The SINERGY work package 5 focuses on the organisation of joint project events that enable know-how exchange and provide with a “hands-on” experience in the domain of smart energy management. Deliverable 5.4 reports about the SINERGY International Conference on Smart and Innovative eNERGY management that was organised at the Institute Mihajlo Pupin premises from 26th to 28th of September 2023. The event gathered over 40 experts from the field, while one third of them were from abroad and two third from Serbia and the Region. Altogether 27 presentations were given, two of them being company presentations (AIT and NUIG) and two keynotes as follows

• Dr. Stergios Vakalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) held a lecture on “The role of bioenergy on the increased penetration of RES – the green transition of Lesvos island” Professor; and
• Dr. Maria-Esther Vidal (TIB, Germany), held a lecture on “Knowledge Graphs in the Energy Sector: Challenges to Enhance Transparency and Trustability in Energy Data Ecosystems”.

The SINERGY partners (the Institute Mihajlo Pupin as a Coordinator and the two leading partners – the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH and University of Galway (NUIG) were main organisers of the Conference. The submitted papers (via EasyChair platform) were reviewed by 18 international experts, members of the SINERGY Conference Programme Committee.