[Fellows-Southampton] Alan Turing Institute Workshop on Environment and Sustainability - 21st February

[Susan Davies]

Dear Fellows

Please let me know if you are interested in attending this Workshop, or would like to nominate someone.  You will see that we can nominate two researchers.

Best wishes

Susan
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Susan Davies
Turing University Liaison Manager
Web Science Institute
Building 32, Room 3041
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ

T   023 8059 3523
M 07768 266464


Dear Turing University Leads and University Liaison Managers,



Further to last week's discussions on ways to engage with the Strategic Priorities Fund, I am writing to invite you to nominate two researchers from your institutions who would be interested in participating in our workshop on environment and sustainability. Thank you to those who have identified researchers in advance.



The workshop will take place at the Turing offices in London on 21st February, from 10:00-16:00, in the Enigma room and the final agenda will be circulated before the event.

We expect each of the attendees to be active researchers, willing to work on joint projects and future funding proposals. We are limiting the numbers of attendees to enable external organisations to contribute and ensure active participation on the day.



Interested researchers can sign up at the following link, final registration date 14th February: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-alan-turing-institute-workshop-on-environment-and-sustainability-tickets-55155100390



For those researchers, who are not Turing Fellows and are from a partner university outside of London, we may be able to offer a contribution towards travel expenses via reimbursement. Please let me know if this is required and I will contact the individuals. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any further queries.



Best wishes,

Oonagh



Alan Turing Institute Workshop on Environment and Sustainability



Many of the most important problems we face today are related to the environment. Climate change, healthy oceans, water security, clean air, biodiversity loss, and resilience to extreme events all play a crucial role in determining our health, wealth, safety and future development. To this end, the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity, aiming to take the bold and transformative steps that are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path.



Developing a clear understanding of the challenges and identifying potential solutions, both for ourselves and our planet, requires high quality, accessible, timely and reliable data. Data Science and AI has a crucial role to play in quantifying the need for change and tracking developments in order to provide stakeholders with the evidence base that is required to assess impacts and support informed decision making. Data Science and AI also has an arguably even more important role to play: in facilitating change itself through integration of cutting-edge data science and AI technology in energy, water, transport, agriculture, aquaculture and other environmentally related systems and by empowering individuals, organisations and businesses through the provision of personalized information that will support behavioural change.



The aims of this workshop are twofold: (i) to bring together researchers at the Alan Turing Institute and its partner Universities with external organisations and stakeholders to develop community links in Data Science and AI for environment and sustainability; (ii) to provide an opportunity to scope potential projects under current and future funding calls, including opportunities related to the Strategic Priority Fund.

Best wishes,
Oonagh

Oonagh McGee
Head of Research Management and Facilitation
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