BALKAN COMMUNICATION NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE “Energy, Security and Human Development” 14-18 September 2011, Ohrid-Macedonia.
Sonja Zuber and Ana Stojilovska took active part in the 6th BALKAN COMMUNICATION NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE “Energy, Security and Human Development” held from 14-18 September 2011, in Ohrid-Macedonia, organized by the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies.
Sonja Zuber and Ana Stojilovska took active part in the 6th BALKAN COMMUNICATION NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE “Energy, Security and Human Development” held from 14-18 September 2011, in Ohrid-Macedonia, organized by the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies. The Balkan Communication Network (BCN), was founded following the Founding Conference held on 9-10 June 2005 under the leadership of SAM - Strategic Research Centre of the Foreign Ministry of the Turkish Republic, is the communication organization composed of prominent think tanks and strategic research centers of the Balkan countries. These countries include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Turkey and Greece. Until today, the following meetings have been held: Founding Conference, Ankara, 2005; Sofia, 2006; Bucharest, 2007; and finally Tekirdağ 2008 and 2010.
As the title suggests the main questions and topics at this year’s conference were: Is there inter-dependence between energy sustainability and security? Is it possible to achieve the primary human development goals with sustainable energy strategies? Can nuclear energy be deployed securely without compromising human safety and environmental degradation? In the context of human development, the new energy policy may give birth to what kind of co-operation areas in the region? The BNC sought to respond those questions with the participation of energy experts and members of CSOs.
Analytica’s participants were part of the 2nd panel session on the second day of the conference (16.09.2011) named “Achieving Human Development Goals with the Sustainable Energy Strategy in the Balkans” where they presented the findings and products from the two ongoing projects currently in Analytica: the manual for civil servants from the ‘Changing the habits – how to get an EE municipality’ project and the regional advocacy paper from the ‘Synergies for Energy Awareness Change’ project.
