Dear Friends of EUCERS,

at the beginning of the new year we want to thank all of you for your interest and the great cooperation. Please continue to also work with us in 2012!

We are looking back on a successful and active year. In February and December 2011, we welcomed EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger at King“s College and invited him to present our CCS study in Berlin. We hosted expert roundtables on shale gas, energy security in the Black Sea region, and CCS at King’s College London and we just held, on the 18th January 2012, our 10th workshop on „EU Energy Policy: Cooperation with Partners beyond our Borders“. For 2012 we are planning four more conferences, together with the EU Commission Representation in the UK and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in London on European energy topics, in the framework of the EU tender we won in 2011.

Here follows a list of activities

Workshops 2010/2011
1. Future Conflicts over Energy and Resources – The Need for a European Energy Policy, with a keynote by Dr Jürgen Großmann (8.3.2010)
2. Turkey – an Energy Hub for Europe, with a keynote by Dr Wolfgang Schüssel (8.11.2010) – EUCERS inauguration event
3. Energy Security for Europe: The EU Agenda until 2050, with a keynote by EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger (10.2.2011)
4. Shale Gas Revolution in Europe? Expert roundtable jointly organised with the FCO (15.3.2011)
5. Energy Security in the Black Sea Region. Expert roundtable jointly organised with the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Centre (CPEWC), Bucharest (16.6.2011)
6. The Future of Coal – Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Coal Technologies. Expert roundtable jointly organised with the Atlantic Council, USA (1.9.2011)
7. The Future of EU Energy Policy, with a keynote by Charles Hendry MP (27.10.2011)
8. 1st EUcers Energy Talk – The Future of Renewable Energy in Britain and Europe – The first of a series of events on European energy security topics organized in cooperation with the European Commission Representation in the UK and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in London, with statements by Dr Stefan Tostmann, DG Energy European Commission and Professor Paul Ekins, UCL Energy Institute (17.11.2011)
9. The Future of Clean Coal Technologies and CCS – Follow-up event in Berlin with a keynote by EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger (12.12.2011)
10. 2nd EUcers Energy Talk – EU Energy Policy: Engaging with Partners beyond our Borders. With statements by Dr Michael Köhler, DG Energy European Commission and Dr Louis Skyner, Commercial Manager, Statoil ASA

Publications 2011
EUCERS Strategy Paper No.1 – Strategic Perspectives of Unconventional Gas
EUCERS Strategy Paper No.2 – The Future of Clean Coal

Newsletter
Newsletter No.1 – 9

Summer School 2011
Summer School Undergraduate Programme on Global Energy Politics 4-22 July 2011

In 2011, we published two strategy papers on unconventional gas and the future of clean coal. In 2012, at least two more studies will follow: On Japan“s energy security after Fukushima and on Green Energy – Green Business. The latter will be prepared in cooperation with the Centre of European Studies in Brussels and presented in two workshops in London and Brussels in 2012.

To support students and offer an incentive to pursue research in the field of energy security, we are delighted to announce that RWE npower has decided to award an annual scholarship to an outstanding student of proven excellence whose research lies within any of the disciplines represented within the field of energy security. For the first time this year, EUCERS will also run a 10-month fellowship together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

EUCERS is co-organizing, like last year, an Undergraduate Summer School programme in 2012. The three-week course from 2-20 July 2012, headed by Sebastian Herbstreuth, introduces students to the global politics of big energy questions.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank Mervyn Frost and King’s College London for the great support for EUCERS and Frank Umbach, Petra Dolata, Carola Gegenbauer, Aura Sabadus and Maximilian Kuhn for the good collaboration in 2011.

We are looking forward to an exciting new year and hope to have the opportunity to welcome you here at King“s College London in 2012!

The European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) was established in the Department of War Studies at King“s College London in October 2010. The research of EUCERS is focused on promoting an understanding of how our use of energy and resources affects International Relations, since energy security is not just a matter of economics, supply and technological change.

Kontakt:
European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS)
Carola Gegenbauer
Strand 2LS
wc2r London
info@eucers.eu
Tel. +44 (0)20/ 7848 1912
http://www.eucers.eu/