5th Annual EUSAIR Forum

Online event | 28 - 29 January 2021

Plenary session: Imagining post-COVID EUSAIR – How to cooperate in the new reality? The twin digital and green transition as a regional response to the Covid-19 crisis

Sandra Di Biaggio -
MRS. ESPON TOOL ON TERRITORIAL MONITORING AND TERRITORIAL SCENARIOS FOR EUSAIR IN 2050

Soukeyna Gueye -
Circular economy: A transformative Covid-19 recovery strategy

Wim De Kinderen

Citizens Participation – how can Living Labs help create better solutions to existing challenges?

Thematic Session: Blue Growth (Pillar 1) - Improving Competitiveness of Fresh Water Aquaculture Production in Adriatic-Ionian Region

Violeta Mihajloska -

Specificity of aquaculture in North Macedonia and aspect of the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic

Alessio Bonaldo -

Tools and Strategies for a Sustainable, Resilient and Innovative European Aquaculture

Mirko Novaković -
State, Problems, Potential and Scientific Support to the Improvement of Freshwater Aquaculture

Thematic session: Connecting the Region: Energy Networks (Pillar 2) – Energy Networks for a Green Adriatic-Ionian Region

Gerasimos Avlonitis -
The role of a “natural gas transporter” in the energy transition

Alberto Biancardi -
Connecting the Region: Energy Networks for a Green Adriatic-Ionian Region

Janez Kopać -
Strengthening the resilience of the Adriatic and Ionian Region through cooperation

Fabio Tambone -
Integrating the Adriatic Energy Markets: Italy’s Experience and the Role of Regulation

Snežana Ristić -
Balkan Stream

Nikola Tošić -

General Overview of the Electricity Market in Serbia

Thematic session: Connecting the Region: Transport (Pillar 2) - The impact of Covid-19 on Transport and Mobility in the Adriatic-Ionian Region: current impacts, views and perspectives for the future

Alain Baron -
Lessons learnt and future challenges to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic in the Adriatic Ionnian Region

Giuseppe Siciliano -
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the airports of the macro-region

Andrea Mosconi -

Maritime traffic in the aim and the effects of the pandemic

Thematic Session: Sustainable Tourism (Pillar 4) – New trends in sustainable tourism - What does the modern tourist want?

Ramunė Genzbigelytė -
Sustainable tourism of tomorrow EU perspective

Flaminia Santarelli -
Building back better italian tourism

Penagiota Dionysopoulou -
Creation of DMOs and their role for the promotion of special interest tourism

Riccardo Bonnetti -
Water sustainable transport-montenegro

Elton Caushi -
The efforts for a more sustainable approach in Albanian tourism

Elton Caushi -
Bread, Salt and a warm heart

Almir Peštek -

Virtual Reality and Sustainable Tourism

Special session: Post-Covid recovery of the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Adriatic-Ionian Region

Stavros Kalognomos -

Cultural and Creative Regional Ecosystems (CCRE-S3)

Thematic Session: Environmental Quality (Pillar 3) - Importance of blue and green infrastructure in a light of the new EU post-2020 biodiversity framework: How to enhance the delivery of essential ecosystem services throughout the Adriatic-Ionian Region?

Mitja Bricelj, Senad Oprašić -
Importance of blue and green infrastructure in a light of the new EU Post 2020 biodiversity framework: How to enhance the delivery of essential ecosystem services throughout the Adriati-Ionian Region?

Karin Zaunberger -
EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives

Klemen Jerina -
Large carnivores: Umbrella species for fostering biodiversity and connectivity in EUSAIR region & Europe

Plenary session: Embedding EUSAIR priorities in the post-2020 funding instruments and support for enlargement

Caterina Brancaleoni -
IMPROVING IMPACT OF PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES IN THE EUSAIR MACROREGIONAL STRATEGY: THE ROLE OF ADRION 2021-27

Lodovico Gherardi -

Improving impact of projects and programmes in the EUSAIR macroregional strategy: the role of ADRION 2021-27

Massimo Gerli -

Embedding EUSAIR priorities in post 2020: The Italian contribution