The new MATRYCS publication titled “Transfer learning strategies for solar power forecasting under data scarcity”, a contribution of MATRYCS partners from NTUA and HOLISTIC, is published in Nature Scientific Reports, the 5^th most-cited journal in the world, with more than 696,000 citations in 2021.

Transfer learning (TL) offers the capability of transferring knowledge from the source domain to different target domains to resolve related problems. This paper uses the stacked Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model with three TL strategies to provide accurate solar plant production forecasts. TL is exploited both for weight initialization of the LSTM model and for feature extraction, using different freezing approaches.

You can learn more and download the publication here.

We are glad to announce that the MATRYCS project will host the last meeting of the Big Data Alliance for this year! On the 4^th of November 2022, at 11 AM CET, BDA will meet again!

On the occasion, besides welcoming the new members, there will be a presentation about the I-NERGY project and its second open call.

More information for the event here.

Join BDA here.

MATRYCS project will be part of the workshop “Leveraging on standardisation for building data aggregation and analytics”, hosted by BUILD UP and organized by the BIGG project, on the 8^th of November 2022. The session will be celebrated with sister projects BEYOND and BuiltHub. MATRYCS will be represented by Francesco Saverio Nucci from Engineering and Vaggelis Marinakis from NTUA.

The aim of the discussion will be to share each project’s vision of contribution to standardization, identify the common subjects and ideas that could be pushed to standardization, identify similar structures among the projects that could help to influence the standards and co-define the founding principles and operational mechanisms of the Community of Standardisation.

Learn more about the webinar here.

The 2^nd edition of the Renovation Summit organised by the European Affordable Housing Consortium: Sustainable Housing for Social Impact (SHAPE-EU), Housing Europe, the European Construction, built environment and energy efficient building Technology Platform (ECTP), and Eurocities will take place on November 16^th and 17^th and is arranged in partnership with the European Committee of the Regions and House of Dutch Provinces.

During the 2^nd day of the event, the MATRYCS project will organise a replication workshop focusing on how to leverage data analytics for the benefit of smart buildings. Our partner from HOUSING EUROPE (João Gonçalves) will moderate the workshop and outcomes of MATRYCS will be presented by Zoi Mylona from HOLISTIC and Elissaios Sarmas from NTUA.

Learn more about the event here.

MATRYCS project will be part of Enlit Europe 2022 which will take place in Frankfurt of Germany, from 29^th of November until 1^st of December.

This year, the program of the EU Projects Zone is focusing on key topics and themes that are going to guide the energy transition. Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Islands, Digitalisation, and RES (especially Wind and Solar) are the focus points of our program.

The project leaders and coordinators, including ENGINEERING on behalf of MATRYCS, will meet in Frankfurt and discuss successes and lessons learnt. Representatives from the EU Commission and associations will also join and be part of the various panel discussions.

Learn more about the event here.

The 2022 edition of the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) took place, on 26-30^th of September, in Brussels. The EUSEW 2022 has been held under the theme 'Going green and digital for Europe's energy transition.

The MATRYCS project was represented by partners from Housing Europe (Joao Gonzales) and ICLEI (Marcelo Lampkowski), participating in EUSEW as an exhibitor at the dedicated Energy Fair, where it shared a stand with sister projects BuiltHub, BIGG and BEYOND.

Learn more about the event here.

The MATRYCS project was presented in the 57th edition of trade fair “Feria de Muestras de Valladolid”, which was held from the 7^th to 11^th of September, 2022 , with a wide range of exhibitors.

EREN participated in the event showing various European projects, including MATRYCS, with the firm goal of helping companies and citizens of the region in the transition to a decarbonized economy and energy transition, especially to young people.

Around 68 000 visitors participated in the fair and had the opportunity to know the importance of the data integration in the energy sector and got familiarised with advancements of the MATRYCS project.

MATRYCS project successfully participated at the 13^th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), which took place on July 18-20^th in Corfu. More specifically MATRYCS and BD4NRG successfully co-organised the 2^nd Workshop for Big Data Analytics in the Energy, moderated by Zoi Mylona from HOLISTIC. Eleven papers were presented and discussed, during the Workshop.

Learn more about the event here.

On June 15^th, MATRYCS, QUALDeEPC and crossCERT participated in a session co-organised by FEDARENE with EREN, dedicated to energy performance certification (EPC) and digitalisation of building’s data as part of the FEDARENE General Assemblies that took place in León, Spain. The session was attended by at least 60 participants from 40 different organizations across Europe.

The session closed with an overview of the MATRYCS project. More specifically Gema Hernandez from Cartif presented the project’s updates and the pilots focusing on EPCs and SECAPs. Following, Marina Bartolomé from Veolia made a presentation about the advances for District Heating Networks and energy efficiency optimisation.

Learn more about the event and find the presentations here.

The last day of #ISHF2022, on 17^th of June, MATRYCS was part in the workshop "Big Data and AI to transform the building sector" organised by Housing Europe about Big Data and its potential to make housing more affordable by providing more insights about the state of our buildings and the ways we could make them more energy-efficient.

MATRYCS was represented by Gema Hernandez from CARTIF Technology Center, Elissaios Sarmas from NTUA and Gints Kārkliņš from The Latvian Environmental Investment Fund (LEIF).

MATRYCS Workshop video is available here.

Learn more about MATRYCS Workshop and download the presentations here.