<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">International Conference on</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Climate change and Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) as
a solution for the EUMENA (Europe, Middle East, North Africa) and Northeast
Asian region – perspectives for Korea’s energy policy </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">With the commitments and peer pressure resulting from the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen last December, the
search for renewable energy sources which are economically viable became a
priority for Europe and Korea and its Northeast Asian neighbours. At the same
time, the diversification of energy sources remains an important task due to
the expected steadily increasing demand for energy. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span>The generation of
concentrated solar power through large-scale plants in desert areas promises to
achieve the provision of clean, cheap and inexhaustible energy in the future.
However, successful application of CSP technology on a large-scale needs an
important amount of policy coordination and institutionalization in energy
policy. The DESERTEC idea is to integrate energy grids of population and
industry centres with desert areas ideal to generate solar-thermal energy.
Given the right framework in terms of energy policy and political cooperation,
for the EUMENA region </span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(Europe, the Middle East,
North Africa) as well as for Northeast Asia (China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula
and Mongolia) this promises to be a major way to tackle the challenges of
climate change, energy security and fostering regional integration. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span>The Gobitec
Initiative Research Network promotes the idea of energy cooperation in
Northeast Asia through an integrated network for renewable energies with a
particular focus on CSP technology. In the EUMENA region, the countries
participating in the Desertec project already started to build large-scale CSP
plants and integration of European energy policy is progressing fast. It is our
pleasure to invite you to a conference bringing together experts from Europe,
Northeast Asia and Korea to discuss the potential of “electricity from the
desert” for Europe and Northeast Asia. The conference will take place at the
Grand Hilton Hotel on December 8, 2010. We would sincerely appreciate your
presence and active participation in this important discussion. Thank you.</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Bernhard Seliger<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Prof. Dr. Young-Ryeol Park
</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Resident Representative<span style=""> </span>Director</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea <span style=""> </span>Yonsei-SERI EU Centre</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Co-hosts:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Yonsei-SERI EU Centre</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Date</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: December 8, 2010 (Wednesday)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Location:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Grand Hilton Hotel Seoul, Convention Centre 3<sup>rd</sup> fl.,
Diamond Hall</span></p>
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<p><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">R.s.v.p.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">Programme</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Time</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Speaker</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">12:30~</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">1: 00</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Registration</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">1:00~1:50</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Opening Remarks</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Bernhard Seliger, Resident
Representative, HSS Korea</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Welcoming Remarks</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Park Young-Ryeol, Director,
Yonsei-SERI EU Centre</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Congratulatory Remarks</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Uwe Wissenbach, Acting Head,
EU Delegation to the Republic of Korea</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Keynote Speech</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Woo Ki-Jong,
Secretary-General, Presidential Committee on Green Growth</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">1:50~2:00</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Coffee Break</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">2:00~2:50</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Session 1: The Concept of
CSP and its application in Desertec EUMENA</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Moderator: Kim Gi-Eun (Gobitec Initiative Research
Network/ Seokyeong University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Presentation: Mrs. Katrin-Susanne Richter (Desertec
Foundation, Munich) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Discussant: Lee Moo-Sung (Myeongji University)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">2:50~3:00</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Coffee Break</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Session 2: CSP Solutions
for Northeast Asia – towards Gobitec?</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Moderator: Park Kyung-Moon (Hongik University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Presentation I: Tetsunari Iida (Institute for
Renewable Energy, Tokyo)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Presentation II: Namjil Enebish (International
Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Discussant: Park Chang-Young (Kolon Construction
Corp.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">4:20~4:30</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Coffee Break</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">4:30~5:50</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.05pt; text-indent: -53.05pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Session 3: CSP Solutions and the role of
South Korea</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Moderator: Pak Young-Sukh (Vice-Director,
Yonsei-SERI EU Centre)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Presentation I: Park Moon-Hee (Daesung Group/Daegu
City Gas)</span></p>
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(Hanns-Seidel-Foundation)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Discussant: Matthias Vollert (Germany Embassy in
Korea)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Bernhard Seliger, Resident
Representative, HSS Korea</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Dinner and Inaugural Meeting of Gobitec Initiative
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Simultaneous translation service Korean-English will be
provided.</span><span style=""></span></p>
<br><br><br><div> </div><p>Dr. Bernhard Seliger</p><p>Hanns Seidel Stiftung - Seoul Office</p><p>Room 501, Soo Young Bldg., 64-1, Hannam 1 Dong, Yongsan-gu</p><p>Seoul, Republic of Korea</p><p>Tel.+ 82 2 790 5344</p><p>Fax. + 82 2 790 5346</p><div><br></div>
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