Towards Green Transition

  C4T GROUNDWORK – Cohesion for Transitions (C4T) Community of Practice Expert I am honoured to have been selected as an external expert to support the delivery of C4T GROUNDWORK. The C4T Community of Practice is a community-based platform that aim to support EU Member States and regions to make a better use of EU funds for sustainability transitions. C4T engages national, regional, and local cohesion and sustainability transitions practitioners in sharing experience and good practices, creating partnerships and jointly identifying solutions. C4T also provides technical assistance to facilitate the development and/or implementation of sustainability transitions. Moreinfo: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/policy/communities-and-networks/cohesion-4-transition_en #EUClimatePact #MyWorldOurPlanet

Thrilled to be a speaker  at Impact Hub Athens for an insightful event on "Navigating Climate Challenges in Greece" organised by INZEB, the Country Coordinator for the EU Climate Pact. 🌐 The event, with the support of the Representation of the European Commission in Greece, will address climate challenges in Greece and strategies for tackling them. 🗣️ Our distinguished speakers include: -  Petros Kokkalis , EU Climate Pact Ambassador, Member of the European Parliament -  Emmanuella Doussis , Professor of International Institutions NKUA and UNESCO Chairholder on Climate Diplomacy. -  Angeliki Boura , Coordinator of ICC Women Hellas, Cluster of Environment and Energy. - Climate Pact Ambassadors in Greece:  Andreas Vassilopoulos ,  Isidoros Kampolis ,  Professor Dr. Phoebe Koundouri  (represented by  Konstantinos Dellis ), myself   and  Eirini Sampson . 🌐 Topics to be discussed: - EU Climate Pact Initiative - Climate chall...

In 2023, the Just Transition Platform (JTP) launched JTPeers Exchange, a peer-to-peer programme to facilitate in-person and online exchanges between practitioners from different Just Transition Fund (JTF) regions and JTPeers Experts to support the implementation of their Territorial Just Transition Plans (TJTP).  The programme offers the opportunity to mutually explore experienced challenges, collectively identify potential solutions and pathways forward and to learn from each other’s experiences. Seven matches between 12 JTF regions and 4 experts were set up, with topics varying between stakeholder engagement, energy communities, green economic diversification, land restoration, post-mining landscape, multi-level governance, and just transition observatories. In two workshops, participants from the Regional public authority from Gotland, and Konstantina Togaridou an expert from Western Macedonia in Greece will discuss effective strategies to enhance multi- level governance coopera...

How the educational toolkit for primary students can be harnessed as a tool for social inclusion and stakeholder engagement in coal regions.. this is our main focus on developing the educational toolkit in the frame of MINED Project. The kick off meeting of Erasmus MINED Programme took place at Eger in Hungary where experts from Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Gremany and Greece have discussed how to engage the students at primary school in the coal phasing out. A very fruitful and promising meeting and collaboration!  #justtransition  #JTPeersexperts #MINED Programme #EUClimatePact   #MyWorldOurPlanet Πώς η εκπαιδευτική εργαλειοθήκη για μαθητές πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης μπορεί να αξιοποιηθεί ως εργαλείο κοινωνικής ένταξης και εμπλοκής των ενδιαφερομένων σε περιοχές άνθρακα.  Αυτός είναι ο κύριος σκοπός μας στην ανάπτυξη της εκπαιδευτικής εργαλειοθήκης στο πλαίσιο του MINED Project.  Εμπειρογνώμονες από τη Ρουμανία, την Ουγγαρία, τη Βουλγαρία, τη Γερμανία και την Ελλ...

Honoured to have been selected as JTPeer Expert to support the region of Gotland in Sweden to improve the multi-governance mechanism and administration capacity for TJTP implementation and clean energy JTPeers Exchange will focus on increasing skills and expertise on how to implement just transition processes based on mutual learning as well as practitioners and expert's experiences. The exchanges will provide a forum to local, regional, national, and EU-wide stakeholders where they can exchange knowledge and good practices in implementing their TJTPs and strengthening cooperation amongst just transition stakeholders in the EU. #JTPeersExchange ,  #JTPeerExpert , #JustTransitionPlatform ,  #JustTransition   Ιδιαίτερη τιμη η επιλογή μου ως εμπειρογνώμονα της δίκαιης μετάβασης από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή για την παροχή υποστήριξης στις υπό μετάβαση περιοχές. Οι ανταλλαγές αυτές με τις υπο μεταβαση περιοχές και την καθοδήγηση των εμπειρογνωμόνων θα επικεντρωθούν στην αύξηση τ...

How can the circular economy contribute to the just transition? What is just transition and how are the concepts of circular economy and just transition connected? It was one of the topics at the center of the workshop on "The circular economy in just transition regions" within the project "Promoting circular economy in just transition regions" of the EUTeens4Green European program aimed at young people in the just transition regions of the EU.   Πώς η κυκλική οικονομία μπορεί να συμβάλλει στη δίκαιη μετάβαση; Tί είναι δίκαιη μετάβαση και πως οι έννοιες της κυκλικής οικονομίας και της δίκαιης μετάβασης συνδέονται; Ήταν από τα θέματα στο επίκεντρο της ημερίδας με θέμα "Η κυκλική οικονομία σε περιοχές δίκαιης μετάβασης" στα πλαίσια του έργου "Promoting circular economy in just transition regions" του ευρωπαϊκού προγράμματος EUTeens4Green που απευθύνεται σε νέους στις περιοχές δίκαιης μετάβασης της ΕΕ.  #EUClimatePact #MyWorldOurPlanet

  As one of the  23 TG experts, who have just started our  mandate and 14  #RFCS  project coordinators  have  met  in Brussels  to; 👉 learn about the achievements of  #RFCS  projects 👉 discuss the needs of the coal sector in the EU that we can turn into policy recommendations 👉 consider how REA can support the applicants to submit successful proposals 👉 suggest ways how we can increase the impact of the  #RFCS  programme #EUClimatePact #MyWorldOurPlanet  Ως εμπειρογνώμονας της ομάδας εργασίας για τον άνθρακα συναντηθήκαμε στις Βρυξέλλες στις 12 και 13                  Σεπτεμβρίου 2023 για να: 👉 μάθουμε για τα αποτελέσματα των έργων του #RFCS 👉 συζητήσουμε για τις αναγκες του τομέα του άνθρακα τις οποίες μπορούμε να μετατρέψουμε σε πολιτικές 👉να εξετάσουμε πώς να υποστηρίξουμε τις προτάσεις για να εγκριθούν 👉να προτείνουμε τρόπους για την αύξηση της επίδρασης τ...