Enhancing and Investigating Interaction of the Project
Maija-Leena HuotariInformation Studies, Faculty of Humanities,
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Global warming and climate change are challenges that require proactivity and multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and multi-organisational R&D work in many spheres of human life.
The BDCD Energy project (2015-2017-2020) aims at enhancing change at three levels by developing:
the energy system towards increased utilization of renewable energy,
the market and businesses towards prosumers, and
households and individuals towards intelligent homes and reasonable energy behaviour.
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BCDC Energy Project 1
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BCDC Energy Project 2
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Five research groups from five organisations and the fields of: Energy Economics Computer Science Engineering Information Systems Sciences Meteorology Information Studies
Strategic partners The Carbon Neutral Municipality Forum Finnish Clean Energy Association
BCDC Advisory Board consisting of 15 private firms from the Finnish energy sector
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To achieve the changes, the researchers have to interact across the disciplinary boarders of their own fields of science, and across the boundaries of the academia with the crucial stakeholders.
Interaction and communication must be enhanced and knowledge management (KM) methods used for gaining shared understanding and developing a joint ‘language’, i.e. a joint terminology for co-creation of interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary new knowledge.
See http://www.bcdcenergia.fi/en/
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Enhancing and Investigating Interaction in BCDC Energy Project
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Interaction Outlined for the First 10 months
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•Social media
•Knowledge base•Website
Face-to-face 1-day
- Introduction/update
•Social media•Knowledge base
•Website
•Phone, videomeetings
•Homework for all partners depending on the project's phase
Face-to-face 2 days
- Workhops
- Learn to know each other, trust, joint goals
- Media-event
•Social media
•Website
•Knowledge base
•Phone, videomeetings
•Homework for all partners depending on the projects phase
Face-to-face 2 days
- Workshops, happenings
- Peer-to-peer exchange of updated research plans across WPs’ boarders to enhance
innovative capacity
- Collaborate, share views and ideas, debate and discuss, identify initial discrepancies
•Social media
•Knowledge base
•Website
Face-to-face 1-day
- Education
- Media-event
Interaction Planned in Relation to Research Objectives 2018-2020-(2021) 1
Interaction
Objectives \
Means and gains
for sharing
research activities
to co-create new
knowledge
Research Objective
(RO) 1
Large-scale integration
of renewable energy
resources into the
electricity system
RO 2
Possibilities of BCDC
cloud services in
improving energy
efficiency
RO 3
Promoting flexibility and
communality in
changing electricity
markets
Common to All Objectives / Some of these could be selected
for gaining a certain objective
Among
Researchers
Agent-based modelling
of different electricity
markets (All WPs)
Finnish electricity
market model (WP1)
Case Mälardalen
(WP1, 3)
Solar power station
forecasting error
adjusting (WP1, 3, 4)
Cases Porvoo & Caruna
(WP1,3,4)
Face-to-face: Workshops for researchers (e.g. 4x/year), also to
support planning of communication’s activities (WP1, 5)
Virtual: Workshops for selected themes to enable joint research
and reporting the results (WP5)
Coffees for all (e.g. 6x/year) for keeping up-to-date each other
sharing knowledge and creating positive atmosphere, also to
support communications (WP5)
Slack: General discussions + support for theme-based
discussions (All WPs)
Basecamp: Internal communications, knowledge-base for storing
and sharing materials produced (WP5 + All)
Blogging: Support for postings (WP5); co-blogging between WPs
(All)
Website: Researchers’ profiles for sharing knowledge (WP5)
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Interaction Objectives
\ Means and gains for
sharing research
activities to co-create
new knowledge
Research
Objective (RO) 1
Large-scale
integration of
renewable energy
resources into the
electricity system
RO 2
Possibilities of BCDC
cloud services in
improving energy
efficiency
RO 3
Promoting flexibility and
communality in changing
electricity markets
Common to All Objectives / Some of these could be
selected for gaining a certain objective
Between
AB and Researchers
&
Between
AB, Strategic Partners
and Researchers
Experiments with
Caruna & Porvoon
Energia (WP1, 3, 4,5)
Developmt of energy
weather forecast
(WP3, 1, Taaleri)
Developmt of virtual utility (All
WPs, All AB members)
Developmt of BCDC Energy
game (WP4,1,5)
Analysis of knowledge creation
in energy weather developmt
(WP5, 3, 1)
Analysis of knowledge creation
in virtual utility developmt
(WP5, 1,2)
BCDC Website: News & Newsletter (4 x/year) (WP1, 5)
Blogs: AB-members blogging on BCDC-Blog, e.g. Finnet,
Fortum (WP5)
Researchers could identify potential audiences for their own
blogs of the member companies and these firms will be
contacted (WP5) and vice versa.
Twitter: Researchers will tweet for target audiences incl. AB
about their outcomes (blogs, popular texts, etc.) Tweeting
about members of AB’s news
Basecamp: Informing about workshops and other joint
events (WP5)
Workshops (see above)
Website: Researchers’ profiles for sharing knowledge incl.
patents and other IPRs (WP5)
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Interaction
Objectives\ Means
and gains for sharing
research activities to
co-create new
knowledge
Research Objective
(RO) 1
Large-scale
integration of
renewable energy
resources into the
electricity system
RO 2
Possibilities of
BCDC cloud
services in
improving energy
efficiency
RO 3
Promoting flexibility and
communality in changing
electricity markets
Common to All Objectives / Some of these could be selected for
gaining a certain objective
Between
Strategic Partners
and
Researchers
Studying energy
information literacy in a
HINKU municipality (e.g. Ii)
and Finns in a comparative
manner (WP5)
Turning CER-terminology
into a more popular form
(WP5)
Same activities as with the AB on website, blogging and tweeting.
Twitter: tweeting about collaboration with Finnish Renewable
Energy Assoc. and Hinku municipalities; keeping up-to-date with
news about strategic partners’ activities (WP5)
Basecamp: Informing members of Hinku Forum about workshops
and other activities (WP5)
Workshops: see above (WP5)
Website: Profiles of researchers, see above.
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Interaction Objectives \
Means and gains for
sharing research
activities to co-create
new knowledge
Research
Objective (RO) 1
Large-scale
integration of
renewable energy
resources into the
electricity system
RO 2
Possibilities of BCDC
cloud services in
improving energy
efficiency
RO 3
Promoting flexibility and
communality in changing
electricity markets
Common to All Objectives / Some of these could be selected
for gaining a certain objective
With
Policy Makers
Creating an ontology with
FINTO for the CER-
terminology (WP5)
Policy Briefs: Produced related to each objective. (All WPs)
Networking: Creating and firming contacts with Finnish Energy
Authority and other authorities (WP1, 5 )
BCDC Website: News & Newsletter (4 x/year) (WP5)
Networking with home organisations: Sharing news and blogs;
providing them incl. BCDC Energy’s stories for the Univ. of Oulu’s
BCDC Energy blog (WP5)
Keep-On-talking podcasts (WP1)
With
Wider Audiences
Creating an ontology with
FINTO for the CER-
terminology
& a more popular
terminology (WP5)
Same activities with website, news and providing blogs and
stories for the Univ. of Oulu’s BCDC Energy blog (WP5)
Keep-on-talking podcasts (WP1)
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First innovative outcome of R&D:Energy Weather Forecast
Energy Communities
Intelligent two-way electricity system allows forming new types of communities for increasing the impact of electricity produced by renewable energy sources including households’ own production.
This idea is under co-development and testing together with the Energy Authority and private companies
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Enhancing and Investigating Interaction 1
Case 1: Identifying the knowledge-base of this R&D project as a foundation for new interdisciplinary conceptions: Clean Energy Research (CER) terminology set up on Finnish Term Bank in Arts and Sciences, and will be included in the FinnishNational Ontology FINTO maintained by the National Library.
Case 2: Etnographic study of interactive events for knowledge creation based on Hermeneutic phenomenology by Gadamer (2004) and Heidegger.Data collected in workshops, meetings, gatherings, and in the Learning and Interaction Observation Forum (LeaF) at the University of Oulu, equipped with a multimodal observation and recording system. (See Suorsa 2017; Suorsa & Huotari 2017.)
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Towards Interdisciplinary Research: Planned Interaction and its Investigation 2
Case 3: Qualitative study of researchers as science communicators and the changing roles of science communication including the prespective of organisational communication theory.
Case 4: A population-based survey on Finns’ energy information literacy
Case 5: A practice theoretical approach to households’ energy related everyday practices with the use of smart technology
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Conclusion 1: Developing a Model of Knowledge Creation in This Context
Figure 1: An initial model of knowledge creation in an organizational setting based on phenomenology and hermeneutic philosophy. (Suorsa A. 2016, modified, unpublished.)
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Conclusion 2: Developing a Model of Knowledge Creation in This Context
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Figure 2: A framework for examining knowledge-creating interaction with the
phenomenological conceptions of a human being and play (Suorsa, A. 2017).
References
• Gadamer, H.-G. (2004) Truth and method. London/New York: Continuum.
• Heidegger, M. (1985) Being and Time. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Huotari, M.-L.A. & Suorsa, A. (2017) Knowledge creation and use in organizations. In: John McDonald & Michael Levine-Clark (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 4th edition. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.
• Huotari, M.-L., Suorsa, A., Ikonen, K. & Innanen, K. (2016) Knowledge creation in an R&D project. A multiple case study in the context of clean energy markets in Finland. In: Proceedings of ISIC, the Information Behaviour Conference, Zadar, Croatia, 20-23 September, 2016: Part 1, Information Research, 21(4), paper isics1602. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/21-4/isic/isics1602.html
• Suorsa, A. (2017) Interaction for knowledge creation. A phenomenological study in Knowledge Management. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis, B Humaniora 149. Oulu: University of Oulu.
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