4th LEEWAY Interregional Meeting
From 1st to 3rd April, Poland will host the 4th LEEWAY Interregional Meeting. Participants will attend a conference open to public all partners and stakeholders, focused on the Innovative Green Economy and will have the occasion to visit the micro-network site in Bytom (TAURON) and the Euro-Centrum Science and Technology Park. On the last day there will be an Exchange workshop and Interregional Working Group to create a debate about green and energy transition.
Here the programme:
- DAY 1 Wednesday, 01 April 2025
Informal dinner
Possibility to visit Katowice's attractions
- DAY 2 Wednesday, 02 April 2025
Conference from the INNOVATIVE GREEN ECONOMY series
08:00 am – 08:30 am
Registration of participants and morning coffee
08:30 am – 08:40 am
Welcome by host institution
representative of Central Mining Institute – National Research Institute (GIG-PIB), representative of Marshal's Office of the Silesian Voivodeship
08:40 am – 08:50 am
Project Leader: Presentation of the LEEWAY project assumptions
SIPRO (Italy)
08:50 am – 09:05 am
Case study of biogas and PV plants in different REC configurations
Carlo Petrovic (ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy)
09:05 am – 09:20 am
Application of the biomethanation process for biogas upgrading
dr inż. Grzegorz Cema, dr inż. Sebastian Żabczyński (Politechnika Śląska, Poland)
09:20 am – 09:35 am
A municipal wastewater treatment plant as a part of the circular economy – examples of RCGW's actions in the field of sustainable development
dr inż. Agata Karło-Białozor (RCGW S.A., Poland)
09:35 am – 09:50 am
Bio-Sponge: Modern Immobilized Catalysts as Support in the Wastewater Treatment Process
dr Anna Dzionek (Uniwersytet Śląski, Poland)
09:50 am – 10:05 am
RECs in Emilia-Romagna: policy instruments, applications and models
Fabrizio Tollari, ART-ER Attractiveness Research Territory (PP2: Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
10:05 am – 10:20 am
W ustaleniu
(Instytut Metali Nieżelaznych, Poland)
10:20 am - 10:40 am
Coffee break
10:40 am – 10:55 am
Surface water as a renewable heat source - the potential for Roeselare
Ine Pertry (PP3: City of Roeselare, Belgium)
10:55 am – 11:10 am
Production of green hydrogen through the electrolysis of water recovered from municipal wastewater
dr inż. Piotr Zawadzki (GIG-PIB, Poland)
11:10 am - 11:25 am
PowerToGas: A regional alternative to imported natural gas?
Dr. Holger Klos (AP: Citizien Energy Cooperative of PAF, Germany)
11:25 am – 11:40 am
Chamber of Commerce of Zenica-Doboj Canton, current state of renewable energy sources and energy communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nedzad Jusufhodzic (PP8: Chamber of Commerce of Zenica-Doboj Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
11:40 am – 11:55 am
Citizen energy in practice. Why are energy cooperatives the best form of it?
Monika Jaszcza (Związek Stowarzyszeń Polska Zielona Sieć Ruch "Więcej niż Energia", Poland)
11:55 am – 12:10 am
Energy Communities in Croatia
Damijan Bermanec (PP07 Town of Prelog, Grad Prelog, Croatia)
12:10 am – 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch
Study Visit
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Transfer to TAURON
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Visit to the headquarter and presentation of experience in supporting energy communities
3 presentations (cooperation of energy communities with the external network, energy storage, microgrid pilot investment)
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Transfer to the micro-network site in Bytom
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Study Visit on the micro-network site in Bytom (TAURON)
This is the first functioning micro-grid system in Poland. TAURON has launched a micro-grid, i.e. a small power grid that allows for guaranteeing, even in extreme situations, the supply of electricity to recipients connected to it. The system launched in Bytom has wind power, photovoltaic panels, and a system-stabilizing energy storage and gas aggregator.
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Transfer to Euro-Centrum Science and Technology Park
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Study Visit in Euro-Centrum Science and Technology Park
Presentation of laboratories and technological solutions used in Euro Centrum
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Transfer to restaurant and formal dinner
- Day 3 Thursday, 03 April 2025
Interregional Meeting - Open to all partners and stakeholders. Partners only for Steering meeting
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Exchange workshop and Interregional Working Group:
Interregional Working Group:
1. Definition of 3 thematic groups (policies issues, citizens engagement, companies): PPs and stakeholders debate about green and energy transition
2. Sharing of results, Q&A, conclusions
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Steering Committee Meeting (Project Partners Only)
- Communication Activities and Stakeholder engagement
- Project management & Reporting
- Planning of activities and deadlines