The event will take place on 16 November in Brussels and will foster cross-sectorial cooperation between the different technologies under the scope of the platforms. The collaboration across different sectors has been highlighted several times by the European Commission as one of the main priorities of the next Energy Work Programme. Therefore, meeting partners from other sectors will be a crucial step in order to be successful with the upcoming calls.

The event will be an unique opportunity to get to know all relevant information on the upcoming calls as well as to meet valuable partners from different technology sectors to exchange experiences and potentially create successful consortia.

A Plenary Session will take place in the morning with representatives from the European Commission and Executive Agencies.

In the afternoon the participants will attend parallel sessions according to their preferences. The initial suggested topics are the following:

• Energy efficient buildings- renovation
• Renewable energy system integrated at building scale
• Increased performance of technologies for local heating and cooling solutions/ Technical support for RES heating and cooling
• Sustainable process industry
• Energy storage (including materials)
• Energy efficiency- Smart buildings (including smart services, and smart materials)
• Deep Geothermal
• Shallow GeothermalSolar energy in industrial processes
• Combining Renewable Technologies for a Renewable District Heating and/or Cooling System
• Biomass
• Market uptake support
• Energy islands, and Smart Cities and Communities
• Next-generation of Energy Performance Assessment and Certification
• Energy efficieny- investments
• Energy modelling
• Smart and clean energy for consumers
• Skill building, support to education

Confirmed speakers

• Piero De Bonis, Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD)
• Filippo Gagliardi (DG RTD)
• Thomas Schlecker (DG RTD)
• Margot Pinault, Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER)
• José Riesgo (DG RTD-Energy-efficient Buildings)
• Carmine Marzano (DG RTD-Sustainable Process Industry (SPIRE)
• Christopher Reynolds, Research Executive Agency (REA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions)
• Pierre Roubaud, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME, SME Instrument)

Registration

Registration fee: 121 EUR (100+VAT 21%).

Deadline: 3rd November 2017

Please use the online registration form to register to the event taking place on 16th November in Brussels.

After submitting the form you will receive an email with further instructions for finalising the  payment.

Please note that your registration is only confirmed once we receive the full payment of your registration fee: 121 EUR (100EUR +VAT 21%).

You will receive a confirmation email stating the status of your registration.

Click on the 'Register' button to have access to the resgistration form, and to consult directions to the event venue and suggestions of accommodation.