Over twenty national and foreign specialists and politicians will discuss proposals for the future in May
Next May, the titles of the Global Media Group (JN, DN, TSF and "Dinheiro Vivo") will promote, in Matosinhos, the Sustainability and Society Forum. A major international conference, including personalities such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, or the European Commissioners Kadri Simson and Elisa Ferreira, will take place together with MOODS, a festival that combines the environmental message with culture and entertainment. With the partnership of Galp, CGD, INATEL Foundation, BEL Group and Matosinhos City Hall.
On 11 and 12 May, in the Municipal Council's Noble Hall, a discussion space will be set up, which will feature more than two dozen national and foreign personalities, from politics to energy, from architecture to finance, from economics to innovation; and between 12 and 14 May, the MOODS festival will take place in Jardim de Basílio Teles, in front of the Town Hall.
Commissioners present
The conference was divided into three panels. The first will be dedicated to "Global trends in energy" and counts with experts such as Jos Delbeke (European University Institute), Jorge Vasconcelos (New Energy Solutions), Hugo Espírito Santo (McKinsey) or Filipe Silva (CEO of Galp), and politicians such as Kadri Simson (European Commissioner for Energy), Duarte Cordeiro (Minister of Environment and Climate Action), and Luísa Salgueiro (Mayor of Matosinhos).
The second panel will discuss how to "Build a sustainable and inclusive future", with Lee Hodder (director of Galp), Gonçalo Byrne (president of the Order of Architects), José Pedro Sousa (architect who is part of the round table of the New European Bauhaus), Pedro Mesquita (Creativity Club of Portugal), Miguel Namorado Rosa (director of CGD) and Elisa Ferreira (European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms).
Marcelo and Yunus on the second day
The third panel will be opened by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and will debate "Objectives and policies for a sustainable Europe", with Georgios Papadimitriou (Galp director), Nobel Prize Muhammad Yunus, João Tudela Martins (CGD director), António Bárbara Grilo (president of the National Innovation Agency), Ricardo Mourinho Félix (vice-president of the European Investment Bank) and Mário Campolargo (secretary of State for Digitalisation and Administrative Modernisation).
Debates and proposals that will have a wide editorial coverage over the next months in "Jornal de Notícias", "Diário de Notícias", "Dinheiro Vivo" and TSF. Stay tuned.
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