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Annual Political Dialogue 2019 Görlitz () Platform for Coal 25-26 November 2019 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 • - Prime Minister of the State of Key-note speeches by: • - Prime Minister of the of 10.00 – 11.00 • Ministerial representatives: • - Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany • Adam Gawęda - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Energy, • David Koppitz - Deputy-Minister for Regional Development, Czechia • Gerassimos Thomas - Deputy-Minister for Energy, Greece (tbc) • MEP Christian Ehler - Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy,

Panel 1: The challenge of structural change and the role of the EU and the regions Discussion led by: Marc Lemaitre, Director General, DG REGIO, European Commission

Presentations and discussion by: • 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 Parliament 11.00 – 12.30 • MEP Michael Bloss - Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament • Jakub Chełstowski - Marshal of , Poland • Zdenek Karasek, Deputy-Governor of -Silesia, Czechia • Enrique Fernández - Minister of Industry, Employment and Economic Development Principality of Asturias, Spain (tbc) • Oliver Heinrich – Head of the Rural District North East of the German Industry Trade Union for Mining, Chemistry and Energy

12.30 – 14.00 Networking lunch

Organised by the In cooperation with

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Panel 2: How to develop an investment environment in regions in transition Discussion led by Jacek , Professor at the School of Economics, Expert in Regional Policy

Presentations and discussion by: • MEP Ondřej Knotek - Member of the Committee on Regional Development, European Parliament

14.00 – 15.30 • Jana Mračková Vildumetzová, Governor of Karlovy Vary, Czechia • Liliana Pavlova, Vice-President, European Investment Bank (tbc) • 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

Presentations and discussion by: • Jörg Steinbach – Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, State of Brandenburg • Bernd – 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 areas, State Chancellery of the Free State of Saxony • Martin Klika – First Deputy-Governor, Ústí , Czechia • Marcin Gwóźdź - Deputy-Marshal, , Poland (tbc) • Witold Stępień, Member of the Committee of the Regions • Dagmar - Chairwoman of the Board of the NGO Lusatian Perspectives.

Conclusions and closing remarks

Conclusions by: • Isabel Caño Aguilar - Vice-President, European Economic and Social Committee (tbc)

17.00 – 17.30 • Klaus Freytag - Representative of the Prime Minister for the Region of , State Chancellery of the State of Brandenburg • Torsten Pötzsch – Mayor of Weißwasser Closing remarks by: • Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - Deputy Director-General, DG ENER, European Commission

Evening reception at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theatre, Görlitz

Welcome address by: • Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, Deputy Director-General, DG ENER, European Commission 19.00 • Dietmar Woidke, Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg • Michael Kretschmer, Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony • Octavian Ursu, Mayor of Görlitz • Bernd Lange – Head of District Authority, Rural District of Görlitz

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DAY 2: 26 November – Study visits to different places in Lusatia

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. • Visitor 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 - • 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 , applicant to the European Capital of Culture 2024, followed by an interregional dialogue (workshop) on participation processes • Guided tour at Schminke House in by

18.30 Arrival in Görlitz

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Half-day visit option 1: 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 International Airport

Half-day visit option 2: 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: Visitor Mine F60 in Lichterfeld Industry “Energy Factory Knappenrode” (Saxony) (Brandenburg)

Departure from Görlitz: 9:00 a.m. Travel time from the industrial park to Visitor 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 Visitor 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 : 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 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 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 (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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