New meeting: Commune d'Ixelles

[alberto]

Hello @chantal_vanoeteren, thanks for this.

Yes, I agree that you should be the one doing the presentation. Your document is mostly fine. Two things are missing:

• The Reef aims to be the common home of a group of people and small businesses. It is a hybrid space. One small company, Edgeryders, is both part of the prototype and a future “resident”.
• The Reef has an important function in connecting its community of green living-minded residents with the European ecosystem of climate innovation. This is why Climate-KIC is considering investing in it. We are discussing with them establishing an interdisciplinary innovation lab on green living, which would be run by a consortium of universities in the Climate-KIC community and would be physically located in The Reef. This is documented here:

A research facility at The Reef: some reflections

After the final Reef workshop at Metrolab, @matthias and I had some fruitful discussions about how climate innovation would work in practice at The Reef. In this post, I try to summarize them roughly, so that we don’t forget them. The action point is for me to call a meeting in December (ahead of writing the stage 2 proposal) with C-KIC, and for Matt to write two well-explained example of the type of innovations that could be developed in The Reef: emissions-saving, with a technological compone…

Could you and @manuelpueyo come to The Reef tomorrow? Activities:

• meeting with Luc from Wooncoop at 9.00 (you can decide whether you want to come or not).
• preparation of the Ixelles meeting at 10.30 (here you should definitely come). Then we will go to Ixelles together.