Al Urdonia Lil Ebda (AULE) organized through SHAAMS project – funded by the European Union within the framework of joint cooperation across the borders of the Mediterranean (ENPI CBC Med) and in collaboration with the founder of the Global Earth Hour initiative (World Wildlife Fund) the effectiveness of Earth Hour, held on Saturday evening, 19th  March  2016  at Al-Karak  Castle Square in order to preserve the environment and community awareness of the need to use clean energy sources and energy conservation and efficiency this is the biggest event ever in the field of energy conservation through enhanced focus on environmental challenges to curb climate change.

More than 120 participants from students schools and their families, representatives from public organizations, civil society, local authorities, private companies, and environmental activists. All participants celebrated the earth hour event which included a presentation about Al Urdonia Lil Ebda and its activities and a brief about SHAAMS project which was given by the Chief Executive Director of the company. Followed by a presentation of the earth hour and the importance of energy saving, energy efficiency, using renewable energy, the most important of solar energy and the negative impact of energy consumption on the environment and our planet.Then an announcement of the best video competition “Used your energy- no climate change” which was filmed by the participating schools. After that, AULE honored the winners and the relevant authorities.

And it conclude the event by turning off the lights in the Al-Karak Castle Square and lighting candles symbolic activity for this event.

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SHAAMS project achievements and impact was also presented by The Chamber of Barcelona, during the forum among other EU solar projects gathering key stakeholders and professionals in the field.

This European project was born with the goal of defining and implementing strategic policies that fostered the production of solar energy within the Mediterranean regions.

In that context, the representatives of several solar energy projects, part of the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme, being developed in within the Mediterranean region, met in the 2nd Mediterranean Solar Forum, being a meeting point between business opportunities in the solar energy sector and SMEs and entrepreneurs of the Mediterranean area. The conferences focused on discussing the opportunities and challenges that solar energy faces in the region; B2B meetings between businesses in order to reach cooperation agreements, will also take place during the Forum.

Amongst other projects SHAAMS (Strategic Hubs for the Analysis and Acceleration of the Mediterranean Solar Sector) was presented in the Forum, led by Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, being a transnational cooperation plan, born with the goal of defining and implementing strategic policies that fostered the production of solar energy within the Mediterranean regions.

The 2nd Mediterranean Solar Forum took place within the framework of the 9th edition of the Mediterranean Week of Economic Leaders organized by ASCAME (the Association of the Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce and Industry), Barcelona’s Chamber of Commerce and the Union for the Mediterranean. MEDAWEEK 2015 brought together about a hundred of speakers and a thousand of business leaders, political and economic representatives that will discuss the role of the private sector in economic growth in the Mediterranean region.

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SHAAMS Impact:
SHAAMS has organised in the last two years: 16 workshops; 18 business exchanges; the creation of 10 jobs; six awareness sessions in 14 schools and about a hundred of other activities that have involved 750 specialists reaching more than 5.000 people.

BtoB meetings were organized between participants fostering regional collaboration and business development you can find the report of this activity here: SHAAMS-Post-event Report B2B

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The last 18th of June 2015, in Naples (Italy), ANEA, in collaboration with Municipality of Naples, has organized a local meeting entitled ” Incentives and financing: applications for solar technologies“. The local meeting  had the purpose to start a discussion on opportunity of solar energy as a source of savings and business opportunity for companies. In fact, the major industry players met to discuss incentive systems of solar heating (established by Ministerial Decree 28th December 2012) and the possibility of savings with new storage technologies that will increase the overall profitability of the PV (established by Resolution 574/2014/R/EEL and 642/2014/R/EEL published on 8th april 2015).
In fact, these resolutions has been interpreted as a great development of business opportunities for many companies operating in the Campania region in the solar industry ; in his role as reference point for local authorities, energy producers and distributors companies, enterprises, public associations and citizens , ANEA wanted to just organize a half-day meeting to deepen the debate and new legislation that encourage the use of solar energy applications, in particular the new storage technologies. In fact, it is expected a massive use of this new type of technology that allows to accumulate the energy produced by a photovoltaic system so that it is available for use when the plant, for example at night, is not able to produce enough energy to consumption or for storage and store the surplus energy self-produced by residential photovoltaic systems, for use when needed or for stand-alone systems that are used to provide power in places not served by the national grid.

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It is worth mentioning that the energy report which had been prepared and discussed during a national round table workshop, which was held at the end of last year, with the participation of experts and specialists in the field of renewable energy from Jordan and other countries, where they discussed the challenges facing the energy sector and how to overcome them. They also discussed the areas of cooperation and the exchange of experience among the sectors in the field of green technology and solar energy.

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During the meetings, participants from Spain, France, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon discussed cooperation possibilities in the fields of commercial partnership, technical assistance, research or institutional cooperation.

The participants benefited from synergies and networking possibilities due to the presence of solar energy companies and institutions at I-BEF.

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