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Date(s) - 22 March 2026 - 24 March 2026
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Following the successful Island I Would Like Lab in Brač, the CO2 PACMAN project continues its island-driven climate action journey with a new three-day Lab on the island of Elba, from March 22 to 24, 2026.

The Lab in Brač brought together local authorities, researchers, businesses, and citizens to co-create concrete pathways toward climate neutrality. Through participatory workshops and onsite exploration, stakeholders identified priority actions across key sectors such as energy, mobility, tourism, food systems, and ecosystem-based solutions, directly informing the island’s greenhouse gas balance and decarbonisation roadmap.

Building on these outcomes, the upcoming Island I Would Like Lab in Elba will further strengthen collaboration between project partners and local stakeholders, with a focus on translating research insights and co-created ideas into practical, locally grounded actions. The workshop will address critical sectors for Elba’s sustainable transition, including renewable energy and storage, sustainable mobility, waste and water management, food systems, low-carbon activities, ecosystem-based approaches.

At the core of CO2 PACMAN is community engagement. Through interactive sessions and co-creation workshops, participants will work together to design tangible strategies that reduce emissions while enhancing the resilience and sustainability of Elba’s economy and environment.

Click here to register for the immersive walk in the former Capoliveri mine (Day 1)

Click here to register for the CO2 PACMAN Tool simulation (Day 2)

AGENDA

Day 1 – 22 March 2026

Sunday, 22 March 2026
Capoliveri – Elba Island

Venue: Former Mine and Warehouse, Capoliveri

*9:15 Free shuttle departure (Molo Alto Fondale, Port Area, Portoferraio) – Eventbrite
registration
10:30-11:00 | Welcome and Registration
11:00-12:30 | Immersive walk: inside the landscape between past, present and future
12:30 | Light lunch, networking in Warehouse and interactive exhibition areas
– Elba Island Greenhouse Gas Inventory – The basis for decarbonisation choices
– Exploring Decarbonisation Pathways through the CO2 PACMAN Tool
– CO2 PACMAN Cool Game – Learning decarbonisation through play: simple
strategies for informed choices
– Open Innovation Collaborative Action – The island’s challenges meet innovation:
start-ups and solutions for a sustainable transition
– AskyourcitizenonCaN – Survey on citizens’ perceptions of the project’s key
themes
– Scenarios for the island’s energy transition – illustration of landscape scenarios
and design examples
– Virtual Reality – exploring the island’s energy transition between wind and solar
power

Day 2 – 23 March 2026

Portoferraio – Elba Island (Italy)

Venue: “La Gattaia” Centre, Portoferraio

13:00–15:30 | Project Meeting and Steering Committee for Partners
15:30–18:30 | Experiencing Elba Island’s Ecological Transition- interactive exhibition
areas
Outdoor session on:
– Elba Island Greenhouse Gas Inventory – The basis for decarbonisation
choices
– Open Innovation Collaborative Action – The island’s challenges meet
innovation: start-ups and solutions for a sustainable transition
– AskyourcitizenonCaN – Survey on citizens’ perceptions of the project’s key
themes and Vox populi interviews

Indoor session on:
– Scenarios for the island’s energy transition – illustration of landscape
scenarios and design examples
– Virtual Reality – exploring the island’s energy transition between wind and
solar power
– Exploring Decarbonisation Pathways through the CO2 PACMAN Tool
Co-design experience – Free Registration via Eventbrite

18:30–19:30 |Exploring Decarbonisation Pathways through the CO2 PACMAN Tool
– Session dedicated to administrators and technicians

20:00 | Social dinner

Day 3 – 24 March 2026

Portoferraio – Elba Island (Italy)

Venue: “De Laugier” Cultural Centre, Portoferraio

09:00-9:30 | Welcome and Registration
9:30-9:45 | Institutional Greetings and Introduction to the CO2 PACMAN Project
Simone Bastianoni (Project Coordinator, University of Siena), Tiziano Nocentini
(Mayor of Portoferraio), Curzio Cervelli (Coordinator of Joint Secretariat Interreg
Euro-MED programme)
9:45-11:00 | Presentation of CO2 PACMAN Project Results
– The results of CO2 PACMAN in Elba Island –
Simone Bastianoni (Project Coordinator, University of Siena)
– Energy transition as an opportunity for change –
Gabriele Paolinelli (Project Partner of CO2 PACMAN, University of Florence)
– Youth Think Tank – Presentation of transition scenarios developed by students
from Elba Island
School Principal Alessandra Rando, teachers and students (ISIS Foresi, Upper
Secondary School)
A virtual reality area will be set up inside the auditorium; posters with the main
results of the CO2 PACMAN project will be displayed outside

11:00 | Coffee Station Opening

11:00-12:45 | Round tables – Challenges for the Decarbonisation of Elba Island

11:00-11:30 | Mayors’ perceptions of Climate Neutrality in light of the results of
the CO2 PACMAN project
– Simone Bastianoni (Project Coordinator, University of Siena) and Cristiano
Pellegrini (journalist) interview the mayors of Elba’s municipalities on the results
presented in the previous session.

11:30-12:30 | Opportunities for the Transition
Moderated by Cristiano Pellegrini (journalist)
– David Tei (Head of Ecological Transition and Environmental Sustainability Sector,
Tuscany Region)
– Domenico Zaccaria (Official of the Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts
and Landscape for the Provinces of Pisa and Livorno)
– Irene Nicotra (Head of the European Planning and Policies Service, Province of
Livorno)
– Claudio Della Lucia (President of CER Elba)
– Angela Pispola (Financial Accounting Advisory Services of Ernst & Young S.p.A.)
Conclusions: Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, President, Fondazione Univerde

12:30-12:40 | Towards the Crete Lab
Stavroula Tournaki (Project Partner of CO2 PACMAN – Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Lab -Technical University of Crete)

12:40-13:30 | Regional, national and European perspectives on climate neutrality
Moderated by Cristiano Pellegrini (journalist)
– Cecilia Cellai (member of the board of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable
Development – ASVIS)
– Cap. Luigi Lanera (Councillor Minister for Civil Protection and Maritime Policy)
– David Barontini (Councilor for the Environment, Circular Economy, Land
Reclamation, and Climate Change Protection for the Region of Tuscany)
– Nikos Xylouris (Vice Governor for Region of Crete)

13:30-14:30 | Light lunch

14:30-16:00 | Towards a roadmap for the decarbonisation of Elba Island
Moderated by Carmen Renovell (project partner of CO2 PACMAN, CEEI Valencia) and
Patrizia Lupi (journalist, Editor-in-Chief of Enjoy Elba magazine and Director of the
Elba Foundation)
Challenges and innovative solutions for the territory
– Giorgio Cucé (Chief Executive Officer of Seares) and Antonella Querci
(Manager of the Development, European Programmes and Innovation
Department at the Port System Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea)

– Companies involved in the “Open Innovation Collaborative Action”:
– Norman La Rocca (Direttore Fondazione Acqua dell’Elba)
– Claudio Della Lucia (Presidente CER Elba)
– Antonio Arrighi (Azienda agricola Arrighi)
– Mar Dominguez (Bluease)
– Josep Pijuan Parra (EURECAT)
– Davide Barbaresi (ENERECO)

Climate neutrality beyond the energy transition
– Matteo Arcenni (Extraordinary Commissioner of the Tuscan Archipelago
National Park)
– Umberto Mazzantini (Head of Marine Policies, Legambiente)
– Massimo Rovai (President of Slowfood Toscana)

16:00-16:10 | From the Elba 2035 experience to the CO2 PACMAN Roadmap
Fabio Murzi (President, Acqua dell’Elba Foundation)

16:10-16:20 | Conclusions
Simone Bastianoni (Project Coordinator, University of Siena)

Read the agenda here