universities, NGOs and public authorities, digital nomads and remote workers (DNRW) communities and initiatives. It is aiming to establish Smart Island scientific and artistic communities of interest in residency on island connected and co-working with local population, implementing innovations agendas, supporting multidisciplinary scientific cooperation, hosting meetings, co-creation and co-working sessions on island and in hybrid format  

Who should attend?
  Islands and rural communities, NGOs, tourist boards and agencies, operators,  innovation organizations and centers, digital innovations hubs,  regional, national and local authorities ,  SMEs and companies , and all  interested in establishment cooperation, partnerships and new projects, international cooperation on these topics  

Expected outcome of the conference:

• the possibility for islands, rural communities, NGOs public authorities to get familiar with the new opportunities and best practices in smart tourism, green mobility, energy  and digitization that might contribute  post-pandemic COVID recovery by creation new businesses, establishing safe procedures and introducing new services) the examples, and reference links will be available online after the conference)
• to collect expressions (locally and internationally) of interests , project development ideas to be discussed. To establish partnership to follow up for new tourist businesses, services, cooperation initiatives, artistic residencies and, social innovation initiatives , NGOs establishing 
• to develop recommendations, next practical steps, business plans for post COVID smart sustainable tourism development including thematic tourism, schools exchange, volunteering tourism, Eco tourism, Digital Nomads in the rural areas and islands
  
• to establish new marketing channels and cooperation between tours organizers/operators , tourist boards in Baltic and Adriatic regions
• to discuss international cooperation opportunities between universities, companies, NGOs and public organization for smart sustainable tourism development based on digital and social innovations and Living Lab experiences 
• to establish new cooperation links nd new contacts between organization and people living in coastal areas and on islands at Adriatic and Central Baltic Sea regions 
  
• to start preparation of projects and center development
• it is expected to launch one or several thematic initiatives/projects  (see IMPLEMENTATION sessions in the agenda below)
  
• to establish international interest group, multidisciplinary network and forum with the involvement of regions , islands NGOs and authorities, digital hubs and innovation organizations, universities and schools interested in applying innovative smart digital technologies, social innovation and cooperation with scientific community, Living Labs   to facilitate post pandemic recovery, smart sustainable tourism envelopment and improvement of well-being of local rural and islands population

The conference venue for in-person participation  , Mljet, Croatia

Logistical information link:  http://www.smartislandregion.com/location-and-logistics.html

AGENDA STRUCTURE

8 October, Friday 10:00 - 17:00 CET/11:00 - 18:00 EET 

  OPENING AND KEYNOTES

10:00-10:30 CET/11:00-11:30 EET
Welcome address, Nikola Dobroslavic (TBC) and/or representative of UNIDU
Plenary keynotes 

• Energy Transition of islands from national and EU perspective, Tonino Picula
• Islands Innovation -  James Ellsmoor 
• EU and regions heads (TBC)

  PARALLEL SESSIONS:                                                                                                                                    THEMATIC TOPICS AND TRACKS                                                                                                                                    STRATEGY AND INTER-REGIONAL COOPERATION TOPICS

10.30CET - 17CET  /11.30 - 18EET 
Track 1: Green Energy for Islands  (Leader Ernest Vlačić)
Welcome addresses

• Islands in turbulent times of climate changes, M. P. Tadić (Virtual)
• Importance of agile energy transition, address from EU countries Finland/Denmark (TBC, Virtual)
•  Cases/examples of practical implementation
• Energy transition of East Adriatic islands, opportunities and challenges, Darko Jardas (Persona/Virtual, TBD)
• Examples of successful Energy Transition on islands, Vjeran Piršić (Personal)
• Analytic results of crucial parameters measurement on Unije Island, Damir Medved, Ericsson NT (Virtual)
• SE Vis – photovoltaic power plant – implementation challenges, Ivo Čović, Končar (Personal)
• Clean energy transition strategies for Dalmatian islands, Zokovic Cola Ivan (TBD)
• Hydrogen as emerging potential for energy transition on island, Ivica Jakić (Virtual)
• Current progress in the development of smart islands – H2020 INSULAE project“ Marko Mimica (TBC)
  
• Best EU islands practices/examples, applicable in Croatia, (TBC, virtual)                           

Panel discussion
'Potential development strategic directions for agile energy transition on islands'
Panelists: izv. prof. dr. sc. Krajacic Goran (virtual), Ivica Jakic (virtual), Darko Jardas (TBD), Vjeran Piršić (personal), Ivan Zoković, (TBD) 

10.30CET - 12CET  /11.30 - 13EET 
Track 2: From Smart Product to Health Tourism (Leaders  Slavko 
Vidović and Neven Vrček.)

Panel Session: How to develop Smart Product and achieve Sustainable Island through Island Digital Ecosystem

• Motivational  presentation by prof. Slavko Vidovic, Smart Industry Expert Group
• Distribution platform for health tourism products and services, Silvana Tomic Rotim, Ph.D., ZIH Zagreb
• Food & Rural Center of Competency, Boris Blumenschein, InfoDom Group

starts 9 Oct. 10CET -11EET (see below)
Track 3 New forms of tourism (Leader Vjeran Filippi)
 

13CET - 17CET/14 - 18EET 
Track 4: Science/technology - society dialog. Smart Rural Island Living Lab.  (Leader A. Boukalov, co-leader Rene Lisac )

• Smart Islands and Regional Science dialog, Bisevo Island project
• System complexity science for society resilience and sustainable development  
• People's well-being and mental health in post pandemic recovery. Inter-regional dialog 
  
• Projects development co-creation sessions/discussion (Leader Tena Velki)  virtual
  

Impact of digitization on youth mental health; impact of COVID related online activities on mental health Friday 8th of September 15:00 - 16:00 

Recreational Center for children (children with special needs:  with developmental disabilities, neurorisk children, gifted children) Friday 8th of September 16:00 - 17:00 

• Smart ICT and digital platforms cooperation for regional development and people well-being  
• Education, the role of local culture and media in post pandemic recovery  
• Smart Island living Lab as a research, cooperation, people well-being platform

11-16 EET/ 10-15 CET 
Track 6: Inter-regional Croatian, Adriatic – Finnish, Central Baltic cooperation, and exchange of experiences (Leader A. Boukalov, co-leader TBD )

•  European Network of Rural Development (ERND),  Smart Rural 21 & 27 projects
•  Southern Finland Regional Council presentations, regional priorities and cooperation opportunities 
• Presentations of Finnish projects, initiatives, science-society dialog, civil society initiatives  
•  E-Estonia – ICT and society  
•   Dubrovnik Neretva Regions, regional development priorities and cooperation interests, opportunities for investments and knowledge society development
• Presentations of Croatian and Dubrovnik Neretva region projects, initiatives, interests in cooperation (Pelješac and islands, Konavle, Dubrovnik)
• panel and co-creation session on inter-regional cooperation opportunities,  Smart Regional developments and Smart Region Island/Rural Living Lab  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          IMPLEMENTATIONS and PROJECT TRACK

Track 5:  Projects development co-creation sessions/discussion (Leader Tena Velki)  virtual 

• establishing specialized experts groups
  
• discussion about future projects 
• Impact of digitization on youth mental health; impact of COVID related online activities on mental health
• Recreational Center for children (children with special needs:  with developmental disabilities, neurorisk children, gifted children)

9 October, Saturday  10:00 - 17:00 CET/11:00 - 18:00 EET 

THEMATIC TOPIC AND TRACK -TOURISM (CONT.)

10CET -11CET /11EET-12EET
Track 3 New forms of tourism (Leader Vjeran Filippi)

• Sustainable tourism on islands, Renata Tomljenovic, Institute for Tourism Zagreb
• Digital Nomads  on Islands, Vjeran Filippi, president, LAG5   
• Public-private partnership and social innovation,marketing director,  Ivana Pacic Unkovic, Lesic Dimitri Palace Korcula, 
• Luxury tourism on islands, Zoran Pejovic, Hospitality Consultant, Paradox Hospitality

        IMPLEMENTATIONS and PROJECT TRACK (CONT. )

13CET - 17CET /14EET-18EET
Track 5:  Projects development co-creation sessions/discussion (continued) virtual and in person

• Digital Nomads and Remote Workers Rural (DNRW) Tourist Island of Mljet
• International Smart Island Living Lab Competence Centre 
• Joint initiative with Recreation Center   
  

AGENDA

SILA 2021 - Hybrid  expert meeting

Smart islands, villages, regions post-pandemic  recovery - Smart Tourism, Green Transport and Energy: partnerships, digital platforms, social innovation, science island as a Lab.
8. and 9. 10. October . 2021 Saplunara, Mljet island 

Organisers: MIPRO, INFODOM, LAG5
Chairs: Adrian Boukalov, Karolj Skala, Slavko Vidović


Programme:


Welcome address, Nikola Dobroslavic (TBC) and/or representative of UNIDU
Plenary keynotes 

• Energy Transition of islands from national and EU perspective, Tonino Picula
• Islands Innovation -  James Ellsmoor 
• EU and regions heads (TBC)

Track 1: Green Energy for Islands  (Leader Ernest Vlačić)
Welcome addresses

• Islands in turbulent times of climate changes, M. P. Tadić (Virtual)
• Importance of agile energy transition, address from EU countries Finland/Denmark (TBC, Virtual)
•  Cases/examples of practical implementation
• Energy transition of East Adriatic islands, opportunities and challenges, Darko Jardas (Persona/Virtual, TBD)
• Examples of successful Energy Transition on islands, Vjeran Piršić (Personal)
• Analytic results of crucial parameters measurement on Unije Island, Damir Medved, Ericsson NT (Virtual)
• SE Vis – photovoltaic power plant – implementation challenges, Ivo Čović, Končar (Personal)
• Clean energy transition strategies for Dalmatian islands, Zokovic Cola Ivan (TBD)
• Hydrogen as emerging potential for energy transition on island, Ivica Jakić (Virtual)
• Current progress in the development of smart islands – H2020 INSULAE project“ Marko Mimica (??)
• Best EU islands practices/examples, applicable in Croatia, (TBC, virtual)                           

Panel discussion
'Potential development strategic directions for agile energy transition on islands'
Panelists: izv. prof. dr. sc. Krajacic Goran (virtual), Ivica Jakic (virtual), Darko Jardas (TBD), Vjeran Piršić (personal), Ivan Zoković, (TBD) 


 Track 2: From Smart Product to Health Tourism (Leader Leaders  Slavko Vidović and Neven Vrček)

Panel Session: How to develop Smart Product and achieve Sustainable Island through Island Digital Ecosystem

• Motivational  presentation by prof. Slavko Vidovic, Smart Industry Expert Group
• Distribution platform for health tourism products and services, Silvana Tomic Rotim, Ph.D., ZIH Zagreb
• Food & Rural Center of Competency, Boris Blumenschein, InfoDom Group

Track 3 New forms of tourism (Leader Vjeran Filippi)

• Sustainable tourism on islands, Renata Tomljenovic, Renata Tomljenovic. Institute for Tourism Zagreb
• Digital Nomads  on Islands, Vjeran Filippi, president, LAG5   
• Public-private partnership and social innovation,marketing director,  Ivana Pacic Unkovic, Lesic Dimitri Palace Korcula, 
• Luxury tourism on islands, Zoran Pejovic, Hospitality Consultant, Paradox Hospitality

Track 4: Science/technology - society dialog. Smart Rural Island Living Lab.  (Leader A. Boukalov, co-leader Rene Lisac )

• Smart Islands and Regional Science dialog, Bisevo Island project
• People's well-being and mental health in post pandemic recovery. Inter-regional dialog 
• Smart ICT and digital platforms cooperation for regional development and people well-being  
• Education, the role of local culture and media in post pandemic recovery  
• Smart Island living Lab as a research, cooperation, people well-being platform   

Track 5:  Projects development co-creation sessions/discussion (Leader Tena Velki)  virtual 

• establishing specialized experts groups
• discussion about future projects 
• Impact of digitization on youth mental health; impact of COVID related online activities on mental health
• Recreational Center for children (children with special needs:  with developmental disabilities, neurorisk children, gifted children)

 15:00 - 16:00   Projects development co-creation sessions/discussion (Leader Tena Velki)  virtual
Impact of digitization on youth mental health; impact of COVID related online activities on mental health Friday 8th of September

 16:00 - 17:00      Recreational Center for children (children with special needs:  with developmental disabilities, neurorisk children, gifted children) Friday 8th of September




Track 6: Inter-regional Croatian, Adriatic – Finnish, Central Baltic cooperation, and exchange of experiences (Leader A. Boukalov, co-leader TBD )

•  European Network of Rural Development (ERND),  Smart Rural 21 & 27 projects
•  Southern Finland Regional Council presentations, regional priorities and cooperation opportunities 
• Presentations of Finnish projects, initiatives, science-society dialog, civil society initiatives  
•  E-Estonia – ICT and society  
•   Dubrovnik Neretva Regions, regional development priorities and cooperation interests, opportunities for investments and knowledge society development
• Presentations of Croatian and Dubrovnik Neretva region projects, initiatives, interests in cooperation (Pelješac and islands, Konavle, Dubrovnik)
• panel and co-creation session on inter-regional cooperation opportunities,  Smart Regional developments and Smart Region Island/Rural Living Lab