Welkoam
Dear Islanders, Partners and Change Makers,
In Europe over 20 million inhabitants live on more than 2,000 islands. Each island is unique – but at the same time, we all share similar challenges.
Despite their differences, islands are characterized by their location, which is very often associated with energy dependence – especially fossil fuels – high transport costs, limited economic diversity, but also significant potential for renewable energy, unique ecosystems, increased social capital and a strong sense of identity.
Therefore, various initiatives have been formed in recent years. It is not uncommon for the legal EU framework, which is broken down from Brussels to the local level, to hamper targeted, sustainable island development.
We are the “small countries with great complexity”.
Conscious of our tradition, we offer ideal, living laboratories for new structures of our future society in Europe. Its about time to come togethers. Therefore, I would like to cordially invite you to the first German Island Conference on April 25 and 26, 2019 on Helgoland.
We will talk about experience and future concepts in the fields of energy transition, mobility, digitalization, medicine and housing in the islands. In doing so, we want to develop goals, discuss the legal framework and understand the funding programs and networking opportunities of the islands.
The invitation is addressed to mayors, office directors, tourism directors and their most important business partners, experts from the fields of tourism, transport, energy, supply and disposal, digitization, the new world of work, health and our political supporters from the parliaments.
You can expect an excellent program with high-caliber speakers from all over Europe in a extrordinary desitination. This and all the information about the conference can be found on this – I look forward to welcoming you to Helgoland in April.
Highsea Fresh Regards
Jörg Singer, Mayor
& Member of the Board – Island und Hallig Konferenz
WELKOAM NOTE
Jan Philipp Albrecht
Jan-Philipp Albrecht has been Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitization in Schleswig-Holstein since 1 September 2018. He studied law and completed an international double-master (LL.M.) specializing in IT law. His first political office began in 2006 as a federal executive spokesman for the Green Youth, in 2008 he became a Member of the European Parliament. Jan-Philipp Albrecht was born on December 20, 1982 in Braunschweig, he is married, and lives with his family and two children in Schleswig-Holstein.
KEYNOTE
Prof. Dr. Günther Bachmann
Prof. Dr. Günther Bachmann has headed the office of the Council for Sustainable Development since its inauguration in 2001. After studying landscape planning, Dr. Ing. Bachmann in the Federal Environment Agency responsible for the Federal Soil Protection Act. He is chairman of the jury of the German Sustainability Award and the Next Economy Award. His honorary professorship has been awarded to him by Leuphana University Lüneburg. In scientific advisory councils, foundations and international networks, as well as Secretary General of the Sustainability Council, he uses impulses and initiatives to promote sustainability thinking in business, politics and society and coordinates the work of the Sustainability Council.
MODERATOR
Jörg Singer
Speaker
Dr. Thilo Rohlfs
Since June 28, 2017, Dr. Thilo Rohlfs State Secretary in the Ministry of Economy, Transport, Labor, Technology and Tourism of Schleswig-Holstein. He is a doctor of law. After starting his career in a law firm in Kiel in 2012, he will be working as the head of the Department of the Environment, Local and Regulatory Affairs in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. In 2016, he is appointed judge at the Schleswig-Holstein Administrative Court and works in the areas of police and regulatory law as well as traffic law. He was born on September 18, 1979 in Eckernförde, is married and has two children.
Andreas Breitner
Andreas Breitner has graduated in Public Administration. For ten years he worked in various police departments, most recently as head of the kriminalpolizeilichen counseling center in Kiel. From 2000 to 2003 Breitner worked as a personal speaker of the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of the Interior Klaus Buß. In October 2002, he was elected by the citizens of the city of Rendsburg in direct election to the mayor and took office on April 1, 2003. In the mayoral election in 2010, he was confirmed with 87%. In 2012, Andreas Breitner became Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet of the state government. Since 2015 he is director of the VNW Verband Norddeutscher Wohnungsunternehmen e.V.
Lisa Badum
Lisa Badum has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the autumn of 2017 for the constituency of Bamberg and for the whole of Upper Franconia.
The 35-year-old is spokeswoman for climate policy in the green parliamentary group. She is a member of the Environment Committee and Dep. Member of the Committee on Economic and Energy Affairs.
From 2012 to 2017 she worked in the civil energy department at NATURSTROM AG.
She was employed from 2010 to 2013 in the constituency of the deputy Uwe Kekeritz (Alliance 90 / The Greens).
The political scientist studied at the University of Bamberg.
Lisa Badum is a member and others. in Terre des Femmes, Bund Nature Conservation, Association Nationalpark Nordsteigerwald.
Dr. Gianni Chianetta
Dr. Gianni Chianetta is Director at Greening the Islands and CEO at The Green Consulting Group. He holds a degree in Mechanical & Management Engineering and masters and studied in London, Chicago, Milan and Madrid. Gianni Chianetta has been elected by the board to be Chair Elect in 2019 and Chairman of the Global Solar Council in 2020. After spending some years in the area of sales and project management for companies such as Parke-Davis, Capsugel, Wilkinson Sword, Warner Lambert, Tetra and others, since 2002 he has been working in the area of energy, first as External Affairs Director at BP Italia and then as Managing Director at BP Solar Italy. He has also chaired the coordination of the group of enterprises in the framework of the Ministry of the Environment (National Committee for Solar Energy) and he has been one of the founders of the Global Network of National PV Associations (NNPVA) in 2007, which has been the basis for the Global Solar Council.
Prof. Dr. Ines Lolo Britta Carstensen
Prof. Dr. Ines Lolo Britta Carstensen is the scientific director of the national research alliance for the tourism industry (CIST e.V., Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Tourism). Previously, she was Managing Director of Futouris e.V., the sustainability industry initiative founded in 2009 by seven TUI Group companies. Since 2011 she teaches as a professor for sustainability and innovation management and has her chair at the SRH-Hochschule Berlin. Previously, she carried out and led various research projects on the topics of climate, sustainable tourism, destination management and mobility at the universities in Lüneburg, Potsdam and at universities in Berlin. Sustainable tourism, tourism logistics, climate change in tourism as well as destination and innovation management are the focal points of her teaching and scientific publications. The positioning of German islands as part of the Europe-wide Smart Island Initiative flanked Prof. Carstensen with the initiation of transdisciplinary research collaborative projects and “Science to Destination Dialogues” in CIST.
Knut Schäfer
Knut Schäfer, 42 years old, born on Rügen, is managing director of Weiße Flotte GmbH, based in Stralsund and heads the shipping company Hiddensee GmbH, and the North German Inland Shipor. He is a volunteer as chairman of the Rügen Tourist Board.
Within the FRS Group, a leading international Shipping company in sea tourism, he is at the forefront of future technologies, including green drives and traffic concepts.
Dr. Helmut Morsi
Dr. Helmut Morsi studied Physics and received a PhD (Dr rer.nat.) in 1985. His career started being as researcher in different institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. In 1988 he began working o an European level, working with patent lawyers, participating in Euratom’s Joint European Torus.
Since 1994 he has managed various funding programmes for research and transport at the European Commission in Brussels (Training & Mobility of Researchers Networks – all fields of research, High-Level Scientific Conferences. After implementing and managing the Marco Polo programm, he became the deputy head of MOVE-B1 “Trans-European Network” and also the Head of Sector for the TENtec & Innovation on transport infrastructure. In 2006 on he has initiated TENtec. Since 2015 he is advisor to the director of “European Mobility Networks” (DG MOVE-B), which includes the coordination of innovation. In 2017 the Directorate was modified and enlarged. It has been thus renamed “Investments, Innovative & Sustainable Transport”.
Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter
Beate Ratter is professor of integrative geography and coastal studies. Her research focusses on human/nature-interaction, place attachment and sustainable regional development in European coastal areas and small islands. Special interest lies in the analysis of nature perception and awareness of environment, extreme events and risks in different regional cultures. For her, sustainable coastal management is about participation of lay people and the integration of transformative governance structure in multi-hazard and multi-stakeholder environments. B. Ratter gained regional experiences in industrialised and non-industrialised nations, i.a. Canada, Columbia, Caribbean islands, Guyana, Taiwan, Maldives and the European Wadden Sea.
Her current work specialises in climate change adaptation, strategies and barriers, and deals with questions on resilience, vulnerability and adaptation capacity in coastal and island societies. She is Vice-president of the International Small Island Studies Association (ISISA) and currently Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere, which will be published in September 2019.
In 2011 she studied the ecological footprint of Helgoland (Ratter/Petzold 2012: From Ecological Footprint to Ecological Fingerprint. Sustainable development on Helgoland. In: Karin Topsø Larsen (Hg.): From one island to another. A Celebration of Island Connections. Bornholm: Centre For Regional And Tourism Research, pp. 191-203). Her recent book is about small islands in a globalised world: Ratter 2018: Geography of Small Islands – Outposts of Globalisation. Springer Nature, Cham Switzerland, DOI.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63869-0
Prof. Dr. Jörg Philipp Terhechte
Angelika Grohmann-Wörle
Angelika Grohmann-Wörle holds a Master Degree in Geology and a Master of Business Administration. For more than 25 Years Grohmann-Wörle was working as a consultant for technical and environmental consultancies worldwide. She worked for private and public clients as well as for several international finance institutions preparing environmental impact studies and undertaking environmental and social audits as the responsible Project Manager. Her project experience covers the transport infrastructure and energy sector as well as the oil and gas sector for environmental and licensing topics. In 2010 Angelika Grohmann-Wörle joined TenneT TSO GmbH as a Team Manager Licensing for the offshore projects in the German EEZ focusing on topics for the design and installation of offshore cables and platforms. Since June 2018 she heads the Technical Work Stream of the North Sea Wind Power Hub (NSWPH) project.
