LIFE24 Welcome Meeting
Climate Action
Thematic Session: 21 October 2025
Comet Meetings Louise, Place Stéphanie 20, 1050 Brussels
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08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration of participants & Networking breakfast (ground floor) |
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Plenary room (Room 5.4) |
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09:00 - 09:05 |
Moderation: Agenda and structure of the meeting, housekeeping rules |
Bernd Decker, CINEA |
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09:05 - 09:15 |
Welcome to the LIFE Programme |
Hans RHEIN, CINEA |
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09:15 - 09:30 |
Climate Action Policy context, Climate Change Mitigation |
Gianmarco Italia, DG CLIMA |
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09:30 - 09:45 |
Climate Change Adaptation Policies |
Williem Jan Goossen, DG CLIMA |
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09:45 - 10:00 |
Meet your Project Advisor and the External Monitoring Team |
Boyana VASILEVA, CINEA |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Getting off to a good start – Experienced project coordinator |
- LIFE24-CCM-DE-LIFE SUPER EU - Lander Wantens, Natuurpunt |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Q & A |
Bernd Decker, CINEA |
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10:45 - 11:15 |
Moving to Break-out rooms (split into Thematic sessions - see below) + Coffee break + networking |
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11:15 - 13:30 |
Thematic group discussions |
Project presentations; session and discussion by facilitators |
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13:30 - 14:30 |
Networking lunch |
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14:30 - 17:00* |
Thematic Group discussions (cont.) |
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* If group discussions finish, project representatives are free to stay in COMET (up until 17:00) to further network with CINEA staff and external monitors till their departure time for airport/train station
PROJECT DISTRIBUTION TO WORKING GROUPS FOR THE THEMATIC SESSIONS**
WORKING GROUP A1: Urban adaptation and governance, 5th floor, Room 5.4
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisers: Diana Oancea, Mirjam Witschke and Claudia Guerrini
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Elias Demian
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Project reference and title |
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1. LIFE24-CCA-HU-LIFE COOL ZONE - Innovative Municipal Cooperation and Integrated Solutions for Managing Heatwaves in Functional Urban Areas |
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2. LIFE24-CCA-AT-impaQt - impaQt (climate-resilient cities: cross-siloed impact of urban city Quarters) |
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3. LIFE24-CCA-ES-I-LIBIM - Iberian Cities against Climate Change through living labs and BIM tools |
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4. LIFE24-CCA-FR-SOURCES - Solutions d'Optimisation des Usages et Réflexion Collective sur l'Eau et les Sols |
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5. LIFE24-GIC-ES-TOUR4CLIMA - Driving Catalonia's Tourism Sector in the transition to Climate Neutrality and capitalising at EU level through a Climate Hub |
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6. LIFE24-GIC-IT-FoodChoices4LIFE - LIFE Climate Smart Food Choices: empowering citizens to accelerate climate action and behavioural change in EU food systems |
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7. LIFE23-IPC-DK-LIFE ACT - LIFE ACT - Action for Climate Transition |
WORKING GROUP A2: Land use management and climate neutrality, 5th floor, Room 5.2
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisers: Fabio Dalan and Boyana Vasileva
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Sara Barcelo
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Project reference and title |
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1. LIFE24-CCA-FR-CROPS LIFE - Climate Resilient Options for Productive Soils and crops LIFE |
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2. LIFE24-CCA-FR-EFACC - European ruminants Farmers for Adaptation to Climate Change |
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3. LIFE24-CCA-PL-LIFE RIVEREASE - Application of NBS to Ease Agricultural Impact on Water Resources in the Face of Climate Change |
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4. LIFE24-CCA-ES-LIFE METROFOREST - Herramientas y procesos innovadores para la gestión agroforestal adaptativa, la conservación y mejora de la biodiversidad y los servicios ecosistémicos de los bosques metropolitanos mediterráneos |
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5. LIFE23-CCA-FR-LIFE BiospherAdapt - LIFE Adapting participatory management to the challenges of climate change: collective learning, support and implementation in Biosphere Reserves |
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6. LIFE23-IPC-SI-LIFE4ADAPT - Slovenia's Strategic Integrated LIFE Project for Adaptation |
WORKING GROUP M1: Carbon Capture & Carbon Markets, 5th floor, Room 5.1
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisers: Hana Mandelikova and Sergi Costa
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Stefan Niederhafner
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Project reference and title |
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1. LIFE24-GIC-IT-LIFE NETS - LIFE NETS - Net-zero Emission Trading Systems |
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2. LIFE24-GIC-BE-Plan4Climate - LIFE Plan4Climate: Reinforcing climate & energy planning to reach climate neutrality through a nature-friendly and socially just transition in Europe |
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3. LIFE24-CCM-ES-LIFE TIMBER FOR ALL - Decarbonisation of concrete structures through carbon storage in mixed timber-concrete structural systems for sustainable industrialised architecture in the New European Bauhaus |
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4. LIFE24-CCM-NL-ALTDAIRYLIFE Demonstration of the sustainability as well as the efficient and scalable production of the AltDairy protein Liquid Fermotein® |
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5. LIFE24-GIC-EL-LIFE LULUCF ATLAS - Facing key challenges in greenhouse gas accounting in the land use and forestry sector |
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6. LIFE24-GIC-PL-LIFE-OrgFluX-PL - Development of advanced multilevel inventory method for GHG fluxes from agricultural organic soils using spatially-explicit data |
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7. LIFE24-CCM-DE-LIFE SUPER EU - Scaling Up PEatland Restoration in EUrope |
WORKING GROUP M2: Industry and infrastructure, 5th floor, Room 5.5
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisers: Elisabetta SCIALANCA and Krzysztof WOJCIK
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Ludovico Susani
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Project reference and title |
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1. LIFE24-CCM-SE-LIFE HYDROGRAPH - Demonstration of innovative polymer graphene composites to enable the hydrogen economy |
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2. LIFE24-CCM-EL-LIFE-W2B - Sustainable Transformation of Waste to Biomethane, through Innovative Upgraded Anaerobic Digestion and Gasification |
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3. LIFE24-CCM-IT-LIFE inFLUEnCER - INovative FLUE gas emissioNs capture and use plant for hard-to-abate industries applied to the CERamic sector |
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4. LIFE24-CCM-DE-BLUE 245kV Live Tank - Greenhouse gas free 170-245 kV Live Tank Circuit Breaker using clean air insulation and vacuum interrupter technology to replace SF6 |
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5. LIFE24-CCM-ES-FREESVEE - Fast recharging energy service everywhere on the road |
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6. LIFE24-CCM-NL-LIFE WOW - Towards climate-neutral homes with participatively developed district heating |