After the TRACER Final Conference on 21 September, around 25 TRACER partners and participants from across Europe have joined a study visit to the historic site of the Brussels Abattoir market and slaughterhouse that is undergoing a full renovation (see provisional project). A group of private actors with support from the Anderlecht municipality, the Brussels region…
Investors Workshop 20 September 2022 Final Conference 21 September 2022 Location : NOVOTEL Brussels City Centre (Rue de la Vge Noire 32, 1000) The Investors Workshop will introduce identified R&I project ideas in nine coal regions in transition. Investment opportunities will be discussed with invited investors, representatives of EU institutions responsible for EU funds and…
Investors Workshop 20 September 2022 Final Conference 21 September 2022 Location : NOVOTEL Brussels City Centre (Rue de la Vge Noire 32, 1000) The Investors Workshop will introduce identified R&I project ideas in nine coal regions in transition. Investment opportunities will be discussed with invited investors, representatives of EU institutions responsible for EU funds and…
Delicate purple in Lusatia – Lavender is blooming and growing quite successfully on reclaimed land, here in the second vegetation period. Thereby, combining lavender, short rotation wood and photovoltaic panels is a climate-adapted and friendly blueprint for innovative land use systems. A multifunctional post-mining landscape serves cross-cutting issues. It contributes to energy transition, secures the…
ISPE and AISVJ, TRACER Romanian partners, together with their local academic partner University of Petrosani and the new local governance structure – ADTIVJ, invited all key stakeholders in Jiu Valley, and not only, to attend this hybrid event, on the 14th of July 2022, in order to understand more about what further steps need to…
The TRACER target regions have organised nine capacity building events over the course of 2020 and 2021 that focused on identifying and mobilising funding to transition out of coal. These events gathered local and regional stakeholders from coal regions ins transition, as well as funding experts in charge of national programmes, from the European Commission…
The 6th Progress Meeting of TRACER project, that was successfully implemented in Petrosani of the Jiu Valley region in Romania (14-15 March 2022), was combined with a number of particularly interested “Study Visits”!!! Study tour video Study tour minutes Follow the relevant excerpt from the news at HD365 local TV channel of Jiu Valley!! https://fb.watch/bRiX_p-qwy/…
TRACER Webinar on the 1st of April 2022 from 10 to 11 am CET This webinar focused on how the three pillars of the EU’s Just Transition Mechanism can support public and private stakeholders in coal regions to finance their regions’ energy transition without leaving anyone behind. In addition to financial instruments, the discussion touched upon supporting elements including advisory services and…
On Thursday the 2nd of December 2021, the TRACER Capacity Building Event for the Region of Western Macedonia, “Clean energy transition of the Region of Western Macedonia: Funding Opportunities” was organized by TRACER partner, CRES. The event was planned in the frame of Work Package 4 (Mobilization of EU funds and programmes), as foreseen for…
The end of 2021 brings other good news for the Jiu Valley micro-region. The Ministry of Energy publicly announced that Paroseni CHPP, in the first part of 2022, will start the tests for replacing hard-coal with “Arbacore” pellets produced by the Norwegian company Arbaflame. To this aim, the cooperation involves the replacement of hard-coal, the…
A TRACER event for Wales was held online on 1 December 2021, jointly organised by TRACER partners STRATH and Welsh Government, together with Cardiff University. The event was foreseen under TRACER Work Package 4, which promotes the dissemination of information on the support and funding opportunities available for energy transition. In total, 50 people attended…
Διαδικτυακή εκδήλωση για την ανάπτυξη των ικανοτήτων: «Καθαρή ενεργειακή μετάβαση της Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Μακεδονίας: Χρηματοδοτικές δυνατότητες» Πέμπτη, 2 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 Τοποθεσία: Διαδικτυακά (zoom) Ώρα εκδήλωσης/Διάρκεια: 09:30-14:00 Το Κέντρο Ανανεώσιμων Πηγών και Εξοικονόμησης Ενέργειας (ΚΑΠΕ) σας προσκαλεί στην εκδήλωση για την ανάπτυξη των ικανοτήτων με τίτλο «Καθαρή ενεργειακή μετάβαση της Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Μακεδονίας: Χρηματοδοτικές δυνατότητες», η…
