18th, February 2008

The first Newsletter 2008 has been published. You can download the PDF-File here. Additionally you can download the file mentioned in the Newsletter here: Download - List of existing twinnings of EEA Communities.

Headlines

• 1st European Energy Award® community in the Czech Republic
• France adopts the European Energy Award® Label
• More participating communities in Germany
• Galway is the 1st City of Ireland who received the European Energy Award®
• 3 European Energy Awards® in the Netherlands
• European Energy Award®Gold
• Presentation of the European Energy Award during the European Sustainable Energy Week
• Balance – Project, CO2-Town-twinning projects
• The good example of the eea® community Langenegg (Austria)
• Dates

7th, December 2007

                         

Sustainable Energy Management in Municipalities, Cities and Towns
The European Energy Award®

Organiser:	B.&S.U. Beratungs- und Service-Gesellschaft Umwelt mbH
Date:	Thursday 31/01/2008
Hour:	14.00 – 18.00
Location:	Committee of the regions - Room 51, Brussels

Description and objectives:
This event ought to address especially local authorities, energy agencies and everyone interested in saving energy, efficient use of energy and renewable energies.
The focus of the presentations will be set on experiences of the various stakeholders being involved in the European Energy Award® in Europe. Municipalities, advisors and energy agencies are going to report on their success, which is reached by the implementation of the European Energy Award®.

European Energy Award® is a quality management system for steering and controlling communal energy policy in order to review systematically all energy-related activities. By this, the activities concerning climate protection in a municipality are collected, benchmarked, calculated, planned and controlled, so that the potentials for sustainable climate protection  can be identified and used. This process is controlled by an energy team and supported by an accredited advisor.

As an appreciation for the improvement of climate protection the cities and municipalities get certified and awarded with the European Energy Award®. If a certain standard concerning implemented and finalised measures is reached, the community receives the European Energy Award®Gold.

Programme of the day:

14:00 - 14:15	Welcome Europa Energy Award® -a result of the 5.FRP, SAVE and EIE – Programme Speaker: Dorothea Palenberg, blue! Gesellschaft für Umweltmanagement in Europa
14:15 - 14:30	The success of the eea® Benefits for the participating countries and communities Speaker: Charlotte Spörndli, European Coordinator of the European Energy Award® Programme
14:30 - 15:30	Regions supporting communal energy policy activities  Speakers: Doris Kommert, Energy agency Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Germany Francoise Garcia, ADEME, France Mr Tippkötter, eea® advisor, Germany
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30	Energy Journey through eea® communities. Speakers: Marion Dammann, City of Lörrach, Germany Josef Mathis, City of Zwischenwasser, Austria Javier Bonforti, eea® advisor of Montaione, Italy
17:30 - 17:45	Future targets and prospects of the eea® Speaker: Dr. Gabi Zink- Ehlert, B.&S.U. mbH, Germany
17:45 - 18:00	eea® awarding ceremony Speakers: Pedro Ballesteros, DG TREN Paola Rossetti, Mayor, City of Montaione, Italy

For more information please contact Gabi Zink-Ehlert (gzink(at)bsu-berlin.de) and for subscribing to the conference please go to www.eusew.eu.

Supported by: Intelligent Energy Europe