Thursday 7 May & Friday 8 May 2009

City Hall, Marktplatz 2 Düsseldorf, Germany

THURSDAY 7th May

9h00        Reception and welcome speech
                ‘What is Ehen, what has it realised over the past years and why do we gather here in Düsseldorf today’

                State of the art on the national, regional en local level in Germany, Northrhine-Wesphalia and Düsseldorf

9h30        Klaus von Zahn, Head of the Division Environmental issues in city planning, City of Düsseldorf
                ‘Sustainable urban planning and projects in Düsseldorf’ The centralised or decentralised way?

10h15    Break

10h45    Andreas Gries, Head of the division energy efficient and solar building, Energy Agency NRW
              ‘Instruments and projects in Northrhine-Westphalia’

11h30    Ricarda Sahl, Coordinator Serviceagentur Altbausanierung (SAGA) Düsseldorf
              ‘Activities in the field of information and support in energetical rehabilitation of buildings on the local level’

12h30    Lunch

14h00    Visiting local projects

19h00    Dinner

FRIDAY 8th May

9h00    Charel Wouters, Woonwel Etten-Leur, the Netherlands
           ‘Thinking about the real cost of living: what about the energy cost?
           Can we create a win-win situation for all actors involved? And what is the importance of behavioural change instead of an enforced implementation?

9h45    Erik Christiansen, EHEN
            ‘The merits of collective energy installations’

10h15    Break

10h45    Discussion about the results and challenges after 15 years of EHEN   
             ‘Looking at the diversity of projects, knowledge and effort that is being put in sustainable and energy efficient building in social housing, we want to look what role EHEN can play in the future. Can it become a forum that merges and disseminates all relevant knowledge and become a part of a comprehensive strategy for sustainable development in member states

11h30    Stefaan Buelens (Interreg staf member, Province of Antwerp, Belgium
              ‘Ways to disseminate information over the European member states. Making Ehen part of the global future of sustainable and energy efficient building?’

11h45    Luc Stijnen, Chairman of EHEN
              ‘Conclusions’

12h15    ‘Association of architects Nordrhein-Westfalen
              ‘Short presentation of activities’, with afterwards a reception

14h00    Visiting local projects

17h00    End of conference