Looking for a perfect and strategic communication & dissemination opportunity for your EU project?
Showcase your EU project at SDEWES 2026 by organizing a Conference Side Event!
SDEWES 2026 conference provides an opportunity to bring much deserved attention to projects focused on any topic covered by the conference scope.
You may also want to present a platform, a company, business model, or any other event, as long as it is in the conference scope.
Host a side event dedicated to your project in Cartagena! A limited number of additional conference rooms are at our disposal at the venue during the conference week.
Don't miss this opportunity!
Details and pricing
One 2 hour slot session, plus delivering materials, and placing roll ups in hall, 6,540 EUR. The listed price covers full conference participation for 6 delegates and a dedicated time slot (selected by you) in the conference schedule. Project side event will be listed in the conference website (side events section) and schedule page (linking to the event on the events section)
Get more information or send your EU project side event proposal to sdewes2026@sdewes.org.
SDEWES Project Exchange Event - SDEWES-PEE
Date: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026, tbc
Time: 9:00-11:00
Room: TBD
Chair: Prof. Goran Krajačić
Successful projects are crucial for achieving sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems so SDEWES centre provides all conference participants opportunity to present their projects through short pitch presentation up to 5 slides and 5 minutes presentations.
Application for event is possible through COMET system.
H2RES user meeting
The H2RES user meeting is proposed as a recurring meeting of the growing community of users and developers of the Open source H2RES energy system model. Originally developed within the INTERENERGY project, H2RES is a long-term energy planning model designed to represent power-to-X and demand response technologies and to explore energy transition pathways toward fully renewable, 100% renewable-based energy systems, with particular focus to the flexibility options required to balance high shares of variable renewable generation. As the community of users grows, there is an increasing need for a dedicated space where users and developers can meet directly. The event seeks to connect them to share practical experiences across different applications, discuss the model’s planned development, and consider how community contributions can be reviewed and incorporated into the officially released versions of the model. In doing so, the meeting aims to strengthen the community around H2RES and to improve coordination between the independent development efforts emerging across institutions.
H2RES now has a new online home, a single entry point to the model, its team and its documentation at https://h2res.org, with every new release published openly on GitHub. This first “H2RES user meeting,” hosted at the 21st SDEWES Conference in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, opens a new chapter for the model’s community. The hybrid format allows both on-site and remote participants to present their work and take part in the discussion. Looking ahead, the aim is to establish this meeting as a recurring, semiannual H2RES user conference, held online or alongside future SDEWES conferences. Researchers and practitioners working with H2RES, or interested in adopting it, are welcome to join.
Objectives
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Event |
H2RES user meeting (side event) |
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Hosting |
21st SDEWES Conference 2026 (30 August – 3 September 2026) |
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Date/ Time |
TBC |
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Room |
TBC |
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Format |
Hybrid: on-site with online participation for remote developers |
Chair:
Prof. Neven Duić, FSB, university of Zagreb
Prof. Felipe Feijoo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Smart Water–Energy Systems: Digitalisation, sector coupling and resilient infrastructure
An IDIWATER dialogue on forecasting, desalination, resource recovery, flexibility and integrated planning
Water scarcity, climate change, ageing infrastructure and increasing energy costs are placing growing pressure on water systems worldwide. These challenges are particularly significant in islands and water-scarce regions, where limited natural resources and dependence on energy-intensive processes such as desalination require more anticipative, integrated and resilient approaches.
Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, advanced forecasting and data-driven optimisation can improve the planning and operation of water infrastructure. They can support water-demand prediction, production scheduling, storage management, predictive maintenance and the coordination of water production with renewable-energy availability and electricity prices.
However, water infrastructure should not be regarded solely as an energy consumer. Desalination plants, wastewater treatment facilities, pumping stations, reservoirs and distribution systems can also provide flexibility, energy storage, renewable-energy integration and recoverable resources. Their coordinated operation with electricity and heating systems can reveal decarbonisation opportunities that remain hidden when each infrastructure is planned independently.
Developed within the framework of the IDIWATER project, this side event will examine how smart water management, sector coupling and integrated planning can contribute to resilient, low-carbon and resource-efficient infrastructure.
IDIWATER combines applied research, public-private collaboration, digitalisation, desalination, energy efficiency, water reuse, circularity and technology transfer. It also promotes the shared use of public research infrastructure through the DESAL+ LIVING LAB to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative solutions in the water sector.
Rather than serving solely as a project dissemination activity, the event will use IDIWATER experiences as a starting point for a broader international discussion:
How can digitalisation and water–energy integration accelerate the deployment of resilient, low-carbon and resource-efficient infrastructure?
The session will combine six short invited perspectives with a moderated panel discussion and active audience participation. Speakers will present complementary viewpoints ranging from real-time water-demand forecasting and desalination operation to wastewater heat recovery, Power-to-Water, long-duration energy storage and cross-sector planning.
Objectives
The event will:
Event details
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Event |
Smart Water–Energy Systems: Digitalisation, Sector Coupling and Resilient Infrastructure (Side Event) |
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Hosting |
21st SDEWES Conference 2026 (30 August – 3 September 2026) |
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Date / Time |
1 Sept 2026, 9:00-11:00h. TBC (proposed: a single 2-hour slot running in parallel with one of the conference technical sessions) |
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Room |
ROOM L |
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Format |
On-site only. The event will combine short keynote presentations (approximately 5 minutes each), a moderated roundtable discussion (30–40 minutes) and audience interaction. |
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Chair |
Pedro Cabrera (ULPGC) |
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Organisers |
IDIWATER Project Consortium |
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Speakers |
· Baltasar Peñate (TBC), Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias, Spain · Juan C. Torres, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain · Felipe San Luis, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain · Andrea Menapace, Eurac Research, Italy · Massimiliano Renzi (TBC), Free Unviersity of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy · Goran Krajačić (TBC), University of Zagreb, Croatia |
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Focus |
Forecasting, smart desalination, renewable integration, wastewater heat recovery, sector coupling, Power-to-Water, flexibility and integrated water–energy planning |
