Intelligent Energy - Europe (IEE)

Information Day - 31 January 2005
Brussels, Belgium and Live on the Internet

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• Information Day Presentations
• Bilateral Meetings with IEE Staff
• Further Information about IEE
• Internet Broadcast and Interactive Chat
  
• Add your partner search requirements to this website - 37 people added details of their proposed projects in January 2005 in anticipation of this event and we are currently receiving more project details each day.

The Information Day on 31 January 2005 and Interactive Chat on 1 February 2005 were organised by the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, European Commission.

Presentations will be in English without translation. Participation is free of charge. Click on the icon [] to the left of each talk to download the presentation as a MS-Powerpoint (PPT) file.

14:00		Welcome - Mr Alfonso González Finat, Director for New Sources of Energy, Demand Management and Sustainable Development, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
14:15		General overview, including budget, timetable and a presentation of the new Intelligent Energy Executive Agency - Mr Patrick Lambert, Director, Intelligent Energy Executive Agency
14:30		Presentation of the Key Actions opened in 2004:
		SAVE - Mr Vincent Berrutto, Administrator, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
		ALTENER - Ms Anette Jahn, Principal Project Officer, Intelligent Energy Executive Agency STEER - Ms Carine Cloot, Project Officer, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
		COOPENER - Ms Anette Jahn, Principal Project Officer, Intelligent Energy Executive Agency
		Horizontal Key Actions - Mr Pedro Ballesteros Torres, Administrator, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
15:30		Questions & Answers - moderator: Mr Samuele Furfari, Acting Head of Unit for Promotion and Dissemination of Programme Results, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
16:00		Break
16:20		Tips based on the previous call for proposals - Mr Håvard Vaggen Malvik, Administrator, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
16:40		Database of previous projects: IntellEbase - Mr Håvard Vaggen Malvik, Administrator, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
16:50		ManagEnergy facilities - Mr Ismo Grönroos-Saikkala, Administrator, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
17:00		Administrative, financial and contractual issues - Mrs Mari Varho, Principal Project Officer, Intelligent Energy Executive Agency
17:30		Questions & Answers - moderator: Mr Samuele Furfari, Acting Head of Unit for Promotion and Dissemination of Programme Results, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
18:00		End of the meeting

Participants were able to use the day after the Information Day (1 February 2005) to meet bilaterally with IEE staff. Meetings lasted for maximum 20 minutes between 9:00 and 17:00 and were arranged on a first-come first-serve basis.

TREN/DIR D/SUB/05-2004 IEE Call for proposals - The call is closing on 23 March 2005 for type 1 and type 2 actions, and on 31 January 2005 and 31 May 2005 for type 3 actions.

Please send any questions to for the Commission to the IEE Info Day Mailbox:
tren-intelligentenergy@ec.europa.eu

You can find additional useful information on the following pages:

• Intelligent Energy - Europe Homepage
• Intelligent Energy - Europe and FP6 Information Day - October 2004
• FP6 - DG Research Info Day - October 2004
• FP6 Information Day - Call for proposals FP6-2004-TREN-3 - September 2004
• Intelligent Energy - Europe - 2nd Information Day - February 2004
• Intelligent Energy - Europe - 1st Information Day - November 2003

The Information Day was broadcast live on the internet by the European Commission ManagEnergy Streaming Service. The Interactive Chat service was provided by the Directorate-General for Interpretation (SCIC), European Commission.

An interactive chat took place on 1 February 2005 - 10:30-12:00

The chat team responding to your questions included the following European Commission representatives:

• Mrs Vassilia Argyraki, Technical Officer, Intelligent Energy Executive Agency
  
• Mr Ronald Bailey, Administrator, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission
• Mr Eric Bjorklund, Financial Officer, Intelligent Energy Executive Agency
• Mr Vincent Berrutto, Administrator, Energy & Transport DG, European Commission

Details of Frequently Asked Questions derived from this Chat will be available soon.

The online events were very well attended:

• 113 individual computers (people) from 22 countries were connected to the live broadcast, as described in figure 1, below.
• At a maximum, there were 88 concurrent viewers, figure 2, below.
• In the chat, there were 26 external participants, out of which 13 active, resulting in 220 questions and answers during the 1.5 hour chat session.