The Joaquin partnership gladly invite you to the launch conference on Tuesday, March 6th in Antwerp.
Please, use registration form to inform us on your participation.
Draft agenda of the Launch conference
- 09:00 – 09:30 Registration participants & welcome coffee
- 09:30 – 09:45 Welcome speech (Joke Schauvliege, Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature & Culture (tbc))
- 09:45 – 10:00 Introduction to the Joaquin project (Edward Roekens, Head of department Air & Joaquin Project Manager, VMM)
- 10:00 – 10:25 Air quality in Europe (Valentin Foltescu, Air & Climate Change Programme, EMA (tbc))
- 10:25 – 11:15 Air quality policy in Europe & the revision of the EU air quality directive (2013)
- An overview by the European Commission (Scott Brockett, European Commission DG-ENV)
- Points of Interest in the Netherlands (Klaas Krijgsheld, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure & the Environment)
- Points of Interest in Belgium (Frans Fierens, Belgian Interregional Environment Agency)
- 11:15 – 11:40 Coffee break
- 11:40 – 12:05 Soot & Climate change (Bart Verheggen, Air Quality & Climate change, ECN)
- 12:05 – 12:30 Combustion derived particulate matter: hazard and metrics (Flemming Cassee, Dep. Head Centre for Environmental Health, RIVM)
- 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
- 14:00 – 17:00 Workshops:
During the afternoon, parallel sessions will be organised. Examples of presentations and topics which are being discussed are:- Forecasting, Policy measures & Public awareness in London (AirTEXT, Greater London Authority, Transport for London),
- Amsterdam Low Emission Zone (GGD Amsterdam),
- UFP Monitoring (Gerard Kos, ECN),
- Chemical characterisation (Xavier Quérol, CSIC),
- EC/OC Monitoring (Willy Maenhaut, Antwerp University),…
- 17:00 – 18:00 Closing drink
Accessibility and hotel information:
- Venue: Lindner Hotel & City Lounge (Hotel registration form, PDF)
- Antwerp information Pack, PDF
- Route Description (PDF)
