FOREST AND LANDSCAPE RESTORATION OF POST-MINING SITES International conference in Prague, 3-6 June 2020
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Summer school of post mining restoration
Charles University in cooperation with other partners, will organize summer school of post mining restoration 8th – 12th June 2020. Summer school will give you inside in complex approaches in restoration of post mining ecosystem and recovery of post mining landscape. We will discuss aim of post mining ecosystem restoration (What we want to achieve,…
Establishing cooperation with mayors in Northwest Bohemia
On 11 February 2020, the TRACER project was presented for seventy representatives of municipalities and towns in the Ústí Region as part of a seminar on grant opportunities for the development of municipalities. Representatives of the Regional Authority of the Ústí Region, the government strategy RE: START, investment company Czechinvest, the Ministry for Regional Development…
EC provides financial and technical support, through SRSS, for the development of “Strategy for the transition from coal of the Jiu Valley” for the period 2021-2027
The Ministry of European Funds (MFE) organised on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, the kick-off meeting for the “Strategy for the transition from coal of the Jiu Valley”, financed by the Structural Reform Support Service within the European Commission (SRSS). The consultant selected by EC for developing Jiu Valley Strategy for the transition from coal is…
Repowering coal power plants with biomass
Topic: Industry Forum on retrofitting measures for biofuel plants When: November 19th 2019. 08:30 – 14:00 Where: THE OFFICE, Rue D’ Arlon 80 – 1000 Brussels, Belgium Agenda – Registration
Study Tour, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Study Tour, Cardiff, Wales, UK 20th November 2019 Agenda Contact: Rita Mergner Project Manager, TRACER Coordinator WIP Renewable Energies E-mail: rita.mergner@wip-munich.de Tel.: +49 89 720 12 731 Website: www.wip-munich.de Trygve Rees Fossil Fuel Manager Energy Policy Team Division for Decarbonisation and Energy Department for Environment and Rural Affairs, Welsh Government Tel 0300 025 0572 Mobile 07973 488…
Greece seeks to phase out coal by 2028
© Photo: Johannes Plenio/Pixabay Greece will adopt a new national energy and climate plan by the end of 2019 that will envisage the shutdown of all coal power plants in Greece by 2028, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019. The plan will also call for expanding the share of…
TRACER presentation on the National Information Day on the new calls of the Horizon 2020 in Czech Republic
As one of the model projects supported by the European Commission, TRACER was presented on September 10, 2019 at the National Information Day on the new calls of the Horizon 2020 program organized by the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague together with the Technology Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.…
Re- Industrialise Study Visit North Rhine Westphalia
28-30 October 2019 Joining Forces for a Successful Regional Transition: Experiences and Lessons Learnt on Fostering Collaboration Achieving a successful transition of industrial areas and regions into low carbon innovation hotspots requires creative solutions, forward-thinking and new collaborations. By taking on board research, society and industrial representatives, it is expected that new, as well as…
Mayors of Jiu Valley cities signed, at the headquarters of the European Commission, the Memorandum for a Just Transition
On July 16, 2019 in the presence of EC representatives, the Ministry of European Funds and NGOs – Bankwatch Romania and Greenpeace Romania, all 6 mayors signed the “Jiu Valley Partnership for a Just Transition”, in order to reach the goals of Jiu Valley energy system transformation and economic development. By signing this Memorandum the…
Jiu Valley cities invitation to Platform on Coal Regions in Transition working groups
All six mayors from Jiu Valley cities received the invitation to attend the next EC – Platform on Coal Regions in Transition working groups meeting in Brussels, 15-16.07.2019. This initiative generated several press releases as: Hunedoara County Morning Gazette “Jiu Valley Mayors called out in Brussels” https://gddhd.ro/actualitate/primarii-din-valea-jiului-chemati-la-bruxelles/ or Mesagerul Hunedorean “Jiu Valley Mayors will debate…
The New York Times interested in Jiu Valley social challenges
The New York Times was also interested in knowing more about Jiu Valley social challenges, so Kevin Granville, reporter and Kevin Faingnaert, photographer published a short press report titled “What life after coal looks like”. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/business/romania-coal-towns.html?fbclid=IwAR0T86YdJjloiUgou_HTv2_3pyLlOzxCluC8GXquDHO28vAnIs_7BRtRqk; The movingly reportage was taken over and partly translated by the local press (e.g. Adevarul de Hunedoara newspaper). Life…