Smart strategies for the transition in coal intensive regions Project No: 836819 Stakeholder Workshop, 15 May 2019 Großräschen, Germany Minutes WP 5 – Task 2.5 / Input to D 5.2 June 2019 TRACER Minutes, Stakeholder Workshop Authors: Dirk Knoche, FIB, Germany Rainer Janssen, WIP Renewable Energies, Germany Rita Mergner, WIP Renewable Energies, Germany Sara Davies, STRATH, UK Contact: Research Institute for Post-Mining Landscapes Dirk Knoche
[email protected] Tel: +49 3531 7907 16 Brauhausweg 2 03238 Finsterwalde, Germany http://fib-ev.de This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 836819. The sole responsibility for the content of this report lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. Neither the INEA nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. TRACER website: www.tracer-h2020.eu June 2019 2 FIB TRACER Minutes, Stakeholder Workshop Contents 1 Introduction ____________________________________________________________ 4 2 Greetings ______________________________________________________________ 5 3 Introduction to the TRACER Project ________________________________________ 5 4 EU Coal Regions in Transition Platform _____________________________________ 6 5 Transition and Regional Development: what EU Cohesion Policy can contribute ____ 7 6 Rehabilitation of former state-owned Lignite Mining in Eastern Germany _________ 8 7 Decarbonization in