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RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2024
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The Regional Leaders Summit (RLS) is a forum comprising seven regional governments: Bavaria (Germany), Georgia (USA), Québec (Canada), São Paulo (Brazil), Shandong (China), Upper Austria (Austria), and Western Cape (South Africa). Within the framework of RLS, RLS-Sciences seeks to leverage the unique composition and strengths of the RLS network to support scientific research within and between the RLS regions. The goal is to generate and support academic, scientific, and technological exchanges, as well as the initiation of multilateral research projects. RLS-Sciences is comprised of its scientific network, the existing bilateral relationships between the RLS members, and its five research projects: RLS-Energy Network (the RLS-Sciences pilot project), the RLS-Expert Dialogue on Digitalization, the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus, RLS-Small Satellites , and RLS-Digital Health.
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Aerospace
Addressing especially the interaction in innovation ecosystems between academia and industry, the Global Aerospace Campus group also contributed to the 2024 Digital Week. The group has had a years-long exchange on sustainable aviation and advanced air mobility, and continued to deepen these aspects in their presentations this year during the Digital Week. The core focus on training, which is one of the pillars of the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus, was also prevalent throughout. Different models of industry-academia collaboration for training the next generation of aerospace researchers and professionals were shown. The group noted that there are particularly important mutual benefits in this exchange for both groups and for pushing innovations further in the aerospace field. They will now work to identify possible topics for the fifth online course, and prepare for their exchanges in Québec in September. Learn more about the Global Aerospace Campus here. |
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Energy
As part of the 2023 RLS-Sciences Digital Week, the Energy Network session had an overarching focus on communities and stakeholders at different levels. The presentations ranged from research focusing on single communities, through to cities, to entire regions. “Science adoption in regional innovation ecosystems” was of particular importance for the Energy group, as community acceptance has been increasingly relevant in their exchanges, and regional innovation ecosystems addressing energy are present in most regions. The group is preparing for their exchanges at the next conference, as well as the opportunity to visit the Energy Transition Valley Innovation Zone. Learn more about the RLS-Energy Network here. |
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Small Satellites
The RLS-Small Satellites group convened to exchange on their different current and upcoming missions, as well as to review the current state of the Telematics International Mission (TIM) during the 2024 RLS-Sciences Digital Week. The Digital Week session for RLS-Small Satellites demonstrated once again that there is great cooperation potential not only in the TIM project, but also between the researchers for their further missions. The group will continue to exchange and identify exploitation possibilities for the many synergies shown during the session, before they meet in Québec in September. Learn more about RLS-Small Satellites here. |
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Digitalization
The RLS-Expert Dialogue on Digitalization was represented at the 2022 Overall RLS-Sciences Conference through the Thought Leadership Keynotes, which covered themes ranging from cybersecurity to large scale computing infrastructure for research to digital humanism to federated learning. Learn more about the RLS-Expert Dialogue on Digitalization here. |
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Digital Health
RLS-Digital Health met at the 2024 Digital Week. Key transversal themes across the regional presentations included the challenges of integrating the many different stakeholders in the digital health ecosystem throughout the innovation cycle- from development through to access and use. Specific technological innovations were also presented. The group’s engagement with “Science Adoption in Regional Innovation Ecosystems” showcased that for the field of digital health, data is of particular importance to innovation and that systems to support its collection and use are key in creating the right conditions for stakeholders to benefit. The group will take use the exchanges to develop new topics for collaboration as they prepare for the in-person conference in Québec in September. Learn more about RLS-Digital Health here. |
