Air quality policies of the future: individual responses and social challenges
Date: 20 April 2016
Time: Start 10:00 Ends 16:00
Venue: Comittee of the Regions –rue Van Maerlant 2 – B – 1040 Brussels
Room: VMA 1 , rue Van Maerlant 2, 2nd floor
The final event of the Coordination and Support Action Sefira, funded by the FP7 of the European Commission will take place in Bruxelles on the 20th of April. It this occasion the final results of the Sefira Project will be presented and will be opened a space for debate between the European institutions, the scientific community and the stakeholders.
All the participants are kindly asked to register before 11 April 2016.
Please register on this link
Sefira Final Conference Programme
Programme
9:00 Welcome coffee and registration of participants
10:00 Opening addresses
Chair: Michela Maione (Project Coordinator, University of Urbino)
10:00-10:10 Gianluca Spinaci (CoR, Head of Cabinet of the Secretary General)
10:10-10:20 Eleonora Evi (ENVI Commission of the European Parliament)
10:20-10:30 Andrea Tilche (DG-RTD European Commission)
10:30-10:50 Michela Maione (Project Coordinator, University of Urbino) – The SEFIRA transdisciplinary approach
Session I: Project’s results
Chair: Yuri Kazepov (University of Vienna)
10:50-11:10 Markus Amann (IIASA) – Challenges of air quality management in Europe and the approach taken for the current policy proposal
11:10-11:30 Maarten Loopmans (University of Leuven) – Environmental policies and urban ecology: from individual behavior to political action
11:30-11:50 Yuri Kazepov (University of Vienna) Acceptability of Air Quality Policies: results from the SEFIRA pilot study
11:50-12:10 Martin Williams (King’s College London) – Air Quality and Climate Change: how to coordinate efforts for a socio-ecological transition
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break
Session II: “Conflicts are in the Air”
Chair: Vittorio Sergi – (University of Urbino)
13:15-13:30 Luigi Pellizzoni (University of Trieste- External Advisory Board SEFIRA) – An Introduction on Environmental Conflicts around Air Quality
13:30 -14:30 Presentations from European Non Governmental and Civil Society Organizations:
– Azadeh Marzin ( ADEME, France) – Biomass burning: a burning issue
– Christer Ågren ( AirClim, Sweden)– Agri-food impact on air quality
– Anna Dworakowska (Association Krakow Smog Alert, Poland) – The growing civil society movement for air quality improvement in Poland
14:30 – 14:50 Roald Wolters (DG Environment) – The governance of conflicts around air quality
14:50 Open debate
15:45 Coordinator conclusion and final remarks
16:00 End of the conference
Info and contacts:
Sefira FP7 Project Office – University of Urbino
Vittorio Sergi: vittorio.sergi@uniurb.it
Annalisa Geniali: annalisa.geniali@uniurb.it
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 603941