European Maritime Day 2024

THE EMD CITIES ROUND TABLE NETWORK CHALLENGES FACING BLUE ECONOMY, ENERGY TRANSITION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Join the EMD Cities Network in Svendborg for the 3rd edition of Round Table discussions with mayors from coastal cities.

The 2024 edition focuses on Our Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters - Cities to the rescue.

The Round Tables of the EMD Cities Network gathers past, current, and future EMD cities. Promoting round table discussions among politicians, port authorities, scientists, stakeholders, project leaders and students. With each coastal city hosting a round table on a local challenge related to the blue economy, energy transition and sustainable development with the participants.

The session starts with a plenary introducing the involved cities and their challenges. Then, participants join the round table they have registered for to share experiences, discuss strategies and develop solutions to the challenges. To ensure a constructive and interactive debate each round table is limited to 25 participants.

In this way, the round tables will serve as a powerful networking tool to exchange and identify opportunities for common action.

The five-round table challenges cover:

• Sustainable life in a sustainable archipelago (Svendborg, DK)

• Ocean & society: innovation as a catalyst (Brest, F)

• Ravenna's strategy for a sustainable and just energy transition (Ravenna, I)

• Climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 (Cork, EI)

• Maritime education: becoming a blue school municipality (Den Helder, NL)

The first edition of the EMD Cities Network Roundtable was held in 2022 in Ravenna, initiated by the EMD city hosts of 2020 to 2023: Cork, Den Helder, Ravenna and Brest. In 2023, Svendborg joined the team. The initiative connects EU coastal cities  helping them to share solutions and opportunities on common challenges related to the ocean and the sea.

EMD CITIES NETWORK AGENDA - Thursday, 30 May

13H30 - 14H45 Plenary session: OUR MISSION: RESTORE OUR OCEAN AND WATERS - CITIES TO THE RESCUE / INTRODUCTION - Add it to your agenda !

15H00 -16H00 THE ROUND TABLE SESSIONS PART 1( parallel sessions)

• Sustainable life in a sustainable archipelago (Svendborg, DK) - Add it to your agenda !

• Ocean & society: innovation as a catalyst (Brest, F) - Add it to your agenda !

• Ravenna's strategy for a sustainable and just energy transition (Ravenna, I) - Add it to your agenda !

16H00 -17H00 THE ROUND TABLE SESSIONS PART 2 ( parallel sessions)

• Climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 (Cork, EI) - Add it to your agenda !

• Maritime education: becoming a blue school municipality (Den Helder, NL) - Add it to your agenda !

17H00 -18H00 Plenary session: OUR MISSION: RESTORE OUR OCEAN AND WATERS - CITIES TO THE RESCUE / CONCLUSIONS - Add it to your agenda !