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Preparatory meeting " the sustainable cities and communities"

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The workshop group T41a will organize a preparatory meeting on the issue of "sustainable cities and communities". The meeting will be held in brussels on may 10th.

Schedule

8.45 – 9.00 Welcoming coffee
9.00 – 9.15 Introduction to the Forum China - Europa initiative
- Eglantine Jastrabsky (Director of the China – Europa Forum) and Presentation of the workshop and of the issues at stake
9.15 – 9.30 Participants introduction
9.30 – 10.00 1st session: The concept of “sustainable city”
- “Sustainable cities” dream or reality? – D. Robinson (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL)
- Sustainable governance for sustainable cities? - Claude Jacquier (Expert on urban governance - CNRS)
- Learning From China – The TAO of the City - C. Fingerhuth (Archiect, Author, Expert on urban issues)
10.00 – 10.45 2nd session: Towards European sustainable cities?
- J. Olbrycht (Member of the European Parliament, President of the EP Urban-Logement Intergroup)
- J. L. Dubrigny (Director of the URBACT)
- Mr Van Begin (ICLEI) tbc
10.45 – 11.00 Discussion and questions
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.15 3rd session: Implementing sustainable cities on the ground – Some examples and ideas
- Presentation of the Chingpu and Baoshan districts (Shanghai area) – Pascaline Gaborit (Director of the ENTP)
- Jean-Michel Galley (Coordinator of the program « Villes d’art et de patrimoine”)
- Nicolas Détrie (Director – Les Ateliers internationaux de maîtrise d’œuvre urbaine de Cergy-Pontoise)
- Sustainable communities: the issues at stake – Bertrand Wert (European Commission DG TREN)
- The energy challenge in sustainable cities – Ginette Bastin (Wallon Ministry for Energy)
12.15 – 12.30 discussion and questions
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 15.30 Preparatory meeting
- Pascaline Gaborit and Julien Woessner (Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation)
13.30 – 14.30 European sustainable cities
- state of the art from the different points of view of the participants
14.30 – 15.30 Brainstorming session
- which questions would you like to raise during the workshop in Shanghai, especially to your Chinese counterparts?
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