Büro Karl Holmer Sachverständiger für Kraftfahrzeuge - Echinger Forum
Büro Karl Holmer Sachverständiger für Kraftfahrzeuge - Echinger Forum
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The new UK Energy Research<br />
Centre’s mission is to be the UK’s<br />
pre-eminent centre of research and<br />
source of authoritative information<br />
and leadership on sustainable energy<br />
systems. UKERC undertakes worldclass<br />
research addressing wholesystems<br />
aspects of energy supply<br />
and use, while developing and<br />
maintaining the means to enable<br />
cohesive UK research in energy.<br />
As a lead partner of UKERC,<br />
ECI manages The Meeting Place<br />
which is the UK’s international<br />
gateway for the energy research<br />
community. Over the two years<br />
since its inception in October 2004,<br />
the Meeting Place has hosted 1,500<br />
people from 35 countries at some 40<br />
conferences and workshops. Several<br />
of these events have been jointly<br />
hosted with other institutions,<br />
for example, the International<br />
Energy Agency (IEA), the Italian<br />
Government and the British<br />
Institute of Energy Economics.<br />
A diversity of audiences is one of<br />
the driving themes for the Meeting<br />
Place and these have included the<br />
ministries of G8+5; UK Government<br />
Departments (e.g. DTI, DfT, Defra);<br />
NGOs such as Transport 2000,<br />
Friends of the Earth and WWF;<br />
and academics from a wide range<br />
of disciplines. Businesses have<br />
come from a wide range of sectors<br />
including finance, construction,<br />
engineering, and transport, as<br />
well as energy, e.g. Arup, Barclays<br />
Capital, BMW, BP, Centrica,<br />
Corus, Crest Nicholson, E.ON ,<br />
EcoSecurities, Faber Maunsell,<br />
Halcrow, Phillips, Pilkingtons,<br />
Prudential, Shell, SolarCentury,<br />
Taylor Woodrow, Whitby Bird, and<br />
Woolwich.<br />
The Meeting Place uses a wide<br />
variety of meeting formats to bring<br />
together these diverse audiences and<br />
promote effective interdisciplinary<br />
working, including: large<br />
conferences; short brainstorming<br />
audio-conference sessions; series of<br />
small workshops spread over several<br />
months; medium-sized residential<br />
workshops, lasting several days; and<br />
longer visits by international visitors<br />
lasting several weeks or months. The<br />
vast and diverse array of facilities<br />
offered by the departments and<br />
colleges of Oxford University are<br />
a valuable resource in this regard,<br />
although the Meeting Place is able<br />
to host events at other UK venues.<br />
A flavour of Meeting Place activities<br />
since its inception include:<br />
• the Climate Change Metrics 2day<br />
workshop, November 2004,<br />
Oxford. This event brought<br />
together experts from many<br />
different professions and<br />
disciplines to debate the merits of<br />
different climate change metrics<br />
options to enable inclusion of<br />
other sectors and greenhouse<br />
gases in the EU emissions trading<br />
scheme, particularly aviation and<br />
methane.<br />
• the G8+ 5 Energy Research and<br />
Innovation Workshop (WIRE),<br />
May 2005, Oxford, co-sponsored<br />
by the DTi and Defra. This major<br />
international workshop brought<br />
together senior policy officials<br />
and researchers from G8 nations,<br />
plus five developing nations<br />
(Mexico, South Africa, China,<br />
India and Brazil) to discuss<br />
collaboration on clean energy and<br />
innovation.<br />
• the Italian Carbon Capture<br />
and Clean Coal workshop,<br />
February 2006, London. This<br />
international workshop, hosted<br />
jointly with the Italian Embassy,<br />
aimed to strengthen UK/<br />
Italian collaboration as a basis<br />
for submitting joint projects<br />
under the EU’s 7th Framework<br />
programme.<br />
•<br />
•<br />
the Innovation and Energy<br />
Systems research workshop<br />
series, March-September 2006,<br />
Oxford. This two-part intensive,<br />
collaborative and researchfocused<br />
activity brought together<br />
leading representatives from<br />
economic, institutional and<br />
management perspectives<br />
to describe their respective<br />
approaches to innovation in<br />
energy systems, share knowledge<br />
and insights, and come to a<br />
greater degree of common<br />
understanding. The output of<br />
this series of workshops is a peerreviewed<br />
book.<br />
Annual UKERC Summer School,<br />
July 2006, Edinburgh. This annual<br />
activity brings together around<br />
25 UK-based doctoral students<br />
working on interdisciplinary<br />
energy issues to undertake a oneweek<br />
intensive energy training<br />
programme. This event is run in<br />
parallel with the UKERC general<br />
assembly, also managed by the<br />
Meeting Place.<br />
Details of Meeting Place events,<br />
including outputs such as reports,<br />
are available from the website:<br />
www.ukerc.ac.uk<br />
The Meeting Place:<br />
• is dedicated to furthering<br />
policy and research agendas<br />
through interdisciplinary problem-solving<br />
events, networking<br />
activities and interactions<br />
with international visitors.<br />
• provides a forum for proactive<br />
debate of energy policy<br />
issues<br />
• pursues activities based on<br />
proposals received from<br />
members of the energy<br />
research community.<br />
• operates as an activity<br />
development and management<br />
service, rather than a<br />
permanent physical location,<br />
so providing flexibility in the<br />
location and format of events.<br />
•<br />
brings together people from<br />
many different disciplines<br />
and professions that would<br />
not normally meet or work<br />
together.