On Thursday, 27 February 2025, the University of Bucharest hosts the International Symposium “Green Energy Frontiers. Bridging Geoscience with Energy professionals”. The abstract submission deadline is 31 January 2025, and the notification of acceptance will be transmitted until 5 February 2025.
The symposium welcomes contributions from all sectors that explore technical, economic, social, and environmental dimensions in advancing renewable energy’s role in the global energy mix. As such, the topic list includes:
- Geothermal resources
- Geothermal Energy Exploration and Utilization
- Hazards and energy production
- Geological and geophysical aspects related to green transition
- Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)
- Hydropower, Nuclear, Waste, Wind and Solar Energy Integration
- Hydrogen Storage in Geological Formations
- Policy and Regulatory Frameworks
- Case Studies and Best Practices
In addition, the symposium will include a panel discussion on the topic: Developing Future Workforce for the Energy Transition. Shaping the future through Education and Curriculum Development: Academia, Oil & Gas Industry, know-how transfer between countries, and authorities collaboration.
A template for the abstracts is available here.
Abstracts will be submitted via this form. For questions or additional information write at e-mail florina.tuluca@g.unibuc.ro.
The program also includes the following invited presentations & speakers:
- Geothermal Energy in Smart Cities: heating, cooling, electricity, energy efficiency and decarbonization, presented by Sonia Isabella López Kovács (Reserves Audit Leader, Repsol Spain. SPE Spain Section Chair, SPE Geothermal Technical Section Europe Membership Chair and SPE Hydrogen Technical Section Europe Program Chair. Member of CCS Technical Committee and in the Geothermal Technical Committee of the EAGE)
- Geothermal energy in Romania. Present and perspectives, susținută de Marian Bordeianu (Geological Engineer – TRANSGEX SA Oradea, Research Assistant STAR-UBB Institute, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, CEO – THERMOZOIC SRL)
- Troubleshooting on recent geothermal tenders from Romania. How to handle planning failures during tendering and realizing of running projects?, susținută de Viktória Försterné Nán (Foratherm Kft., Hungary)
The event will take place at Casa Universitarilor (46 Dionisie Lupu Street, Bucharest) and is organized within the project “Driving Sustainable Urban Futures: A Romanian-Norwegian Innovation Geophysical Alliance for Green Transition and SMART City Development” (GeoAlliance), funded through the EEA and Norwegian Grants Program, is a collaborative initiative between the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Geology and Geophysics and PSS-GEO, operating under the umbrella of the Geophysical Alliance for Green Transition and Smart City Development.
Accepted abstracts will be included in a volume with DOI. Extended presentations can be later submitted for publishing as a book chapter under the aegis of the Romanian Society of Applied Geophysics.
More information about the symposium are available here.
For attendance & registration as a participant fill in the following form.
The project “Driving Sustainable Urban Futures: A Romanian-Norwegian Innovation Geophysical Alliance for Green Transition and SMART City Development” is co-financed by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants Romania 2014-2021, in the frame of the SME Growth Programme Romania. Grant number:2024/395080. The project is a collaborative initiative between the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Geology and Geophysics and Pre Stack Solutions – Geo AS (PSS-GEO AS) (www.pss-geo.com).