9:30 – 9:40 Opening session
- Christa Schweng, EESC President
9:40 – 10:00 Sustainable recovery for the EU – linking SDGs with the recovery plans
- Luisa Marelli and Giulia Barbero Vignola, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
- Peter Schmidt, NAT Section President, presentation of the main EESC positions from recent opinions on SDGs, well-being economy and recovery plans.
Moderated by Alain Coheur, President of the INT Section
EXPERIENCE FROM MEMBER STATES
10:00 – 10:50 Energy transition in the move towards a carbon neutral society: addressing the social and territorial dimension
- General overview - Rosita Zilli, Senior Policy Officer, the European Energy Research Alliance
- Poland
- Grzegorz Jakuc, Major of Turosn Koscielna, Podlasie region
- Jerzy Dudała, Journalist, wnp.pl - Spain
- Maria Rodríguez-Navarro, People and Organization Power Generation Endesa
- Juan Antonio Vázquez, Industrial Policy Secretary, UGT - FICA - Q&A
Moderated by Lutz Ribbe, SDO president
10:50 – 11:05 Coffee Break
11:05 – 11:55 The transformation of the car industry towards the decarbonisation of the economy: challenges and opportunities for the labour market
- General overview: Arnaud Schwartz and Monika Sitarova for the own-initiative opinion "The EU mobility strategy and EU industrial value chains: automotive eco-systems approach"
- France
- Jean-Marie Robert, secrétaire national CFDT – FGMM - Germany
- Ralph Obermauer, IG Metall Executive Commitee´s Berlin office, Department of Sociopolitical Issues - Poland
- Monika Kuczyńska - Automotive Industry Employers' Union, Pilkington Automotive HR director
- Janusz Kobus, Vice-president, Polish Chamber of Automotive Industry - Q&A
Moderated by Lech Pilawski, LMO president
11:55 – 12:45 Contribution of the digital transition to the well-being economy
- General overview -Patrice Chazerand, Director for Digital Trade & Taxation Policy, Digital Europe
- Estonia
- Annely Tank, Advisor of Industry Division, Estonian Ministry of Economics and Communications
- Jaan Hendrik Toomel, Head of Communications, EAKL (Confederation of Estonian Trade Unions) - Czech Republic
- Ondřej Ferdus, Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic
- Tomáš Pavelka, Macroeconomist, CMKOS (Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions) - Q&A
Moderated by Louise Grabo, DSMO president
12:45 – 13.00 Closing session
- Javier Doz, President of the ad-hoc group on European Semester Group at the EESC
Moderated by Aurel Laurenţiu Ploscenau, President of the SOC Section
Languages EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PL, PT
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