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Solar Schools for Green and Energy Transition
Introduction: The “Solar Schools for Green and Energy Transition in Western Balkans ” project aims to empower students and communities in the Western Balkans to embrace clean energy solutions and foster a new generation of environmental advocates. Led by the Friends of Korca Association and a network of nine partners from Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, the project supports renewable energy, energy literacy, and collaboration between schools and civil society organizations (CSOs).
Partnership & Network: The project builds on the success of the Western Balkans Solar-Net, established in 2022 with financial backing from the Western Balkans Fund (WBF) and Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). Through www.pw4wb.org, the network continues to expand, uniting stakeholders committed to advancing solar energy and green transition efforts. The new Network of Solar Schools will leverage expertise from schools, CSOs, business associations, and universities across the region, driving energy transition through photovoltaic solar panel installations.
Objectives: The project’s main goal is to foster cooperation among high schools, students, and CSOs in the Western Balkans, promoting solar energy solutions to combat climate change. Specific objectives include:
Target Groups: The project targets CSOs, high schools, business associations, universities, and local governments, aiming to:
Key Activities:
Expected Results:
Solar-PV4Western Balkans is a project financed from Western Balkan Fund, aiming to establish a network for cooperation and partnership among NGOs, universities and business communities in Western Balkans for advocating for and promoting the best practices of self-producers of the solar energy.
The activities of the project will facilitate the exchange of information and knowledge among diver’s stakeholders and will raise awareness on the legislation, initiatives and innovative solutions on solar clean energy that must be adopted by policy and decision makers, with final purpose to build partnership and common actions in WB for unlocking the great potential of solar energy and advancing the regional agenda for a green and sustainable development.
Dear Attendees,
The Western Balkans is a region heavily affected by climate change and the shift towards cleaner and renewable energy sources is a must. This transition will require the active participation and the backing of the citizens, businesses and communities. Sharing this understanding “Friends of Korca” Association and partners from WB decided to work together to advocate for and promote the best practices of self-consumption scheme of solar energy in a project supported by Western Balkans Fund.
Public institutions were in focus of the activities, in the frame of advocacy efforts, aiming to improve the policy, legislation, regulations and administrative procedures on solar energy investments and schemes with final goal the advancement of the regional agenda for a green and sustainable economy.
As a specific objective of the project was the establishment of the WB-SolarNet web platform a network of CSOs, CBOs, universities and business associations, to share information and learning, to build partnership and raise awareness of policy and decision makers to take actions to unlock the great potential of the solar energy in Western Balkans.
The final conference organized in Korca University on October 20, 2023 will bring the leasons learned, findings and conclusions of this project. It will be an opportunity all the actors invited in this conference, to exchange opinions and to project the future developments on solar energy self-consumtion in the countries of WB involved in this project.
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09:30 – 10:00 |
Registration |
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10:00 – 10:05 |
Welcome Remarks
Prof.Dr. Dhimitri Bello, Rector of “Fan. S. Noli” Korca University
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10:05 – 10:20 |
Improving regulations and increasing incentives for solar energy self-consumers
Mr. Gjergji Gjinko, Executive Director of “Friends of Korca”
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10:15 - 11:30
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Greetings by the representatives of the donor and international organizations and Albanian public institutions
Mr. Ilir Melo, Chairman of Western Balkans Fund
Presentations/Interventions by the representatives of the partners organizations. Findings and recommendations for their respective Western Balkans countries
The subsidies programs for solar prosumers in Montenegro
Mr. Sasa Ivanovic, FICG, Montenegro
Advocating for households’ self-producers
Mr. Shuip Marku, CSCD, North-Macedonia
Planning and permit-granting process for RES projects deployment
Mrs. Aleksandra Bujarovska, Vienna Secretariat of Energy Community
Self-producer’s vis a vis state energy policy
Mr. Filip Spirovski, BWN, North Macedonia,
Mrs. Aleksandra Mlladenovic, EASD, Serbia
Mrs. Zenepa Lika, MSJA, Montenegro
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11:30- 11:45
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Greetings by the representatives of the Albanian public institutions, MIE, ERE and OSSH/OSHEE
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11:45 - 12:10
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Promoting sustainable development through Solar PV prosumers
Mr. Kastriot Suka, Head of Credit Risk Unit, ProCredit BANK
Food Safety Empowered y Sun
Mr. Lazjon Petri, Fix Pro Company
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12:10 - 12:30
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Open Discussion with the participation of the representatives of civil society organizations, business community organizations, local governments, financial institutions, university professors and students, etc.
Mrs. Eleina Qirici, University Fan S. Noli of Korca
Closing remarks
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12 30 - 13 00 |
Reception |
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