Dear community members,

We hope you had a nice and relaxing summer break and welcome to the early fall edition of the CoP-CITIES newsletter! 

In this release, we highlight the JRC's participation in the European Week of Regions and Cities, we present a new JRC publication entitled the BiodiverCities Atlas, and we have the honour to include a short interview with Xavier Timbeau, principal director of  L’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE) at SciencesPo.

Particularly, we are happy to confirm that our annual CoP-CITIES plenary meeting will take place as an official side event of the European Week of Regions and Cities. This year the meeting will be in presence and take place at our JRC headquarters in Brussels. You will find more details about the agenda and registration process in the dedicated section below, but we can already say we are very much looking forward to bringing our members together and seeing you in person! 

For now, we wish you an inspiring and productive fall, and for those who will not attend the EWRC, we reconnect in November. As usual, do not hesitate to reach out to us to flag any initiatives and activities that can be of interest to our community.

The newsletter editorial board

Patrizia Sulis, Sjoerdje van Heerden, Silvia Iodice