Special Plenary SuperGreen Workshop

The workshop took place in Gijon, Spain on April 17, 2012.  

Clich here to download the 1st announcement.


The project entitled “Supporting EU’s Freight Transport Logistics Action Plan on Green Corridors Issues”, abbreviated name “SuperGreen,” is a Coordination and Support Action, co-funded by the European Commission in the context of the 7th Framework Programme. The project involves 22 partners from 13 European countries.

SuperGreen aims at assisting the Commission with defining the ‘Green Corridor’ concept and promotes the development of European freight logistics in an environmentally friendly manner. The objectives of the SuperGreen project concern supporting the development of sustainable transport networks by fulfilling requirements covering environmental, technical, economic, social and spatial planning aspects. More details of the project are available at www.supergreenproject.eu .

Progress in the SuperGreen project has been according to plan. After the four regional workshops that took place in Naples, Italy (October 2010), Antwerp, Belgium (February 2011), Malmoe, Sweden (March 2011) and Sines, Portugal (March 2011), the second plenary SuperGreen workshop took place in Genoa, Italy on September 12, 2011. It attracted an audience in the area of green freight logistics.     Throughout the rest of 2011 the project has been working full steam on WP3 (green technologies), WP4 (ICT), WP5 (recommendations on future R&D calls), and WP6 (policy recommendations).

An interesting development as regards the project took place in October 2011, when the European Commission unveiled its plans as regards TEN-Ts. In line with the 2011 White Paper, the Commission’s proposal for a Regulation revising the TEN-T guidelines aims to redefine the long-term strategy for the TEN-T policy up to 2030/2050.

The establishment and development of a complete TEN-T, consisting of infrastructure for railways, inland waterways, roads, maritime and air transport is the main objective. On the ‘conceptual planning’ of the network, a dual-layer approach, consisting of a comprehensive and a core network, has been selected. The comprehensive network constitutes the basic layer of the TEN-T and is, in large part, derived from the corresponding national networks. It should

be in place by 2050 at the latest. The core network overlays the comprehensive network and consists of its strategically most important parts. It constitutes the backbone of the multimodal mobility network and concentrates on those components of TEN-T with the highest European added value: cross border missing links, key bottlenecks and multimodal nodes. The core network is to be in place by 2030 at the latest.

The Figure  below shows the TEN-T core network vis-à-vis the SuperGreen corridors established in the summer of 2010 in the context of Task 2.1. The figure is for land-based and inland waterway corridors only (a similar map exists for maritime corridors).


Overlap between the TEN-T core network (in black) and SuperGreen corridors (in green). Land-based and inland waterway corridors only.

One can notice the overlap, which is quite remarkable given the fact that the procedure for selecting the SuperGreen corridors in 2010 was quite different from the one followed for the establishment of the TEN-T core network in 2011.

In the context of SuperGreen Workpackage 6 (Policy Recommendations), a special workshop is planned to be held in Gijon, Spain on April 17, 2012, with a focus on policy. The workshop is special in the sense that it was not initially foreseen in the project’s work plan, but the consortium decided to hold it so as to make concrete progress as regards the above workpackage. To that effect, some 30 potential policy recommendations on green corridors have been discussed internally within the SuperGreen consortium and feedback from external stakeholders will be solicited at the Gijon workshop.  In addition, progress on other parts of the project will be reported.

This workshop will be kindly hosted by SuperGreen partner Port Authority of Gijon.

Based on the above, we are delighted to invite you to Gijon on 17th April 2012 to take part in the workshop and contribute to the benchmarking of European Green Corridors and to an active interaction among European Corridor stakeholders.

PORT AUTHORITY OF GIJON

The Port Authority of Gijon is one of the major key players in EU research related to Ports and Logistics. In the last years, it has participated as partner or stakeholders in  several projects like the following :
1. REIGHTWISE –  Management Framework for Intelligent Intermodal Transport   (2006-2010)
http://www.freightwise.info/cms/ 
2.  SKEMA – Knowledge Platform for Maritime Transport and Logistic -  ( 2008-2010)  http://www.skematransport.eu
3.  PROPS : Promotion of Short Sea Shipping and Intermodality ( 2008-2011)   http://www.props-sss.eu/
4. PROPOSSE : Promotion of Cooperation of Ports and SMEs through Short Sea Shipping (2008-2011)
  http://www.proposse.eu/proposse/
5. SUPERGREEN     - Supporting EU Fright Transport Logistic Action Plan on Green Corridors issues ( 2010-2013)
  http://www.supergreenproject.eu/
6. MIELE : Multimodal Interoperability E-services for Logistics and Environment Sustainability (2010-2013)
  http://www.miele-action.org/

SUPERGREEN is one of the most relevant projects due to their direct relation towards the Multimodal Corridors and Core Network proposed by the European Commission in 2011, in the 3rd Transport White Book 2011-2022, and the review of Trans European Transport Network 2014-2020

REGISTRATION
As space for the workshop is limited, advance registration is necessary to register for the workshop.  
To register for the workshop, please click here to download the registration form.

TARGET AUDIENCES

TRAVEL
Participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements. A list of hotels is provided (see page 6).

CONTACT
For any clarifications, please contact Ms Ainhoa Puebla at the Port Authority of Gijon,
tel: ++ 34.985 179600
e-email:  apuebla@puertogijon.es


PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME, 17th April 2012    (1st Announcement)

More details in the 2nd announcement.

VENUE

Quinta la Vega – Conference Center
Address  : Camino de la Iglesia con Camino Viejo al Musel
Jove – 33299  Gijón  Spain
           Tel : 0034.985.179600
            ( Church road with Old Musel port road)

HOTELS
Here are 47 hotels in Gijon from Trypadvisor :
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g187451-Gijon_Asturias-Hotels.html

PAG Recommended hotels :
Hotel ABBA  (4*)
Paseo Dr. Fleming 37
Gijón-33203
Tel. +34 985 000 000
email: playagijon@abbahoteles.com
web : http://www.abbagijonhotel.com/

Hotel NH  (4*)
Paseo del Doctor Fleming 71
33203 Gijón
Tel: 985 195 755
email : nhgijon@nh-hotels.com
web : http://www.nh-hoteles.es/nh/es/hoteles/espana/gijon/nh-gijon.html