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) were in Berlin taking part in the training program "Young Leaders in Renewable Energies".
For a whole week, the young leaders have discussed with experts from the Renewables Academy (RENAC) the state-of-the-art technologies in the energy sector. Playing an equally important role were 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.
RCREEE has been incepted as a Think Tank in 2008 with the aim of pushing 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.
