The round table will be devoted to German-Russian Technology Partnership for a Modern Energy Sector.

Exposition:

German and Russian energy companies have been successfully collaborating for over hundred years. Traditionally, it has been the role of European companies to provide new technologies and the role of their Russian partners to deliver fossil energies. Nowadays, the situation is not that clear-cut anymore. Global trends of the energy industry as well as a Russian state policy to substitute imports have an impact on the German-Russian technology partnership. At the round table, the participants will discuss, what a European contribution to a modern energy industry in Russia could look like.

The event will be hold in German, Russian and English and simultaneously interpreted.

Questions to be discussed:

• What are the key drivers of technological advancement in the energy sector?
• What does the energy industry of the future look like?
• What are the urgent demands in the immediate future?
• Which significance does the import substitution policy have for the contribution of European companies to the further development of the industry?

• What are the achievements of German-Russian projects to advance the energy sector?

• What are the main challenges for the German-Russian technological collaboration?