Tuesday, September 24th 2019 in Brussels
The City Science Initiative aims to strengthen the ways in which science and research can help address the urban challenges and to develop a structured approach to evidence-informed policy-making at cities’ level. The third meeting will gather representatives from cities like Paris, Hamburg, Cluj and Warsaw in Brussels. Below is a brief description of the program.
Programme
After greetings from Deputy Director-General Charlina Vitcheva (JRC) and Deputy Director-General Patrick Child (DG R&I), the session will start at 12.30pm with an introduction to the work programme and deliverables for 2019-2020 for the City Science Initiative by Caroline Nevejan. It will proceed with a presentation of the 5 city challenges, with a first part from Lead Cities and the presentation of the Knowledge dossier by the European Commission, concluding with a part dedicated to questions and discussion for each challenge.
At 3.30pm, after a short break, cities and networks’ representatives as well as actors will be invited to join groups accordingly to the challenge they are most interested in, and will discuss the methodology to adopt in facing this challenge. A plenary discussion will come next, based on the methodological ideas and recommendation emerged from the group sessions. The plenary discussion will also be the occasion for addressing the next steps of the City Science Initiative (CSI) and in particular the tools to activate better cooperation with cities willing to join the network. A presentation of the CSI’s website will eventually be set up.
In the evening, from 7pm to 9pm, R&I will provide for a presentation of Horizon Europe and Charles Landry will present the output of the High-Level Expert Group on Innovating Cities which will then lead to a discussion moderated by Jean François Aguinaga, Head of Unit ‘Future Urban Mobility Systems’, DG R&I.