16 Saxon mayors will learn from Växjö – the city with the visionary climate protection and energy policy
Within the framework of EnercitEE a study trip to Växjö, Sweden will be organised from 30 May to 01 June 2012. The city of Växjö represents a shining example for climate protection with focus on energy efficiency and use of regional biomass.
From 01 December 2011 to 25 January 2012 mayors throughout Saxony were welcome to apply for taking part in the study trip. Therefore mayors of the Saxon municipalities needed to describe implemented or planned measures regarding future energy supply in the municipality as well as his/her expectations on and motivation for participating in the study trip. Out of the 27 received applications the jury consisting of representatives of the Saxon State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology, the Saxon State Ministry of the Environment and Agriculture and Saxon Energy Agency (SAENA GmbH), selected 16 mayors that will go to Växjö.
LEEAN Mid-term meeting: Sweden 26-27th January 2012
From 26 to 27 January 2012 a mid-term meeting for the participants of LEEAN took place at Calmar Stadshotel in the City of Kalmar (Sweden).
During the meeting LEEAN’s Sub-Project Participants presented the progress of the sub-project in the region. Among others the partners discussed what has happened so far and what needs still to be done, outputs that are already achieved and outputs that are planned and also the budget planning issue has been raised.
The LSPP – SAENA presented general facts on the status of the project after the first two semesters. Further issues such as the project management (coordination and reporting, financial management), future targets and tasks, communication outputs such as project website, newsletter and brochures as well as the activities for the first semester in 2012 have been discussed.
Energy efficient Saxony: Ten new initiatives for climate protection
Under this slogan an EnercitEE conference took place on 27 February 2012 in Dresden.
The Saxon State Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture (SMUL), being the Lead Partner of EnercitEE, invited representatives of local authorities, energy agencies, universities and other interested parties to join the conference in order to not only getting to know new initiatives that deal with energy efficiency and climate protection but also to profit from their activities and results.
Mr Frank Kupfer opened the conference
