Name: The EU blueprint for fusion energy
Start: 2024-04-23
End: 2024-04-23T23:59:00
Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe

With recent technological breakthroughs and increased private investments the fusion industry is gaining momentum. Europe has always been at the forefront in fusion research and technology. To develop an EU path towards fusion commercialisation and build industrial capability, it is vital for the EU to capitalise on the experience gained from the Joint European Torus JET and other fusion activities to date, including the EUROfusion - Realising Fusion Energy, ITER - the way to new energy and BROADER APPROACH programmes. It is important to reflect on funding and regulatory needs and to discuss cooperation mechanisms between the governments, laboratories and industry. As a part of an ongoing process together with the Directorate-General for Research and Development towards creating an agile policy framework for fusion research and innovation, the Directorate-General for Energy invites the key fusion stakeholders to Strasbourg to discuss the current state of fusion in the EU and how to foster acceleration in fusion development. This discussion will inform concrete actions and recommendations for the Commission and EU countries to develop joint winning strategies and build a thriving European ecosystem. Registration period ended on Wednesday 17 April 2024, 23:59 CEST

The EU blueprint for fusion energy

As part of the European Youth week 2024 event organised by the European Commission from 12-19 April 2024, young people in the EU are invited to take part in activities from all over Europe and beyond. This year's focus is on democracy and the European elections, encouraging young people to voice their vision for the EU. The main objectives of the 2024 edition are: During this event, young people will have the opportunity to: Rural young people will join the representatives of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development for a workshop around young people in rural areas and agriculture to: Follow the discussions on social networks with EUYouthWeek.     The European Commission and the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance Platform will hold a technical workshop to discuss the uptake of the EU sustainable finance framework and to present aspects of the Platform's work. On 29 January 2024, the Platform published its "report on a compendium of market practices", which was presented in a webinar on 6 February 2024. The compendium provides use cases on how different key market participants are adopting the EU sustainable finance toolkit for designing transition strategies, structuring financial transactions, and reporting on sustainability efforts. The compendium illustrates the initial implementation of the key pillars of the EU sustainable finance agenda as set out in the 2018 Commission action plan on financing sustainable growth and confirmed in the 2021 strategy for financing the transition to a sustainable economy. Against this background, the event is intended to foster dialogue and collaboration among financial institutions, industry leaders, the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance and representatives from the European Commission. The workshop will show how the EU sustainable finance framework can mobilise green private finance and support the real economy's transition efforts, offering business and investment opportunities to companies. Representatives of the Platform will present the compendium and its concrete use cases and discuss transition finance policies, such as transition plans and the connection with the EU taxonomy. Finally, the Platform will present its intermediate reporton monitoring capital flows, which includes a methodology to measure the effective contribution of finance towards the objectives of the European green deal, drawing on regulatory disclosures as well as market trends. Participants can attend an informal networking event offered by the International Sustainable Finance Centre z.u. ISFC venue to be communicated closer to the date. Please confirm your interest in participating in the technical workshop and the networking event in the registration form. This will be a hybrid meeting, with both in-person and remote participation. For physical attendance registration is now closed. For online participation, registrations will be open until 19 April 2024 18:00 CEST. Participation will be confirmed as of 15 April 2024. Register for the workshop Scaling-up private investments in energy efficiency is essential to diminish the gap between available public financing and financial needs for the clean energy transition and the related energy efficiency investments, and to help preserve public funding where it is most needed. Pursuant to Article 30 7 of the recast Energy Efficiency Directive EU20231791, the European Energy Efficiency Financing Coalition hereafter the Coalition is being established with a view to create a cooperation framework for action between Financial Institutions, the EU Member States and the Commission. In the margins of the Energy Council on 19 December 2023, Commissioner Simson and the Energy Ministers of all the EU Member States signed a Joint Declaration on energy efficiency financing and the European Energy Efficiency Financing Coalition, providing a strong political endorsement to this initiative. This high-level event, hosted by Commissioner Kadri Simson, will formally launch the Coalition and intends to debate the future of energy efficiency financing and the perspectives for the initiative. For social media EEEFinCoalition European Energy Efficiency Financing Coalition As announced in its recent action plan to tackle labour and skills shortages, the European Commission will organise a participatory conference on 23 April 2024 to enable discussions with and between relevant stakeholders on labour market developments and labour shortages in the transport sector in the European Union. The objective is to develop a shared understanding of the challenges, to exchange good practice examples and possibly issue recommendations on measures to address these challenges. A background paper will be provided to the participants ahead of the conference. The hybrid conference will be held in English and is organised by COWI Belgium SPRL in collaboration with Panteia and on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport. If you wish to participate, please register before Friday, 12 April 2024. Places are limited. Participation is only possible after confirmation by the organisers. We seek to have a balanced participation in terms of stakeholder groups, modes of transport, EU Member States, age and gender. With recent technological breakthroughs and increased private investments the fusion industry is gaining momentum. Europe has always been at the forefront in fusion research and technology. To develop an EU path towards fusion commercialisation and build industrial capability, it is vital for the EU to capitalise on the experience gained from the Joint European Torus JET and other fusion activities to date, including the EUROfusion - Realising Fusion Energy, ITER - the way to new energy and BROADER APPROACH programmes. It is important to reflect on funding and regulatory needs and to discuss cooperation mechanisms between the governments, laboratories and industry. As a part of an ongoing process together with the Directorate-General for Research and Development towards creating an agile policy framework for fusion research and innovation, the Directorate-General for Energy invites the key fusion stakeholders to Strasbourg to discuss the current state of fusion in the EU and how to foster acceleration in fusion development. This discussion will inform concrete actions and recommendations for the Commission and EU countries to develop joint winning strategies and build a thriving European ecosystem. Registration period ended on Wednesday 17 April 2024, 23:59 CEST

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