The main objective of the Vanguard Initiative is to allow its member regions to collaborate in order to pursue innovation and create opportunities to stimulate territorial and societal renewal. In this context, the seminar will seek to provide information on how Vanguard Initiative regions are contributing to the digital transition by connecting their innovation ecosystems and by co-developing interregional value chains.

Speakers: 

Patricia Argerey, Director of the Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN) 

By taking stock of the current state of play, focusing on key initiatives, exploring current experiences and challenges, the CoR, the Commission and EUREGHA are joining forces to discuss how the digital health transformation can nurture quality and efficiency of health and care provision, empower citizens and boost resilience and sustainability and what is truly needed to achieve it across Europe, putting a particular focus on the role of regional and local health authorities in driving this change forward.

Speakers: 

This workshop will focus on how digital skills programmes at regional and municipal level reinforce each other and work together to strengthen regional and city ecosystems. The aim of the workshop is to demonstrate the added value of the DT4REGIONS and Living-in.EU initiatives to scale up and effectively improve the digital transformation skills of European regions and cities. The workshop will be moderated by the Computer Vision Center, featured by DG CNECT, Emilia-Romagna, the City of Helsinki and the European Network of Living Labs.

This workshop is a collaboration between AURORAL and dRural. Its aim is to promote the awareness for the general public, not just the relevant stakeholders and authorities, to achieve a better understanding and critical reflection between inhabitants and needs in different rural areas and the common goal they want to achieve through digitalisation. 

Digital technology can facilitate participatory urban planning by empowering citizens and turning them from passive recipients of policy to active agents of city change.

OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) is the annual global gathering of Living Labs organized by the European Network of Living Labs. This year, the event will be held in Turin, Italy, between 20-23 September. Hosted and co-organised by the City of Turin, CTE NEXT – The House of Emerging Technologies, and Torino City Lab, with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy and the participation of the European Commission. 

Webinar to discuss Solutions (digital and sustainable) for Cities of the Future and the role of the citizen.

TICE.PT joins several experts linked to cities and citizens for a virtual debate panel about smart cities and the needed human centric green and digital transition.

Are smarter cities, cities where people live better?

How can citizens contribute to a smarter city?

What kind of cities do we have today and what kind of cities will we have tomorrow?

The 13th ECON commission meeting will take place at the CoR on Friday 8 July 2022, from 11:30 to 18:00 (Brussels time).

The draft agenda is available here.

During this meeting, ECON members will discuss and vote on three draft opinions on the following topics: