Innovation Day 2

PITHIA-NRF organised the Second Innovation Day on Wednesday 15 March 2023 at the Brussels Planetarium, Belgium. 76 participants - PITHIA-NRF members, users, scientists and stakeholders - attended the meeting, which was hybrid.

The Second Innovation Day aims to bring together users from various industries, including but not limited to SMEs, the aerospace sector, and civil organisations, with experts in upper atmospheric research to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and explore new avenues of collaboration. As a participant, you will have the chance to learn about the PITHIA-NRF initiative and offered services, and present your ideas and challenges to receive feedback from expert team members. The goal is to foster new collaborations through discussions held during the Second Innovation Day.

European region with sites of facilities and instruments contributing to the project:

What can you expect from our Second Innovation Day?

We want you to become aware of the services accessible through an innovative research infrastructure:

Present your operational challenge to a team of experts from leading European institutes in the upper atmospheric domain.
Discover, through a working example, the PITHIA-NRF e-Science Centre, a tool proving with open access the best datasets and models of the upper atmosphere.
Learn the benefits of accessing PITHIA-NRF's nodes by users who completed their Trans-National Access project.

There will be plenty of opportunities to learn how PITHIA-NRF can help you solve your operational problem.

The event also includes the possibility of attending Business-to-Business (B2B) meetings with the PITHIA-NRF partners in a framework of meaningful networking discussions. The B2B meeting can be pre-booked, and more information will be provided after the registration.

Programme

	09:00 - 09:20 CET	*Welcome coffee*
	09:20 - 10:30 CET	Introduction to PITHIA-NRF Project activities \| Chair: Tobias Verhulst (RMI)
	09:20 - 09:50 CET	Welcome and Introduction to PITHIA-NRF \| Speaker: Anna Belehaki (NOA)
	09:50 - 10:10 CET	The PITHIA-NRF Innovation Platform \| Speaker: Hanna Rothkaehl (SRC PAS)
	10:10 - 10:30 CET	Introducing the e-Science Centre \| Speaker: Tamas Kiss (UoW)
	10:30 - 10:45 CET	Coffee break
	10:45 - 11:20 CET	e-Science Centre Usage Demonstrations \| Chair: Tamas Kiss (UoW)
	10:45 - 11:00 CET	Demo on Finding Data \| Speaker: Jurgen Watermann (JFWCONSULT)
	11:00 - 11:20 CET	Demo on Executing a Model \| Speaker: Sean Bruinsma (CNES)
	11:20 - 12:00 CET	Case Studies by Trans National Access (TNA) Users \| Chair: Ingemar Haggstrom (EISCAT)
	11:20 - 11:40 CET	Comparing Dutch GNSS-receiver measurements to INGV (and DLR) model data (CaneTEC) \| Speaker: Kasper van Dam (KNMI)
	11:40 - 12:00 CET	Can PolaRISation Measurements of Auroral emissions Trace the Ionospheric Currents? (PRISMATIC) \| Speaker: Herve Lamy (BIRA-IASB)
	12:00 - 13:15 CET	*Lunch*
	13:15 - 15:15 CET	"Tell us your problem" \| Chair: Tobias Verhulst (RMI)
	13:15 - 13:45 CET	Space Weather Related Challenges from the Belgian MoD \| Speaker: Dries Van Baelen (Belgian Military)
	13:45 - 14:15 CET	Space Weather in Taiwan: Challenges and Expectations \| Speaker: Jann-Yenq Liu (NCU Taiwan)
	14:15 - 14:45 CET	PECASUS: Space Weather Alerts for Civil Aviation \| Speaker: Judith de Patoul (ROB)
	14:45 - 15:15 CET	ESSP, TEC maps, and ICAO services \| Speaker: Issaad Kacem (ESSP-SAS)
	15:15 - 15:30 CET	*Coffee break*
	15:30 - 16:30 CET	"Tell us your problem" cont'd
	15:30 - 16:00 CET	HF Radio Challenges Encountered by Medicins Sans Frontieres \| Speaker: Manuel Casquilho (MSF)
	16:00 - 16:30 CET	Polish Innovation Centre Perspective \| Speaker: Mariusz Sawinski (PCI Sp.)
	16:30 - 16:45 CET	Wrap up & Conclusions \| Speaker: Hanna Rothkael & Barbara Matyjasiak (SRC PAS)
	16:45 - 17:30 CET	B2B Meetings & Free Discussion

The Programme Committee:

Anna Belehaki
Tamas Kiss
Barbara Matyjasiak
Hanna Rothkaehl
Tobias Verhulst
Pietro Vermicelli

The Local Organising Committee: Jean-Marie Chevalier, Elke D'Huys, Tobias Verhulst, Petra Vanlommel

WHAT IS PITHIA-NRF?

PITHIA-NRF stands for “Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services: a Network of Research Facilities”.

It is a research project that paves the way to business practices and technological developments in the near-Earth and upper atmosphere.

PITHIA-NRF mitigates the adverse effects of upper atmosphere phenomena that pose scientific, operational, and societal challenges.

With support of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, Royal Meteorological Institute and the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence.