Renewable Energies as Economic Factor

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Date Published:
4 November 2009
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Africa Live Online
Africa Live Online
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German
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Young Leading Executives from the Middle East and North Africa in Berlin Responding to an invitation by the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), with headquarters in Cairo, a group of 25 young leading executives from the MENA Region (countries of the Middle East and North Africa) are currently in Berlin taking part in the training program "Young Leaders in Renewable Energies".

This week, young experts are discussing together with experts at the Renewables Academy (RENAC) Berlin the state-of-the-art technologies in the energy sector. Playing an equally important role are the questions: which political framework conditions and financing mechanisms can promote the introduction and use of renewable energies. In their home countries –among other Morocco, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Tunisia- the participants from ministries, energy associations or research institutions are occupied with discussing the opportunities and challenges of the "Green Economy" for their region. The training program is to provide the participants with new impulses for their work and to promote networking among each other.

The RCREEE, with headquarters in Cairo, has been incepted as a Think Tank in 2008. Its aim is to push forward the expansion of the use of renewable energies in the MENA region. Ten countries of the region are members to the organization. Mandated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) GmbH supports and advises the RCREEE.

Kilian Bälz, assigned by the GTZ as head of the RCREEE interim secretariat, aims above all at forging links between the participants: "We aim at far more than delivering updated know-how. We wish to create a generation integrated within a network of regional young leading executives."

As a leading provider of further training and knowledge transfer for renewable energies and energy efficiency, the Renewables Academy, with headquarters in Berlin, has designed the concept and is applying it in practice

Manarasoft, 2010 All rights resrved to RCREEE