On September 14^th R&D Nester will be represented in the 6^th Scientific Conference "Energy Security - Pillars and Development Perspective".

This conference will be held between on September 13^th and 14^th at the Rzeszów University of Technology, in Rzeszów, Poland.

The Ignacy Lukasiewicz Energy Policy Institue's (EPI) is the coordinator of this event, which mission is to support and promote activities related to the development of civic society, and to popularize science and knowledge concerning energy policy.

The co-organisers of this conference are the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Management of the I. Łukasiewicz Rzeszów University of Technology and the Student Scientific Association "Eurointegration".

This conference is sponsored by NATO's Public Diplomacy Division.

The aim of the event is to contribute to the scientific and expert discussion on energy policy, energy security and the energy sector in its broadest sense. The idea is to build an instrument supporting the development of these areas of knowledge, by providing a platform for discussion with the participation of scientists, experts, representatives of public administration, energy companies, non-governmental organisations, business journalists and students.

In total, the previous five editions of the Conference were attended by over 1 thousand participants (representing 50 scientific centres), about 4 thousand students and nearly 140 thousand virtual attendees.

This 6^th edition's theme is focuses on the energy transition, while continuing the scientific discussions undertaken in previous editions of the event. Key areas to be covered include: nuclear energy, hydrogen, quantum materials, offshore wind energy, threats in cyberspace, cooperation in cyber security, energy storage, influence operations in the context of Russian energy projects, energy security of the countries of NATO's eastern flank in the context of the policy of the Russian Federation, energy infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, new technologies in the security of energy sector facilities and in civil aviation, and energy security in a post-pandemic world.

R&D Nester will be represented in a roundtable panel entitled "Energy security in the post-pandemic world", where Nuno Souza e Silva, Managing Director of R&D Nester, along with 3 other speakers, will comment and express their views on how pandemic has affected and changed energy markets and electricity as well, and how post-pandemic period should be faced in these areas.

For more information: Conference website