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📢 Last call for all medical doctors in Singapore! Want to make a difference in preventive healthcare? Join Future Health Technologies (#FHT)’s international interview #researchstudy and share your insights on the barriers and facilitators for effective prevention strategies. Participate in a 10-minute survey and a 45-minute follow-up interview to help us pave the way for innovative health solutions, including personalised lifestyle interventions and digital health approaches in Singapore. You’ll receive a S$30 voucher for your time and contribution to the study if you take part in the one-to-one interviews. Learn more and sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gcHEkc7t

How can learnings from social, behavioural and cognitive sciences shape architectural design? The Future Cities Laboratory Global would like to invite you for the ‘Health and Wellbeing in the City: Cognition, Behaviour, and Emotion’ symposium. Hosted by the Architectural Cognition in Practice (ACP) module at FCL Global, this event will explore research at the crossroads of social and behavioural sciences and urban environments, such as #urbanvibrancy, #navigability, and the #emotionalimpact of architectural spaces. There will be presentations from SEC researchers, a collaborative workshop session and networking opportunities. The event will be held on 18 July, 2-6pm, at Level 3 White Room of Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA) Centre, 45 Maxwell Rd, Singapore 069118. RSVP here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gZb7bJUz

📢 #Sustainability, #smartcities and #resilience on the agenda – At the upcoming CREATE Symposium 2024 on Monday, 22 July, SEC will be exhibiting four booths for the Future Resilient Systems (#FRS) programme, #CoolingSingapore, Urban #Microalgae Protein Production and Black Soldier Fly projects. Research from Future Cities Laboratory (#FCL) Global and #FRS will also be presented during the poster session over the tea and lunch breaks. The event will feature keynote sessions in the morning, and presentations in the afternoon on the topics of biochemical transformation, chemical transformation, hydrogen utilisation and AI/modelling. The CREATE Symposium is a yearly event supported by National Research Foundation Singapore that gives focused, thematic opportunities for CREATE researchers and collaborators at CREATE campus to present their latest research and developments. Register here if you are keen to attend: https://lnkd.in/gcxjg9DU

We thank the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore for featuring this Swiss-Singapore collaboration which highlights our joint dedication to #innovation in tackling climate challenges. 💡In case you missed it, SEC's #CoolingSingapore 2.0 team formally debuted their Digital Urban Climate Twin (#DUCT) Explorer tool at the Cooling Singapore Symposium on 30 May and the innovative tool which aids urban planners and designers to tackle #urbanheat challenges was also featured on The Straits Times on 2 June. Read more below 👇

💡 Insights from the AI side – Here’s a full overview of the recently-concluded ‘AI for Smart Mobility’ symposium on 3 July which was hosted by Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore, Dr Prateek Bansal and Dr Qiming YE and Prof. Dr Bryan Adey of the Adaptive Mobility Infrastructure and Land-Use (AMIL) Module, Future Cities Laboratory (#FCL) Global. Held at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA) Centre, the event featured four speakers (Associate Professor Hai Wang from Singapore Management University, Assistant Professor Feng Zhu Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Assistant Professor Kaidi Yang, National University of Singapore and Assistant Professor Mai Anh Tien, Singapore Management University) who shared how AI is actively transforming #transportation and #urbanmobility.

#ThrowbackThursday to when SEC partnered with the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore and Zühlke Group for a panel discussion on 9 May as part of #SwissWeeks2024 line-up. At the event, Future Health Technologies (#FHT) Senior Scientist and Programme Co-Director, PD, Dr Benedikt Helgason shared his insights on how #AI and #tech are transforming #healthcare in Singapore. The highlight of the event was a FHT research showcase, where researchers could #network, share and demonstrate the #impact of the healthcare technologies they currently work with. Watch more in the highlights video here: https://lnkd.in/gwcvBAYn

How can households beat the heat without air-conditioning? Dr Natalia Borzino and her team share how.   In this episode of CNA's Talking Point with Steven Chia, Dr Borzino and several members of her team from the Climate Resilient Citizenry project were featured as they tried to brainstorm ways to help lower-income households deal with #urbanheat.   The team proposed practical solutions that do not involve air-conditioning, and were filmed testing them out in the episode.   The multi-disciplinary project is led by the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), in partnership with the National University of Singapore, SEC and Singapore Management University. https://lnkd.in/gi_dVwkd

Proud to be part of a thriving EcosySTEM - On 26 and 27 June, Associate Director of Future Cities Laboratory (#FCL) Global Dr Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan (Dr) and Associate Director of Future Health Technologies (#FHT) Dr Sowjanya Kallakuri, Ph.D. were invited to attend the EcosySTEM Leader Summit at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre.   Organised by EcosySTEM: A community of STEM professionals in Asia and The Elsevier Foundation, the two-day summit was an opportunity for attendees to network and discuss issues with key leaders in the #STEM field. They also spoke about issues beyond #research including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (#DEI), personal branding, effective communication and more.

Driving into the future with AI-driven solutions – How can AI improve, innovate and revolutionalise the field of #transportation? Join FCL Global (#FCLG) at the ‘AI for Smart Mobility’ symposium, a premier in-person event hosted by Dr Prateek Bansal, Dr Qiming YE and Prof. Dr Bryan Adey of the Adaptive Mobility Infrastructure and Land-use (AMIL) Module. Expect to engage with leading experts through a series of talks, exploring the future of #AI in smart #transportation within our local ecosystem. Date: Wed, 3 July Time: 1.30-6.00pm Venue: Level 3 White Room, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA) Centre, 45 Maxwell Rd, Singapore 069118 RSVP here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g85aaFFp

👀 Here’s a #flash🔙 Friday post on what went down at the recent 13th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association held in Copenhagen on 8 June. Our postdoctoral researcher from the Future Cities Laboratory (#FCL) Global programme, Dr Einar C. Kjenstad presented his paper titled "Amenities, residential agglomeration externalities, and efficient city design - Evidence from Singapore" 🏙️ co-authored by Prof. Dr Peter Egger (https://lnkd.in/ge6K5mxX) and Assoc. Prof. Dr Siew Ann Cheong (https://lnkd.in/g9pHJEN4). This research study, part of the Resource-Efficient Urban Intensification module (FCLG, Integration and Strategies), delves into a general-equilibrium model to evaluate Singapore’s #urbaninfrastructure and #planning initiatives. 🏗️ Special thanks also go to discussant Katja Gehr at the University of Würzburg for her insights. Discover more on the Conference Programme and Module Details here 👉https://lnkd.in/gWYgrZvV & https://lnkd.in/g49pjWDz Image: Pexels