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Sustainable Energy Europe:

a European Cam

paign to raise awareness

and change the landscape of energy

Events in Brussels Events outside Brussels

CEMBUREAU – The European Cement Association ●● ●● ●●Cement plant visit in MaastrichtThe Netherlands

Region Vastra Gotaland ●●Energisession 2009Skövde, Sweden

MAVD ●●Semaine de l’EnergieNormandie, France

Carrefour Group ●● ● ● ●●Promotion of green solutions in our storesFrance

Andalusian Energy Agency ●●Semana Europea de la Energía Sostenible en Andalucía 2009 – Focusing on Hydrogen, Education, Sustainable Energy Certifi cation, Transport and High Temperature Thermal Solar SystemsSevilla, Spain

Carrefour Group ●● ● ● ●●Promotion of green solutions in our storesSpain

Town Council of San Sebastian de la Gomera ● ● ● ● ●●Sansenergy Week ‘09San Sebastian de La Gomera, Spain

Agencia de Gestión Energética de la Diputación de Jaén, AGENER ●●Open day about sustainable Working Transport Plan in health and social complex in the city of Jaén (Andalusian, Spain)Jaen Capital, Spain

Fundación Comunidad Valenciana ●● ●●DERCOVA 2009 – The Renewable and Efficient Energy Day in the Valencian RegionValencia, Spain

Castilla-La Mancha ●●Castilla-La Mancha, Renewable Energies: land, wind, sun, … futureCastilla-La Mancha, Spain

AdEPorto – Porto Energy Agency, Municipal Council of Porto ●●Presentation of ‘Porto Sustainability Strategy’Porto, Portugal

Italian SEE Campaign partners under the strategy umbrella of the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●●AEA – Energy and YoungPerugia – ItalyAGEAS – EE in SME: sustainability and qualitySalerno – ItalyAIEE – Perspectives for a sustainable energy system in ItalyRome – ItalyARPAV – Good practises for energy savingVeneto Region – ItalyCITY of ARZIGNANO – Climate change!Arzignano (Vi) – ItalyBIM BRENTA – Energy from water: visits to hydro plantsTrentino Region – ItalyBIM BRENTA – Night walking over the snow turning off public lightingTrentino Region – ItalyBACIATI DAL SOLE – Green energy at the cinemaMilan – ItalyBOVIS LEND LEASE + ISOVER/ST GOBAIN + Assimpredil ANCE – The sustainability challenge: Leadership via best practices and partnership Milan – ItalyCIRIAF – Green Post ProjectPerugia – ItalyCITY of LODI – Guided tour to solar plantsLodi – ItalyCOMUNICAZIONE & TERRITORI – Sustainable Amalfi CoastRavello (Sa) – ItalyFORTUNATO PRODUCTIONS – Eco Inside ProjectRome – ItalyFEDERABITAZIONE – Sustainable Housing in EuropeRome – ItalyCITY of ANDORA – Energy saving and renewablesAndora (Sv) – ItalyINTESA SANPAOLO – Business and fi nance for the sustainable energyTurin – Italy

LAPLACIAN – EE in public utilitiesRende (Cs) – ItalyPROVINCE of REGGIO EMILIA – ECOCASA exhibition Reggio Emilia – ItalyREGION of ABRUZZO – Building energy efficiency and savingPescara – ItalyREGION of ABRUZZO – Sustainable transports: HydrogenPescara – ItalyTIS-RENERTEC – Enertour® Bolzano – ItalyUNIVERSITY of FLORENCE – Electrical Vehicle for FarmersPistoia – ItalyUNIVERSITY of TUSCIA – RES development on the territoryViterbo – Italy

AGENA + Province of Teramo ●●TEP – Teramo Energy ProvinceTeramo, Italy

ANEA – Agenzia Napoletana Energia e Ambiente ●●Clean Energy in NaplesNaples, Italy

CINSA – Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per le Scienze Ambientali● ● ● ● ●● ●●EUSEW 2009 – VenetoVenice, Italy

Carrefour Group ●● ● ● ●●Promotion of green solutions in our storesItaly

ES-COM + APE Provincia di Reggio Calabria ● ● ● ● ●●Educational Energy DaysReggio Calabria, Italy

Millimetri ● ● ●●E_nergeticAbruzzo_02Pescara, Italy

Grundig Intermedia Gmbh ● ● ●●Eco-televisionsNuernberg, Germany

Podkarpacka Energy Management Agency ●●Saving Energy – Challenge of our times Rzeszow, Poland

Polish Network of Energie-cités ●●Launching of Polish RES leagueKrakow, Poland

Cork County Energy Agency, Tipperary Energy Agency ●●Open days for Sustainable EnergyCork and Tipperary Counties, Ireland

Ageas Salerno ●●Energy Efficiency – RES and Technological Innovation

Alliance for Rural Electrifi cation ●●Renewables for Rural Electrifi cation: towards a sustainable model – The European actions

ASFE – Alliance for Synthetic Fuels in Europe ●●Synthetic Fuels: Diversifying the transport energy mix

B.&S.U. mbH + Fedarene ●●How to infl uence energy saving behaviour? Awards and competitions as successful instruments for energy efficiency + Prize Gala of the Energy Trophy

Berliner Energieagentur GmbH ●●European Energy Service Award 2008 Ceremony

BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL + WEST MIDLANDS IN EUROPE ●●Birmingham – Smart city

BMU – German Federal Environment Ministry ●● ●● ●●Long-term Development of Renewable Energy – Recent Research Findings from Germany

BTG Biomass Technology Group B.V. ●●Film: ‘Bioenergy in motion’

Carrefour Group + Tetra Pak ●●The Energy Challenge: energy efficiency through best practices and partnerships

CECED ●●Achieving energy efficiency at home – tools and policies in theory and practice

CECODHAS ●●Copenhagen 09 – Setting the Pace for a Decade of Green and Social Growth – Social Housing sector as a case study

Climate Alliance ●●Benchmarking local climate policies

COGEN Europe ●●CHP and an integrated approach to energy use and energy efficiency in 2020

Commission for sustainable development, EU Committee of the Regions ●● ●●EU Regions for Sustainable Energy

Connected Urban Development: A partnership between Cisco and the cities of Amsterdam, Birmingham, Hamburg, Lisbon, Madrid, San Francisco and Seoul ●●Connected and sustainable technology solutions for the future of cities

DG ENTR of the European Commission ●●New Forms of support for eco-innovation: the Europe Innova Innovation Platforms

DG INFSO of the European Commission ●● ●●Information and Communication Technologies for Energy Efficiency: EU Actions and funding opportunities for research, development and take-up

DG RTD of the European Commission ●● ●●Environmental Research for SME’s

DG TREN of the European Commission ●●Energy technologies, from promise to implementation

DG TREN of the European Commission ●●Action Plan on urban mobility

DG TREN of the European Commission ●●Annual meeting of the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign

DG TREN of the European Commission ●●Sustainable Energy Europe Award Ceremony

DG TREN of the European Commission ● ● ● ● ●●Buildings: Flagship on Energy Efficiency (Let’s make the new EU legislation deliver)

DG TREN of the European Commission ●●Towards a New Energy Efficiency Policy for Europe

DG TREN of the European Commission – CONCERTO + EACI ●●Towards energy efficient housing: from CONCERTO to market activation

DG TREN of the European Commission – ManagEnergy ●●8th ManagEnergy Annual Conference

DG TREN of the European Commission + European Biomass Association ●●Biomass Action Plans and refl ections on an EU biomass sustainability scheme

EACI ●●Intelligent Energy Europe – Info Day

EACI ●●EU funding for sustainable transport projects: a boost towards achieving energy efficiency targets

EACI ●●Climate change: The potential of Eco-innovation for SMEs

EACI + SG Intelligent Energy/Enterprise Europe Network ●●Business Cooperation in the Energy Sector – how can SMEs get best value?

ECO WORLD STYRIA + Graz University of Technology ●●European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT): Fostering radical innovation towards energy excellence ECP – European Concrete Platform ●●Energy efficient buildings: The sustainable advantages of concrete structures

eDF – Electricité De France ●●A strategy for renewable energy development and management of the grid: Does Europe have the means to match its ambitions?

EHA – European Hydrogen Association ● ● ●●Hydrogen and fuel cells as strong partners of local renewable energy systems

EHPA – European Heat Pump Association ●●The contribution potential of heat pump technology to the EU’s Energy savings and climate protection goals

EICTA + INTELLECT + University of Warwick + INSEAD ●●High Tech: Low Carbon – a year on

ELC – European Lamp Companies Federation ●●Energy Efficient Lighting

Energie-Citès ●●Model Awards

EnR + SenterNovem + ARCE ●●Achieving the EU Energy Efficiency and Renewables targets/The challenge of implementation and the role of the national energy agencies

EPIA – European Photovoltaic Industry Association ●●Photovoltaic Network Integration: Challenges and Opportunities

EPIA – European Photovoltaic Industry Association + European Photovoltaic Technology Platform ●●SET for 2020: Establishing the Solar Europe Initiative

ESHA ●●Investing in Sustainable Hydro

ESTTP – European Solar Thermal Technology Platform ●● ●●Solar thermal in buildings and beyond – cutting edge examples and future developments

EUFORES ●●Renewables Directive and its implications for Regions and national and regional Parlamentarians

EURELECTRIC – Union of the Electricity Industry ●●Getting Carbon-Neutral by 2050: the Vision of the Electricity Industry

Eurima – European Insulation Manufacturers Association ● ● ●●The Eurima Low-Energy Bar

EuroACE ●● ●●The role of buildings in meeting Europe’s 2020 goals

EUROCITIES ●●The carbon-neutral city – ways forward

Eurocommerce ●●Fight against climate change: Commerce takes up the challenge!

EUROFUEL ●●Low Energy Buildings, High Energy Storage

Euroheat and Power ●●Keep cool and save energy!

EVE + EU-OEA ●●The role of wave energy in the European RES-e market

EVE + Target Gmbh ●●Solar air-conditioning systems for small and medium applications in residential and commercial buildings

EWEA – European Wind Energy Association ●●Wind Power in the Single European Electricity Market (TradeWind Final Workshop)

Fedarene + Clearsupport Partnership ●●Facilitating Building Renovation & Financing schemes

Fedarene, ARENE Ile-de-France ●●Energy and employment: state of art and new opportunities for Europe

Fedarene, Rhônalpénergie-Environnement ●●Facilitating biogas projects in most promising sectors

GLASS FOR EUROPE ●● ●●The Role of Glass in Sustainable Architecture

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability ●●‘From Bali to Poznan to Copenhagen’ European Local Government Climate Roadmap Forum

IMELS – Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea ●●The SEE Campaign and the Covenant of Mayors towards meeting the 2020 targets

INFORSE ●● ●●Transition to Renewable Energy in the EU. Scenarions by INFORSE-Europe, ZeroCarbonBritain, Low Carbon Network

ISLENET ●●Solar Cooling Technologies: The Solco Project

METREX ● ● ● ● ●●Clean Tech Clusters, Climate Oriented Spatial Planning, Clean Urban Technolgies: Approaches of City regions. How Climate Change drives the Stuttgart Region Strategy

Resource Efficiency Alliance ●●Economic Actors Plan of Action to Enable Delivery of EU 2020 Objectives

RICS – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ●●The Contribution of Europe’s Heritage Buildings to Energy Savings

SenterNovem ●●The impact of Energy-Related Behaviour Change Programmes

SenterNovem ●●Two toolkits bring energy efficiency policy into practice

U.I.P.I – Union Internationale de la Propriété Immobilière + S.N.P. – A.E.S. – Syndicat National des Propriétaires et Copropriétaires, Bruxelles ●●Energy performance of existing buildings – overcoming the difficulties in improving works

Carrefour Group ● ● ● ● ●●Promotion of green solutions in our stores

Castilla-La Mancha ●●Castilla-La Mancha: Impact and Aims of the Solar Thermal Electricity

CEMBUREAU – The European Cement Association ● ● ● ● ●●Alternative fuels and raw materials (AFR) in the cement industry

Committee of the Regions ●●Regions for Sustainable Energy: debate at the Plenary Session of the Committee of the Regions

Crosstalks VUB ●●Energy Efficiency: Paradigm Shifts in Innovation

DG TREN of the European Commission ●●Covenant of Mayors

EGEC – European Geothermal Energy Council ●●Geothermal Regulations for Heating and Cooling

EREC – European Renewable Energy Council ●●3rd European Renewable Energy Policy Conference

European Economic and Social Committee ●● ●● ●●Harvesting the win-win potential of energy efficiency. Civil-Society actions for reducing energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions

Municipality of Brasov + University of Transilvania ●● ●●Research Sustainable Development in the Field of Romanian Renewable Energy

Solar Solidarity International ●●Solar Art

European Commission DGs:DG TREN – Energy & TransportDG ENV – EnvironmentDG ENTR – Enterprise & IndustryDG INFSO – Information Society and MediaDG RTD – Research

Conferences themes:●● Policy ●● Local ●● Energy Efficiency ●● Buildings ●● Transport ●● Renewables ● ● Various

ATEIK ● ● ●● ●●Sustainable Building: experience and perspectives in LithuaniaVilnius, Lithuania

Kaunas Regional Energy Agency ●●EUSEW and Kaunas CityKaunas Lithuania

BIOMASA ●●Open Door in Pellet Production Unit for schoolchildren and studentsKysucky Lieskovec, Slovakia

Energy Centre Bratislava ●●International Slovak Biomass ForumBratislava, Slovakia

Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development ● ● ●●Instruments to stimulate energy efficiencyBucharest, Romania

EKKE – Energy Klub ●●Launching of Hungarian RES leagueBudapest, Hungary

ABEA – Association of Bulgarian Energy Agencies ●●Launching of Bulgarian RES leagueSofi a, Bulgaria

GREEN HOME ●●Bike for Clean AirPodgorica, Montenegro

KSSENA ● ● ● ● ●●Seminar of RES and/or RUESlovenia Velenje