Upcoming Events

The Transport Research Arena conference will take place in Helsinki on 27–30 April 2020 under the theme “Rethinking transport – towards clean and inclusive mobility”.

The EIT Climate-KIC project on Sustainable Shared Mobility will kick off in Brussels in 2019 its first workshop, in a series of four events, targeting local governements, and other public and private stakeholders working in shared mobility and micromobility.

The Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH) and the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) co-organize the ‘9th International Congress on Transportation Research’ (ICTR ‘19), which will be held in October 2019, in Athens, Greece.

Polis-moderated event on Smart and Green Mobility at the Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union.

The European Transport Conference (ETC) is the annual conference of the Association for European Transport.

Within the ASSURED project (www.assured-project.eu), Polis coordinates the ASSURED Urban Freight User Group (UF UG), to exchange on and validate the project innovations. The next meeting will be held in Bilbao (Spain) on Friday 27 September 2019. Please register though this link: https://www.polisnetwork.eu/polis-meetings-in-bilbao-and-assured-workshop.

Smart Cities, from Local to Global: the speed of the transition to smarter and more sustainable cities is increasing, and at the heart of it all you will find Nordic Edge Expo. The leading conference and exhibition for smart cities in the North will thus be the place to be this year.

On the 17th and 18th September 2019, the GO SUMP project organizes the MED Urban Transports Community's final event taking place at OMAU - Urban Environment Observatory in Malaga (Spain), within the European Mobility Week 2019.

Polis member Dublin City Council is the proud host of the 2019 Velo-city conference under the theme "Cycling for the Ages", supporting cycling for all ages from 8 to 80.

The Congress INTER-NOISE 2019 will take place in Madrid on 16-19 June 2019.

The HARMONY project's Public Launch Event will bring together transport and spatial planning professionals, public authorities and policy makers, mobility technology developers, autonomous vehicles and drone manufacturers, and researchers to discuss the spatial and transport planning challenges metropolitan areas face in terms of integrating traditional and new transport modes.

On 5th June 2019, the INTERREG project CleanMobilEnergy and EV Energy organise jointly the conference "Clean Energy, Clean Mobility" in Almere, in the province of Flevoland, in the Netherlands.

On Monday 3 June 2019, the New Mobility Services (NMS) initiative - part of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities - organises a vibrant seminar about large-scale deployment of new mobility services in a smart city context.

The first meeting of the LEVITATE stakeholder group dives into understanding your wishes and needs with regards to impact assessment of automation and your expectations for any policy support tool.

The workshop, organised by FUTURE RADAR, will focus on the achievements, impacts and gaps of EU research and innovation funding on road transport electrification in Europe.

On Wednesday 15 May 2019, during the Green Week partner event: "Urban Vehicle Restrictions - How to achieve stakeholder support?", London and Brussels will each present their newest local schemes and debate on the health and social impacts of low emission zones based on the available scientific evidence supporting the implementation of urban low emission zones (LEZ).

The Final Conference of CEDR Call 2015 “User Needs in a Multimodal Context” will take place on May 9 in Brussels, Belgium, with a pre-conference evening event on May 8.

This workshop aims to provide a space in which European and Latin American cities can exchange experience on how to integrate road safety measures in low-carbon mobility planning.

The CLINSH project will host a mid-term conference in Brussels, hosted by the Flemish government. In CLINSH, CLean INland SHipping, public and private partners from four European countries are working together to improve air quality in urban areas along waterways.

SUM Bilbao 2019 “Moving the cities of the XXI century”

Three international speakers will share their vision on “The city of the future” at the closing event of the Bicycle Architecture Biennale (BAB) on 18 December in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The Bicycle Architecture Biennale is being exhibited on 3-19 December in the “Huis der Provincie” in Arnhem.

ERTRAC, EGVIA and the European Commission's Transport R&I Directorate are jointly organising #H2020RTR18, the 2nd EGVIA-ERTRAC European Conference. The event showcases road transport research results obtained in projects funded under Horizon 2020.

Urban Transitions 2018 aims to promote healthy urban development by bringing together different disciplines working within cities. Meet world leading experts on urban and transport planning, architecture, environmental exposures, physical activity, and public health and governance to discuss current challenges and solutions.

The Polis Conference is Polis’ flagship annual event. Polis president Manchester will host this year’s event, which will take place at the iconic Old Trafford Stadium on 22-23 November. The title of the conference is “Transport innovation for sustainable cities and regions”.

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is hosting the first Bike City Forum. The event will bring together leading bike and mobility experts, as well as UCI partners, in a drive to further develop cycling in all its forms.

The Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme is hosting the event "Active mobility - Making the change towards a green and healthy urban transport environment" in Rimini, Italy on Friday 9 November 2018.

The Urban Mobility Summit is AUTONOMY’s flagship event where innovators, cities and urbanites gather annually to build a new mobility landscape. The first two days -18 and 19 Ocotber- are dedicated to professionals and institutions and the third day -20 October- is open to the public.

Two European INTERREG projects CleanMobilEnergyand SEEV4-City organised a joint workshop "Electromobility in practice – solutions, experiences & lessons learnt" in Paris on 17 October 2018.

The International Cycling Safety Conference (ICSC) is a forum for researchers and experts in the field of cycling safety. Polis member Barcelona City Council contributes a key note speech.

International Healthy Cities Conference 2018 "Changing Cities to Change the World". Celebrating Thirty Years of the Healthy Cities Movement, on 1-4 October 2018 in Belfast.

The European Cycling Summit 2018 is a great opportunity to explore Austria’s cycling capital Salzburg and to connect with national and international cycling enthusiasts. Join the event and benefit from a diverse network of experts from academia, administration, interest groups and innovative companies.

The aim of this workshop was to discuss strategies and needs of cities and operators for upscaling electric full-size commercial fleets and fast charging infrastructure, with a focus on urban freight and service trips.

This year’s CIVITAS Forum Conference will take place from 19-21 September in Umeå, Sweden. The 16th edition of Europe’s premier sustainable mobility event will bring together the CIVITAS community from across the continent and beyond.

The European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI) is organising a workshop to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for a large scale uptake of electro-mobility in Europe, more specifically by focusing on the challenges of EVs integration into the grid in cities and peri-urban areas.

The 5th edition of the Assises de la mobilité in Île-de-France will once again bring together all the players in the region. It will enable the Ile-de-France communities and partners mobility to meet and discuss the actions implemented and the mobility of the future.

Side event of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2018

The 22nd European Conference on Mobility Management – ECOMM 2018 will take place in Uppsala, Sweden on the 30th of May to 1st June 2018. The ECOMM conference is the most important European platform for policy makers, traffic engineers and scientists in the field of mobility.

The EU H2020 project Climate-Fit (www.climate-fit.city), coordinated by the Flemish institute for technological research (VITO) organises an official EU Green Week partner event in Brussels on 22 May (12:00-13:45). The event showcases how three urban sectors – urban planning, active mobility and emergency management – benefit from tailored urban climate services and facilitate the (eco)design of intelligent cities.

The URBAN FUTURE global conference is Europe’s largest event for sustainable cities. It’s the place to meet the most passionate and inspiring CityChangers from all over the world.

DG Environment of the European Commission organises the EU Green Week 2018, from 21 to 25 May 2018. The theme will be Green cities for a greener future. The week opens on 21/5 in Utrecht and closes on 25/5 in Madrid. A high level EU Green Cities Summit will take place in Brussels, 22-24/5 and partner events take place all over Europe.

From 16 to 19th April 2018, the 7th Transport Research Arena (TRA) will take place in Vienna, Austria

The European project ZeEUS will organise its final conference on Tuesday 20th March 2018 in Brussels.

The ELIPTIC project is cordially inviting local and regional authorities to a workshop organised in cooperation with other European projects. The meeting will take place at Polis (Brussels) on 19th March 2018 afternoon (12.00 - 4.00 pm), one day before the ZeEUS Final Conference.

How walking and cycling can help reduce congestion: The FLOW and TRACE projects join forces and invite to an interactive event. It includes a TRACE "tracking tour", training sessions, presentations, breakout sessions, political debate, world café and awards.

The 2018 Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum and Ceremony will take place at the European Parliament in Brussels on 21-22 February 2018.

The 2nd symposium on Applied Research on Charging Infrastructure (ARCHI) will be hosted by the Delft University of Technology (DUT) onThursday February 8th 2018. The event focuses on practical research on charging infrastructure with implications for practicioners, and municipalities.

This year's Annual Polis Conference on "Transport innovation for sustainable cities and regions" will take place on 6 and 7 December 2017 in Brussels. The Polis Annual General Assembly (Polis members only) is scheduled for 5 December 2017.

With the support of the European Commission, the conference is a display of research results from road transport projects funded under Horizon2020.

The 2nd  International conference of "VeloCittà, the International Platform for Cities & Bike Share" will take place in Rome, on November 16th.

The European Commission organises the European Clean Air Forum on 16-17 November 2017. Polis members Rotterdam and Paris are among the high-level speakers.

European Cyclists' Federation & World Health Organisation-Europe offer free HEAT webinar on 06 Nov, 2017 at 14:00 CET.

The US Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Freight Management and Operations (HOFM) and the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport invite you to attend the second webinar in the Urban Freight Webinar Series: “Examples of Urban Freight Fleet Electrification”.

Polis organised the workshop “Active Travel for Healthy Cities” during Autonomy’s Urban Mobility Summit in Paris. The workshop aimed to present the new Health economic assessment tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling, and city case studies of the use of HEAT to support sound transport policy and Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP).

PlugBoat, the World Electric & Hybrid Boat Summit, will take place in Autumn 2017.

The Belgian Road Congress is organised every four years, and is not to be missed by professionals dealing with designing, constructing, managing and operating roads.

The 2017 edition's theme is Health Equity: The New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.

PASTA - Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches, is organising its final conference in cooperation with the International Cycling Conference (ICC2017) in Mannheim, Germany.

The International Conference on Transport & Health (ICTH) is open to policy-makers, practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines involved in transport planning and engineering, public health, urban planning, spatial and architectural design, environmental planning, economics and beyond.

ERRIN, European Regions Research and Innovation Network, is oganising the event “Energy systems for smart mobility” in cooperation with Polis, in the frame of the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW 2017).

Polis member Arnhem-Nijmegen City Region, in the Netherlands, is to host the Velo-city conference from 13 to 16 June 2017.

Polis together with AVERE France, ZeEUS and ELIPTIC, is organising in Rotterdam a workshop and a study visit for local authorities on the theme of electromobility.

We kindly invite you to our third Polis Urban Mobility Breakfast to share and discuss our and your views on Dieselgate and its policy follow-up, in an informal setting, while having a warm drink and a croissant.

The London CITYLAB implementation is a trial of a scaling-up of a business model run by a large parcel carrier specialised in B2B deliveries (TNT) and a small ‘last-mile’ carrier specialised in electric freight deliveries (Gnewt Cargo).

Electric vehicles, local renewable energy & smart ICT systems enable the city’s transition towards sustainability. The conference aims to provide solutions to advance the transition, focusing on possibilities emerging in city life.

The 6th International Symposium on Electrochemical capacitors (ISECAP) will be organized in conjunction with the COST MP1004 and is proposed with topics focus extended to Hybrid Storage Solutions.

Copenhagen Electric, E.ON Denmark, State of Green and Copenhagen Capacity organises a workshop on 24 April 2017 to focus on building the market place for smart electro-mobility and roll-out action.

In the European Union, more than 120 million people suffer from noise levels that are considered to have a negative effect on health.

This event will showcase best practice in cycle logistics, highlight support needed and define the strategy required to implement successful cycle logistics solutions and initiatives.

The European Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Congress is recognised as premier global platform to foster exchange of views between the R&D, the industry, the authorities, end-users and the NGO's actors, so to develop synergies in the field of eMobility.

The BiTiBi project will hold its final Bike+Train+Bike Conference in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on 7 March 2017.

The EVIDENCE project investigated economic evidence for sustainable urban mobility measures.The final workshop on 23 February in Brussels also reveals, how such evidence has been used in cities.

The webinar introduced the European Cycling Challenge 2017 and its new app to track cyling trips, and presented results from three cities which succesfully particiapted in the 2016 edition: Glasgow, Dublin and Rome.

On next December 6th the Final Conference of the European Project “Assessing and improving the accessibility of urban areas” will be held in Brussels (DG MOVE premises).

The Polis Annual Conferences provide an opportunity for cities and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience and for the wider transport community to engage with representatives of city and regional authorities on innovative transport solutions.

This Brussels' rendez-vous provides the audience with a complete overview of the different programs supported by the European Authorities (FP7, Horizon 2020, IEE, EUROSTARS, INTEREG, …) & related funded projects dealing with e-mobility.

The European Commission (DG REGIO and DG MOVE) is organising an URBAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK event bringing together cities to exchange knowledge and experiences in Smart, Innovative & Sustainable urban mobility on 23 November 2016 at Les Ateliers des Tanneurs in Brussels.

The Sustainable Urban Mobility Action Cluster of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) is organising a meeting on Smart Mobility Services, which will take place on the 22nd November from 10.00 to 16.00 in Brussels.

The International Cycling Safety Conference (ICSC) brings together researchers and experts on cycling safety, this year on 3-4 November 2016 in Bologna, Italy. Call for paper is open until 30 April.

Nordic Edge is organising the 2016 ‘Smart Cities’ conference on October 6-7 in Stavanger, Norway. The conference will be a great opportunity for exchanging knowledge and get inspired by decision makers from cities and municipalities, smart technology providers, change-making companies, startups, forward-thinking universities and dynamic organisations.

CIVITAS FORUM Conference 2016 will take place on 28-30 September in Gdynia, with the theme "SHAPING THE MOBILITY OF TOMORROW".

Join us in Gothenburg for the international conference on electromobility in Smart Cities!

LEVS, as the World Light Electric Vehicle Summit, aims at providing a premier & high quality global platform to foster exchange of views and development of synergies between players in the field.

This workshop was organised as part of the CIVITAS thematic group on Clean Vehicles and Fuels. The aim of the group is to promote the exchange on key policies and measures in this area.

The 4th World Collaborative Mobility Congress "Wocomoco" will take place on the 7th and 8th September 2016 in Warsaw (Poland).

This FREVUE-CIVITAS Study Tour will provide details on the implementation of electric freight vehicles and consolidation centres. London, Rotterdam and Copenhagen will present an update on their activities in this area, preliminary results from the FREVUE project will be also discussed.

The House of the Dutch provinces organises a seminar on smart and clean mobility on Wednesday September 7, 2016. Transport and mobility are great assets in our daily life, but without innovative and well maintained infrastructure we will be unable to progress towards more innovative, smart and clean transportation systems.

The EIP-SCC Sustainable Urban Mobility Action Cluster invites you to join its after summer webinar that will focus on the next steps of the Electro-mobility (EV4SCC) and New Mobility Services Initiatives.

More info here.

The Wiener Stadtwerke organises a debate on the future of mobility transport governance on tuesday 21st June in Brussels.

This CIVITAS workshop was held in Rotterdam on 16 and 17 of June. Leading European cities exchanged  heir experiences with planning infrastructure roll-out & associated services and on how a business case for charging infrastructure could be achieved.

During Sustainable Energy Week, Dutch Railways Brussels and Arnhem Nijmegen City Region are organising an informative and inspirational session on "Green Urban mobility in 2030" on Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 in Brussels.

The Urban Freight Logistics Thematic Group of CIVITAS and the European Cyclists' Federation are organising with the city of Gothenburg a ‘Cyclelogistics Empowerment Workshop for Cities’ and a Study Tour on ‘How to manage urban freight deliveries’.

The Dutch members of ERRIN (European Regions Research & Innovation Network) and the Netherlands’ Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations are organising the thematic networking event "EU Urban Agenda: the Dutch Approach" in Brussels.

The CIVITAS Initiative is running a three-day summer course from 7 - 10 June in the Spanish city of Málaga. The course will look at sustainable urban mobility in the context of quality of life in cities. There is great potential for sustainable urban mobility to contribute to making cities more pleasant places in which to live and spend time, with positive impacts on the environment, local economy, and even the physical and mental health of residents.

The 21st International Transport and Air Pollution Conference (TAP 2016) “Towards energy transition and cleaner transport” will take place in Lyon (France) with the aim of bringing together scientists, international experts, users and decision makers to share their contributions on the current scientific knowledge of air pollution due to emissions from transport systems.

The General Assembly is jointly organised by the European Commission Directorates-General for Mobility and Transport, Energy and Communications Networks, Content & Technology. It is an official associated event of the current Dutch Presidency. In its third edition, this event is the place to be for learning about key policy and market trends for smart cities and communities and creating new contacts and networks.

ITF’s 2016 Summit on Green and Inclusive Transport will explore the importance of low-carbon transport as an essential element in the transition to a green growth economy as well as the changes needed to make transport more inclusive and provide access for everyone to jobs, public services, and other opportunities.

The Polis Working Group on Environment & Health in Transport in cooperation with the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) and the PASTA project, hosted a Side Event during the 2016 International Transport Forum's Summit. The event looked at the link between health and transport, including the Health economic assessment tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling, and air quality.

Polis organised a workshop featuring our Dutch members as European leaders in cycling on Monday, April 25th. The event aimed at presenting innovations in the field of cycling for other cities and regions in Europe to learn from.

The SWITCH project will organise its final conference on Thursday, 14 April 2016 in Bremen, to present results and share knowledge with European cities on embracing active travel for health, and developing sound local promotional campaigns to help more people cycle and walk.

This two-day conference, the final event of the SOLUTIONS project, will showcase the activities performed by cities working together on sustainable mobility as part of the SOLUTIONS project.

CIVITAS is organising a free training entitled ‘Cycling 2.0’ on 8 April 2016 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). The training will showcase the best of Dutch cycling culture!

MOBI, PTP-Cycle, and STARS projects will organise a conference on 18 February 2016 in Brussels to present results and share knowledge with European cities on embedding cycling culture in schools, delivering personalised travel advice, and promoting sustainable mobility among employees through gamification.

Tracking the uptake of alternative fuels in Europe: What do cities want to know?

The SOLUTIONS project (Sharing opportunities for low carbon urban transportation) is organising a series of webinars addressing urban mobility challenges through innovative sustainable mobility solutions in cities across the world.

The European Electric & Hybrid Congress is composed of The European Project Day, Welcome Reception and the European Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Congress with a Polis session on the 3rd on boosting electromobility'.

Following Polis members' Annual General Assembly on 18th November, the public conference will look into transport innovation for sustainable cities and regions.

The PTP-Cycle training workshop will offer free advice and support to local and regional authorities, businesses and NGOs on how to set up Personalised Travel Planning (PTP) projects, and engage in direct conversations with citizens to encourage travel behaviour change.

The European project PASTA "Promoting Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches" is organising a workshop on 18 November 2015 in Brussels, to showcase active travel good practice examples and present the updated health economic assessment tool (HEAT) developed by the World Health Organisation.

The SOLUTIONS project (Sharing opportunities for low carbon urban transportation) is organising a series of webinars addressing urban mobility challenges through innovative sustainable mobility solutions in cities across the world.

The EU co-funded SWITCH project – Embracing Active Travel for Health, will held a webinar on November 10, 2015 at 11:00 AM CET.

Puglia is hosting the International Conference "Muoversi in bici: salute, sviluppo, economia" (Get on your bike: Health, development and economical benefits) in Bari on October 30 and 31st.

The City of Vienna is hosting the Walk21 conference from 20 to 23 October 2015. This year's motto “Stepping ahead” promotes activities and innovations towards the future of our resilient cities and healthy living environments.

Within the framework of OPEN DAYS, on 14 October 2015 the workshop "Active transport in the metropolitan century: Policies and measures to support walking and cycling" will take place in Brussels (KBC Building, Avenue du Port/Havenlaan 2).

The 2015 edition of the CIVITAS Forum Conference, which will take place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) between 7 – 9 October, will draw around 400 participants under the banner of ‘Sharing the City’ and focusing on reducing barriers and improving transport services for residents and visitors in European cities.

3-day conference for policy-makers, practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines involved with transport planning and engineering, public health, urban planning, spatial and architectural design, environmental planning, economics and beyond.

This 2nd day of Polis' Clean Vehicles Working Group meeting was open beyond Polis membership to exchange on the Clean Vehicle Portal, procurement and low emission standards.

The Smart Urban Freight Conference 2015 will take place in Berlin, Germany, on 3rd June 2015 from 09:00 to 16:30 (CEST). The Conference will disseminate the results of the Smartfusion project - including the Smart Urban Freight Designer tool - to an expert audience of city and regional authorities, logistics operators, fleet managers, industry representatives and academics.

Polis member Nantes hosts Velo-City 2015, while Polis is an Ambassador for the event.

Polis member Nantes hosts 2015 Velo-city. The call for papers has been extend until 19 November 2014.

The conference will focus around the theme "Science and technology for a quiet Europe". Experts will gather to discuss recent findings and innovations in noise pollution, noise control, soundscape, and many related topics.

The European TIDE project closely cooperates with leading cities that have implemented innovative measures and are willing to share their advanced experience and knowledge with interested learning cities. In return, TIDE wants to offer these pioneer cities a platform to discuss cutting edge solutions with their peers.

Workshop to discuss recommendations for EU and national decision makers how framework policies can support local procurers.

The Electromobility+ Conference will take place in Berlin on 20 May 2015. Register now!

ICT-Emissions project will come to an end in March 2015. Project results and recommendations will be presented to an expert audience at a Final Conference on Tuesday, 31 March 2015 in Brussels.

The European Commission (DG MOVE) has recently launched a study to undertake an ex-post evaluation of Directive 2009/33/EC on the Promotion of Clean and Energy Efficient Road Transport Vehicles (also known as the ‘Clean Vehicle Directive’ or CVD).

The three EU projects FREVUE, Green eMotion and ZeEUS jointly host the third electromobility stakeholder forum.

The event will look at different soft and hard measures to foster cycling in the host city of Malaga, and in more cities across Europe.

Marne-la-Vallée in collaboration with Île-de-France and the support of MOPeasy are hosting the MOLECULES Final Workshop on Tuesday, 10 January 2015, from 9.30 to 12.30.

The conference topic is “Energy, climate and air quality challenges: the role of urban transport policies in developing countries and emerging economies”.

HARMONICA (HARMOnised Noise Information for Citizens and Authorities), supported by the European LIFE programme, aims to help the public and the authorities take ownership of the noise issue.

The European Electric Vehicle Congress strengthens its position as global platform to foster exchange of views between the R&D, the industry, the authorities, the end-users and the NGO’s actors, so to develop synergies in the field of eMobility.

The one-day stakeholder meeting is dedicated to Air Quality and Climate Change research and policy implications derived from the EU research projects ACCENT+, PEGASOS, MACC, ECLAIRE and ECLIPSE.

The Annual Polis Conference provides an opportunity for cities, metropolitan areas and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience and for the wider transport community to engage with representatives of city and regional authorities on innovative transport solutions.

Hosted by the Polis Working Group on Environment and Health in Transport and in cooperation with the Madrid City Council, this workshop assessed the relation between transport and air quality, and measures for improvement. The workshop was followed by the EU-funded ICT-Emissions project workshop.

Gothenburg hosts ICSC conference targeting researchers, legislators, politicians, and members of cycling associations.

The workshop addersses topics such as incentives for electric vehicles, infrastructure management, user behaviour and business models.

The technical colloquium will focus on the potential of deploying electromobility in the urban environment as an environmentally friendly urban transportation system by integrating electric cars into the existing offer of traffic information in the city of Berlin.

Bringing together procurement professionals from across Europe, this workshop in Rotterdam aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, expertise and best practice about clean fleet procurement and the Clean Vehicles Directive (2009/33/EC).

The 12th edition of the annual CIVITAS Forum Conference will take place between 23rd and 26th September 2014 in Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco.

Hosted by the EC-funded Clean Fleets project, this training on the Clean Vehicles Directive (2009/33/EC) is specifically tailored towards trainers, consultants and experts in public procurement or leasing of vehicles.

The MOLECULES project is organising a national take-up seminar on electromobility initiatives in the Grand Paris area on Thursday, June 26th 2014 in Marne la Vallée.

The seminar will cover the financial, technical and social conditions settled during the project for the deployment of electromobility in the Grand Paris area. In the afternoon is a visit to the new eco-mobility station in Marne la Vallée and a tour of Cité Descartes, the higher education and research cluster in eastern Paris.

For more information on the seminar, please contact Florinda Boschetti or call 0032 – (2) 500 56 74

Both fuel cell and battery electric vehicles need to have a required infrastructure in place in order to allow an accelerated market uptake, as detailed in the European Commission’s Clean Power for Transport (CPT) proposal (COM 2013/18).

What is the current status and prospects for this infrastructure? Who builds it, pays for it, runs it? Who are the key actors in accelerating roll-out, and where is progress being made – and hindered?

The next European Electromobility Stakeholder Forum will take place on June 4th & 5th, 2014 in the Diamant Conference & Business Centre Bd A. Reyerslaan 80 - 1030 Brussels.

Velo-city Global Adelaide 2014 is the world's premier international cycling planning conference.

Bringing together procurement professionals from across Europe, this workshop, which has been organised as part of the EC-funded Clean Fleets Project, will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, expertise and best practice about clean fleet procurement under the EC Clean Vehicles Directive (CVD).

Polis side event on "INTEGRATING HEALTH INTO URBAN TRANSPORT POLICIES" organised in cooperation with the WHO and UNECE at the 4th High-Level Ministerial Meeting of THE PEP - Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme, 14-16 April 2014, Paris - La Défense.

The Polis Environment & Health in Transport working group met on April 7-8, 2014 in Brussels. The meeting looked at new approaches to encourage physical activity, replace car trips by active travel, and promote travel behaviour change.

MOLECULES project and Barcelona Municipality invite you to participate in the 3rd MOLECULES Interest Group Workshop: Electromobility, users and evaluation, that will take in Barcelona on Thursday, 3rd April.

London is to host the second of a series of four workshops run by the Clean Fleets team on how procurement of clean and energy-efficient vehicles works in practice, to exchange and to learn from each others' experiences.

Guided by the question: “Cleaner Fleets through recognition – does it work?” the forum will debate for whom the fleet recognition concept works, what could be improved for the future and which conditions are crucial for success.

Annual conference on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, organised by ITS Niedersachsen. Conference organisers are particularly interested in learning more about cities strategies related to electric driving, experiences as well as building up charging infrastructure.

The European Electromobility Observatory (EEO) toasts the first year of monitoring electromobility uptake in the EU.

In 2013, the Annual Polis Conference will take place in Brussels. The Annual General Assembly for Polis members will take place around the conference.

Within the framework of EVS27, the European Electromobility Observatory (EEO) jointly with the Green eMotion project invite local and regional authorities to an electromobility workshop on 19 November in Barcelona.

The 27th International Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition will be hold in Barcelona from the 17th to 20th of November 2013. This event will look into research and activities across all fields related to battery, hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles and their infrastructure and services.

The ICT-Emissions project will organise its third exploitaiton group meeting on November, 13, 2013 in Brussels.

The conference "Horizon 2020 : a major opportunity for research and innovation in regions" will take place on Wednesday 13rd November (11.00 to 17.30) in Ile-de-France Europe premises. Interpretation into French and English will be ensured.

The Green City Energy 2013 Bari will take place on 28th and 29th October.

This conference aims to review the situation of alternative transport fuels in Europe.

The 11th edition of the annual CIVITAS Forum Conference will take place between 30th  September and 2nd  October in the main metropolitan center of Western Brittany.

The Polis Environment & Health Working Group organised a meeting on health and transport on 19 September 2013 in Brussels.

On the 18th of September, the Sustainable 2Wheels event will for the fourth time bring together European businesses, policy makers and citizens to explore how 2wheel transport can contribute to cleaner, greener, healthier living environments. Polis is present with a stand at the venue.

The aim of European Mobility Week is to encourage local authorities to raise public awareness of sustainable mobility issues and implementing measures to achieve a shift towards sustainable urban transport. Activities are organised locally all across Europe.

The City of Munich will host the XIVth International Walk21 Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities.

The conference will discuss the results from the project, highlight the experiences from cities involved in the project and touch upon the European policy framework for sustainable urban mobility.

Opening for the EcoMobility World Festival 2013 (1-30 September), the EcoMobility Suwon 2013 congress (1-4 September) enables international actors, united through mutual interest in sustainable transportation, to come together. Polis is an endorsing partner of the festival and the congress.

The Green City Energy 2013 Pisa will take place on 4th and 5th July.

MOLECULES project will present its approach to deploy electro-mobility in intelligent cities at event on "Innovative tools for energy management in Smart cities" during EUSEW 2013 at the Puglia Region offices in Brussels on Tuesday, June 25th.

HyER marks its 5th anniversary together with its members with an annual public event on 25-26 June 2013 during the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), in Brussels.

A workshop from the European Electromobility Observatory takes place within the Green eMotion and FREVUE Stakeholder Forum.

The City of Vienna is pleased to be hosting the Velo-city conference from June 11th to 14th, 2013! „The Sound of Cycling – Urban Cycling Cultures" marks Vienna as the focal point for cycling experts and (bi)cycling enthusiasts from around the world.

ECOMM is a European conference on Mobility Management.

The 14th European Forum on Eco-Innovation is titled "Into clean air…Delivering innovative solutions for mobility, energy and ICT in cities." It will gather key players from European and national institutions, innovators, SMEs involved in the 3 main topics (energy, mobility and ICT), citizen consumer associations, city representatives, and high-level financial managers from across the European Union.

Ministers from over 50 countries along with key transport leaders from public administration, business and academia will meet at the Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum to debate transport issues of strategic importance.

How to turn knowledge and experience from urban freight demonstration projects and research studies into everyday practice in towns and cities across Europe?

The Platform for the Electrification of Surface Transport is organising a panel discussion on the electrification of transport at Hotel Renaissance Rue du Parnasse 19 - 1050 Brussels on Tuesday, 19 March 2013, from 18:30 to 20:30.

A new 'hybrid' concept for an Urban Consolidation Centre (UCC) will be tested within the STRAIGHTSOL project: deliveries to local retailers and a commercial mall will be combined. This interactive workshop will present the first results of the demostration and will be complemented with a technical visit.

The ICT-Emissions poject on assessing  the impact of ICT measures on CO2 emissions organises an Exploitation Group workshop on March 7th in Brussels.

The ECOSTARS reference group meets to share expertise with local implementers of the fleet recognition scheme.

This workshop will draw lines for potential developments towards full electric urban mobility, taking into account existing infrastructures, technologies and experiences.

The current Intelligent Energy Europe call for project proposals contains € 65 million available for funding. An information day is organised by the European Commission.

CIVITAS VANGUARD and the CIVITAS thematic group 'Mobility Management' organise this webinar on how to encourage a sustainable shift in mobility behaviour away from the personal car and how to assure basic mobility for all citizens by providing mobility training for specific target groups.

On Tuesday 11 December, CityHush is organizing its final expert seminar in Stockholm. Now that the project is coming to an end, it will share final results on research and recommendations regarding quiet zones, noise score rating models, low-noise vehicles, low-noise road surfaces, and noise barriers. On Monday, 10 December, the Hosanna project will present its toolbox for the reduction of road and rail traffic noise in outdoor environments.

The Traffic Department of the Spanish Home Office (Dirección General de Tráfico, DGT), Madrid City Council, Spanish companies on mobility management and the Spanish Road Association (SRA) come together to an international Congress on Mobility Management.

The European Economic and Social Committe will host a conference in order to explore novel means to ensure the open participation of civil society into the EU policy-making with the aim to strengthen the public endorsement and the overall efficacy of the EU legislation.

Polis presidency Perugia was the host of the 2012 Annual Polis Conference on 29-30 November. On 28 November, the Polis Annual General Assembly (AGA) took place (Polis members only) as well as the TIDE Launch Workshop, to which conference participants have been invited.

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels hosted the Polis Environment & Health Working Group meeting on Active Travel on 30 October 2012.

The European Green Capital city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain will host an event dedicated to the presentation of the CIP Pilots on smart-Connected electro-mobility on 2 October. The event is followed on 3 October by the Spanish Green Cars Annual Conference at the Palacio Europa Congress Forum.

EcoSummit 2012 brings together experts in ecological science. The call for abstracts is open until 20 January 2012.

Sustainable 2Wheels takes place on Tuesday 18 September 2012 on the esplanade of the European Parliament in Brussels in the framework of the European Commission’s Mobility Week.

EC Vice-President Siim Kallas invites urban mobility stakeholders to the conference 'Towards competitive and resource efficient urban mobility' to take place in Brussels on the 17th of September.

The ‘Driving the Future: Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards 2020+’ debate will take place on Tuesday 10th July at 12:30 in the European Parliament.

An Urbanicity Conference to share best practices creating and sustaining cycling-friendly cities.

The first public event of the BESTFACT project will take place in Amsterdam. Key topics include electric vehicles, energy efficiency, consolidation and collaboration schemes.

CIVITAS VANGUARD would like to invite you to a webinar on provisions for cyclists. It will take place from 10:00 - 11:30 on 6 June 2012.

Ministers from over 50 countries along with key transport leaders from public administration, business and academia will meet at the Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum to debate transport issues of strategic importance.

CIVITAS VANGUARD would like to invite you to a webinar on changing travel behaviour of children and young adults. It will take place from 14:00 - 14:45 on 2 March 2012.

A workshop for cities and regions on improving urban freight deliveries will take place at Polis in Brussels on the 21st of February. The workshop will aim at installing a dialogue around the development of new operations and vehicle technologies.

 The CATCH (Carbon Aware Travel CHoice) project will hold its final conference on 13 December in Bristol, UK. The event is entitled "Carbon Aware Cities: A Multidisciplinary approach to Low Carbon Transport Systems".

Polis & the European Economic and Social Committee invite to the conference: Innovation in transport for sustainable cities and region.

Results of the CityHush project will be presented for the first time. Partners report on Q-zones, noise score rating models, low-noise vehicles, low-noise road surfaces, and noise barriers from 2pm - 5.15pm in Brussels.

Pictures from the event are available here.

Intelligent Cities Expo 2011 is an exhibition and conference, dedicated to the holistic development of smart and sustainable cities of the future. It will take place on 8-10 November in Hamburg.

CHIC, the Clean Hydrogen In European Cities Project, is a step leading to the full market commercialization of Fuel Cell Hydrogen powered (FCH) buses.

The final of the five PRESTO onsite trainings will take place in Bremen on 12-13 October 2011. This training workshop is part of a series that looks at developing cycling culture in European cities.

CO2-neutral transport  for the alpine space: International conference within the framework of the project CO2 NeuTrAlp

The CITEAIR II project is now drawing to an end, the final conference is event when CITEAIR II partners will share their knowledge, experience and tools with you to help improve European air quality.

The conference will present the results of research over 50 bike sharing schemes in Europe, which has identified good practice, factors contributing to success and solutions to overcoming barriers.

What are successful steps a city may take towards climate neutrality?