April 22, 2021
Online
St. Petersburg (Russia)
Transnational awareness raising event
Baltic Circular Economy Forum'21
The first and only landmark hybrid convention and matchmaking event in Russia focused on circular economy, sustainable development, green and cleantech solutions. BCEF is where companies, experts and key decision makers meet to discuss the strategies, tools and best practices leadership companies are using to shift their products and services from linear to circular.
The event was held in the online format with the central studio at Boiling point - St. Petersburg (Russia). The event was broadcasted with simultaneous Russian-English translation.
PROGRAMME
The forum featured 3 virtual halls dedicated to the key challenges of the circular economy adoption. Review the programme and watch the recording of one of the forum's interactive halls.
RUSSIA HALL
Sessions of the hall:
access_time10:00 - 12:00 Plenary session "Circular economy in Russia: from plans to actions?"
access_time12:00 - 14:00 Panel discussion & forecast session “NTI ECONET and ecosystems of industrial symbiosis: a step towards circular economy?”
access_time14:00 - 16:00 Round table "Russian green solutions for export: are there any and how to support?"
access_time16:00 - 18:00 Panel discussion “Sustainable mobility: motor of transport revolution?”
FINLANDIA HALL
Sessions of the hall:
access_time12:00 - 14:00 Best practices sharing session "Circular Economy in Finland: best practices, solutions and lessons learnt"
access_time14:00 - 16:00 Panel discussion "Green solutions for universities: best practices"
access_time16:00 - 18:00 Talent attraction and pitch session “Green StartUps Go Global”
GERMANIA HALL
Sessions of the hall:
access_time12:00 - 14:00 Panel discussion “Hydrogen – new oil and gas: challenge or opportunity? Russian and German experience"
SATELITE EVENTS
Review the satellite events of the forum.
Peer-to-Peer
Hybrid learning event in the framework of the Baltic Industrial Symbiosis project (funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region with the support European Regional Development Fund and the Russian Federation).
April 22-23, 2021
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Kick-off meeting of the Cool4City project
Kick-off meeting of the project Clean Green City by Smart Waste Management (Cool4City) (funded by the European Union, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Finland in the framework of South-East Finland-Russia CBC 2014-2020 programme).
April 22, 2021
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Key speakers
Meet some of the speaker of the BCEF.
Aleksey YAKOVLEV
Deputy chairman Committee for Industrial Policy, Innovations and Trade of St.Petersburg
Tadzio SCHILLING
CEO
Association of European Businesses
Janne HIRVONEN
Consul
Consulate General of Finland (St.Petersburg)
Kari HERLEVI
Project Director, Circular economy for biodiversity
Sitra (Finland)
Milla BRUNEAU
Executive director The Sustainable Lahti foundation
Maxim BALANEV
Public representative in St. Petersburg Agency for Strategic Initiatives
Ingo EGLOFF
Chairman of the Board
Port of Hamburg Marketing e.V.
Maxim EVDOKIMOV
Project Centre director Agency for strategic initiatives
Markku HEINONEN
Development Director
City of Lappeenranta
Sergei KHMELEVSKII
General director
ITMO Highpark Foundation
Vladimir NIKITENKO
Director of the North-West office
Russian-German Chamber of commerce (AHK) (Germany)
Nikolai PITIRIMOV
Deputy Chairman International consortium "St Petersburg Cleantech Cluster for urban environment" | Project Baltic Industrial Symbiosis
Partner events and initiatives
The partners of the Forum are key projects and initiatives in the field of sustainable development.
18th Germany Week in St. Petersburg
A panel discussion "Hydrogen - new oil and gas: challenge or opportunity?" will be held as part of BCEF, April 22, 2021 at 12:00. BCEF has become an official partner of the 18th German Week in St. Petersburg.
Green Leaf 2021 winner
The city of Lappeenranta has been awarded the title of European Green Leaf Award 2021. A number of events dedicated to sustainable development are planned as part of the "Green Year". BCEF is one of the partner events of the year.
