Workshop for the Formation of the GloCha Center Klagenfurt – Ljubljana – Dubai & INTERREG AT-SI Project Preparation

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee/Austria, 19^th of January 2023, 9.00 – 20.00h CET (virtual participation possible during workshop part of the program 10 AM – 1 PM)

Registration: link

Background:

The Klagenfurt based, UN accredited, international association IAAI (director: Miroslav Polzer) is planning to set up with partners in Austria, Slovenia and UAE a GloCha competence center on digital innovation and climate action empowerment in the context of its global challenges action empowerment ecosystem GloCha (link to draft concept note).

The center shall

bring together research, technology development and educational competences in the field of emerging technologies (with a focus on Web 3.0 & blockchain technology) of the Alps-Adriatic region and beyond (starting with the membership of the Climate Chain Coalition)
serve as a meeting place for youth from around the world working on knowledge-based solutions to global challenges in the context of United Nations programs and global goals/SDGs, and
deliver digital solutions and services for energy transition, (micro) climate entrepreneurship and climate action gamification based on innovative multi-factor carbon credits schemes
support local and subnational authorities in the implementation of their decarbonization goals (like e.g. the city of Klagenfurt as well as other EU Mission Cities and the state of Carinthia)
support on a global level non-state actors (especially citizens/youth) climate action empowerment in the context of the EU Climate Pactand the UNFCCC Action for Climate Empowerment programme

Goals of the workshop

Stakeholder mapping, presentation & discussion of functions/ programs and Consortium formation
Designing the GloCha Center as an investment opportunity for cities, citizens, philanthropists and SDGs/ESG impact businesses/investors, with innovative funding instruments (e.g. tokenization of shares of GloCha TechGesmbH, first ideas, Climate Action NFTs Certification DAO, Future Carbon/SDG credits sales, Voluntary Carbon Footprint Compensation Cryptostamps, DigitalArt4Climate NFT sales)
Preparations for an EU INTERREG Austria-Slovenia project “With Digital Innovation and Culture towards Climate neutral cities and citizens„
Outreach and events in 2023 planning (GITEX Impact Dubai (10-12 May), GloChaMania June 2023), UNFCCC Bonn Climate conference (5 – 15 June), GloCha exhibit and conference at UN HQ NY (September, 2022 example), UN Climate Conference COP28 in Dubai (30 Nov – 13 Dec)

Agenda overview:

09.00 – 09.00 – Press conference

10.00 – 13.00 – Workshop

13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch (Villa Lido restaurant at Lake Wörthersee)

15.30 – 16.00 – Site visit I: potential location(s) of the center

16.00 – 16.30 – Site visit II Lakeside STI Park with Educational lab

18.00 – 20.00 – GloCha reception 2023 & Presentation of the DigitalArt4Climate exhibit

Agenda – Detailed plan:

10.00 Workshop – The GloCha Research, technology development & Culture Center on Digital Innovation and Climate Action Empowerment, Klagenfurt (programs, partnerships, organization, funding and outreach)

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome by Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha & Tom Baumann, Climate Chain Coalition (pre-recorded video) (2-3 min each)

10.05 – 10.15 Tour de table – brief personal introduction of workshop participants

10.15 – 10.30 Presentation dr. Wolfgang Hafner, City of Klagenfurt, The Climate action strategy of the City of Klagenfurt in the context of the EU Mission Cities programme + info about Innovation system in Carinthia (esp. Lakeside STI Park Klagenfurt) (10 min)

10.30 – 11.00 Presentation of initial ideas and programs for the “GloCha RTDI & Culture Center for Digital Innovation and Climate Action Empowerment Klagenfurt – Ljubljana – Dubai” (see Annex below) – 30 min

11.00 – 11.30 Project proposal preparation for an EU INTERREG Austria-Slovenia project “With Digital Innovation and Culture towards Climate neutral cities and citizens„

11.30 – 12.00 Funding options and taxation aspects

public funding programs in Austria (COMET projects) & EU (Horizon, INTERREG, European Research Infrastructures, ..)
Tokenization (GloCha Tech GesmbH) in addition to investment of public authorities, foundations and other institutional public good focused organizations, individuals can become fractional (micro share) co-owners by buying “Building stones” of the center
DigitalArt4Climate NFTs sales (https://dafc.unique.network)
Citizens Climate Action NFTs Certification DAO ICO
Future Carbon/SDGs credits sales based on citizen/youth climate action enabled with GloCha programs
DigitalArt4Climate/voluntary Carbon footprint compensation Cryptostamps
blockchain based sustainability linked bonds,
tax deductible donations

12.00 – 12.30 GloCha Center Consortium formation with a particular focus on the City of Klagenfurt, Slovenia (with its EXPO City Dubai pavilion, MetaCOP & IRCAI) and UAE (DWTC/GITEX, WGEO, SUSTEX, Haqq Association)

12.30 – 13.00 Event timeline for 2023:

GITEX Impact, Dubai May 2023
GloChaMania festival 2023, June 2023
UNFCCC Bonn Climate conference (5 – 15 June)
UN HQ NY Sept 2023 (similar to 2022 event)
UN Climate Conference COP28 in Dubai, November 2023 with IAAI GloCha CCC Digital Innovation Pavilion

Annex 1: Initial ideas and programs for the “GloCha RTDI & Culture Center for Digital Innovation and Climate Action Empowerment Klagenfurt – Ljubljana – Dubai”

identification, analysis and promotion of digital innovation solutions for climate action empowerment (focus on Web3.0/Blockchain) (GloCha product 1: Digital Innovation pavilion at COPs) and MetaCOP – COP in the metaverse
- youth and citizens climate action engagement (open source) tools:
  - DigitalArt4Climate creative economy and social energy for a better world (COP28 edition with UAE Ministry of education and localization with (EU Mission) cities, …) (GloCha product 2: global art & music competition, GloCha product 2: local / city level art & music competition & NFT sales)
  - Global Challenges Mapping (note: IAAI has funding for this through the EU INTERREG Central Europe project JET4CE) (= foundation for a climate action impact information system, and blockchain based eco-social contracts based digital communities formation)
  - Global Challenges ID
  - Global Challenges Action Registry
  - Youth Climate Action Fund and Collaborative resource governance tools (United Citizens organization DAO / Decentralized Autonomous organization)
  - UNEP World Environment Situation Room Citizen Science cooperation (incl. SDG scorecard app) in the context of UN Habitat Climate Changemakers youth empowerment program
- citizen / youth focused climate action certification (based on above mentioned tools: digital identities, digital measurement, reporting and verification (dMRV), global challenges action registry, Impact crowd-evaluation based on Challenges Mapping methodology and tools – research project proposal in the context of the 15^th Call of the Austrian Climate Action Research Programme and creation of multi-factor carbon credits/SDGs credits for voluntary carbon markets based on citizens’/youth climate action
- (micro) climate entrepreneurship business models and tools (e.g. climate action and impact NFTs marketplace)
- GloCha Games (knowledge and impact focused gamification of citizens’ climate action)
- digital finance (blockchain based bonds et al.) for youth/citizens led climate action
Collaborative Data science, Software Development and Impact Standards Work
- Open Source Software development (linked with CAMDA, OS Climate, Open Earth Foundation, Digital Democracy, ..)
- Data science (Climate action reporting language with ontologies,taxonomies, etc.)