Newsletter 1 [March 2021]

Next Working Meeting
The Working Meeting of the Annex will be on 21–22 April 2021. Please find the tentative agenda of the meeting from the following Teams link.

Annex 83 PhD students network
In order to create connection between PhD students who are participating in the Annex for collaboration in their research and publications, a survey has been initiated. PhD students are kindly asked to fill out their data from this Teams link indicating their name, email address, affiliation, country, tentative thesis title or main research filed, brief description about the PhD research, and in which subtask they are participating. Please note that there will be a special session (PhD Talk) on the 2nd day of the next Annex Working Meeting (22 April 2021), where some students can present the progress of their PhD research and can discuss with other students.

Session in the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings
Annex 83 is arranging a special session (IS13: Positive Energy Districts) in the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-21, 15-17 September 2021 http://seb-21.kesinternational.org/index.php. Two papers from each subtask of the Annex are planned in this session. Deadline for submission is 4th June. 

Annex 83 publications
The first publication of the Annex has been published in Buildings Journal.
Title “IEA EBC Annex83 Positive Energy Districts”. Authors: Åsa Hedman, Hassam Ur Rehman, Andrea Gabaldón, Adriano Bisello, Vicky Albert-Seifried, Xingxing Zhang, Francesco Guarino, Steinar Grynning, Ursula Eicker, Hans-Martin Neumann, Pekka Tuominen and Francesco Reda. Buildings 2021, 11(3), 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11030130