Agenda

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The MAGPIE & PIONEERS interactive workshop at the ESPO conference

In parallel to the General Assembly of the ESPO, non-member participants are invited to attend an interactive workshop on the “Smart Green Port of the Future”. This session will take place on Wednesday 24^th April between 15:30 and 17:30, at the Hotel Square Louvois in Paris, France.  

MAGPIE and PIONEERS, the two flagship green port projects of the European Commission, will share insights on their innovative solutions for the maritime sector. The session will be formatted as a “Dragon’s Den” game, in which some of the projects’ demonstrators will compete to obtain funding to market their proposed solution. The ESPO members will participate in this game by acting as the jury and voting for the winners.

MAGPIE (led by the ports of Rotterdam, HAROPA, Sines, and Deltaport), and PIONEERS (led by the ports of Antwerp-Bruges, Barcelona, Constanta, and Venlo) will each pitch two technological demonstrations that these projects have been developing. Over the past three years, the sister projects have initiated their demonstrations, and now it is time to receive feedback from the European ports’ community.

This interactive workshop is a great opportunity for port authority representatives from the European Union to learn more about two interesting projects related to the green and digital transition, both essential topics within the industry. Central to the discussion is the question of “transferability”. How relevant is the technology for other port areas? What strategies can be employed to facilitate the transfer of technological solutions to other ports? Do these technological solutions have good business cases? The insights gained through the workshop discussion will significantly contribute to the future work of MAGPIE & PIONEERS. Your perspectives and returns on experience can help shape this new step for the maritime industry.

The audience is limited to 50 participants, so please book your seat: here

Agenda of the session

15:30 – Welcome and explaining the rules – Inge De Wolf & Arne-Jan Polman
15:55 – Presentation of the jury
16:00 – Pitch n°1 – Pioneers : Modular Docking Station – Gearte Noteboom for ZES
16:15 – Pitch n°2 – MAGPIE : Spreading Road Traffic – Celeste Muilwijk (Port of Rotterdam)
16:30 – Pitch n°3 – Pioneers : Maritime 5G – Chiara Saragani / Javier Garrido Port of Barcelona
16:45 – Pitch n°4 – MAGPIE : Digital Tools for Carbon and Multimodality – Muriel Andurand (Circoe)
17:00 – Feedback from the public + questions
17:20 – Announcement of the winner

The MAGPIE project is organizing this interactive workshop with the help of the ESPO secretariat, on behalf of the two EU projects MAGPIE & PIONEERS.

Any question? Contact: contact@magpie-ports.eu for MAGPIE and imz@magellan-association.org for PIONEERS.

European Maritime Day 2024 will take place in Svendborg, Denmark on 30 and 31 May 2024.

As usual, the EMD will offer a rich programme including:

• An opening session with keynote speeches
• High Level Panels on the latest developments of European maritime policies
• Numerous high-quality workshops organised by maritime stakeholders
• Pitching sessions presenting exciting blue projects and initiatives
• An exhibition with multiple stakeholder stands.
• Networking opportunities

The European Maritime Day 2024 is organised by the European Commission, the City of Svendborg and the Danish Maritime Authority.

The EUSEW Policy Conference is the biggest conference dedicated to renewables and efficient energy use in Europe. The 18th edition of the Policy Conference will take place in a hybrid format in Brussels and online on 11-13 June 2024.

About EUSEW

The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is the biggest event dedicated to renewables and efficient energy use in Europe, and is organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy and the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). In 2024, EUSEW will take place in a hybrid format, online and onsite in Brussels, on 11-13 June. The title of the conference is ‘Net-zero energy solutions for a competitive Europe’. European Sustainable Energy Week consists of a three-day Policy Conference, the European Sustainable Energy Awards Ceremony, the Energy Fair and the fifth edition of the European Youth Energy Day. Participants will also have access to independently organised Sustainable Energy Days, taking place in online and physical formats worldwide, from March to June 2024. For updates on the agenda and location of the events, please refer to ec.europa.eu/eusew and #EUSEW2024 on social media.

How to roll out the MAGPIE innovations in the living port ecosystem of DeltaPort? What is the best way to engage with the local community of Wesel? We are going to answer these questions during out next Port-City workshop, on the 17th September 2024 in Wesel (Germany). This workshop aims at confronting the innovations developed under the MAGPIE project with the local reality of our fellow port.

Our event will be open to all: feel free to register and join us to let your voice be heard. In the morning, a plenary session will be organized, in order to share the latest news from the MAGPIE consortium and to introduce the projects and initiatives carried out by the local partners. In the afternoon, breakout sessions will allow our participants to enter into the details of sustainable transport modalities and green energy in ports. This workshop is co-organized by Deltaport and the AIVP on behalf of the MAGPIE project, and will be introduced by the Port of Rotterdam as coordinating partner of our consortium.

This workshop is co-organized by DeltaPort

Event Details:
17 September 2024
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Welcome Hotel, Rheinpromenade 10, 46487, Wesel (Germany)

Key Highlights:

• Port development in harmony with the local population
• The importance of ports for regional and urban development
• The “Green Port of the Future“ as facilitator of innovative transport concepts and supporter of the energy transition

To discuss our findings and have a fruitful exchange with you on topics around the “Green Port of the Future”, we are organising a public MAGPIE Port-Citizen Workshop at DeltaPort in Wesel, Germany. Registrations are now open!

Programme

Download the programme: HERE

Recommended hotel

Welcome Hotel Wesel

Special rates for accommodation are available for attendees of the MAGPIE Port-Citizen Workshop. Booking should be made via email to info.wes@welcome-hotels.com mentioning the following code: MAGPIE

Distance to the venue of the workshop: ~ 0 km
Distance to the train station Wesel: ~ 3 km

Please book your accommodation individually.

Address : Welcome Hotel Wesel – Rheinpromenade 10, 46487 Wesel, Germany

How to get to Wesel

• By train to the Wesel train station Dinslakener Landstraße 5, 46483 Wesel, Germany

• By plane to Düsseldorf, then by train to the Wesel main station and from there by taxi to the Welcome Hotel

• By car, 2h driving from Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 3h driving from Brussels, 7h driving from Paris. Parking lots are accessible in town and at most hotels.

The Welcome Hotel has its own car park. The parking fee is 8 euros per day. Free parking is available on the day of the MAGPIE PORT CITY WORKSHOP (17th September). Please have your parking ticket validated at the reception before you leave.

27-29 November in Lisbon

The AIVP World Cities and Ports Conference is the annual meeting place for port cities to share their knowledge, to promote the projects implemented, to establish international cooperation links, to take up together the challenges of the sustainable port city and to make their points of view known to the international organisations.