🗨 GIZ Ukraine’s management team recently gathered in Brussels for their semi-annual strategic exchange, a crucial meeting to stay abreast of developments impacting #Ukraine. These discussions, held alternately in Berlin, Brussels, and Kyiv, are vital for understanding Ukraine’s short-term needs, recovery, and reforms leading towards #EU accession. 🗳 With the EU elections and the Ukraine Recovery Conference in June, this session particularly focused on how these events influence Ukraine’s path to EU membership. The team explored the connections between reconstruction efforts and the accession process, aiming to effectively balance support and understand the role of implementers in this journey. 💡 This was an incredible opportunity for exchanging ideas and mutual support at GIZ Brussels, which serves as GIZ’s hub of EU-related activities. By engaging with political, academic, and strategic experts, GIZ Ukraine aims to refine its programs and interventions, ensuring they are well-aligned with the evolving landscape of Ukraine’s future. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH #Management #Reconstruction #Recovery #EUaccession #Implementers #Development
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work. This LinkedIn profile highlights our work as part of Team Europe and activities of our teams based in Brussels. The registered offices of GIZ are in Bonn and Eschborn (Germany). The GIZ Brussels Representation is located in Leopold Plaza, Rue du Trône 108, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. For any inquiries, please contact: [email protected] About GIZ: www.giz.de Registration information: https://www.giz.de/en/html/registration_information.html Our netiquette: https://www.giz.de/en/mediacenter/93951.html Data privacy statement: https://www.giz.de/en/html/data_protection.html
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In times of multiple, overlapping crises it is pivotal to strengthen partnerships and demonstrate the power of international cooperation. With Expertise France, GIZ has a trusted partner at its side. As leading European implementation agencies, we share a joint responsibility for the reputation and the impact of European development cooperation. I am therefore delighted to have signed a Statement of Intent with Jeremie Pellet, CEO of Expertise France, in Paris, further strengthening our cooperation. Among other things, we agreed to further develop the EU Practitioners' Network, the most important platform for European implementation agencies. We aim to promote the development of a unified approach regarding topics of mutual interest like the collaboration in fragile contexts or the effective promotion of gender equality. In addition, we see an overlapping interest of the French and German governments as well as the European Commission in many regions and countries across the world. We share the concern to limit the coordination effort for the partner governments through a more aligned approach by #TeamEurope. To enhance the understanding of each other’s portfolio, we aim to provide a solid basis for continued cooperation on the ground and for a joint portfolio development. Like the previous meetings in Eschborn and Marseille, this one was also characterised by constructive and impactful discussions. I am convinced that our partnership is key to position European technical cooperation for the future and to highlight our contribution to the pursuit of Europe’s international interests.
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📅 With this week marking the first plenary session of the new European Parliament and the election of Ursula von der Leyen as the next European Commission President, Jean Van Wetter, CEO of the Belgian development agency Enabel, and Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, Chair of the Management Board of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, have jointly published an article in POLITICO on why the EU needs to stay engaged in fragile contexts. Read here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dSWUvB5G 🤲 As #peace, #poverty, #stability, and #resilience are interconnected and should be dealt with in a comprehensive way, the article underlines how it is both in line with European values and interests to contribute to stabilising and addressing the drivers of social, economic and ecological crises and protracted violent conflicts worldwide. In this context “international development organizations work on a wide range of topics, including those that will be at the heart of EU policy discussions, such as #migration, #security, #energy and #environmentaltransition. Trying to achieve results on migration or security, for example, without addressing the dimensions and drivers of fragility, will not work. Worse, it would be counterproductive.” They close by stressing the central importance of EU decision-makers continuing to pay due political attention to this issue in the mandate to come. 🔗 Having both acquired considerable expertise in working in fragile contexts while also addressing drivers of fragility, GIZ and Enabel will continue to closely work together in the framework of the Practitioners' Network for European Development Cooperation. As #TeamEurope, we must acknowledge that “sustainable peace needs international cooperation and it needs Europe’s attention today”. Read the full article below 👇 https://lnkd.in/dF7Ygu56 #InternationalCooperation #TeamEurope #Fragility #Sustainability #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanCommission #UvL Dr Friedrich Stift, Juha Savolainen, Michal Minčev, Manuel Tonnar, Francisco TIERRASECA GALDÓN, Tobias Jung Altrogge, Marco Riccardo Rusconi, Jeremie Pellet, AGENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACION INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO - AECID, #AICS, British Council, Centrālā finanšu un līgumu aģentūra, Central Project Management Agency, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P., Czech Development Agency - CzechAid, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Estonian Centre for International Development (ESTDEV), #FCDO, #FIIAPP, Goethe-Institut e.V., LuxDev, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Netherlands Enterprise Agency , #RoAid, SNV, Sida, Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation
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Interesting insights into Indonesian perceptions of Germany and Europe as a partner with welcome clarity on what needs to be done to modernise and advance this historically strong relationship 👇 Recommended reading for all with an interest in German - Indonesian and EU - ASEAN relations. GIZ Brussels Elisabeth Friedrich Sujiro Seam Friends of Europe
How do people in Indonesia view Germany? How are Germany’s efforts in connection with this geopolitically key country in South-East Asia? How important is Germany for Indonesia today? Does Indonesia see Germany as a partner with whom it can pursue shared interests and values? These and similar questions were explored in a series of around 40 interviews with Indonesian personalities from the fields of business, politics, science, media, civil society, art, culture and the arts. Indonesia is changing in step with the rapidly changing world, and therefore elements of the partnerships are also changing. How much of the familiar and tried-and-tested stays relevant these days? This and more, in our study "Germany in the eyes of Indonesia - A strategic partnership under scrutiny" Also available on our website: https://lnkd.in/gHdkZTNG #GIZindonesia #Indonesia #Germany Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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🌍 WIDU.africa, together with diaspora donors in Europe, has supported more than 1300 businesses in #Ghana. While building a team of European partners, WIDU organized a session during the EU Economic Forum in Ghana on how to build small businesses into bankable investment project. #TeamEurope #GlobalGetaway #GermanyTradeAndInvest #Business #Investments
Ghana-EU Business Forum, 2024 A key highlight of this year’s Ghana-EU Business Forum was the panel sessions featuring GIZ experts on topics like skills development and diaspora entrepreneurship financing. WIDU.africa also hosted a panel session providing insights on channeling remittances from the European Diaspora into sustainable investments for African entrepreneurs, emphasizing the importance of combining financial flows with professional business coaching and grants. Here are some highlights from the gathering of policymakers and private sector leaders from Ghana and Europe, exploring investment opportunities in: ✅ Health ✅ Agriculture ✅ ICT ✅ Renewable Energy ✅ Automotive ✅ Textiles & Garments GIZ Ghana @European Union in Ghana #TeamEurope #GlobalGetaway #GermanyTradeAndInvest
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📌 Last week, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Liaison Office to the #EU hosted representatives from European institutions, partner governments, EU Member States, and their implementing organisations in our Brussels office to discuss how to further harmonise their actions in a #TeamEurope approach. 🖇 The keynote by Fiona Ramsey, Head of Unit for Effective Development Policy and Team Europe, DG INTPA, provoked a fruitful exchange between our panellists and participants on partner orientation, co-ordination and steering, as well as monitoring and reporting. ⚙ Concretely, several Team Europe Initiatives (TEIs) were discussed as examples of joint European international cooperation, including the IYBA-SEED Project (Investing in Young Businesses in #Africa). 🎤 We would like to thank our panellists - Ivete Alane, Youth and Employment Ministry of Mozambique, Nicolas Stötzel DG INTPA European Commission, Michaela Kukuckova Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation, Elsa Velasco Valdés FIIAPP , Emanuelle Gallet Ministère des Affaires étrangères français, and our colleague Katja Roeckel for the truly insightful exchange. 🤝🌍 As GIZ Brussels we look forward to continuing our work within Team Europe, continuously striving to working better together with our partners - in Europe & globally. #WorkingBetterTogether #GIZ #DevelopmentEffectiveness #InternationalCooperation #Partnerships #Innovation #Management #Sustainability #Entrepreneurship Reinhold Elges Jens Poessel
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📅 On 24 June 2024, the European University Institute Interdisciplinary Cluster and the Sciences Po Tech and Global Affairs Innovation Lab hosted a webinar to emphasise the critical importance of multi-stakeholder collaboration in bridging the gap between academia and policymaking, facilitating informed decisions grounded in robust evidence. 👨💻 Our colleague Angela M. from Digital for Development (D4D) Hub contributed to the webinar and presented the #D4D Advisory groups, which are a practical example of hands-on multi-stakeholder collaboration. 📺 Watch here the event recording and read the main takeaways 📝 from the session "Bridging the gap between research and policy: the importance of transdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaboration" here: bit.ly/45TN3hF #SDGs #Digital #Technology #Research #Policy #Innovation #TeamEurope #UN #Africa #LatinAmerica #Caribbean #AsiaPacific #EU Shamira Ahmed Constance de Leusse
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The visit of German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Shaping Futures Academy in Brussels on Friday last week was a great opportunity for the Africa-Europe Foundation and us to present our collaboration to a large group of young African and European experts. Greta Sophia Husemann and Stephan Daiber hosted a discussion on #WomenEconomicEmpowerment for us. With trade as one of the main topics on the agenda, the discussion valuably evolved around intersectionality and strategies for overcoming discrimination. With all these topics being of great relevance to our work at GIZ Brussels, we are very grateful to all participants for the fruitful exchange and thank the Landesvertretung Nordrhein-Westfalen bei der EU for their hospitality. We look forward to maintaining this dialogue. #ShapingFuturesAcademy #AfricaEU Isabelle Eberz Ewelina Oblacewicz Dr. Manal Benani
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📅 On 17 and 18 June, Friends of Europe held the first rounds of working group meetings in the context of the DRIVE Impact Initiative. 💡 Based on dialogues between experts from a wide variety of sectors, including several of our GIZ colleagues, the initiative aims at generating policy recommendations on reforming EU approaches to global investment practices. 🤝 🌱 Key topics included redefining the notion of partnerships and community engagement, better integration of social dimensions within such partnerships, long-term solutions to natural resource management, and the integration of trade aspects to global investment. 💬 We look forward to continuing our exchanges on these crucial topics in the weeks and months to come! #internationalcooperation #partnerships #communityengagement #climatechange #criticalrawmaterials #DRIVEImpact https://lnkd.in/eYVQB6Pa
From an aid to an investment mindset: rebalancing partnerships for economic and social impact? - Friends of Europe
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Read the 🔑 takeaways from the International Power-to-X Hub Policy advisor Antonio Adolfo Fernández Rodríguez on the impact of the #EUHydrogenBank can have on the market. #technology #sustainability #innovation #hydrogens #energy Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) International Climate Initiative Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
What do the results of the first EU Hydrogen Bank pilot auction mean for the market ramp up? Our Policy advisor Antonio Adolfo Fernández Rodríguez shares 9 key takeaways: ➡ Remuneration in form of a premium has proven to be a simple and agile way to support renewable #hydrogen production, de-risk projects and facilitate price discovery. ➡ From a ceiling price of 4.5 €/kg, the clearing price has been set at 0,48 €/kg. This means that, for now, the EU is getting a particularly good ratio in terms of the expected amount of H2 to be delivered: 1.58 million tonnes of RFNBO hydrogen over ten years and overall funds allocated through the auction (EUR 719.3 million). ➡ The median expected time to entry into operation was two years less (3 years) than the maximum allowed (5 years), indicating a high project implementation capacity and technological readiness. ➡ Polymer electrolyte membrane (#PEM) electrolysers, followed by Alkaline electrolysers, were by far the preferred technological option. ➡ A higher willingness to pay is expected from off takers in the mobility sector (approx. 8 €/kg) compared to industry (approx. 6 €/kg). ➡ The winning bids are exempt from the obligation to comply with the ‘additionality’ principle for renewable electricity generation for 10 years. A monthly temporal correlation will also apply until 2030. These relaxed certification rules may have led to lower bid prices. ➡ Larger projects sizes and low electricity prices in some EU countries, have led to lower the capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX) of the winning projects, resulting in a lower levelised cost of hydrogen (#LCOH). ➡ Regulatory mandates (industry targets) have increased the willingness to pay a premium for RFNBOs. This reinforces the argument that RFNBOs will only partially compete with grey hydrogen, as two separate markets may emerge. ➡ Germany made EUR 350 million available from its own national budget, which will serve hydrogen production in Germany. The auction as a service scheme is a mechanism through which Member States can make use of the EU-level auction platform and award national funding to additional projects. #EUHydrogenBank #PtX Frank Mischler Jan-Hendrik Scheyl
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