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The i4Df Outreach Southern Event, the last of a series of four Regional Outreach Events, was successfully held in Thessaloniki, Greece at the CERTH/HIT premises on 5 and 6 November 2019.
High level experts from Greece, Italy, Israel, Romania, Serbia, Kosovo along with i4Df initiative partners attended the event and presented their (national) vision for 2040 infrastructure development and operation.
The i4Df Eastern Outreach event, the third of a series of four Regional Outreach events, was successfully held in Warsaw, Poland on the 15th of October 2019. The event was organized by the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure together with the Ministry of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation. High level experts from Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia attended the full day event.
Τhe i4Df Western Outreach Event took place in Paris, France, on 30 September to 01 October 2019. The infra4Dfuture event was preceded by a workshop of the H2020 AEROFLEX initiative, which took place in the morning of 30 September. A plenary meeting of both events was hosted in the afternoon of the same day by the Routes de France.
Many high level representatives of the French public and private Transport research and deployment scene attended the plenary meeting and highlighted the French approach as well as the many successful accomplishments created by cooperation. One of the examples mentioned was the Infravation programme, with active French partnership, which is leading to fruitful and promising follow up. The day closed with a joint networking dinner.
The i4Df outreach4North event, the first of a series of four Regional Outreach Events, was successfully held in Jūrmala, Latvia on the 11th of September.
Participants from six Northern European countries along with a European Commission representative and i4Df initiative partners attended the full day event.
The day was kicked off with the welcome words of Jānis Lange from the Latvian State Roads and the opening speech of the Minister of Transport of Latvia Tālis Linkaits.
Four EU Regional Outreach Events are planned in the course of the project, to capture the regional dimension of infrastructure innovation, while gaining feedback from local actors and disseminating the project findings. Events will take place from September to November 2019 and will be hosted by four different Consortium members, in four different EU regions.
On 21 May 2019, the 2nd i4Df Stakeholder Conference took place at the conference center The Square in Brussels. The event was attended by over 30 high level representatives from public infrastructure authorities, innovation programme owners, industrial lead suppliers and research providers. The participants were consulted on their guidance for structures and principles to be included in the i4Df coordination mechanism.