On August 3-5, 2024, part of the SUTEE team moved to the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo to explore how plants can interact with people through dance. The SUTEE team installed electrophysiology sensors on hydrangeas and basils to see how they…
Urban heat islands (UHIs) have become a well-known issue in built-up areas of large cities. A recent study shows that temperatures in UHIs are on average 5⁰C higher than in surrounding areas. Since a growing proportion of the population in…
Last Monday, June 24, took place the Educational Innovation Conference organized at the School of Computer Systems Engineering. The aim of these conferences is to share innovative initiatives that teachers carry out in the classroom in order to find ways…
On June 17 and 18, Goethe University Frankfurt hosted the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting for the “SUTEE: Showcasing Urban Trees for Environmental Education with IoT Technology” project. All project partners traveled to Frankfurt to participate in the in-person event, fostering…
SUTEE partners have presented the communication titled “IoT and generative AI technologies to support urban environmental learning” in the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2024 held in Kos (Greece) on May 11-13, 2024. This paper focuses on the critical…
Teacher education in Austria currently undergoes major redesign. This includes a new approach to the curricula currently studied by thousands of prospective teachers for primary, secondary and vocational schools. PHW has been running a very complex development process that also…
Urban trees live in symbiosis with human habitation. Often for centuries. Their lives are entirely different to that of forest trees. Over their long lifespan, urban trees witness generations of people come and go. They offered shade to historic events…
On April 9-10, 2023, ETSISI (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos) de la UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) hosted a workshop aimed at high school students interested in studying computer science. The event took place at our campus…
On January 18-19, 2024, the kick-off meeting for the project titled “Showcasing Urban Trees for Environmental Education with IoT Technology” was held at the UPM’s Campus Sur in Madrid. This meeting marked the official start of the project and provided…
Tree hugging has increased in popularity in recent years. You don’t have to be a shaman or druid to feel the benefits of getting close to nature and to trees especially. Figure 1. The SUTEE project team around a campus…
