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Clean energy for EU islands forum 2022

The EU island forum 2022, was organised as an on-site event at the Rhodes Bay Hotel on Rhodes, Greece, and featured high-level keynotes by Greek Minister Kostas Skrekas and Commissioner Kadri Simson as well as MEP Tonino Picula - Chair of the SEArica intergroup, European Parliament, Chrysi Vitsilaki - Rector University of the Aegean and Antonis Kabourakis – Mayor of Rhodes, three plenaries (Act, Shape, Explore), four parallel sessions, and a site visit to the GR-eco-island Chalki.   

Figures & additional info

  • The event had 300 participants over the whole two days on-site and online, the sessions were well attended and the feedback we directly received was very promising;
  • 160 registered participants for the on-site participation;
  • 97 participants took part in the site visit to the GR-eco-island Halki (including presentations from Evaggelos Fragkakis – Mayor of Halki Island & Vasilios Roussakis -Deputy Mayor of Halki Island as well as a presentation on the GR-eco island concept by John (Ioannis) Kaldellis - Vice Rector for Research University of West Attica (Greece); 
  • 2 Keynotes (Kostas Skrekas, Greek Minister for Environment and Energy, Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy EC); 
  • 1 Keynote session by islands stakeholders (MEP Tonino Picula - Chair of the SEArica intergroup, European Parliament, Chrysi Vitsilaki - Rector University of the Aegean and Antonis Kabourakis – Mayor of Rhodes  
  • 3 Plenaries and 4 Workshop Sessions;
  • 140 people attended the on-site event over the two days at Rhodes Bay Hotel on Rhodes, Greece and 160 people watched the live stream 

  • Part of the European Year of Youth: A deliberative session on energy security and climate transition with students of the University of the Aegean and pupils from Rhodes high schools.

     

Agenda & Slides

  1. DAY1 | 17 May 2022

    Program details

    2. 10:00 am - 10:10 am EEST
      Welcome to the Clean energy for EU islands forum

      Jan Cornillie

    4. 10:10 am - 10:25 am EEST
      Keynote (online)

      Kostas Skrekas

    6. 10:25 am - 10:40 am EEST
      Keynote (online)

      Kadri Simson

    8. 10:40 am – 10:45 am EEST
      Views from the Islands

      IANOS project

    10. 10:45 am - 11:10 am EEST
      Keynotes by island stakeholders Setting the agenda for clean energy transition on European islands

      MEP Tonino Picula | Chrysi Vitsilaki

    12. 11:10 am - 11:15 am EEST
      Views from the Islands

      Bornholms Varme

    14. 11:15 am - 12:30 am EEST
      European Year of Youth Deliberative session on energy security and climate transition

      Ioannis Poulopoulos | Gianni Chianetta

    16. 03:00 pm – 06:30 pm EEST
      Site visit on the island of GR-eco-island Halki

      Evaggelos Fragkakis | Vasilios Roussakis | John (Ioannis) Kaldellis

  2. DAY 2 | 18 May 2022

    Program details

    2. 09:30 am - 09:35 am EEST
      Welcome to the ACTION Day

      Jan Cornillie

    4. 09:35 am - 09:40 am EEST
      Views from the islands

      Kythnos Smart Island - DAFNI

    6. 09:40 am – 10:20 am EEST
      ACT: Lessons learnt from Technical Assistance

      Ugo Toić | Nuria Albet Torres | Yiannis Fragkoulis | Claudio Moscoloni | Marina Montero Carrero

    8. 10:20 am – 11:00 am EEST
      SHAPE: Regulatory - Conclusions from the regulatory deep dives

      Lucija Rakocevic | Gustav Blomberg | George Aliagas | Edita Dranseikaite

    10. 11:10 am – 11:15 am EEST
      Views from the islands

      VPP4ISLANDS - Grado

    12. 11:15 am - 12:15 pm EEST
      EXPLORE: Transition strategies for the islands

      Jan Cornillie | Alfons Röblom | Diana-Paula Gherasim | Finnbar Howell | Rosa Mingo Ávila | Luis García Benedicto | Andrei Moarcas

    14. 12:15 pm – 12:20 pm EEST
      Views from the islands

      El Rosario, Tenerife (Canary Islands)

    16. 01:15 pm - 02:45 pm EEST
      EXPLORE: Innovation in Horizon2020 projects

      Alessandra Cassisi | Denys-Ioda Díaz Garrido | Stergios Vakalis | Nikolaos Tagkoulis | Ismini Moustafelou | Marina Montero Carrero

    18. 01:15 pm - 02:45 pm EEST
      SHAPE: Financing e-mobility infrastructure

      Julia Guyon | Petros Markopoulos | Maria Xylia | Rahul Pratap Singh | Evangelos Bekiaris | Jorge Rodrigues de Almeida

    20. 03:00 pm - 04:30 pm EEST
      ACT: Setting up Island Energy Communities

      Nuria Albet Torres | Dimitrios Kollias | Miquel Garcia | Maja Jurišić | Søren Hermansen | Dimitris Katsaprakakis | Antonia Proka | Lucija Rakocevic

    22. 03:00 pm - 04:30 pm EEST
      ACT: Balancing interconnections and energy storage for the clean energy transition of islands

      Lucía Blanco Cano | Michail Chatzipanos | Joana Ferreira Rita | Nikolaos Hatziargyriou | John (Ioannis) Kaldellis | Konstantinos Kyparissis | Christina Protopapadaki

    24. 04:45 pm - 04:50 pm EEST
      Views from the islands

      REACT project

    26. 04:50 pm - 05:50 pm EEST
      FINAL DEBATE: What does RePowerEU mean for the islands?

      Eero Ailio | Kostas Komninos | Maria Kottari | Søren Hermansen | Alexis Chatzimpiros

    28. 05:50 pm - 06:00 pm EEST
      Conclusion and goodbye

      Jan Cornillie

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