Renews - Renewable energy newsletter. January 2004, issue 1.

PHOTOVOLTAICS The Commission is planning to launch CALL FOR SUBMISSION The Ioffe Institute in St Petersburg, the “Renewable Energy and Finance where one of the first solar cells in the Forum” during the 4th trimester of OF EXPRESSIONS. [...] Laureate Zhores Alferov brought to- makers and institutions to enhance the Following the successful launch gether over 50 international PV ex- access of companies working in the of the Sixth Framework Pro- perts, highlighting the collaboration renewable energy industry to provide gramme, the European Commis- between EU and Russia. [...] The con- ference on Bio-Energy organised in Budapest aimed to integrate and increase the active role of the ac- cession and candidate countries in bio-energy research in the Sixth Framework Programme. [...] Pablo Fernandez Ruiz, Director reflected in the figures concerning the own financial resources and the weak of the Energy Research and the Hun- results of the first call for proposals in technical infrastructure for bio-energy garian Under-Secretary for Energy Mr. [...] The electronic version of the renewable sources in the EU in the abstracts can be read at the CORDIS year 2000, technologies aiming to website dedicated to bioenergy: exploit biomass sources are of funda- CONFERENCE OPENING.