Dear members of the Community of Practice on Cities,

Thank you very much to those of you who registered to the event and allowed us to select the appropriate video conferencing platform.

Please find below the link to attend the plenary event that will be held via Zoom on Wednesday 28^th April from 14h30 to 16h30 CET

To join the meeting, please click on the following link or paste it in your Web browser:

A wide range of speakers will 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.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

The CoP on Cities coordination teams.

Agenda

14.30 Opening     [Moderator: Mart Grisel – EUKN]

14.35 Word of welcome     [Mikel Landabaso – DG JRC]

14.40 - 15.30 Updates from CoP-Cities Members

EUKN      [Mart Grisel]

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

DG RTD     [Marie Yeroyanni]

DG CNCT     [Noirin Ni Earcain]

DG MOVE     [Luana Bidasca]

Eurocities     [Masha Smirnova]

CEMR     [Natalie Noupadja]

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

15.45 City Science Initiative     [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.