European Regions for Smart Communities Summit organised by AURORAL project

The European Regions for Smart Communities summit, under Portuguese Presidency of European Union, is taking place between 3 and 9 of May, 2021, in Évora (Alentejo, Portugal) and online. It gathers local and regional leaders, from across Europe to discuss European and National institutions how to involve the citizens and stakeholders in co-promoting smarter small cities, towns, villages and regions for better tomorrow.

The Summit is organised by H2020-AURORAL project led by CCDR Alentejo, with the support from Alentejo Europe Initiative, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC), ADRAL – Regional Development Agency of Alentejo and IrRADIARE Science for Evolution and H2020-dRural project.

Several ECTRI Members experts, part of the AURORAL project are speaking at the event at different thematic tables:

MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
15:00 – 17:00 Thematic tables # Data
Diego López-de-Ipiña González-de-Artaza, University of Deusto, Associate Professor, Principal

TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
12:00 – 14:00 Thematic tables # Smart Mobility
Pekka Leviäkangas, University of Oulu, Professor
12:00 – 14:00 Thematic tables # Interoperability
Andrea Cimmino, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Post-Doc Researcher

The event will be live streaming, at the official webpage, and H2020-AURORAL YouTube channel.

Please visit the website for more information.


ECTRI Members DEUSTO, UPM and University of Oulu are partners in the the H2020-AURORAL project.