1st DAY – THURSDAY, 23th September 2021
MODERATOR: Gabriela Nekolová, Chairwoman of the Economic and Social Council of the Ústí Region
08:30 – 09:00 / Registration
09:00 – 09:10 / Opening remarks
- Jan Schiller, Governor of the Ústí Region
09:10 – 09:20 / Introducing the transition topic and the vision of the Ústí Region
- Iva Dvořáková, Councilor of the Ústí Region
09:20 – 12:00 / I. Part – Just Transition Mechanism
09:20 – 09:35 / Territorial Just Transition Plan
- Miloš Soukup, Head of the RE:START Department, Ministry of the Regional Development
09:35 – 09:50 / Operational Programme Just Transition
- Jan Kříž, Deputy Minister for Section of EU Funds, Financial and Voluntary Instruments, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic
09:50 – 10:00 / Coffee break
10:00 – 10:15 / 2nd and 3rd pillar of the Just Transition Mechanism
- Andrea Ferjenčíková, Institutional officer, European Investment Bank (Prague)
10:15 – 10:30 / Transition plan of the Ústí Region
- Jana Nedrdová, Head of the Coal Regions Department, Ústí Region Authority
10:30 – 12:00 / Introducing the examples of strategic projects in the Ústí Region
- RUR – Region to the university, university to the region: Martin Balej, Rector, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
- GET Center UJEP – Green Energy Technologies Center of UJEP: Jan Novotný, Vice-Dean for Development and Quality, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
- Transformation Center of the Ústí Region: Jana Nedrdová, Head of the Coal Regions Department, Ústí Region Authority
- SYNERGYS – systems for energy synergy: Jan Holeček, Researcher, Czech Geological Survey
- Gigafactory: Michal Křepelka, Manager of the Battery Project Development Department, ČEZ, a.s.
- POZATR – Petr Hauf: Head of the EU Projects Department, Labor Office of the Czech Republic – Regional Branch in Ústí nad Labem
- Introduction of hydrogen mobility in the city of Ústí nad Labem: Petr Nedvědický, Mayor, Statutory City of Ústí nad Labem; Martin Prachař, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Transport Company of the City of Ústí nad Labem a.s.
- H2 Triangle: Tomáš Krenc, Managing Director, FOR H2ENERGY s.r.o.
- GreenMine – overall revitalization and resocialization of the ČSA quarry: Pavel Farkač, Project Manager, Sev.en Innovations a.s.
- Animation for the just transition of the Ústí Region: Marek Hartych, Project Manager of the RDP, OP Environment, Regional Association of the NS MAS CR of the Ústí Region, z.s.
12:00 – 13:00 / Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 / II. Part – Further tools and mechanisms for support the economic development of the Ústí Region (aiming specific needs of the Ústí Region).
13:00 – 13:15 / Modernization Fund
- Jan Kříž, Deputy Minister for EU Funds, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic
13:15 – 13:30 / National Recovery Plan
- Jan Piskáček, H. Mrázková, Head of the Monitoring and IS Department – National Recovery Plan Coordination Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
13:30 – 13:45 / Operational program Technologies and Application for Competitiveness
- Jan Piskáček, Director of the Infrastructure for SMEs and Energy Programmes Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
13:45 – 14:00 / Operational program Employment+
- Martina Štěpánková, Deputy Minister for European Funds and International Cooperation, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
14:00 – 14:15 / Operational program OP John Amos Comenius
- Václav Velčovský, Deputy Minister for foreign affairs, EU and ESIF, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
14:15 – 14:45 / Development programmes of the Ústí Region
- Radovan Novák, Head of Human Resources, Industry and Entrepreneurship Support Department, Ústí Region Authority / Martin Mata, Director of Innovation Centre of the Ústí Region
14:45 – 15:00 / Integrated strategy of the Ústí-Chomutov agglomeration 2021+
- Jiří Starý, Head of the ITI Management Department, City of Ústí nad Labem
15:00 – 15:10 / Coffee break
15:10 – 16:20 / III. Part – Development needs of the Ústí Region and how to address them Moderated discussion with participation of the regional representatives, partners and representatives of the ministries
- Iva Dvořáková, Councilor of the Ústí Region
- Michal Kučera, Councilor of the Ústí Region
- Zbyněk Linhart, Senator of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
- Vladimír Zemánek, předseda, Chairman of the Regional Economic Chamber of the Ústí Region
- Jan Kříž, Deputy Minister for EU Funds, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic
- Václav Velčovský, Deputy Minister for foreign affairs, EU and ESIF, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
- Miloš Soukup, Head of the RE:START Department, Ministry of the Regional Development of the Czech Republic
- Jan Piskáček, Director of the Infrastructure for SMEs and Energy Programmes Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
16:20 – 16:30 / Wrap-up
16:30 – 18:00 / Networking
2nd DAY – FRIDAY, 24th September 2021
MODERATOR: Karel Tichý, Project Manager of the Economic and Social Council of the Ústí Region
8:30 – 9:00 / Registration of participants
09:00 – 09:10 / Opening remarks
09:10 – 12:30 / IV. PART – Czech-Saxony workshop on cooperation in the field of hydrogen economy
09:10 – 09:40 / Development of the hydrogen-value-chain in the Ústí Region and the Czech Republic
- Petr Mervart, Special envoy of the Minister of Industry and Trade for the hydrogen technologies
- Vladimír Zemánek, Chairman of the Regional Economic Chamber of the Ústí Region
09:40 – 10:00 / Development of the hydrogen-value-chain in Saxony
- Katrin Seddig, Desk Officer, Saxon State Ministry for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture
10:00 – 10:20 / General introduction into the IPCEI-Hydrogen process in Saxony
- Peter Lucas, Desk Officer, Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport
10:20 – 12:30 / Moderated discussion; Matchmaking of stakeholders from Ústí Region and Saxon including short introduction of individual representatives
- Zuzana Janatová, Business Development Manager, AIR PRODUCTS spol. s r.o.
- Martin Prachař, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Transport Company of the City of Ústí nad Labem a.s.
- Jiří Hájek, CEO, Orlen UniCRE a.s.
- Tomáš Krenc, Managing Director, FOR H2ENERGY s.r.o.
- Jiří Vršínský, Development project manager, DEVINN s.r.o.
- Jan Novotný, Vice-Dean for Development and Quality, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
- Rüdiger Schwarz, Head of PtX Projects, EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft
- Sebastian Schmidt, Project coordinator of Hydrogen Lab Görlitz Project, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU),
- Lukas Rohleder, Managing Director, ENERGY SAXONY E.V.
12:30 – 12:40 / Wrap-up
12:40 – 14:00 / Networking