Session 3: Powering Resilience Together

Objective: Translate the strategic debate from Day 1 into collective action at project level. Through portfolio mapping and structured breakout rooms, participants identify where their work builds resilience, exchange lessons across sub-topics, and develop shared insights that feed into CETPartnership's knowledge and impact agenda.

Target group: RTDI projects, R&I programme managers, industry leaders, and potential project partners working on the clean energy transition across Europe and beyond.

Agenda highlights:

9:00–9:15 Welcome & Opening: Introduction to CETPartnership Knowledge Community and Impact Support

• Katharina Reffel, Knowledge Community Management

• Tanja Suni, Impact Management

9:15–9:45 Resilience as a System: Vulnerabilities and its Socio-technical responses

• Martin Vladimirov and Kalina Tcolova, Centre for the Study of Democracy

• Michael Sterner, Prof. for Energy Storage, Hydrogen, and Renewable Energy Systems, OTH Regensburg (tbc)

• Q&A

10:00–10:20 Does Your Project Build Resilience?

• Project Portfolio Mapping along sub-topics in concept paper

10:20–10:35 Coffee Break

10:35–11:55 Breakout rooms

• Room 1—Digital Resilience (Digitalisation & AI + Cybersecurity)

• Room 2—Energy Transformation (Electrification + Industrial Decarbonisation)

• Room 3 — System & Society (Cross-Sector Integration + Energy Communities)

11:55–12:10 Key results presentation

12:10–12:20 Wrap-up and closing of conference