Valencia Region participates in the International Conference “Green Cities- Green Industries” in Magdeburgo (Germany)
In The News
02 Dec 2014
02/12/2014
The European Fundacion Comunidad Valenciana Region participated in this important international meeting, within the strategical relations of cooperation that it has with the German region of Sajonia-Anhalt.
The Outreach strategic comes to the German region of Sajonia-Anhalt through the Pioneers into Practice of Climate-KIC.
The climate change isn’t anymore a long term theme, all of the citizens are involved in collaborating to decreases and avoid the CO2 emissions to the atmosphere.
It’s becoming more evident that the citizen and politicians are being conscious to develop a society more respectful with an environment more sustainable. In this way, the major European cities are making more efforts to reduce the gas emissions, the greenhouse effect and contribute also to a better quality life of its inhabitants and of their future generations.
One of the main efforts is about the manager of this contamination generated in industrial cities, like it was showed in the International Conference celebrated in Magdeburgo between the 25 and 26 of November, about “Green Cities and Green Industries.”
In this important meeting, participated more than 200 of the Nationals Government representatives, Regionals and Locals, Universities, and Research Centers, Commerce and Industry Chambers from countries of EU and the USA, China, Mongolia, Malasia, Taiwan, as well as international organization like IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency), WWF ( World Wildlife Fund for Nature), China Forum Berlin, and others.
The Valencian representation in the Conference was in charge by the Fundacion Comunidad Valenciana- European Region (FCVRE) through some strategic relation of cooperation that have an agreement with the Generalitat and with Sajonia- Anhalt, as well as Pobla de Vallbona’s German City hall of Barleben.
Jose-Luis Muñoz, from FCVRE, European Program Coordinator of Climate-KIC, “Pioneers into Practice” and Co-Director of the Valencian Office of Climate-KIC, in his intervention said” How to create a new generation of professionals in lowcarb economy to face the challenges of the climate change”, he explained in a detailed form the Program who coordinates, and it caused a big interest between the assistants in the Forum, because of its innovator character, it methodology of work in “Transition Thinking” and the good results obtained in the last years.
The European program “Pioneers into Practice” whose 4th edition is about to end, is an interesting European initiative of professional mobility, known as pioneers, from a high level, in terms of climate change innovation, and it’s main objective is to get a lowcarb economy in Europe.
Pioneers into practice (PIP), is coordinated into a European level by the FCVRE and IVACE is the Valencian organism responsible by RIC (Regional Innovation Implementation Community) to Climate-KIC.
Since its beginning, the PIP Program registered a gradual increase in the number of participants in the program from the regions that forms the consortium. This program went from 50 pioneers from 6 countries in the first edition to 232 participants in 2010, the current edition of 2014 were provided from 12 countries, where 41 are from the Valencian Region.
In 2013’s edition, 189 was the total number of pioneers who came from 7 countries, and they fulfilled with the goals of the program, developing 46 new business models, 42 new experiences of transferring knowledges and 49 new advances in organizations, services and products. The Valencian pioneers contributed to a third of this keys indicators of development and this year is expected that they can be incremented.
The reason for this large participation of pioneers in participants programs in 2014 edition, was due to a strategic outreach implementation, where every participating region hosts a neighboring region. In the case of Valencia Region, coordinated the Lisbon’s pioneers and the North of Portugal with very good results and established close cooperation with institutions and luso organizations.
Draws attention to the case of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which has participated in this edition as a pilot edition, with 5 pioneers who were financed by regional founds.
These five experts were from SMEs, Agriculture and Environment Ministry, the Bareben Municipality, and Magdeburgo-Stendal University that were qualified as a very satisfactory experience, and that’s why in Sajonia-Anhalt region are considering the possibility of expanding their participation in the program with a larger number of pioneers across their region’s own funds.
