Category: Event

Industries and enterprises working on EE and RES in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) are growing but currently not structured. Local markets are quite competitive and currently no policies are implemented to support and promote their development neither their synergies. Since they face competition from outside the region and they look for neighboring markets to be adapted to their specificities, structuring EE and RES enterprises in the SEMCs could facilitate the creation of synergies and partnerships that will promote EE and RES in the region.

This sub-regional workshop aims at  presenting to the Algerian industries’ representatives and key stakeholders from the Maghreb countries the benefits of the creation of an industrial association for EE and RE at national and regional scale. The main findings of a study conducted on the EE and RE markets in the Maghreb and Mashreq regions will be shared with the participants, who will also have the chance to exchange their experiences relative to similar associations in the region. Finally, participants will explore possible modalities for supporting the creation of industrial associations that will serve, then, as a basis for the creation of a well-structured industrial association.

Co-organized by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) in collaboration with the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) and the Algerian Agency for Energy Management (APRUE), the Workshop “Mobilizing the Private Sector for the Energy Transition in Algeria and in the Mediterranean Region” will take place on 21 November 2019 in Algiers, Algeria at the presence of relevant stakeholders of the RE and EE sectors in the SEMCs.

The event is by invitation only.

Industries and enterprises working on EE and RES in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) are growing but currently not structured. Local markets are quite competitive and currently no policies are implemented to support and promote their development neither their synergies. Since they face competition from outside the region and look for neighboring markets to be adapted to their specificities, structuring EE and RES enterprises in the SEMCs could facilitate the creation of synergies and partnerships that will promote EE and RES in the region.

In an attempt to shed the light on the evolving importance of industrial associations in developing the RE and EE sectors at national and regional level, this meetMED sub-regional workshop focusing on the Mashreq countries aims at presenting the main results of the studies conducted, at exploring further possible modalities for supporting the industrial associations in the RE and EE fields and at finding shared suitable clustering methods at the presence of different regional stakeholders.

Organised by RCREEE in the framework of the meetMED project, the sub-regional workshop on “The creation of Regional Industrial Associations for the manufacturing of EE and RES Components” will take place on 13 November 2019 in Cairo, Egypt at the presence of relevant stakeholders of the RE and EE sectors in the SEMCs.

Co-organised by ADEME, ANME and ALMEE, this second regional meetMED workshop on Monitoring EE and RE Indicators in the Mediterranean Region will take place on 21-23 October 2019 in Tunis, Tunisia, and it is meant as the follow up event to the first workshop held last March in Beirut.

By supporting national agencies working in EE-related fields, it builds on the results of the MED-IEE1 project, which, between 2010 and 2013, compiled reliable data about EE indicators used in Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon and Tunisia between 1990 and 2010, having allowed for reliable comparison. This workshop aims to update these indicators for the 2012-2017 period and to adapt to the new expectations of each of the target countries. At the end of this work, four national reports and a regional report on EE trends in the region will be prepared.

In the context of the Paris Agreement, countries must resolutely commit to EE policies, and measure their impacts, particularly on the climate. The SEMCs detail the measures to be put in place by sector in the 3-year National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAPs). Monitoring the NEEAPs requires the definition of reliable indicators for assessing impacts, measuring progress and better defining realistic targets. Indicators will be tested in Tunisia and Lebanon and then presented in a final report.

This second regional meetMED workshop aims at supporting national teams in analysing indicators, preparing their national reports and identifying specific country needs for further studies.

The event is by invitation only.

Following on the scoping missions conducted in Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt, this event aims at presenting the collected results about the EE and RE market potential areas with higher impact on local economy and job creation in these representative countries, with a particular focus on which sectors are labor-intensive, and which parts of the relevant value chains can create a higher local value.

Organised by RCREEE, this regional conference takes place in Cairo, Egypt on 12 November 2019, at the presence of the most relevant energy stakeholders from the SEMCs and aims at presenting the main results of the research regarding the EE and RES market potential, value chain, local manufacturing and job creation. Furthermore, the event is an opportunity to brainstorm on possible ways to create a tool capturing all the effects RE and EE have on the creation of local value at the regional level.

The meetMED training seminar on the methodology for the elaboration of energy audits in industrial Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) is taking place from 8 to 12 December 2019 in Cairo, Egypt.

Hosted by the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), this event is co-organized by CRES (Greece) and the ANME (Tunisia).

The course is designed to provide meetMED REN experts with the necessary skills and knowledge to improve energy efficiency and profitability in the industrial sector and to gain required methodology for the completion of a thorough energy audit. Furthermore, the course will include exchange of best practices in planning and implementing EE plans and related measures for industrial SMEs between meetMED targeted countries as well as deliver established best practices for optimizing energy-intensive equipment and systems.

Target participants are public agencies, industrial sector, energy experts in charge of promoting EE programs and application with a focus on the industrial sector.

Quality for RES and EE products and services has become increasingly important as RES and EE applications (e.g. building insulation materials, energy efficient windows, solar water heaters, energy-efficient appliances) are being largely used in the Mediterranean region. In order to ensure minimum standards, necessary quality infrastructures should be available for the successful implementation of specific RES and EE programmes. Those quality infrastructures include laboratories, testing facilities, as well as inspection, certification or accreditation bodies.

This workshop is an opportunity to convene national and regional consultations with groups of experts, through sessions that will be dedicated to verifying and discussing the results collected through the questionnaires with respect to the level of quality control infrastructures in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) as well as to analyzing their needs, opportunities, weaknesses and strengths.

Furthermore, the event aims to compile all stakeholders’ opinions and recommendations for developing a regional quality market for RES and EE sectors with significant suggestions on how that could be implemented in the different SEMCs.

This regional workshop will take place in Algiers, Algeria next on 30 October 2019 and will be attended by representatives of conformity assessment bodies, metrology institutes, standardization organizations and accreditation councils from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan.

Regional energy experts and industrial associations will actively contribute to the discussion in order to build up a shared consolidated approach aimed at the creation of a regional quality harmonized market.

The event is by invitation only.

Organised by the Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management (MEDENER) in close cooperation with the Greek Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES), the 7th MEDENER International Conference on the Energy Transition in the Euro-Mediterranean region will take place on Thursday 26 September 2019 in Rhodes, Greece.

This year we will focus on «Sustainable Energy Solutions for Islands and Remote Areas: Front-runners for the Energy Transition in the Euro-Mediterranean Region».

The 7^th MEDENER International Conference will shed the light on the latest solutions for energy efficiency, renewable energy production, energy storage facilities, demand response systems, low carbon transport and sustainable water and waste management. It will also emphasize the role of circular economy investments boosting economic self-sufficiency and inclusive growth in isolated territories and in the Mediterranean region.

If you wish to receive further information, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Alice Giallombardo, meetMED Communication Officer, at alice.giallombardo@medener.org.

The first meetMED training seminar will take place on 07-11 July 2019 in Algiers, Algeria.

Its purpose is to train public authorities to use a sustainable energy policy design toolkit, which has been jointly elaborated by ADENE, ANME, CRES and ENEA.

This toolkit includes guidelines for public authorities on the use of sustainable energy design and financing tools as well as guidelines for improving multi-level governance in the Mediterranean area in the field of sustainable energy planning and for better adaptation of the EU legislation to local contexts in the Mediterranean countries.

If you wish to participate, please contact Alice Giallombardo, meetMED Communication officer, at alice.giallombardo@medener.org .

The meetMED workshop on EE in Buildings will take place on 18 June 2019 in Tunis, Tunisia.

Hosted by ANME and organised by ADENE together with ADEME, ALMEE and RCREEE, this will be an opportunity for the task force on EE in buildings of the meetMED Regional Expert Network (REN) to meet and present case studies from their own countries on the existing policies for EE promotion in the building sector.
Participants will also debate the implementation of national and regional policies supporting the deployment of EE measures in buildings in the Mediterranean region.
During the workshop, the meetMED REN will also define the content of the meetMED report on EE in Buildings, which will focus on the Mediterranean countries targeted by the meetMED project: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.