9 th Energy Council „Digital transformation and a circular economy for the low carbon future of the Western Balkans“
9th Energy Council
„Digital transformation and a circular economy for the low carbon future of the Western Balkans“
CETEOR is organizing the ninth Energy Council titled "Digital Transformation and circular economy for a Low Carbon Future of the Western Balkans". The Energy Council aims to bring together interested parties in the fields of energy, information technologies and sustainability, to discuss the latest trends in the digitalization of the energy sector and the application of circular economy principles in creating a low-carbon future in the Western Balkans.
The digital transformation of the energy sector is a key component in achieving a sustainable future. In this regard, the focus of the Energy Council will be on:
- Digitalization of energy systems: It will discuss how digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, can improve the efficiency, reliability and security of energy systems, and also enable the production and distribution of energy from renewable sources.
- Smart grids and smart cities: The application of smart grids and smart cities will be considered in order to reduce energy consumption, improve efficiency and increase the use of renewable energy sources. Best practices and examples from the region and beyond will be highlighted.
- Circular economy in the energy sector: The importance of the application of circular economy principles in the energy sector will be highlighted and the latest innovative approaches such as circular business models, the use of renewable energy sources, energy storage, waste treatment technologies and CE procurement will be considered. Special emphasis will be placed on the application of these principles in the Western Balkans and opportunities for the development of the circular economy in the region.
- Financing low-carbon development: It will discuss how sustainable principles such as ESG principles can encourage investment in low-carbon development, possible implications of the EU Taxonomy, and how the introduction of CBAM and planned emissions trading schemes can impact investment decisions.
The Energy Council will also highlight regulatory and economic challenges in the application of digital and circular solutions in the energy sector, as well as opportunities for the development of new business models and partnerships in the region.
The aim of the Energy Council is to highlight best practices and examples from the region and beyond, as well as to encourage experts, industry and regulatory authorities to cooperate in order to create a low carbon future in the Western Balkans.
Date: 05.-06.10.2023.
Location: Hotel Hills, Sarajevo
For more information: Adna Šovšić Kurešepi +387 33 563 586, asovsic@ceteor.ba and Lejla Sahačić +387 33 563 582, lsahacic@ceteor.ba
| Main Sponsor
10.000 KM |
Leading Sponsor
3.000 KM |
Sponsor
1.000 KM |
| Presentation/promo video 15 min | Prezentacija/promo video 10 min | Prezentacija 5 min |
| Logo with a link to the CETEOR website | Logo with a link to the CETEOR website | Logo with a link to the CETEOR website |
| Tag on social media | Tag on social media | Tag on social media |
| Logo on all materials of the Council | Logo on all materials of the Council | Logo on all materials of the Council |
| Own banner at the Conference | Own banner at the Conference | Own banner at the Conference |
| VIP reserved seating | VIP Reserved seating | VIP reserved seating |
| Inserting of own promo material into Council bags | Inserting of own promo material into Council bags | - |
| Mention in all media appearances of the organizer | Mention in all media appearances of the organizer | - |
| Logo at a central location of the Council | - | - |
| List of Council participants for further contacts | - | - |
| Additional opportunities by agreement | - | - |
| Possibility of exhibiting promotional materials (trade show booth) - 10 m2 | Possibility of exhibiting promotional materials (trade show booth) – 5 m2 | Possibility of exhibiting promotional materials (trade show booth) – 2 m2 |
| Display of promo video during the Council | - | - |
| Free registration fees - 6 | Free registration fees - 3 | Free registration fees - 1 |
Sponsorship packages
Registration fees
The amount of the registration fee for the participants of this year's Council is 390.00 BAM without VAT.
For the second participant from the same organization, we offer a 5% discount, for the third 10%, for the fourth 15%, and the fifth participant's attendance is FREE.
Registration fee includes Council participation costs, Council official materials, lunches, and refreshments during breaks and work.
Registration
All interested participants can apply online at https://forms.office.com/e/VjAajyD6AZ
Sponsorship
All companies or individuals interested in sponsoring the 9th Council on Energy, please apply via online application: https://forms.office.com/e/2KKF722Y6p
SAVE THE DATE: Ninth Consultation Event on Energy 2023: "Digital transformation and circular economy for the low-carbon future of the Western Balkans" organized by CETEOR
We invite you to reserve the dates of 05 and 06 October 2023 to visit the ninth Energy Consultation Event entitled "Digital transformation and circular economy for the low-carbon future of the Western Balkans" organized by CETEOR. The aim of the Energy Consultation Event is to gather interested persons from the field of energy, information technologies and sustainability, to consider the latest trends in the digitization of the energy sector and the application of circular economy principles in the creation of a low-carbon future in the Western Balkans. The consultation will be held in Hotel Hills, Sarajevo.
Soon, expect detailed information related to the holding of the 9th Energy Consultation, and until then, follow us on social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Your CETEOR
For the first time, Bosnia and Herzegovina held an opening ceremony on a stock exchange dedicated to gender equality
For the first time, Bosnia and Herzegovina held an opening ceremony on a stock
exchange dedicated to gender equality
On March 14, BiH hosted in Sarajevo the Ring the Bell for Gender Equality opening ceremony organized by Banja Luka Stock Exchange and Center for Economic, Technological and Environmental Development Sarajevo – CETEOR, with support by International Finance Corporation`s Integrated Environmental, Social and Governance Standards Program, implemented in partnership with the Government of Switzerland - SECO, and UN Women in BiH.
The opening ceremony followed by the training on “INCLUSIVE Leadership FOR COMPANY SUSTAINABILITY” developed by IFC Women on Boards initiatives and designed for business leaders including senior executives, board members, company owners and leaders engaged in the gender topic, committed to identifying and implementing more inclusive and responsible business practices.
Training aims at helping companies build their female talent pipeline, accelerate competitive advantages, strengthen community relationships, and enhance their reputation through improved environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The overarching mission is to help companies maximize the benefits of gender diversity and inclusion on boards and business leadership teams.
Speaking at the opening of the event, the CEO of Banja Luka Stock Exchange Mr. Milan Bozic noted that BLSE platform is always open for constructive dialogue, and seeks to contribute to attracting the attention of state bodies and the business community to gender equality issues.…"I would also like to note that in our stock market, women run brokerage companies and many other companies. And we attach great importance to the role of women in the development of the financial sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina, today, thanks to the observance of gender equality, women are successful in all sectors of the economy," he said.
Lada Busevac, IFC`s Senior Country Officer for Bosnia and Herzegovina, noted that gender equality plays a very important role, especially today, as we are recovering from the pandemic, instability and other consequences of the crises.
“Investing in women’s business leadership makes good business sense. Diversity in leadership drives growth of companies and economies and improves the lives of communities. For IFC, ensuring gender equality is one of the priorities, and it corresponds to our goal of attracting sustainable investments in developing countries, creating markets and opportunities," said Lada Busevac.
Vedad Suljić, Managing Director of CETEOR, emphasized several facts related to the landscape of CETEORs operations. He highlighted a few research projects they conducted related to the role of women in the energy sector, and those findings show that on one woman, there are 5,5 men in the industry. In CETEOR, women account for 2/3 of employees and of a total of 49% of employee-shareholders, 46% of them are women.
TRIBUTE NEWSLETTER
In this issue of the TRIBUTE project read about topics:
- 7th Annual EUSAIR Forum – TRIBUTE participating
- TRIBUTE visiting VELOCITY 2022 Event
- 2nd TRIBUTE Transnational Stakeholder
- Network (TSN) Meeting - TRIBUTE ProjectAbout nuMIDAS
- Updates on Milan’s Pilot action – November 2022
- TRIBUTE participation at the 50th European Transport Conference, inMilan (Italy)
The newsletter can be found here: TRIBUTE newsletter
Join the workshop entitled: "Inclusive Leadership for Corporate Sustainability"
Join the workshop entitled: "Inclusive Leadership for Corporate Sustainability"
We invite you to register and join the workshop entitled: "Inclusive Leadership For Corporate Sustainability", sponsored by the ifc's women on boards and in business leadership (wbbl) program.
He workshop will be held from March 14 to 16, 2023 at the Novotel Sarajevo Bristol hotel. The training will be held in english language, without provided translation.
The aim of the training is to strengthen the executive line and increase the number of women in the boards. The program builds on ifc's focus on market creation and our understanding of the realities of emerging and developing economies.
Please read details about the workshop:
Final invite for training Inclusive Leadership for Company Sustainability
8th TRIBUTE newsletter
In fact, on November 2022 the TRIBUTE living labs on city mobility produced their first reports. These will be feeding the ongoing activities of the TRIBUTE Transnational Network (TN) of stakeholders in the Adriatic-Ionian (AI) Region. The implementation of the pilot actions continued in the 8 cities involved in the projects. City of Sarajevo is working on the implementation of the mobility islands, as a new concept of sustainable urban mobility. The islands of mobility includes a charging station for electric vehicles, parking for bicycles and other equipment that contributes to urban mobility, while the Lead Partner, the Politecnico di Milano, is investigating the enabling factors and the potential barriers for the transferability of the pilot actions to the other cities of the AI Region. On December 16th a Steering Committee (STC) meeting has been organized on-line with the presence the representatives of the Adrion JS in order to adjust the spending for the final reporting period and to prepare the next STC and the 3rd TN meeting to be held in Zagreb on 7-8 February 2023.
CETEOR solemnly celebrated its thirtieth anniversary
CETEOR celebrated 30 years of existence and work on 08.12.2022. in the "Vienna Tavern" of Hotel Europe. A festive program was held with an address by the founder and representative of the CETEOR company.
CETEOR celebrated its 30th anniversary as one of the leading companies engaged in providing support for the environmental, social, economic and technological development of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since its establishment in 1992, CETEOR has been operating in the field of sustainable development, primarily in the field of environment and energy. Through its activities, it always strives to be a link between business, academia, government organizations and international organizations.
The CETEOR team consists of a multidisciplinary team of mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, architects, chemical engineers, agricultural and technology engineers, environmental protection engineers and economists. In addition to the team consisting of permanent employees, our team consists of permanent associates of various professions (professors from the faculty, individual experts and freelancers, researchers, analysts, etc.).
We would like to thank everyone for the congratulations on CETEOR's birthday and those who graced the celebration with their presence, with the desire to continue our good cooperation in the future.
Seventh press release for Project TRIBUTE
TRIBUTE project stayed on the working tracks during summer 2022. On July 28th and 29th, the City of Novi Sad, as one of TRIBUTE project’s IPA partners hosted the 4th Steering Committee Meeting which was organized back-to-back with the 1st TRIBUTE Transnational Stakeholder Network (TSN) Meeting.
Due to COVID-19 outbreak, this was the first opportunity since the beginning of the project, to organize a meeting in presence. However, project partners met again on September 6th in Milan for the 2nd TRIBUTE Transnational Stakeholder Network (TSN) Meeting, organized in the framework of the 50th European Transport Conference (ETC 2022) that took place from 7th to 9th September 2022 at the Politecnico di Milano premises. Project partners from Polimi, Milan, Maribor, Patras, Sarajevo and Zagreb had the chance to present the preliminary project results and the ongoing activities to a very wide audience, including experts in the field of transport and public body representatives. It was agreed that the living labs and the outcomes of the pilot actions will be included in a special issue on “Innovative and Sustainable Urban Mobility solutions in the Cities of the Adriatic-Ionian Region”, expected to be published on the “Sustainability” journal.
Project is entering in last months of its implementation and a lot of work is still ahead of the project team.
TRIBUTE project: Integrated and innovative actions to promote sustainable urban mobility
Supported by the Interreg ADRION program funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the IPA II Fund
Politecnico di Milano launched the TRIBUTE Project - Integrated and innovative actions to improve sustainable urban mobility within the European transnational cooperation program Interreg ADRION with 8 cities in the Adriatic-Ionian region (Ljubljana, Maribor, Milan, Novi Sad, Patras, Podgorica Sarajevo and Zagreb)
In order to meet the challenges posed by the rapid diffusion of new technologies in the transport sector and the need for innovative mobility solutions to cope with socio-economic and demographic changes, project partners will individually develop 8 pilot actions including: innovative public transport services; A network of "green" bicycle routes and the management of very congested road corridors.
The project is supported by the Interreg ADRION program funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the IPA II Fund.
ENERGY CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC FACILITIES AND CONDUCT OF TRAINING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT OF MEASURES TO INCREASE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC FACILITIES
"ENERGY CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC FACILITIES AND CONDUCT OF TRAINING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE IMPLEMENTATION
PROJECT OF MEASURES TO INCREASE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC FACILITIES"
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF SPATIAL PLANNING
IMPLEMENTATION UNIT OF THE WORLD BANK PROJECT "ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BIH ("BEEP")
Trainings were held for energy managers, representatives of cantons/municipalities and public facilities as part of the project "Energy certification of public facilities and training as part of the implementation project of improving energy efficiency in public facilities", on June 1 and 2 in Mostar, and on June 7 and June 8 in Sarajevo in 2022.
Bosnia and Herzegovina recognized the importance of energy efficiency (EE), so with the aim of realizing the economic sustainability of energy efficiency projects and the process of joining the European Union, it started financing the project "Energy Efficiency in Bosnia and Herzegovina" (BEEP) from loans from the World Bank, i.e. the International Development Association (IDA). This is the largest energy efficiency project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for which the Federal Ministry of Spatial Planning, through the Implementation Unit of the BEEP project, responsible for the preparation, coordination, management and implementation of the project in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, hired consulting companies (CETEOR d.o.o. Sarajevo and ENOVA d.o.o. Sarajevo ) for the implementation of the project entitled "Energy certification of public buildings and training within the implementation project of improving energy efficiency in public buildings". The development goal of BEEP is to demonstrate the benefits of improving energy efficiency in public sector facilities and to support the development of adaptive financing models for energy efficiency.
Following the success of the project from previous years, BEEP continued its activities in 2022 at 37 public facilities located in Sarajevo, Zenica-Doboj, Tuzla, and Herzegovina-Neretva cantons, with the support of the legally prescribed guidelines from 2019 regarding the establishment energy management system at all levels of government in FBIH. The guidelines are prescribed by the Rulebook on the Information System of Energy Efficiency in BiH (Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH No. 2/19), the so-called ISEE adopted by the Federal Ministry of Energy, Mining and Industry (FMERI), whose purpose is to facilitate the user, i.e. energy manager of different degrees of responsibility, data collection, monitoring of energy and water consumption, and realized savings from implemented energy efficiency projects.
The project started its activities in 2016 and in each subsequent year it worked hard on the implementation of project components. The purpose of the facility's implementation was to reduce CO2 emissions, which means switching to cleaner energy sources, reducing air pollution in the winter period caused by the improper and inefficient burning of fuels that are currently in use, increasing the level of comfort in facilities, a positive impact on employment in the construction sector, increasing awareness of energy efficiency in the communities involved, and generally reducing local pollution. The benefits of EE are the result of the implementation of measures to increase energy efficiency in public buildings in FBIH (replacement of windows, installation of thermal facade, improvement of the heating system, lighting...); by increasing the capacity in the area, by providing training services for future energy managers, appointed persons in front of municipal and cantonal authorities, and representatives of public facilities that take care of the facility; activities of filling public building databases; and increasing the skills of target participants in the field of energy efficiency, renewable sources, energy management, relevant energy policies and norms and standards.
In the period from 2016-2020, a total of 55 public buildings were renovated, with a heated area of 166,913 m2. Thermal comfort in public facilities was improved for a total of 457,009 users; CO2 emissions were reduced by 4,564 t/year, and 1,325 green jobs were created. Total estimated energy savings amounted to 12,333,420 kWh/year with a total average investment in works of 25,088,140.12 KM. The average investment per object was 456,148.00 KM.
