Panel Sessions 2023

Due to the current geo-political situation and the timing of the C4E Forum 2023, taking place after a winter with high energy prices across Europe, the main topics that will be addressed at the event are energy security, the rebuilding of Ukraine and EU policy (REPowerEU and Fit-for-55 package).

The above key topics will be discussed at the high-level plenaries but also in the panel sessions from a more practical perspective (see general programme structure).

The Organising Committee has reviewed the submitted presentation outlines and has structurised the panel sessions – below the draft titles:

 

Session 1a. Supporting a green and resilient reconstruction of Ukraine (BPIE session) NOTE: session time: 11.oo-13.oo

Conference room: ENERGY

Panel Leader – Oliver Rapf

Speakers:

  • Anna Zamazieieva, Head State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine
  • Ksenia Petrichenko (IEA)
  • Anastasia Gorbach (Center for Environmental Initiatives \”Ecoaction\”)
  • Julian Grinschgl and Rouven Stubbe (Berlin Economics)
  • Andrzej Rajkiewicz (Member of Supervisory Board of Energy Efficiency Fund Ukraine)
  • Ima Khrenova-Shymkina – Programme Director Ukraine EE Programme German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)
  • Anna Ackermann – Policy analyst Green Reconstruction of Ukraine, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Board member of NGO Ecoaction

More information available here.

 

Session 1b.  Alleviating energy poverty and the role of the Social Climate Fund 

Conference room: MOTIVATION

Panel Leader – Mihai Moia, ROENEF – The association for promoting energy efficiency in buildings, ROMANIA

 Presentations:

  1. Measures needed to be offered by the social-climate fund for family homes owners in Slovakia, Kateřina Chajdiaková, Slovak Climate Initiative, SLOVAKIA
  2. Developing energy poverty indicators and matrices for analysis, segmentation and policy targeting using interactive data visualization in Hungary, Nora Feldmar, Habitat for Humanity Hungary (HfHH), HUNGARY
  3. Social Climate Fund, Šimon Lacena, Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic, SLOVAKIA

 

Session 1c.  Green skills needed for the construction industry

Conference room: INNOVATION

Panel Leader – Susanne Dyrboel, ROCKWOOL, DENMARK

Presentations:

  1. (S)killing the beast: innovative ways to improve construction sector’s sustainability skills, Dragomir Tzanev, EnEffect, BULGARIA
  2. Construction Industry on Crossroad – Results of the Status Quo Analysis in Czechia and Slovakia, Jiří Karásek, SEVEn, CZECHIA
  3. Enhancing market readiness for Fit-to-55 package by updating skills in the construction sector, Horia Petran, INCD URBAN-INCERC / Pro-nZEB Cluster, ROMANIA
  4. Awareness raising and upskilling construction sector with the aim of decarbonizing buildings, Bojan Milovanović, University of Zagreb, CROATIA

 

Session 1d. Deploying technologies to reach net zero: think about people!

Conference room: INSPIRATION

Panel Leader – Quentin de Hults, European Copper Institute, BELGIUM

Presentations:

  1. Save lot of energy on shower without compromising comfort: heat recovery!, Pavel Sevela, University of Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
  2. Ensure health and comfort while saving energy: ventilation!, Quentin Liebens, AERECO, FRANCE
  3. From consumer to prosumer: the rebound effect of PV?, Katarzyna Korczak, Research and Innovation Centre Pro-Akademia, POLAND

Session 2a. One-stop shops: models for accelerating energy renovation

Conference room: MOTIVATION

Panel Leader: Aniko Palffy, MEHI – Hungarian Energy Efficiency Institute, HUNGARY

Presentations:

  1. RenoHUb – Hungarian one-stop-shop model for triggering home energy renovation, Ilona Illésné-Szécsi&Szabolcs Mizsei; Hungarian Energy Efficiency Institute, HUNGARY
  2. re-HUB: a solutions platform to activate the renovation market, Borislav Ivanov, EnEffect, Center for Energy Efficiency, BULGARIA
  3. OSS – model solution for Poland, Justyna Glusman, Fala Renowacji Association, POLAND

 

Session 2b. New tools in the Buildings Directive: Minimum energy performance standards

Conference room: ENERGY

Panel Leader: Roland Gladushenko, EURIMA, Belgium

Presentations:

  1. What do the MEPs think about MEPS? An update on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive negotiations and likely outcome./EPBD 2023: what to expect, what to fear and what to look forward to…and how to prepare, Louise Sunderland&Hélène Sibileau, RAP/BPIE – Buildings Performance Institute Europe, UK/Belgium
  2. Joost Hartlief; Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), THE NETHERLANDS
  3. Nathalie Marková, Ministry of Industry and Trade, CZECHIA

 

Session 2c. Means and measures to support energy efficiency of low-income households

Conference room: INNOVATION

Panel Leader: Zsuzsanna Koritar

Presentations:

  1. “CLEAN” ENERGY BILLS FOR ALL CITIZENS IN THE EU, Alice Corovessi, INZEB, GREECE
  2. Short-term measures to address energy security and energy poverty – Shifting public spending from compensatory mechanisms on domestic energy use to short-term energy efficiency and renewable energy measures, Emma Kreipl, Oeko-Institut e.V. , GERMANY
  3. Financing the renovation of unfit housing, Anna Zsófia Bajomi, FEANTSA European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless, BELGIUM

 

Session 2d. The power of data for policy implementation

Conference room: INSPIRATION

Panel Leader: Horia Petran, INCD URBAN-INCERC, ROMANIA

Presentations:

  1. A Roadmap for Dynamic Data Collection in the EU building stock sector, Alexander Emmanouilidis, Sympraxis Team / BuiltHub project, GREECE
  2. EU Buildings Climate Tracker: how do CEE countries perform in relation to building decarbonisation?, Sheikh Zuhaib, BPIE, GERMANY
  3. Statistical data on final energy use in building sector in Slovakia, Katarína Korytárová,  SLOVAKIA

Session 3a. Scaling up renovations of multi-apartment buildings in the current context of energy crisis (HfH session)

Conference room: ENERGY

Panel Leader: Zita Kakalejcikova, HfH International, SLOVAKIA

Presentations:

  1. Understanding the capacity of owners and communities: the results of the ComAct household survey, Eva Gehorazi, MRI, HUNGARY/Hanna Szemzo, MRI, HUNGARY
  2. North Macedonia and Bulgaria – practical experience:
  • Reflection on the successes and challenges of community development and its influence on energy efficiency investments in Bulgaria, Teodora Stanisheva, EnEffect, BULGARIA
  • Citizen engagement in scaling up multi-apartment buildings renovations, Liljana Alceva, Habitat for Humanity Macedonia (HFHM), MACEDONIA

3. Lesson learned from the Hungarian one-stop-shop: the RenoHUb project, Fanni Sáfián-Farkas, MEHI, HUNGARY

 

Session 3b. Financing energy renovation programmes

Conference room: INNOVATION

Panel Leader: Justyna Glusman

Presentations:

  1. Round Tables on Financing Energy Efficiency as effective tool to speed up implementation of the EU policies and national programmes, Andrzej Rajkiewicz, SAPE, POLAND
  2. Renovation of family houses financed by Slovak Republic’s Restoration and Resilience Plan , Matej Kerestúr&Omar Temori, SAŽP, Slovak environmental agency, SLOVAKIA
  3. The LIFE Clean Energy Transition programme, Adrien Bullier, CINEA, European Commission, BELGIUM

 

Session 3c. Implementing the Energy Efficiency Directive: experiences from the ground

Conference room: MOTIVATION

Panel Leader: Rémi Collombet, EuroACE, Belgium

Presentations:

  1. Energy savings calculations under Articles 3 and 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), Václav Šebek, SEVEn, CZECHIA
  2. From Article 7 to Article 8: the impacts of the new Energy Efficiency Directive on Member States’ energy efficiency policies, Marion Santini & Matevž Pusnik, Regulatory Assistance Project, Jozef Stefan Institute (both partners of the project ENSMOV Plus), BELGIUM/SLOVENIA
  3. Experience from the first two years of the Hungarian Energy Efficiency Obligation Scheme, Aniko Palffy, MEHI – Hungarian Energy Efficiency Institute, HUNGARY

 

Session 3d. The link between energy security and sufficiency

Conference room: INSPIRATION

Panel Leader: Antonin Chapelot, The Coalition for Energy Savings, BELGIUM

Presentations:

  1. Energy sufficiency in the time of energy crises, Veronika Kiss, GreenFormation Ltd., HUNGARY
  2. Short-term reduction of gas demand for space and water heating in the EU: How to make it happen?, Maksymilian Kochański, Research and Innovation Centre Pro-Akademia, POLAND
  3. tbd

Session 4a. Public perception of energy renovation measures and high energy prices

Conference room: ENERGY

Panel Leader: Caroline Simpson, EuroACE, BELGIUM

Presentations:

  1. What do we know about single-family houses in Slovakia, Richard Paksi, B4F, SLOVAKIA
  2. How to avoid the next Yellow Vest movement? Evidence from a stated preference experiment, Jakub Sokołowski, Institute for Structural Research, POLAND
  3. Public perception of residential energy prices and renovations in Hungary – a push towards more sustainable and just policies, Lili Vanko, Habitat for Humanity Hungary (HfHH), HUNGARY

 

Session 4b. Building renovation passports supporting energy renovation

Conference room: INNOVATION

Panel Leader: Rutger Broer, BPIE, GERMANY

Presentations:

  1. EU policy update focussing on building renovation passports, Rutger Broer, BPIE, GERMANY

  2. Steps towards Building Renovation Passports in Romania, Lavinia Andrei, Terra Mileniul III, ROMANIA

  3. Building Renovation Passports, experience, barriers and solutions, Slovakia, Jana Bendžalová, ENBEE, SLOVAKIA/Jan Mykhalchyk Hradicky, Útvar hodnoty za peniaze (Value for Money Institute), SLOVAKIA

  4. Building Renovation Passports - how to make buildings climate neutral?, Kamen Simeonov, EnEffect, BULGARIA

 

Session 4c. Decarbonising buildings by 2050

Conference room: MOTIVATION

Panel Leader: Andrei Popescu, INCD URBAN-INCERC, ROMANIA

Presentations:

  1. Fully electrified buildings as part of smart, decarbonised energy system – are existing buildings ready for this?, Robert Pintér, European Copper Institute, BELGIUM
  2. Climate neutrality in 2050 – we can come there, Dušana Dokupilová, Institute for Forecasting, CSPS Slovak Academy of Sciences, SLOVAKIA
  3. Traditional House Built at ZEB standard in Rural Area of Romania, Emilia Mladin, Romanian Association of Energy Auditors for Building, ROMANIA
  4. Green Deal for Buildings – Financing of building renovation – roadmap for 2050, Stanislav Laktis, Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency, SLOVAKIA

 

Session 4d. Building for wellbeing and health

Conference room: INSPIRATION

Panel Leader: Simona Kalvoda, C4B, CZECHIA

Presentations:

  1. Energy Poverty and Fire Risk, Olivier Tissot, European Copper Institute, BELGIUM
  2. Healthy homes barameter, Ondrej Bores, Velux, CZECHIA
  3. Easy to implement and low-cost solution to lower energy bills, Aleksandra Stępniak, Danfoss, POLAND

 

Why are Panel Sessions so important?

Parallel panel sessions are where most of the “magic” happens and they are among the most popular part of the programme. One of the many things that make C4E Forum special is the close interaction between participants. Both mornings on Wednesday and Thursday will be dedicated to panel sessions in which participants will have the opportunity to share their experience, discuss and look for inspiration for their work.
We insist strongly on short presentations (12 min; 3 presentations per session) and reserving at least half of the 90 min session for engagement with the audience and break-out discussions moderated by an experienced Panel Leader (who will also support the preparation of the session together with the Presenters by providing comments to their presentations, etc.).

Who can present?

Anyone is eligible to apply and give a presentation at the C4E Forum on topics that are interesting and relevant to various aspects of energy efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe. Presenters are asked to submit an application indicating their chosen topic and outline of their presentation (see a list of suggested topics in the form below).

Is there a cost involved?

All presenters have to register as participants. The registration fee structure is outlined here.