09:45 Polish research strategy in the energy sector

POLAND

• Prof. Michał KLEIBER, Polish Minister of Science and Information Technology

10:15 German research strategy in the energy sector

GERMANY

• Mr. Georg Wilhelm ADAMOWITSCH, State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour

10:45 French research strategy in the energy sector

FRANCE

• Mr Jean BESSON, Commissioned by the Prime Minister as the Reporter of the "National
  Debate on Energy 2003", French Ministry of Economics,

11:15 EU research strategy in the energy sector

EU

• Mr Michel POIREAU, Head of Unit; Directorate J - Energy, Strategy and policy, Research DG, European Commission

11:45 Discussion

13:00 Innovative biomass technologies

FRANCE

• Mr Ghislain GOSSE, President of the INRA (National Agronomic Research Institute), Regional Centre, Lille
  "Biofuels for transportation, a challenge for the future"

GERMANY

• Ebehard OETTEL, President of the board of FEE - Society for the promotion of renewable energies FEE, Berlin,
  "Towards Energy Security for Europe: Biofuels by Thermal Gasification - State-of-the-art in Germany"

POLAND

• Mr Grzegorz WIŚNIEWSKI, Director of the European Centre of Renewable Energy, Warsaw
  "Bio-energy research and development in Poland"
  
• Prof. Wojciech NOWAK, Czestochowa University of Technology
  "Biomass combustion and gasification"
  

14:15 Research, development and demonstration on photovoltaics
Chairman: Dr Stanisław PIETRUSZKO, Warsaw University of Technology, Centre of Photovoltaics

FRANCE

• Dr Jean-Bernard SAULNIER, Vice Scientific Director, Department of Engineering Sciences (SPI), CNRS, Paris
  "New paths for Photovoltaics"
  
• Mr Philippe COSTERG, Responsible for solar activity, TOTAL, Paris
  "The strategy of TOTAL for photovoltaics: an industrial achievement"
  

GERMANY

• Dr. Karin FREIER, Scientific Director, Division "Solar energy, Biomass, Geothermal energy, Market Incentive programmes for renewable energies", Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin
  "State of the art and further challenges in research and development on photovoltaics"

POLAND

• Dr Stanisław PIETRUSZKO, Warsaw University of Technology, Centre of Photovoltaics
  "Photovoltaics in New Member States"
  
• Dr Tadeusz ZDANOWICZ, Wroclaw University of Technology
  "Potential and activities of SolarLab to particpate in implementing of new PV standard on performance of terrestrial PV modules"

16:00 Hydrogen energy technologies and economy
Chairman: Dr Bernard FROIS, Director "Energy, Environment and Natural Resources", French Ministry for Research

FRANCE

• Mr Jean-Pierre LE ROUX, Deputy General Administrator, CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission), Paris
  
• Mr Pierre ROUVEIROLLES, Research Department, RENAULT
  "The new fuels and their future"
  

GERMANY

• Dr. Hanns-Joachim NEEF, Head of Division ERG, Project Management Organisation Jülich (PTJ), Research Center Jülich
  "Hydrogen Technologies Leading to a Hydrogen Economy"

POLAND

• Prof. Józef DUBIŃSKI, General Director of the Central Mining Institute, Katowice
  "Coal as Important Raw Energy Source for Hydrogen Economy Development in Europe"
  
• Dr Jan ROGUT, Central Mining Institute, Katowice
  "Green Energy and Hydrogen from Coal. The draft of Integrated Project Proposals in Support for the HYPOGEN EU Initiative of Sustainable Energy Development"
  
• Mr Bohdan ŻAKIEWICZ, Chairman, Consolidated Seven Rocks Mining Ltd., Warsaw
  "New Era of Energy Culture: Mass production of inexpensive hydrogen in Poland"

17:15 Electricity production and distribution
Chairman: Mr Yves BAMBERGER, R&D Director, EDF Group (Groupe Electricité de France)

FRANCE

• Mr Yves BAMBERGER, R&D Director, EDF Group (Groupe Electricité de France)
  "How the electric system contributes to energy efficiency"
  
• Mr Bertrand BARRÉ, Vice-President Scientific Communication, AREVA
  "EPR and beyond"

GERMANY

• Mr Jurgen HOGREFE, Senior Vice President of EnBW AG - Energie Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe
  "Beyond nukes - What comes in Germany after phasing out of Nuclear Energy?"
  
• Prof. Jean-Claude VAN DUYSEN, Director of the Institute EIFER (European Institute for Energy Research), Karlsruhe,
  "Micro and Macro-economic analysis of renewable energy policies"

POLAND

• Prof. Jerzy MUKOSIEJ, Scientific Manager, Electrotechnical Institute, Warsaw
  "Electrotechnical Scientific Units in Poland"
  
• Prof. Hanna MOŚCICKA-GRZESIAK, dr inż. Krzysztof SIODŁA, Dr Zbigniew NADOLNY, Centre of Excellence GETRADEE, Poznań University of Technology
  "Present Problems in the Field of Electric Energy Distribution"

08:30 Fuel cells and their applications
Chairman: Dr. Georg WAGENER-LHOSE, Managing Director of CEBra - Center for Energy Technology Brandenburg, Cottbus

FRANCE

• Mr Daniel CLEMENT, Coordinator of the Fuel Cell Technological Network PACo, Research Director, ADEME (Environment and Energy Research Agency), Paris
  "Fuel Cell: the French organization for research and development and results"

GERMANY

• Dr. Robert STEINBERGER-WILCKENS, SOFC-Coordinator, Project Management Fuel Cells, PBZ Research Centre Jülich
  "High Temperature Fuel Cells - Status and Applications"
  
• Dr. Georg WAGENER-LHOSE, Managing Director of the new center "CEBRra" Center for energy technology Brandenburg, Cottbus
  "Fuell cells developments in Eastern Germany - Options for Biogenous Gases"
  

POLAND

• Prof. Franciszek KROK, Dean of the Department of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
  "Materials for SOFC technologies"
  
• Prof. Bolesław MAZUREK, Institute of Power Engineering, Wroclaw
  "Solar power station - an element of distributed power industry"
  
• Dr Tomasz GOLEC, Institute of Power Engineering, Warsaw
  "Fuel cells in Institute of Power Engineering"

09:45 Capture and sequestration of CO₂
Chairman: Mr Jacek PODKANSKI, Senior Energy Technology Specialist, OECD/International Energy Agency, Paris
"Carbon Capture and Storage"

FRANCE

• Mr Gérard FRIES, Executive Vice President, (Institut Français du Pétrole / French R&D Institute for oil, natural gas and automobile industry), Paris
  "CO₂ from Capture to Storage"
  

GERMANY

• Dr. Peter GERLING, Energy resources, BGR (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe / Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources), Hannover
  "CO₂-storage in Germany: options, activities, and open questions"

POLAND

• Dr Marek ŚCIĄŻKO, Director of the Institute of Chemical Processing of Coal, Zabrze
  "Avoided CO₂ emission in co-firing"
  
• Prof. dr Janusz RAKOWSKI, Institute of Power Engineering, Warsaw
  "Capture and sequestration of CO₂"

11:45 Energy efficiency and energy savings (domestic use, transports, industry)
Chairwoman: Dr Dorota CHWIEDUK, President of Polish Solar Energy Society, Co-ordinator of Thematic Network "Ecobuildings", Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw

FRANCE

• Mr Paul BAUDRY, Project Manager, "Energy efficiency", EDF
  "Efficiency in industry through electro-technologies"
  
• Mrs Sylvie NIESSEN, PREDIT Office, Research and innovation programme in land transport, Ministries in charge of research, transport, environment and industry, ADEME, ANVAR, Paris
  "Energy efficiency and energy savings in transports"
  

GERMANY

• Dr. Wolfgang EICHHAMMER, Head of the Department Energy technology and Energy policy, ISI - Fraunhofer Institute for Systems ad Innovation Research, Karlsruhe
  "Energy Efficiency in the EU15: Achievements and Prospects"

POLAND

• Dr Dorota CHWIEDUK, President of Polish Solar Energy Society, Co-ordinator of Thematic Network "Ecobuildings", Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw
  "Some aspects of energy efficiency and energy conservation in buildings"
  
• Prof. Krzysztof BADYDA, Institute of Heat Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology
  "Some Aspects of Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation in Power Generation Industry"