2. October, 2019
The representatives of the EUSAIR Strategy coordinating Transport issues and Regione Marche, acting as the EUSAIR Facility Point project partner from Italy, will be attending the 47th European Transport Conference in Dublin on 9-11 October 2019 as speakers, exhibitors and organizers of sessions.
The European Transport Conference (hereinafter ETC) is a major annual multi-disciplinary event bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to discuss ideas and visions of transport at European, national, regional and local level.

As “Transport” is one of the priority themes within the EUSAIR Strategy, the attendancy of the EUSAIR representatives coordinating Transport issues, is highly desirable and beneficial for the overall visibility of the Strategy.

The EUSAIR’s representatives will be involved in the ETC conference as speakers and organizers of the session titled “Connecting South-East Europe: vision and challenges of the European Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region” which will be held on Thursday October 10th at 09:00. The session will be chaired by Prof. Pierluigi Coppola, a coordinator of the EUSAIR Pillar 2- Transport subgroup. The session will also include speakers from the EUSAIR Facility Point, the EUSAIR Pillar 2 representatives carrying activites related to transport in their own countries and the European Commission representatives.

The main aim of the session is to provide the audience the insight on “macro-regional cooperation”, which in practice means proposing new ways to design the future of Europe, a future based on multi-level governance involving all types of stakeholders, and also:

  • Learning between countries
  • Benchmarking best practices (policy and methods)
  • Creating ownership

Regione Marche, in its role as the EUSAIR Facility Point project partner from Italy, and representative body providing support to the EUSAIR Pillar 2 Transport subgroup, will have an exhibition stand during the three days of the ETC conference, with the main aim to disseminate EUSAIR’s mission and vision, as well as to promote the EUSAIR Stakeholder Platform as a tool for sharing and fostering the transport-related debates among the relevant organisations.

If interested in the conference you can follow Twitter profile @EuTtransportConf  #etcdublin2019 and website: www.aetransport.org.

The European Transport Conference (ETC) is organized by the Association for European Transport which is the leading European organisation for transport professionals and academics, currently having members from more than 35 countries and about 200 Organisation and Individual Members. This year, the conference expects around 500 researchers and scholars from Europe and from around the World including Middle East, Australia and the Americas. About 250 articles will be presented in 10 parallel sessions over three days.

The objective of the ETC is to provide a forum in which professionals working in the transport sector can meet to exchange ideas, information and opportunities through presentation of projects, panel of experts, peer review a selection of papers. 

Every year, the Conference has been distinguished for the choice of the relevant topics, which, in many cases, have anticipated issues that have become of global interest in the future, such as sustainable urban development, wider economic impacts of investments in infrastructure and, more recently, the social values of transport. This year, the conference programme also covers supranational cross-cutting issues dealing with Innovation, Digitisation and Decarbonisation of Transport in Europe.