The 12th International Conference on “Energy and Climate Change” will take place at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) on 9-11 October 2019, in Athens-Greece. It is set under the auspices of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). It started as an activity of a FP6 funded project. The 1st PROMITHEAS Conference titled “Energy Investments and Trade Opportunities” in 2008 was a two-day event focused on political and scientific topics. Now, the Conference is divided into three (3) main parts, one per day. The first is devoted to the 4th “Green Energy Investments” Forum aiming to bring together policy and decision makers with market players and explore opportunities for investments that promote the transition to a low carbon economy and the achievement of the 7th Sustainable Development Goal (Clean, Affordable and Modern Energy). The second “Scientific Sessions” is devoted to peer – viewed presentations and discussions on relevant to energy and climate change research topics, as in all previous years. Additionally, topics relevant to SDG7 are now also included. Finally, the third is shaped as a “Brokerage session” that will bring together scientists, policy makers and market stakeholders and facilitate them to present their activities (projects and programs), discuss about funding opportunities, mainly in the context of Horizon 2020 calls and finally to increase the cross-interaction on innovative ideas and cooperation on common importance topics.

Day 1: Green Energy Investments Forum

Intended speakers (market stakeholders activated in the relevant topics) need to provide their name, title, name of institution/ organization and the subject of the speech. Participation as a speaker at the Forum requires submission of abstract. The speaker should provide the presentation so as to be included in the proceedings. More details upon acceptance.

Submission of abstracts electronically at: promitheas@kepa.uoa.gr.

Day 2: Scientific Sessions

Abstracts (for the scientific part) should be approximately 250 words in length and should clearly quote the scientific contribution of the proposed presentation, the used methodology/approach and the expected outcomes. Authors should include at the end of the abstract five (5) scientific bibliographic references. Abstracts that do not fulfill the technical requirements will not be forwarded for review.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee before acceptance for presentation. The authors are kindly requested to indicate their affiliation, contact details and at which of the following themes and topics their work refers to. A template for the abstracts is at the last page and attached. An author whose abstract is accepted and intends to present that work is kindly requested to register the latest before September 9th, 2019.

The book of abstracts (abstracts that are accepted and whose author has registered) will be published and distributed with the Conference Program. The Conference Proceedings (ISBN/ISSN numbers provided for hardcopy and electronic version) will include the material that was presented during the Conference. Upon registration authors agree that their presentation will be included in the Conference proceedings.

Authors should submit the full paper once informed that their abstract is accepted and are provided with the necessary guidelines. All presentations will be uploaded at the web-site of the Conference. The size of the presentation or of the full paper should not be more than 5MB. Research papers presented at the Conference, after the written expression of interest of their authors, will be reviewed for publication at the PROMITHEASnet Journal titled “Euro-Asian Journal of sustainable energy development policy”. The submitted paper is required to be a more detailed and elaborated version of the full paper included in the Conference Proceedings.

The Journal has ISSN numbers for printed and electronic versions. It is also registered for receiving impact factor.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically only at: promitheas@kepa.uoa.gr (Contact person: Dr. Popi KONIDARI)

Day 3: Brokerage event

Abstracts (for the brokerage part) should be approximately 250 words in length and should concern presentation of: i) already funded projects and their outcomes; ii) projects that are still on-going or just completed; iii) proposals for research and innovation under Horizon 2020 or any other funding scheme. The topics need to fall within those of the presented themes. No bibliographic references are required.

After acceptance of the abstract authors will prepare a two-page informative document about their project/proposal. The template is available at the web-site of the event. Expression of interest for cooperation, after completion of the registration, can be disseminated through the PROMITHEAS newsletter, if received before the end of August 2019.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically only at: promitheas@kepa.uoa.gr   - (Contact person: Aliki-Nefeli MAVRAKI, M.Sc.)