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Data and SCM working groups wokshop CIVITAS Study Visit (, 9-11) Cooperation platform EUROCITIES Annual Conference (Gent, 19-20 tbc) Forum (, 30-31) (Grenoble, 13-15) EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK (16-22) (, 4-6) CIVITAS Study Visit (, 25-27) SHOW kick-off (, 29-31) CIVITAS Study Visit Mobility Forum - High level event (Brussels, 28) Smart Expo EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Workshops (Szeged, 18-20) (, 17-19) Urban Mobility Days (Brussels, 29 Sep - 1 Oct) and Award Ceremony (Brussels, 30-31)

USER-CHI kick-off (Brussels, 4-5) Mobility Forum meeting CIVITAS Study Visit Global Ministerial conference on (Madrid, 15-17) (, 5-7) Road Safety (, 19-20) CIVITAS Study visit (Rethymno, 22-24) CIVITAS Study Visit Air Quality and SMP working groups (Vinnytsia, 24-26) scoping meeting (, 27-28) Feb Apr June Aug Oct Dec SAVE THE DATE! - x2

NEW DECADE - NEW DEAL Our vision for mobility in our cities is one focused on people. We aim for a future in which people live and move in a healthy environment and this is why the mobiliy forum will meet in Madrid from 15-17 June under the theme ‘Sustainable mobility in healthy cities’. On 11 December 2019 the European Commission published the Communication on the European Green Deal. In the Commission’s own A second high-level event will be organised in Brussels on 28 September ahead of the Urban Mobility Days. words “the European Green Deal launches a new growth strategy for the EU. It supports the transition of the EU to a fair and prosperous society that MADRID - OPERA SQUARE responds to the challenges posed by climate change and environmental degradation, improving quality of life of current and future generations”.

The European Green Deal has ties to many of our ongoing and new workstreams with our working groups and forums. Particularly relevant for the work of the mobility forum, will be the following Commission initiatives:

- Adoption of a ‘Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy’ (rebranded Transport White Paper) - Revision of the TEN-T Regulation - Revision of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive (DAFI) - Early revision of the post-2020 CO2 standards for cars and vans regulation - Regulating access of polluting ships to EU ports and oblige docked ships to use SSE

If you are interested in contributing to EUROCITIES’ advocacy on specific Designed by Freepik mobility inititatives, or if you wish to know more on the European Green Deal, please contact Thomas. SUPPORTING CITIES IN MEETING NEW CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES The cities of today face challenges USER-CHI, with demonstrations in CHALLENGES of climate change, air pollution, 5 European cities, aims at unlocking This year will be one of safety, noise, accessibility and the big potential of electromobility experimentation, where we start urban space managment, just to in Europe, integrating different testing out new ways of working name a few. charging technologies with an in line with our five year strategy. holistic and user-centric approach. This will give us more flexibility to How will the cities of tomorrow Finally, ‘Urban Logistics as an On stimulate cross sector collaboration look like? Three trends will shape Demand Service’ (ULaaDs), will aim among our forums and working the evolution of mobility in our at accelerating the deployment of groups. cities: decarbonisation, demand innovative, shared, zero-emission and digitalisation. Thanks to logistics dealing with the impact of Some of the topics we will focus on three new Horizon 2020 projects the on-demand economy. in 2020 are air quality, data and - starting this year - our network urban ageing: we will join efforts has the chance to get hands-on In all these projects, the pilot cities with the Air Quality working group, expertise on the trends that are will experiment with cutting edge to improve members’ understanding defining how people and goods techonologies and innovative of urban vehicle access regulation. move in the 21st century. buisness models. We will bring Data will be at the centre of our their findings to the whole network. cooperation with the Knowledge Shared, connected, cooperative Society Forum, and the Barrier Free and electric mobility - SHOW - Get in touch to know more: City for All working group will build focuses on autonomous urban SHOW - contact Peter on the positive collaboration with transport to promote sustainable, USER-CHI - contact Matilde the Urban Ageing WG kicked-off last resilient and seamless mobility. CIVITAS & ULaaDs - contact Arianna year.

4045 / Freepik - by Kireyonok_Yuliya / Freepik EUROCITIES MAIN EVENTS 2020

DATE PLACE EVENT CONTACT PERSON 6 Feb Brussels Officers’ ExCom & forum chairs meeting [email protected] 12-14 Feb Economic development forum – Circular economy [email protected] 17-18 March Brussels Politicians’ ExCom & forum chairs meeting [email protected] 18-20 March Porto & Environment forum - Nature based solutions [email protected] Guimaraes 13 May Grenoble Officers’ ExCom & forum chairs meeting [email protected] 13-15 May Grenoble Cooperation platform [email protected] 26-28 May Social affairs forum - Inclusive labour market & [email protected] future of work 11-12 June Stockholm Politicians’ ExCom & forum chairs meeting [email protected] 15-17 June Madrid Mobility forum – Sustainable mobility in healthy [email protected] cities 23-25 Sep (tbc) Knowledge society forum – Safe and secure [email protected] digital cities 28-29 Sep Brussels Officers’ ExCom & forum chairs meeting [email protected] 7-9 Oct Culture forum - Culture, health and well-being [email protected] 4 Nov (tbc) Leipzig Politicians’ ExCom & forum chairs meeting [email protected] 4-6 Nov Leipzig Annual conference and annual general meeting [email protected] GET IN TOUCH! CLICK ON OUR PICS! EUROCITIES mobility team EUROCITIES MOBILITY FORUM CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR

PETER STAELENS R SENIOR PROJECT COORDINATOR ARIANNA AMERICO PROJECT & FORUM COORDINATOR CHRISTIAN SPECHT JEROME SCHUMAN , FIRST DEPUTY MAYOR EVENTS AND CAMPAIGN OFFICER MATILDE CHINELLATO PROJECT THOMAS WILLSON COORDINATOR POLICY ADVISOR & PROJECT COORDINATOR

MAGALI STAS EVENTS JEAN-CLAUDE DARDELET OFFICER , DEPUTY MAYOR JUAN CABALLERO PROJECT ANNE CHARLOTTE TRAPP COORDINATOR PROJECT SUPPORT OFFICER