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This year’s edition of car-free Sunday, which was part of the EUROPEAN MOBILITY WEEK, lead to a drop of up to 80% in the levels of pollution, the Brussels Times reports.

Join the open dialogue with cities and regions who will discuss how to identify needs and requirements of local and regional authorities in regulating and integrating new mobility services with public transport.

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 SuSMo Project has travel fund for a limited number of Polis members attending the event.

The new EU-funded project SPROUT kicked off on the 18^th and 19^th of September 2019 with its first project meeting in Zaragoza.

The one-day event Get Our Cities Moving, co-organised by Polis and Autonomy, will connect high-level decision-makers from local authorities with leading mobility innovators to reflect on cities’ mobility challenges and the innovative solutions that can help solve them. This event will take place in Paris, on 17 October 2019.

The three Smart Cities and Communities projects GrowSmarter, Remourban and Triangulum will host the session “From dream to reality: sharing experiences from leading European Smart Cities” at the European Week of Regions and Cities.

Deputy Mayor for Mobility and Safety in the city of Lisbon, Miguel Gaspar, along with Polis and Eurocities launched the new city declaration on road safety on 16 September in Brussels.

European Commission launches new EU Urban Road Safety Award.

The public consultation of the EU Urban Mobility Package has been approved by the SG and launched just yesterday, September 11, 2019. Responding to the questionnaire will be possible from September 11 to December 4, 2019.

European Commission (EC) president-elect Ursula von der Leyen presented on Tuesday, September 10, her team and the new structure of the next EC, officially proposing Romanian MEP Rovana Plumb for the position of EU Commissioner for transport.