EU coal regions events
The Initiative regularly brings coal+ regions together, and facilitates dialogue among these regions and European decision-makers. This includes organising key events which have entailed working group meetings, political dialogues, and high-level conferences.
Annual Political Dialogue - 11-12 July 2024
The fifth Annual Political Dialogue (APD) will take place in Velenje and streamed online.This will be an occasion for stakeholders from all EU coal, peat, lignite and oil shale regions – the coal+ regions – to gather and discuss common challenges they face in today’s fast changing energy landscape.The programme will include two days of high-level, strategic and political discussions on what EU coal+ regions are grappling with on their path to climate neutrality, and how the energy transition can proceed in a just and inclusive manner.
Events archive
Since 2017, the Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition has organised conferences, event sessions, virtual meetings, and Working Group meetings to advance just transition together. The Initiative furthermore hosts webinars to accompany the release of each of its toolkits. Presentations and recordings are available below, and in the Knowledge Products database.
- Annual Meeting of the Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine / November 2023
- Just Transition Platform conference / October 2023
- Annual Political Dialogue, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic / June 2023
- Just Transition Platform Conference / April 2023
- Just Transition Platform Conference / October 2022
- Annual Political Dialogue, Asturias, Spain / July 2022
- Just Transition Platform Meeting – Coal Regions in Transition virtual week and Carbon-intensive regions seminars / May 2022
- Just Transition Platform Meeting – Coal Regions in Transition virtual week and Carbon-intensive regions seminars / November 2021
- Coal regions in transition virtual week / April 2021
- Coal regions in transition virtual week / November 2020
- Coal regions in transition virtual week / July 2020
- Annual Political Dialogue, Görlitz, Germany / November 2019
- 6th working group meeting / October 2019
- 5th working group meeting / July 2019
- 4th working group meeting / April 2019
- 3rd working group meeting / November 2018
- 2nd working group meeting / July 2018
- 1st working group meeting / February 2018
- Transition financing - March 2022 - Presentation / Video recording
- Stakeholder engagement in online environments - July 2021
- Introduction: the five Ws of online stakeholder engagement - Presentation / Video recording
- Co-creation methods for online stakeholder engagement - Presentation/ Video recording
- Enabling participation in online multi-stakeholder consultations - Presentation / Video recording
- Decarbonising energy-intensive industries: challenge or opportunity for coal regions? - 13 July 2021 - Presentation / Video recording
- Sustainable employment and welfare support - 18 June 2020 - Presentation / Video recording
- Environmental rehabilitation and repurposing - 3 June 2020 - Presentation / Video recording
- Transition strategies & Governance of transitions - 26 May 2020 - Presentation / Video recording