Annual Political Dialogue 2019 Görlitz (Germany) Platform for Coal 25-26 November 2019 Regions in Transition
DAY 1: 25 November – Conference / Wichernhaus, Johannes-Wüsten-Straße 23a, Görlitz, Great Hall
09.00 – 10.00 Registration
Opening Welcoming remarks by: • Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - Deputy Director-General, DG ENER, European Commission • Jörg Steinbach - Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour, State of Brandenburg Key-note speeches by: • Oliver Schenk - Chief of the State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs of the Free State of Saxony 10.00 – 11.15 • Ministerial representatives: • High representative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany • David Koppitz - Deputy-Minister for Regional Development, Czechia • MEP Christian Ehler - Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament • MEP Ondřej Knotek - Member of the Committee on Regional Development, European Parliament • Adam Gawęda - Secretary of State, Poland • Laura Martín Murillo - Advisor on Just Transition to the Minister for Ecological Transition, Spain
Panel 1: The challenge of structural change and the role of the EU and the regions Discussion led by: Katja Reppel - DG REGIO
Discussion by: • Video message by Mark Speich - Committee of the Regions • MEP Constanze Krehl - Member of the Committee on Regional Development, European Parliament • MEP Maria Spyraki - Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European 11.15 – 12.45 Parliament • MEP Michael Bloss - Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament • Jakub Chełstowski - Marshal of Silesia, Poland • Zdeněk Karásek - Deputy-Governor of Moravia-Silesia, Czechia • Enrique Fernández - Minister of Industry, Employment and Economic Development Principality of Asturias, Spain • Ralf Bartels - Head of the department of Economic and Sustainability Policy, IG BCE
12.45 – 14.00 Networking lunch
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Panel 2: How to develop an investment environment in regions in transition Discussion led by Robert Pollock - Senior Advisor, Secretariat of the Platform for Coal Regions in Transition
Discussion by: • Jana Mračková Vildumetzová - Governor of Karlovy Vary, Czechia 14.00 – 15.30 • Gerd-Uwe Weller - European Investment Bank • Stefan Weber - Chairman of the Board of Management, Saxon Development Bank • Hagen Semmer - General Manager, Customer Order Engineering, Siemens AG, Görlitz • Hubertus Altmann - Member of the Board, Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG (LEAG) • Dirk Geisinger - Chairman of the Board, RRD & Director Business Aviation, Rolls-Royce International Limited
Panel 3: Outlook for coal regions
Discussion led by: Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - Deputy Director-General, DG ENER, European Commission
Discussion by: • Jörg Steinbach - Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour, State of Brandenburg • Bernd Lange - Head of District Authority, Rural District of Görlitz 16.00 – 17.00 • Stephan Rohde - Head of Department for the coordination of structural development and Representative of the Prime Minister for the Saxon lignite areas, State Chancellery of the Free State of Saxony • Martin Klika - First Deputy-Governor, Ústí Region, Czechia • Tomasz Krzeszowiec - Deputy Director of the Economy Department, Marshal’s Office of Lower Silesia • Witold Stępień - Member of the Committee of the Regions • Dagmar Schmidt - Chairwoman of the Board of the NGO Lusatian Perspectives.
Conclusions and closing remarks
Conclusions by: • Klaus Freytag - Representative of the Prime Minister for the Region of Lusatia, State Chancellery of the State of Brandenburg 17.00 – 17.30 • Torsten Pötzsch - Mayor of Weißwasser and Viviane Raddatz - Senior Policy Advisor, WWF Germany • Magdalena Bartecka - Climate and Energy Program Coordinator, Polish Green Network Closing remarks by: • Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - Deputy Director-General, DG ENER, European Commission
Evening reception at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theatre, Görlitz
Welcome address by: • Octavian Ursu - Mayor of Görlitz 19.00 • Bernd Lange - Head of District Authority, Rural District of Görlitz • Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - Deputy Director-General, DG ENER, European Commission • Oliver Schenk - Chief of the State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs of the Free State of Saxony
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DAY 2: 26 November – Study visits to different places in Lusatia The meeting point for the study visits is Demianiplatz 56, 02826 Görlitz (please arrive 15 minutes befor the departure).
Study visit option 1: Sustainable Energy
Depart from Görlitz
Stations include: 09.00 • Museum of Industry “Energy Factory Knappenrode”. • Guided tour at the power plant “Schwarze Pumpe” and presentation of the energy storage project „BigBattery Lusatia” and virtual reality power plant by LEAG. • Visit of Mine F60 in Lichterfeld
19.00 Arrival in Görlitz
Study visit option 2: Research and Innovation
Depart from Görlitz Stations include: 09.00 • Visit of the “Innovation Campus” and Start-Up Accelerator, Siemens AG, Görlitz • Visit of the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg • Visit of the Euro Speedway Lusatia
20.00 Arrival in Görlitz
Study visit option 3: Recultivation and Tourism
Depart from Görlitz Stations include: 09.00 • Workshop on recultivation measures at UNESCO World Heritage Muskauer Park and Castle • Visit of the Großräschen Habour with the IBA Study House
19.00 Arrival in Görlitz
Study visit option 4: Cultural Heritage and Industrial Culture
Depart from Görlitz Stations include: 09.00 • Guided tour in the City of Zittau, applicant to the European Capital of Culture 2024, followed by an interregional dialogue (workshop) on participation processes • Guided tour at Schminke House in Löbau by Hans Scharoun
18.30 Arrival in Görlitz
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Half-day visit option 5: Sustainable Energy
Depart from Görlitz Station includes: • Guided tour to the power plant “Schwarze Pumpe” by LEAG with an overview over the industrial 08.00 park • Presentation of the energy storage project “BigBattery Lusatia” by LEAG • Presentation of a virtual reality power plant by LEAG
13.00 Arrival at the Dresden International Airport
Half-day visit option 6: Research and Innovation
Depart from Görlitz Station includes: 09.00 • Visit of the Siemens AG works in Görlitz • Presentation of the planned “Innovation Campus” and “Start-Up Accelerator”
13.00 Arrival at the Dresden International Airport
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Route planning for the study visits
Route 1 Sustainable Energy
First Station: Guided tour in the Saxon Museum of Third Station: Visit of Mine F60 in Lichterfeld Industry “Energy Factory Knappenrode” (Saxony) (Brandenburg)
Departure from Görlitz: 9:00 a.m. Travel time from the industrial park to Visit of Mine F60 in Lichterfeld: 60 minutes (3 p.m. until 4:15 p.m., including time Travel time from Görlitz to Knappenrode: 75 minutes (9:00 buffer). a.m. until 10:30a.m, including time buffer). Period of time on site: 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Period of time on site: 10:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. • Short guided tour to the famous „Chancellor’s view” at This guided tour is designed to give the visitors a general the Visit of Mine F60 in Lichterfeld. overview of all the attractions and exhibitions they can • Visit of the overburden conveyer bridge F60 (502 metres find on the museum grounds. May it be the bucket-wheel long, 204 metres wide, 80 metres high and weighs excavators, the shaft tower for the drainage of an open-face 11,000 tons) (30 minutes). mine, the Tertiary forest or the rail bound machines this tour is the basis for exploring the “Factory Adventure Tour”, the https://www.f60.de/en/guided-tours/f60-guided-tours.html collection of historical ovens and fireplaces or the exhibition on the first years of the factory and its connected workers’ From 5:30 p.m. transfer back to Görlitz (estimated settlement. It also gives you information on the origins of hour of arrival: 7:00 p.m.). the Energy Factory Knappenrode and how the museum came to be what it is today! https://web.saechsisches-industriemuseum.com/en/ knappenrode.html
Second Station: Visit of the power plant „Schwarze Pumpe“ (Brandenburg)
Travel time from Knappenrode” to the industrial park „Schwarze Pumpe”: 30 minutes (12 p.m. until 1 p.m., including time buffer and security check).
Period of time on site: 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. (incl. time for lunch). • Guided tour to the power plant “Schwarze Pumpe” by the LEAG. • Presentation of the energy storage project „BigBattery Lusatia” by the LEAG. https://industriepark.info/industriepark+schwarze+pumpe/ isp+kurzprofil/detail/2
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Route 2 Route 3 Research and Innovation Recultivation and Tourism
First Station: Visit of the works of the Siemens AG, First Station: Visit of the UNESCO World Heritage Görlitz Muskauer Park and Castle (Saxony)
Departure from Görlitz: 9:00 a.m. Departure from Görlitz: 9:00 a.m.
Travel time within Görlitz to the factory of the Siemens AG: Travel time from Görlitz to Bad Muskau: 60 minutes (9:00 15 minutes (9:00 a.m. until 9:15 a.m., including time buffer). a.m. until 10:30 a.m., including time buffer).
Period of time on site: 9:15 a.m. until 10:45: a.m. Period of time on site: 10:30 a.m. until 2:15 p.m. (incl. 45 • Presentation of the “Innovation Campus” and “Start-Up- min. time for lunch). Accelerator” (Saxony, Siemens AG, Fraunhofer, University • Guided tour by Cord Panning, Director of the UNESCO of Applied Science Zittau/Görlitz) – Presentation by World Heritage Muskauer Park and Castle. Hagen Semmer, General Manager, Siemens AG, Görlitz. A landscaped park of 559.9 ha astride the Neisse River and the border between Poland and Germany, it was created by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau from 1815 to 1844. Blending Second Station: Visit of the Brandenburg Technical seamlessly with the surrounding farmed landscape, the park pioneered new approaches to landscape design and influenced University (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg (Brandenburg) the development of landscape architecture in Europe and America. Designed as a ‘painting with plants’, it did not seek to Travel time from Görlitz to BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg: 120 evoke classical landscapes, paradise, or some lost perfection, minutes (10:45 a.m. until 1:15 p.m.). instead using local plants to enhance the inherent qualities of the existing landscape. This integrated landscape extends into Period of time on site: 1:15 p.m. until 3:15 p.m. (incl. time the town of Muskau with green passages that formed urban for lunch). parks framing areas for development. The town thus became a design component in a utopian landscape. The site also features • Presentation of the 3DLab (AEROTEC, an Airbus a reconstructed castle, bridges and an arboretum. daughter). • Presentation of micro gas turbines by Prof. Dr. Peter Berg. https://www.muskauer-park.de/ http://www.b-tu.de/en/ Workshop at Muskau Castle on recultivation measures. • Presentation by the LMBV. • Presentation by LEAG. Third Station: Visit of the Euro Speedway Lusatia • Roundtable discussions. (Brandenburg)
Travel time from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg to Euro Speedway Lusatia: 60 minutes (3:15 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.). Second Station: Visit of the Großräschen Habour with the IBA Study House (Brandenburg) Period of time on site: 4:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. • Presentation by the DEKRA (autonomous driving, Travel time from Bad Muskau to Großräschen: 75 minutes automobile exhaust laboratory). (2:15 p.m. until 3:45 p.m., including time buffer). https://www.dekra-lausitzring.de/leistungen/events-und- Period of time on site: 3:45 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. veranstaltungen/ • Presentation of the project INKULA (impulses for infrastructure measures at places of industrial culture in From 6:00 p.m. transfer back to Görlitz (estimated the Lusatian lakeland). hour of arrival: 8:00 p.m.). • Presentation of the Project International Building Exhibition (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-Land.
http://www.iba-see2010.de/en/index.html
From 5:30 p.m. transfer back to Görlitz (estimated hour of arrival: 7:00 p.m.).
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Route 4 • The meaning of industrial culture in the structural Cultural Heritage and development process. Industrial Culture Website of the European Route of Industrial Culture: https:// www.erih.net/ Website of the European Route of Industrial Culture: https:// • Roundtable discussions. www.erih.net/
First Station: Visit of the City of Zittau, applicant city to the European Capital of Culture 2024 (Saxony) Route 5 (half day) Departure from Görlitz: 9:00 a.m. Sustainable Energy Travel time from Görlitz to Zittau: 45 minutes (9:00 a.m. until Station: Visit of the power plant „Schwarze Pumpe“ 10:15 a.m., including time buffer). (Brandenburg)
Period of time on site: 10:15 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. (incl. 45 Departure from Görlitz: 8:00 a.m. min. time for lunch). Travel time from Görlitz to the power plant „Schwarze • Guided tour in the City of Zittau, applicant to the European Pumpe”: 90 minutes (8:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m., including Capital of Culture 2024, followed by an interregional time buffer and security check at the power plant). dialogue (workshop) on participation processes. • Guided tour at Schminke House in Löbau by Hans Period of time on site: 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. (incl. time Scharoun. for a small lunch). • Guided tour to the power plant “Schwarze Pumpe” by https://zittau.de/en LEAG. Second Station: Visit of the Schminke House in Löbau • Presentation of the energy storage project “BigBattery by Hans Scharoun – one of the most famous residential Lusatia” by LEAG. buildings in the world (Saxony) • Presentation of the virtual reality power plant by LEAG.
Travel time from Zittau to Löbau: 45 minutes (1:30 p.m. From 11:30 a.m. transfer to Dresden International until 2:45 p.m., including time buffer). Airport (time of arrival at the airport: 1 p.m.)
Period of time on site: 2:45 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.
The Schminke House in Löbau is one of the world’s top four residential buildings of classical modernism. Experience its Route 6 (half day) unique architecture; enjoy the ambience created by light and air inside this icon from a time when people pursued a ‘New Research and Innovation Objetivity’ in architecture. Station: Visit of the works of the Siemens AG, Görlitz • Guided tour. Departure from Görlitz: 9:00 a.m. https://www.stiftung-hausschminke.eu/en/Home/ Travel time within Görlitz to the factory of the Siemens AG: • Workshop on public participation processes in structural 15 minutes (9:00 a.m. until 9:15a.m., including time buffer). development. Period of time on site: 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. • Presentation by the “Future Workshop Lusatia”. • Presentation of the “Innovation Campus” and “Start-Up- https://zw-lausitz.de/en/ Accelerator” (Saxony, Siemens AG, Fraunhofer, University • The culture of the Sorbs and their contribution to of Applied Science Zittau/Görlitz) – Presentation by Hagen Semmer, General Manager, Siemens AG, Görlitz. structural development in Lusatia – Presentation by the Domowina (Sorbs interest group). From 11:30 a.m. transfer to Dresden International Airport (time of arrival at the airport: 1 p.m.). https://www.domowina.de/start/
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Practical information
How to arrive at Görlitz
Arrival by plane Arrival by car
The nearest airports to Görlitz are: When travelling from west, get to Görlitz via A4 motorway (Erfurt, Dresden). From here the route goes on under the • Airport Dresden (90km) name E40 across the border into Wroclaw in Poland. Coming • Airport Prague (180 km) from the north, you can take the A15 (Roggosen or Forst • Airport Wroclaw (180 km) exits) and then take the B115 to Görlitz.
• Airport Halle- Leipzig (230 km) The B6 and B99 will also take you to the European City of • Airport Berlin (Tegel 230 km, Schönefeld 200km) Görlitz/Zgorzelec.
From the airport of arrival, you can reach Görlitz by train Parking slots are available at: or by car. The recommended airport of arrival is Dresden, • Obermarkt square/Elisabethstraße car park whose main connections are to Amsterdam, Munich, • car park at the train station Frankfurt, London, Köln (please, note that not every route has daily flights). From the airport, you can take a train to • “City-Center” car park the city center, and from there a train to Görlitz. For a taxi journey from Dresden to Görlitz, you can count between 200 and 250€. Taxi • Taxi guild Görlitz phone: 00493581 400800 • Taxi guild Dresden phone: 0049351 211211 Arrival by train
Deutsche Bahn is the main provider of train travel in Germany. There are other smaller rail providers which have railway links to Görlitz: Vogtlandbahn/Trilex (from Dresden), as well as to the trains of ODEG (from Berlin). You can buy your ticket either online here, inside the railway station or directly on the train (please inform the conductor for this). In Görlitz, you have easy access to public transport (buses and trams).
You can reach Görlitz by train from: • Dresden Central Station (every two hours, approx. 1.5 hours) • Berlin Central Station ( every hour, approx. 2.5 hours) • Wrozlaw Central (3 times per day, between 2 and 4 hours) • Leipzig Central Station (every hour, between 2 and 3 hours) • Prague Central Station (every two hours, between 4 and 5 hours)
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