Moderation: Aurel Laurenţiu Plosceanu, President of Study Group of EESC opinion "The effects of a new carbon-free, decentralised and digitalised energy supply structure on jobs and regional economies"
9h30 Welcome
- Pierre Jean Coulon, President of the Section for "Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society", European Economic and Social Committee
9h35 Panel 1: Case studies of regional economic effects of the energy transition
- Michael Knape, Mayor of Treuenbrietzen, Germany
- Gerard McGovern, Coordinator INTERREG Project COBEN (Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy), University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Grzegorz Jakuc, Mayor of Turosn Koscielna, Poland
11h15 Coffee break
11h35 Panel 2: The perspective of the EU institutions and stakeholders on the regional economic effects
- Rudolf Niessler, Director, DG REGIO, European Commission
- Mariana Gâju, Member of the Committee of the Regions
- Joachim Kreysa, Advisor BioEconomy, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
- Corinna Zierold, Policy Advisor Energy, IndustriALL
12h55 Closing remarks
- Lutz Ribbe, EESC Rapporteur of opinion "The effects of a new carbon-free, decentralised and digitalised energy supply structure on jobs and regional economies"
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