ORGANIZATION:
7th ESEIA Conference – Green Energy Solutions:
Current and Future Trends
Welcome to the 7th ESEIA Conference!
We are delighted to announce the 7th edition of the ESEIA Conference, to be held in Lisbon from November 23rd to the 25th, 2026.
Building on the long-standing ESEIA Conference tradition of showcasing and fostering collaboration across renewable energy disciplines and sectors, this year’s event marks a new milestone in our commitment to advancing sustainable energy solutions across borders. This edition will align its focus with the evolving EU policy framework designed to strengthen the competitiveness of European clean energy and net-zero technologies on global markets, with the aim of contributing to the implementation of the following key policy initiatives:
- Clean Industrial Deal, Net-Zero Industry Act, Competitiveness Compass, and Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CISAF): Strengthening industrial competitiveness by enabling the commercialization and large-scale deployment of climate-neutral technologies.
- EU Startup and Scale-up Strategy: Fostering an innovation-friendly ecosystem that supports the creation, growth, and internationalization of innovation-driven companies.
- Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan Implementation Framework: Enhancing the full innovation chain from research to demonstration and market uptake, particularly for technologies at TRL 6 and above.
- Global Gateway Strategy: Deepening international partnerships and promoting mutually beneficial cooperation through sustainable infrastructure and connectivity.
This 7th edition will showcase smart energy solutions integrating the latest advances across the clean energy spectrum, from bioenergy and biorefineries to wind, solar, geothermal, and nuclear technologies. The panels will address the effective integration and governance of clean technologies, their societal and system-level impacts, and the conditions required to accelerate their deployment at scale. In addition, the conference will explore future challenges and opportunities arising from cutting-edge clean technologies being developed in Europe and around the world.
Special attention will be devoted to emerging spin-offs and start-up companies delivering sustainable products, services, and digital solutions for the energy and circular (bio)economy sectors.
The conference will bring together scientists, industrial professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders in a collaborative atmosphere to drive forward innovations that can help build a truly sustainable, energy-powered society.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for Submission of Abstracts:
15 April 2026 - Acceptance Notification:
30 May 2026
- Early-Bird Registration Deadline:
31 August 2026 - Registration Deadline:
31 October 2026
ASSOCIATED JOURNALS
Coming soon.
KEYNOTES SPEAKERS (Under invitation)
Confirmed (more coming soon).
Brian Norton is Emeritus Professor of Solar Energy Applications at TU Dublin. He is currently President of the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance and a Vice-President of the European Academies Science Advisory Council.
His research is on the applications of solar energy particularly in the context of buildings. It has led to innovations in photovoltaics, glazing, daylighting devices and solar water and air-heating. He is particularly associated with conceiving and developing the use of phase change materials to cool photovoltaics and with patented commercialised innovations in vacuum glazing and thermophotovoltaics. He remains active in these areas of research. He is Visiting Professor at several universities internationally, supervised over seventy doctorates and his research outputs have received over 18,000 citations with an h-index of 70.
He is a Member of, and immediate-past Secretary for Policy and International at, the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellows of the Irish Academy of Engineering, Honorary Member of the Daylight Academy, and Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers. His honours include an Honorary Doctorate from Universite de Technologie de Troyes, France, the CIBSE Napier Shaw Medal; Energy Institute’s Roscoe Award, American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for the book “Comprehensive Renewable Energy”, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Solaris Conference series and “Solar Energy” Journal Best Paper Award in Photovoltaics.
Professor Norton was Head of Energy Research at Tyndall National Institute, a Research Professor at University College Cork and Professor of Solar Energy Applications at TU Dublin. He was also a Principal Investigator in MaREI, the Irish national research centre for Energy, Climate and Marine. He was President of (what is now) Technological University Dublin for sixteen years and prior to that Dean of Engineering at Ulster University.
Brigitte Hasewend is founding and acting Director and Member of the Governing Council of the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance – ESEIA. In November 2023 she was appointed Member of the EIT Climate-KIC Association Governing Board.
ESEIA was founded in 2009. The Alliance currently has 22 member organisations, HEIs, research organisations, and businesses. In this executive capacity, Brigitte has been responsible for devising the ESEIA Strategy 2034 in the context of the European Clean Industrial Deal. In March 2023 she published a position paper on the future FP10 R&I Funding Programme. In fall 2022, she started a new ESEIA-TU Graz lecture series entitled Climate Survival Campus for public debate on climate-friendly solutions. Together with her team, Brigitte Hasewend has also won a number of large-scale Horizon R&I proposals with cross-sector partners from all over Europe and from neighbouring countries.
Since 2013 Brigitte Hasewend has worked for the European Commission as expert evaluator for Horizon projects. She was Vice-President of the Supervisory Board of Joanneum Research ForschungsGesmbH from 2014-17 and has headed the International Strategic Research Partnerships at TU Graz for many years.
Before re-joining TU Graz back in 2007 Brigitte Hasewend had spent 10 years living and working in Brussels at DG Research of the European Commission and at the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA). In her early career Brigitte Hasewend had started up the International Relations Office at TU Graz (1991-96).
PROGRAMME
(Preliminary program layout)
Day 1 – Monday, 23rd November
ESEIA Business Meetings (for ESEIA members only).
10:00 – 11:00 GC Meeting
11:00 – 13.00 GA Meeting
12:30 Registration and Portuguese welcome refreshments
14:00 Opening Ceremony
14:30 Keynote Lecture 1
15:00 Sessions 1 and 2
16:15 Coffee Break
16:30 Sessions 3 and 4
18:00 ESEIA lecture evening: “Energy System Modeling for Green Africa”
20:30 Dinner Reception
Day 2 – Tuesday, 24th November 2026
9:30 Keynote Lecture 2
10:15 Coffee-break
10:45 Sessions 5 and 6
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote Lecture 3
14:15 Start-up session
15:45 Poster Session
17:30 Keynote Lecture 4 and Closing session
Day 3 – Wednesday, 25th November 2026
9:30 – 13:00 Site visit A4F or Navigator (TBC)
Rooms are available upon request for parallel meetings, e.g. ESEIA WG meetings, project meetings, please contact us: eventos@lneg.pt
Conference topics
Special, non-limiting Focus Areas:
- Biorefineries and Biobased Industrial Products
- Advanced biofuels
- CCUS
- Sustainable (Aviation) fuels
- Biomaterials
- Bioproducts
- Algae production and utilization.
- Sustainable (Novel) bioresources
- Role of bioenergy systems innovation and bioeconomy in the energy transition.
Special, non-limiting Focus Areas:
- Smart Mobility
- New mobility concepts
- transition to sustainable transportation
- Alternative propulsion systems
- Automated driving functions
- Integration of new vehicle concepts and business models.
- Smart Grids
- Energy generation and efficiency technologies in urban regions and on a supra-regional scale
- Clean energy systems modelling
- Smart Energy Efficient Buildings
- Social and environmental needs in the built environment
- Advanced Computing for Energy Transition
- Consumer data for innovative energy solutions.
- Energy supply and demand.
Special, non-limiting Focus Areas:
- Energy harvesting materials
- Thermoelectric and magnetic materials
- Conversion of complex hybrid energy sources
- Energy materials for automotive applications
- Lightweight materials and high-performance materials (especially regarding their applications in the automotive field)
- Bio-based and biofabricated materials (for the construction sector and others)
- Nuclear energy: Fusion
- Power‑to‑X (PtX) fuels, e‑fuels, synthetic fuels
- Advanced geothermal systems (EGS, AGS)
- Hydrogen systems and sector coupling
- Advanced energy storage technologies (electric, thermal)
- Underground energy storage
- Gravity‑based storage and mechanical storage
Special, non-limiting Focus Areas:
- Governance and Policy Models: Enhancing multi-level governance and collaboration across public, private, and civil society sectors to accelerate the energy transition.
- Barriers and opportunities for market access of clean energy solutions
- Regulatory frameworks,
- Supporting schemes for leveraging market uptake of renewable energy technologies and their large-scale deployment
- Positive Energy Districts,
- Renewable Energy Communities
- Prosumerism
- Innovative Energy Business Models
- Market Uptake and overcome market entry barriers
- Digital platforms
Special, non-limiting Focus Areas:
- Bridging the Gap Between Education and Industry
- Practice-Oriented Training Programs
- Industry-driven training programs
- Preparing the Next Generation of Energy Professionals
- Doctoral programs design and evaluation
- Systems integration and interdisciplinary training
- Entrepreneurship and innovation Training programs
- Cross-cutting education and training in promoting collaboration between research, business, and education sectors.
- Presentation of recently completed and ongoing projects results and their scientific, technical and social impacts
- New projects workshop: Connect and Collaborate
- Networking session designed for project teams and innovators to connect, share ideas, and explore potential collaborations. Participants will have the opportunity to meet like-minded professionals, discuss ongoing projects, and identify synergies for future partnerships.
- Presentation of spin-offs and start-up companies from ESEIA members
- Building innovation ecosystems that empower startups, drive creative problem-solving, and unlock new business models.
CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS
Submissions for oral and visual (poster) presentations should be carried in here (link soon).
Projects, Start-ups and Spinn-off companies willing to communicate their achievements, portfolio are also invited to submit a brief abstract in here (link soon).
Please NOTE:
- For oral presentations, as well as for journal publication, authors are encouraged to upload supplementary material(s) during abstract submission, e.g. detailed methods and data discussion, figures / tables, or (preliminary) manuscripts to support the selection.
- The supplementary material will not be used for any other purpose, does not constitute a formal journal submission, and will be treated confidentially.
- All abstracts will be individually reviewed by, at least, two reviewers from the Scientific Committee (link soon).
- All accepted Abstracts will be published in the abstract book of the Congress, which will have its corresponding ISBN.
- The deadline for communications submission is 24:00h of 15th of April 2026, anywhere on Earth time zone.
- Notification of acceptance of the contribution will be communicated to the authors by May 31st 2026.
COMMITTEES
Honor committee
(Coming soon)
Conference Committee
(Coming soon)
Local Organizing Committee
(Coming soon)
Scientific Committee
(Coming soon)
REGISTRATION FEES
| Before August 31st | After August 31st | |
| General registration | 500 € | 600 € |
| Student registration | 300 € | 400 € |
| ESEIA members General registration* | 300 € | 400 € |
| ESEIA members Student registration* | 225 € | 250 € |
- Fees include conference bag, coffee breaks, cocktail, lunch, and conference dinner.
- Each registration allows to present up to 2 communications.
- Group fee discounts (15%) are available for groups (> 3 participants) from the same institution.
Registration Form
VENUE
LNEG, Campus do Lumiar, Lisboa, Portugal
Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, 22
Edifício L
1649-038 Lisboa
Portugal
Traveling to Lisbon
Typically, coming from abroad, the best option to travel to Lisbon is by airplane. You can check for travel options on https://www.rome2rio.com.
Traveling in Lisbon
From/To Lisbon Airport
Lisbon airport is quite near to the city center, and it is well connected with all types of public transportation, namely by metro.
Outside rush-hour, and exceptional circumstances, traveling from/to the airport to/from the city center should not take more than 30 min using the public transportation system (Google Maps travel assistant is very accurate).
From/To Conference venue (LNEG’s Lumiar campus)
LNEG’s Lumiar Campus is located out of Lisbon’s city Center. Although it is served by several bus lines (703 and 747), the simplest way to reach it from the airport and/or Hotels is by Taxi (or UBER, BOLT, …). Ride costs are typically below 15€, should take less than 30 min, and will take/leave you right outside the conference venue.
Airport, Conference venue, suggested hotel area, and Lisbon Metro plan:
Accommodations (suggested hotels)
Hotel Açores Lisboa
Av. Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, 3
1070-060 Lisboa, Portugal
(+351) 21 722 2920
www.bensaudehotels.com/hotelacoreslisboa
The promotion code “ESEIA” grants a 10% discount for direct bookings in the hotel website (for the nights 21 to 28 November, extra nights can be arranged upon request for grupos.hal@bhc.pt).
Radisson Blu Hotel, Lisbon
Av. Marechal Craveiro Lopes, 390
Campo Grande
1749-009 Lisboa, Portugal
Lisbon Hotels near Lisboa Airport & Metro | Radisson Blu Lisbon
There are plenty other hotel options near-by Praça de Espanha and S. Sebastião metro stations (e.g. Ibis Lisboa José Malhoa, Novotel Lisboa, Sana Malhoa, Corinthia Lisbon, …). This area is convenient for either reaching LNEG, or the airport and the historical Lisbon city center (both a direct metro line away).
Special prices are being negotiated with other Lisbon Hotels. Please check regularly for updates
Please note that the registration fee does not include any type of lodging.
SPONSORS (confirmed)
For sponsorship opportunities please contact the organizing committee eventos@lneg.pt.
CONTACT
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