PROGRAMME

Monday 23 October 2017

INTRODUCTORY SESSION
Chairman: Georges Van Goethem

10:00 Georges VAN GOETHEM, Member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences
Welcome Address

10:15 Alexander DE CROO, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development

Cooperation
Title/theme to be confirmed

10:35 Youssouf OUÉDRAOGO, Professor, University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso);

Special Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank
Sustainable Energy Supply for Africa: What can be done to address the Major
Challengies?

10:55 John MAY, Visiting Scholar, Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC (USA)
The Demography of Africa: Impacts on Economy, Energy and Governance

Energy is Crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

11:15 Mustafa EL TAYEB, President of The Future University, Khartoum (Sudan); Member
of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences
Sustainable Energy Mix for African and MENA Region Countries

11:35 Emmanuel ACKOM, Sr Scientist, UNEP/DTU Partnership, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa: Successes, Challenges and Possible
Way Forward

11:55 Wail BENJELLOUN, President of the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)

African Universities and Science Diplomacy in Favour of Alternative Sources of
Energy

12:15 Questions and answers.

12:30 LUNCH

2:00 Bruno BENSASSON, CEO Africa Business Unit, ENGIE, Paris (France)
Centralized and Decentralized Energy Solutions for Africa: Cutting-edge Technol-
ogies supported by and co-developed with the African Actors

2:20 Koffi EKOUEVI, Sr Economist, Africa Region Energy Team, The World Bank
Making Access to Energy Services the Engine of Sustainable Development Post-2015
in Sub-Saharan Africa
 2:40 Ed BROWN, National Coordinator, UK Low Carbon Energy for Development
Network; Sr Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University, Leicestershire
(UK)
Governing Decentralized Energy Provision: exploring the Role of Local Governance
in articulating Nexus Approaches to Energy Transitions

3:00 Emanuela COLOMBO, Professor, UNESCO Chair in Energy for Sustainable Develop-
ment, Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy)
Performance and Impact Assessment Model: Energy Planning Methodology to orient
Strategies for Scaling up Access to Energy

3:20 COFFEE BREAK

3:50 André BOUFFIOUX, CEO, Siemens Belgium-Luxemburg

Industrial Strategy to identify Priorities in Energy Mix Policies in Africa as a Result
of Joint Discussions about Local Needs and Resources

4:10 Valérie QUINIOU, Vice-President, Climate-Strategy-Innovation, TOTAL Paris

(France)
Integrating Climate Change into Strategy for an Oil & Gas Company: Focus on Africa

4:30 Mannava SIVAKUMAR, Editor in Chief Weather and Climate Extremes (Elsevier);
Acting Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Consultant
World Bank; Member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences
Challenges of Climate Change with Respect to Energy Policy in Africa

4:50 Questions and answers; short presentations of posters.

6:00 Reception and poster session.

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Energy Mix: towards Robust, Equitable and Socially Acceptable Energy

Systems
09:00 Aymen CHAOUACHI, Power System and Security Expert, Power System Operations &
Security, Elia Grid International (EGI)
On Power System Paradigm: Opportunities and Challenges

09:20 Anthony PAPAVASILIOU, Professor, ENGIE Chair in Energy Economics and Energy
Risk Management, UCL
Sustainable Energy Transition: an Operations Research Perspective

09:40 Bernard NDAYE NKANKA, Professor, Institut Supérieur de Techniques Appliquées

(ISTA), Kinshasa (DRC)
Prospective énergétique de la République Démocratique du Congo dans un scénario
Business as Usual à l’Horizon 2050
10:00 Samuele FURFARI, Professor Geopolitics of Energy, Ecole polytechnique, ULB
Energy Poverty in Africa: Focus on Challenges and Solutions related to Electric
Power and to Energy for Cooking

10:20 COFFEE BREAK

10:50 Carl DE MARÉ, Vice-President & Head of Technology Strategy, ArcelorMittal

Steel: a Key Resource for a Sustainable and Circular Economy in Emerging Countries

11:10 Jean-Pierre TSHIBANGU, Professor, Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of

Engineering, UMons; Member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences
Towards a Global Partnership regarding Mineral Resources and Energy Production:
Contribution to Sustainable Development with Focus on Africa

11:30 Pépin TCHOUATE HETEU, Managing Diretor DEECC Consulting (Energy, Environ-
ment, Climate Change Mitigation)
Renewable Energy Deployment in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Perspectives

11:50 Questions and answers; short presentations of posters.

12:30 LUNCH

2:00 Paul FRIX, Advisor CBL-ACP; Manager of PROPADEV

EU-Africa Cooperation in the Field of Energy: What needs to be done to boost
Regional Power Trade? Challenges and Opportunities of Power Pools

Hydro
2:20 Henri BOYE, Advisor, Electricity Sector Reform Project, USAID Electrification
(France)
Hydro-electricity in Africa: remaining Economically Exploitable Capacity and Impact
Assessment Study

2:40 François MISSER, Independent Researcher; Expert Natural Resources in Africa

Grand Inga, le plus grand complexe hydroélectrique du monde: ambition nécessaire
mais à mûrir

3:00 Patrick HENDRICK, Professor, Ecole polytechnique, ULB

Using Small Low Cost, Robust and Easily Maintained Decentralized Hydraulic Power
Stations in Central Africa

3:20 COFFEE BREAK

Solar
3:50 Jozef POORTMANS, Scientific Director of the PV and Energy activities, Interuniversity
Micro-electronic Centre (IMEC), Leuven (Belgium); Professor, KU Leuven and
University of Hasselt (Belgium)
The Potential and Challenges related to Photovoltaic Electricity Generation and
Local (DC) Microgrids
 4:10 Marcel BIAL, Secretary General, European Solar Thermal Electricity Association
(ESTELA)
The Value of Concentrated Solar Power for Developing Countries: Another Look on
Energy Transitions

4:30 Eric PIRARD, Professor, ULg; Member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences
Development of Solar Energy in Africa: a Challenge in Terms of Resource Availability
and Recycling

Nuclear Fission
4:50 Peter BAETEN, Professor Nuclear Fission, VUB; Geavanceerde Nucleaire Systemen
SCK•CEN, Mol
The Development of Small Modular Reactors for Emerging Nuclear Countries in
Africa

5:10 Questions and answers; short presentations of posters.

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8:00 Walking dinner + poster session.

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Bioenergy
09:00 Willy VERSTRAETE, Professor, Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology,
Bioscience Engineering, UGent
The Bio-tech Road towards Sustainable Energy - a Possible Frame for Africa

09:20 Rainer JANSSEN, Head of the Biomass Department, WIP Renewable Energies
(Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur GmbH & Co Planungs-KG), München (Germany)
Overview of Bioenergy Policies for Sustainable Development in Africa

09:40 Jean Noël MARIEN, Unité de recherche Forêts et Sociétés, Centre de Coopération
internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD),
Montpellier (France)
Wood Energy Trends and Challenges in Africa: What Future for African Population
Energy Needs?

10:00 Hervé JEANMART, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, UCL

A Locally Manufactured Gasification Technology for the Valorization of Agricultural
Wastes in West African Countries

10:20 István MARKÓ, Professor, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Médicinale, UCL

Examining Energy Production in Africa from the Chemistry Viewpoint

10:40 COFFEE BREAK

Research, Innovation and Education in Support of Sustainable Energy
Policies
11:10 Pierre DILLENBOURG, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne
(EPFL) (Switzerland); Directeur académique du Centre pour l’éducation à l’ère
digitale à l’EPFL (MOOC Factory including MOOC Afrique)
MOOCs with African Universities: Lessons Learned

11:30 Erick TAMBO, Associate Academic Officer, Institute for Environment and Human
Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University, Bonn (Germany)
E-Learning for Renewable Energy Higher Education in Africa: Challenges, Potential
and Outlook

11:50 Eric UYTTEBROUCK, Coordinator Cellule PRAC-TICE (Pédagogie, Recherche-Action

& TICE), ULB
Potentiel des MOOCs en Afrique et besoins des populations en Afrique Subsaharienne

12:10 Sandra SOARES-FRAZÃO, Professor, UCL

Sharing Knowledge Online and Improving Education using MOOCs

12:30 LUNCH

2:00 CONCLUDING SESSION

Parallel sessions:

→ Poster presentations and brief communications from the floor

→ MOOC working group: creation of a MOOC on Sustainable Energy for Africa

3:20 Rachel KYTE, Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL);
special representative of the UN Secretary-General
Affordable, Reliable and Sustainable Energy as the Key to combating both Poverty
and Climate Change

3:40 MOOC rapporteur

Preliminary Conclusions MOOC Working Group

4:00 Concluding Remarks

4:10 Didier REYNDERS, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Title/theme to be confirmed

4:30 Closure
 POSTERS*

Energy is Crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Monday 23 October 2017

Smaïla CAMARA, ENA/Dauphine and HEC Paris Business School; Special Advisor to Jean-
Louis Borloo, President of Energies for Africa (France)
Our Goal: 600 Million Africans connected to Electricity by the Year 2025

Fiona WOLLENSACK, EU Energy Initiative - Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI-PDF),

Brussels & Niklas HAYEK, Africa-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP) and
EUEI PDF, c/o Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH,
Eschborn (Germany)
Mapping of the European Portfolio of Energy Development Cooperation on behalf of the EU
Energy Initiative

Christian DIERICK, Advisor, Agoria, Multisector Federation of the Technological Industry,

Brussels
AGORIA’s Views and Technology Contributions for Energy and Sustainability in Emerging
Countries

Peter KONINCKX, Director Power Generation & Transmission Systems, Siemens

Development of Advanced Energy Technologies in Africa: Success Stories obtained and
Challenges left from both Technological and Managerial Points of View

Joseph DUBOIS, Product Director Tractebel

Modern Energy Strategy Implementation in Africa: Success Stories and Challenges left in
Terms of Central and Decentralized Power Generation, Integration of Renewable Energies,
Power Systems Interconnection and Optimum Planning between Centralized Grid and
Decentralized Micro-grids

Claude AYACHE, Sr Advisor, KIC InnoEnergy, Societas Europaea (SE), Business Development
& European Affairs
Generic Lessons from EUROMED Research-to-Innovation Projects in the Field of Renewable
Energy & Energy Efficiency: Innovation, Co-development, Capacity Building

Jean-Pierre RASKIN (UCL) & Stéphanie MERLE (Louvain Coopération)

Collaboration between Northern and Southern Organizations with the Aim to facilitate and
analyse Technology Impact on Society

Philippe CHARLEZ, Sr Technical Advisor; specialist Unconventional Resources, former Rock

Mechanics Expert in the Oil & Gas industry
Growth, Energy and Climate: squaring the Circle

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During plenary sessions, posters will be briefly (5 minutes) presented by their authors. They can be
seen throughout the conference and during breaks the authors will be available for further information
on their projects.
César KAPSEU, Ambassador of Science, University of Ngaoundere (Cameroon) & Liliane
ATOUKAM, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ngaoundere (Cameroon)
Science and Diplomacy in Central and Western Africa: Remarkable Achievements and
Challenges

Energy Mix: towards Robust, Equitable and Socially Acceptable Energy

Systems

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Muriel LAMBERT DE ROUVROIT et al., Infrastructure and Environment Unit, Belgian

Development Agency (BTC?)
Private Sector Involvement in Energy Production: Experiences of the Belgian Development
Agency from Rwanda and Mozambique

Thomas STEINPARZER et al., Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH, Linz (Austria)

Industrial Waste Heat Recovery – Innovative Solutions for Steel Industry

Almado ROOSEVELT DE PAULA, Health and Safety, Environment and Forest Research Manager,
ArcelorMittal, BioFlorestas Ltda., São Geraldo-Martinho Campos (Brasil)
Mini Mill Plants for Steelmaking: Sustainable Production of Charcoal as Fuel Source while
taking care of Environmental and Social Issues in Forest Plantations

Hydro
Thomas MERCIER, Research Assistant, Université Laval (Canada) and UCL
Variable-speed Pumped Hydro Energy Storage: bringing Flexibility to the South African Grid
in Order to accommodate Future Developments in Nuclear Energy and Renewables

Jean Paul KATOND MBAY, University of Lubumbashi (DR Congo) & Patrick HENDRICK, ULB
Archimedean Screw Turbine: Opportunity for Rural Electrification in DR Congo?

Jean Bosco NIYONZIMA, Aero-Thermo-Mechanics, Polytechnic School, ULB & Patrick

HENDRICK, Professor and Head of Department Aero-Thermo-Mechanics, Polytechnic School,
ULB
Small Hydropower Development in Burundi

Geert SLACHMUYLDERS & Jasper VERREYDT, Turbulent Hydro, Innovator Under 35 EU 2016,
Best start up in Start-up Nations Summit 2015
Turbulent Hydro - Decentralized Hydropower for Africa, inspired by Nature

Solar
Benoît LEGRAND et al., Coordinator Infrastructure and Environment Unit, Belgian
Development Agency (BTC?)
Development of Energy Efficiency and Passive Technologies in Buildings for improving Users’
Comfort: Experience of the Belgian Development Agency in Uganda, Senegal and Palestine
Izael PEREIRA DA SILVA, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Strathmore University, Nairobi (Kenya)
Penetration of Solar Energy in Kenya and Prospects for the Next 10 to 15 Years

Ahmed ABBAS, SunCity Energy, The American University in Cairo (Egypt)

Affordable Mobile Solar Water Pumps for Small Farmers

Michel LALMAND, Vice President Solar, Sales & Marketing, Cockerill Maintenance &
Ingénierie (CMI)
Solar Thermal Energy and Molten Salt Storage (CSP+): a Solution for Dispatchable Solar
Electricity Generation

Luckywell SEYITINI, Lecturer, Physics, Geography and Environmental Department, Great

Zimbabwe University, Masvingo (Zimbabwe)
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Technologies for Electricity Generation in Harare,
Zimbabwe: Comparison of Two Options, Solar Tower (ST) and Parabolic Trough (PT)

Nuclear Fission
Vincent LUKANDA MWAMBA et al., Commissariat Général à l’Energie Atomique, Kinshasa XI
(DR Congo)
Nuclear Energy and Sustainable Development in Africa: Challenges and Ways Forward

Gerd DERCON, Head of the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Laboratory,
Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA, Seibersdorf (Austria)
How the IAEA uses Nuclear Science and Technology to help Countries meet their Development
Goals and keep Nuclear Technology in Peaceful Use

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Bioenergy
Maarten VERGOTE, Professor, Department of Physics, Ecole Royale Militaire/Koninklijke
Militaire School
Electricity and Heat Generation Solutions from Renewable Energy Sources for Remote
Households in Central Africa

P??? KANA-DONFACK et al., Department of Electrical Energy and Automatic System

Engineering, ENSAI, University of Ngaoundere (Cameroon)
The Cogeneration in Sugar Mill: an Energetic Deposit Opportunity for Sustainable
Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Floris DALEMANS, PhD student, KU Leuven & Bart MUYS, Professor, Division Forest, Nature
and Landscape, Forest Ecology and Management, KU Leuven
Bio-economic Potential of Alternative Biofuel Trees: an Alternative Liquid Biofuel Production
Model based on Oily Seeds of Native Tree Species
Miscellaneous Topics

Yezouma COULIBALY, Institut International d’Ingénierie de l’eau et de l’environnement (2iE),

Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Role of Renewable Energies in the Fight angainst Global Warming: the Context of Africa

Bernard RESPAUT, Chief Executive, European Copper Institute, Brussels

Hydrocarbon Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a Potential Source of
Development for the Country?

Tim BERCKMOES, CEO/Gedelegeerd Bestuurder, Anglo Belgian Corporation

Zero Emissions Energy in an African Context

M.N. OKANA et al., Département d’Electricité, Faculté Polytechnique, Université de Kinshasa,

RD Congo
Distributed Generation Systems as a Solution to reduce Load Shedding in Central Africa

VENKATA RAMAYYA ANCHA, Professor Mechanical Engineering & Sustainable Energy

Engineering, Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma City (Ethiopia) check first
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Linking Sustainable Energy with Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration through Frugal
Innovation

Eva KAGIRI, Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID); Sr

Planning Officer FinCEAL Africa, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Building Sustainable Partnerships in EU-Africa Research and Innovation Initiatives:
Experiences from a Finnish University Network

Jean-Luc DELPLANCKE, Ecole Polytechnique – 4MAT, ULB

Fuel Cells in Emerging Countries: a Flexible Device for the Production of Electricity from
one W to tens of MWs

Adedoyin ADELEKE et al., Centre for Petroleum, Energy Economics and Law, University of
Ibadan (Nigeria)
Sustainability of Solar Mini-grids in Nigeria

E-journal L’Africain, site des étudiants africains en Belgique. Contact person: Marthe Djuikom-
Vandenbergh from Cameroonian board of FERDEDSI/ IPEED (Institut Populaire de l'Eau et
l'Energie pour le Développement)
FERDEDSI - Forum Energies Renouvelables pour le Développement Durable par la Solidarité
Internationale