The Fifth ManagEnergy Annual Conference (February 2006)

The Sixth ManagEnergy Annual Conference on Local Energy Action took place in Brussels from 30 January to 1 February 2007 as part of EUSEW: The First EU Sustainable Energy Week - entitled "Take a week to change tomorrow!".

At the initiative of the European Commission, under the umbrella of the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign, the European institutions, the German Presidency of the Council, public authorities from Italy, the regions of Brussels and Murcia, the city of Grenoble, and actors most relevant to sustainable energy such as ManagEnergy, EREC, Energie-Cités, Energy Globe, CCRE joined efforts to organise the first EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) from 29 January to 4 February 2007.

The aim of the EU Sustainable Energy Week is to become the key annual reference point for sustainable energy issues in Europe. The EUSEW featured major EU and international events covering most of the key topics related to sustainable energy development, so as to favour thematic integration and cross-fertilisation of the results of individual events, and to get the message over to the public that sustainable energy includes all sectors, working together with a common aim. The EUSEW is the first major initiative jointly undertaken by the European institutions and a wide array of private and public authorities. It included:

• the EU RES policy conference
• the EU conference on international co-operation on energy efficiency
• the presentation of the Intelligent Energy - Europe II programme
• the Sixth Annual ManagEnergy conference for local energy actors
• the CONCERTO programme conference
• the EU transport stakeholders' conference
• and other events proposed by entities such as CEMR, CECED and EuroElectric

Brussels Region also organised their 'Energy Days' on the following weekend. The week also included major events taking place outside of Brussels, namely Les Assises de l'Energie in Grenoble, France, the Building Directive Platform in Dublin and the Spanish Sustainable Energy Week in Murcia, Spain.

More information about the EU Sustainable Energy Week are available on the EUSEW website (www.eusew.eu).