Dear members of the Community of Practice on Cities,

It is our pleasure to invite you to join us at our first virtual general meeting of the year, held this coming Wednesday 28^th April (14h30 – 16h30). There are a wide range of speakers invited to give updates on relevant projects, and we will introduce you to the Urban Observatory, the framework of our JRC activities [overview document attached here]. There will also be a special session reporting back on the pilot phase of the City Science Initiative.

Please also feel free to forward this invitation to anyone in your network who may wish to join.

Registration is required for the event through this link.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Your Newsletter Editors,

                                                                           Ine Vandecasteele, Jean-Philippe Aurambout, Patrizia Sulis

Agenda

14.30 Opening     [Moderator: Mart Grisel – EUKN]

14.35 Word of welcome     [Mikel Landabaso – DG JRC]

Updates from CoP-Cities Members

14.40 Update from DG REGIO     [Laura Hagemann, DG REGIO, co-chair of the CoP-Cities]

14.50 Update on the Cities Missions     [Marie Yeroyanni, DG RTD]

15.00 Living in EU     [Serge Novaretti, DG CNCT]

15.10 Eurocities     [Masha Smirnova]

15.20 CEMR     [Natalie Noupadja, tbc]

15.30 Towards an Urban Observatory     [Carlo Lavalle, DG JRC]

15.45 CSI     [Javier Gomez, DG JRC, Moderator: Caroline Nevejan, City of Amsterdam]

16.15 Discussion/questions     [open to all participants]

16.30 Concluding Remarks     [Alessandro Rainoldi, DG JRC]

NB: We will be using SLIDO for the interactive part of the meeting so please make sure you have the application installed on your device.