PROMITHEAS network invites scientists, researchers, PhD candidates and engineers from the academic, scientific, engineering and industrial sectors to participate and contribute in promoting and disseminating scientific knowledge. Participants are welcomed to submit abstracts relevant to the following themes/ topics or to combinations of them:
A. Policy issues
A.1: Environmental – Climate Change Policy
- Environmental protection policies (water, noise, health, pollution, ecosystems, biodiversity)
- Environmental  – climate change economics
- Comparative analysis of policies
- Climate change forecasting models and simulations
- Assessing climate change policies through models and methods
- Measuring and evaluating  climate change impacts (water cycle, forests, ecosystems, biodiversity, land regions, agriculture, health, cultural heritage)
- Mitigation policies (FVA, NAMA, ETS, MRV).
- Adaptation policies
- Mitigation and adaptation policy mix (synergies, conflicts)
- Carbon markets
- Sustainable development and climate change policies
- Vulnerability to climate change
- Carbon dioxide capture and storagetechnologies
- Climate change and ozone layer depletion
- Water resources and climate change
A.2: Energy
- Energy supply and geopolitics
- Strategic energy planning
- Energy system analysis, scenarios, modeling and forecasting
- Environmental, social and economic impacts of energy policies and usage
- Energy interconnections
- Transcontinental energy corridors
- Energy Economics
- Regional energy wholesale markets
- Analysis and optimization of energy processes
- Energy security and risk assessment
- Energy management systems
- Decision support systems for energy sector management These general topics concern also the following themes and topics.
B. Renewable Energy Sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, tidal wave, hydrogen)
B.1: RES
- Obstacles for the promotion of renewable energy
- Competitiveness and cost efficiency
- Renewable energies in rural areas
- Emissions cuts and RES promotion
- Vulnerability of RES
- RES markets
- New technologies and applications
B.2: Biofuels and Bioenergy
- Biofuel standards
- Biofuels and energy security
- New BioTechnologies
- Policies for promoting the use of biofuels
- Global trading and pricing
- Bioenergy markets
C: Energy efficiency and conservation
- Optimal use of energy resources
- Mathematical models
- Techniques and technologies for energy consumption measuring and monitoring
- Optimization of day lighting and artificial lighting (green lighting)
- Energy networks and decentralized production (heat and electricity)
- Nearly zero energy buildings
- Low carbon energy infrastructure
- Low carbon transportation
D: Electricity
- Generation, transmission & distribution planning and protection
- Power systems reliability and security
- Corporate system planning and management
- Market policies, structures and rules
- Pricing Market deregulation
- Markets modeling and simulation
- and transactions
- Optimization Techniques
- Demand and/or Load Management/Forecast
- Plant and equipment operation,maintenance, control and condition monitoring
- Modern technology and computation techniques and applications
- Online Monitoring and Diagnosis
- Distributed Generation, Co-generation
- Power Generation – Conventional and Renewable
- Smart Grid Technologies
E: Conventional fuels (oil, gas, coal, lignite)
- Reserves estimation technologies and methodologies Exploration  –Geological, geochemical and geophysical methods and technologies
- Production and transportation
- Improved recovery
- Socio-economics of reserves exploitation and fossil fuel transportation
- Design, construction and operations of pipelines
- Hydrocarbons maritime and rail transportation
- Clean Coal Technolog