During this Info day, the next funding opportunities for Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities will be presented. The focus will be on areas such as Data Spaces for Smart Communities, Digital Solutions for the New European Bauhaus, and Living-in.eu governance. There will be an opportunity to network and present your ideas for proposals.

Indicative Agenda:

9:30 -   Introduction (purpose, topics, deadlines, where to find the info, and agenda for the day)

On 21 April the European Commission presented the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), a draft regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ensure AI is safe, lawful and in line with EU fundamental rights. What will be the legal impact of the regulation on cities as providers and users of both public and private AI applications? Instead of looking at the founding principles, this webinar sets out to understand the practical impact of the proposed regulation and how it will affect cities.

More and more government services are moving online, and yet there is a paradox. Few can dispute the added convenience and sometimes vastly improved quality that digital delivery entails, but many find that digitally-delivered services are not yet user-friendly enough to make access easy or widespread. 

Red bricks, French fries and Belgian beer. Startups join forces to hack our continent. Come to innovate, share ideas, co-create and scale-up your business!  

Futureproof Summit brings together startup founders, corporate C-levels, public decision makers, investors and world class researchers.  

One day to imagine innovations that will resist the future. FutureProof Summit 2021 is the first edition of an annual event organized by EuraTechnologies in Lille. 

The purpose of the event will be to look at the specific challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in smaller and medium-sized cities. Focusing in particular on the concept of interoperability as a means of accelerating digital service delivery and creating positive spill-over effects for the broader economy, we will discuss the key steps that should be taken by small and medium-sized cities or communities in their digitalisation journey and the EU tools available.

City managers and policy makers face challenges in delivering effective urban change due to the complex nature of city processes and systems. Local Digital Twins (LDTs) disrupt siloed policy-making by enabling systemic impact exploration of and experimentation with new ideas across virtual replicas of cities and regions. The session will engage cities interested in LDTs to raise awareness of the Commission's policy, clarify the concept, and identify what capacity-building needs they have.

Can you help European cities reach their target of becoming climate-neutral by 2030? Are you looking for business opportunities in the European Union (EU)? Join our online business event at 14 & 21 June.

We are on the doorstep of the most critical challenge of all time. Now more than ever, we must deploy and execute projects with real and positive impact. With this in mind, the EU pursues the goal to have 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030.

The evaluation by the European Commission and the adopted resolution by the European Parliament mark a starting point for improving the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation over the next years. This starting point coincides with a number of major European policy developments such as the Data Governance Act and the Data Act that will facilitate the availability and use of data in the European Digital Single Market.