UNIgreen International Conference 2026

The UNIgreen International Conference ‘Building Partnerships between Academia, Industry and Community for the Green Transition: the Role of UNIgreen’ will take place on 4 February at 2.30 p.m. in the Auditorium of Coimbra Business School, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, as part of the UNIgreen International Summit and Conference.

14:00 | Registration

14:30 - 15:00 | Welcome & Opening

Cândida Malça, President of Polytechnic University of Coimbra

Tomás Lorenzana, UNIGreen General Coordinator

Ana Cristina Perdigão, Diretora Nacional Agência Erasmus 

15:00 - 15:50 |  Lecture "Some Experiences on Building Partnerships between Academia, Industry and Community for the Energy Transition"

Invited Speaker: Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Full Professor at University of Coimbra and Director of INESC Coimbra

Carlos Henggeler Antunes holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (specialization in Optimization and Systems Theory) from the University of Coimbra (UC). He is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC, Director of the R&D institute INESC Coimbra, member of the coordination committee of the Energy for Sustainability Initiative at UC, and president of APDIO – the Portuguese Operational Research Society. His areas of interest include multi-objective optimization, meta-heuristics, multi-criteria analysis, bilevel optimization, energy systems and policies with focus on energy efficiency and demand response. He is co-author of the book “Multiobjective Linear and Integer Programming“ (Springer, 2016) and co-editor of the book “Energy and Behaviors” (Academic Press, 2019). He is senior editor of Energy Policy and editor of the EURO Journal on Decision Processes.

15:50 - 17:30 | Roundtable "Green Transition Within Academia-Industry-Community Partnerships"

Moderator: Joana Loureiro, Coimbra City Council

CoLAB FORESTWISE - José Gaspar, CTO - Chief Technology Officer

ECLECTIC Project -  Sónia Chelinho

Coimbra LLM – SHIFT COIMBRA -  Ângela Fernandes, Project Manager SHIFT Coimbra

Portugal – FAIRe - European Students' Union - Daniel Aragão - Chairman of the Executive Committee of FAIRe Portugal

17:30 | Cocktail "Beirão d'Honra"

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