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28-29 November 2013, Venice, Italy

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Broadcast. EPI-WATER conference will be broadcasted over GoToMeting. For practical reasons we have split the transmission into three parts.

• Thursday November 28, 9,00 - 11,30 EPI-WATER-part 1 1.
• Thursday November 28 14,00 - 18,30 EPI-WATER-part 2 1.
• Friday November 29 9,00 - 13,30 EPI-WATER-part 3 1.

Day 1 – Thursday, 28 November 2013

PROGRAMME

S1 • Opening Session

Welcome address
Carlo Carraro, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy

Scope of the conference
Jaroslav Mysiak, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy

The role of the economic policy instruments in European water governance (PDF, 36 Kb)
Lukasz Latala, European Commission, Directorate General for the Environment

S2 • Innovative policy design

WATER: Flood risk management (pdf, 629 Kb)
Gabor Ungvari and Andras Kis, Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research, Hungary

WATER: Water scarcity and drought (pdf, 741 Kb)
Carlos M. Gómez, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain and University of Oxford, UK

WATER: Water quality control and management (pdf, 1,018 Kb)
Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Pierre Strosser, ACTeon Sarl, France

CLIMATE MITIGATION (ENTRACT): On the interaction of policy instruments - First lessons from climate and energy policy (pdf, 389 Kb)
Oliver Schenker, Centre for European Economic Research, Germany

BIODIVERSITY (POLICY MIX): Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision (pdf, 3,413 Kb)
Christoph Schröter-Schlaack, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany

WATER TRADING (Water Cap & Trade): Water markets - Design, implementation issues and prospects (pdf, 728 Kb)
Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, French Geological Survey, France

Role of Economics and Hydro-economic Modelling in Sustainable Groundwater Management (GENESIS) (pdf, 3,344 Kb)
Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Innovative technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate (THESEUS) (pdf, 4,079 Kb)
Vasileios Skianis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece

Panel and plenary discussion moderated by the chairman
Panellists: invited IBE - Guillermo Donoso Harris, Pontificia Universidad de Chile, Chile; Mark Kieser, Kieser & Associates, LLC, USA; Iddo Kan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Questions (pdf, 26 Kb)

S3 • Policy implications 

Choice of Economic Policy Instruments and roadmap for their implementation (pdf, 375 Kb)
Manuel Lago, Ecologic Institute GmbH, Germany

Potential of Economic Policy Instruments in the context of the EU Water Policies (pdf, 924 Kb)
Jaroslav Mysiak, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy

Use of water accounts for advising the choice of policy instruments
Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Survey on the use of EPIs
Pierre Strosser, ACTeon Sarl, France

Panel discussion, moderated by the chairman
Members of the Policy Think Tank of the EPI-WATER project:
Bernard Barraque, Centre national de la recherche scientifique-Agroparistech, France;
Eduard Interwies, InterSus - Sustainability Services, Germay;
Lukasz Latala, European Commission, Directorate General for the Environment;
Xavier Leflaive, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, France;
Irene Lucius, WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme, Austria;
Judith Rakosi, Rákosi és Kiss Consulting, Hungary;
Francesco Puma, Autorità di Bacino del fiume Po, Italy

Day 2 – Friday, 29 November 2013

PROGRAMME

S4 • Further research

Horizon 2020 – The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (pdf, 946 Kb)
Andrea Tilche, European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation

Joint Programing Initiative Water (pdf, 1176 Kb)
Giuseppina Monacelli, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Italy

European Innovation Partnership on Water (pdf, 70 Kb)
Xavier Leflaive, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, France; Guido Schmidt, European Innovation Partnership on Water Secretariat, Spain

EIP Water Research priorities in the Northern Italy (pdf, 161 Kb)
Francesco Puma, Autorità di Bacino del fiume Po, Italy

EIP Water focus group SPADIS: Smart Prices and Drought Insurance Schemes in Mediterranean Countries
Carlos M. Gómez, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain and University of Oxford, UK

Outstanding challenges for research on Economic Policy Instruments
Jaroslav Mysiak, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy

Panel discussion moderated by the chairman
Lukasz Latala, European Commission, Directorate General for the Environment
Oliver Schenker, Centre for European Economic Research, Germany
Christoph Schröter-Schlaack, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany
Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, French Geological Survey, France
Vasileios Skianis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Members of the Policy Think Tank and Inspiration Beyond Europe of the EPI-WATER project