Programme

10:00 a.m. -  10:10 a.m. - Welcome

Pietro de Lotto, president of study group "Industrial transition towards a green and digital European economy", EESC;

10.10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. - Panel discussion - Using the history of past transitions to explain the present and shape the future.

Moderator: Lucie Studničná, rapporteur of the EESC opinion on "Industrial transition towards a green and digital European economy", EESC

  • Achim Vanselow, IG Metall North Rhine – North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Tuomas Pussila, Programme Manager, Industrial Circular Economy, The Circular and Bioeconomy Centre, Lapland
  • Carlo Polidori, Project Manager, Screen-lab – Synergic CirculaR Economy across European RegioNs
  • Loukas Stemitsiotis, Head of Unit Thematic Analysis, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

Questions & Answers

11:10 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. - Break

11.40 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Panel discussion: Towards a fair and just transition

Moderator: Pietro de Lotto, president of study group "Industrial transition towards a green and digital European economy", EESC

  • Agnes Jongerius, Member of the European Parliament
  • Dennis Radtke, Member of the European Parliament
  • Luc Triangle, Secretary General, IndustriAll Europe
  • Véronique Willems, Secretary General, SMEunited
  • Victor Meseguer, Director, Social Economy Europe
  • Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit for Advanced Technologies, Clusters, and Social Economy, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

Questions & Answers

12:40 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. - Closing remarks

Lucie Studničná, rapporteur of the EESC opinion on "Industrial transition towards a green and digital European economy", EESC

Participants can speak in English and French and listen to English and French

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