The 3rd Stakeholder Meeting in UK was held in Coventry on 26th November 2019, in conjunction with the e-smartec project. The event was organised by the Lead Partner Coventry University Enterprises Ltd and involved the participation of several local stakeholders from industry and university sectors.
The meeting started with a presentation about the project objectives, the main expected results and outputs, the current status of the project and the role of the stakeholders.
It followed a presentation about findings from the RECREATE ‘Transport SME Competitiveness’ report. The current status of the Transport SMEs in the West Midlands region was shown and the results were discussed by the participants. The report is currently being finalised and will be uploaded on the website together with a slim version that will also be translated in Italian, Greek, Lithuanian and Romanian languages and printed.
Afterwards there was a discussion about the next RECREATE event that will be organised in Coventry in March 2020 and will host all partners and their local stakeholders. The event will include a Thematic Workshop focused on Financing Innovation that will try to cover all forms of funding for SMEs; and a Study Visit to several Good Practices in the local area.
The second part of the meeting was dedicated to a new recently started Interreg Europe funded project, e-smartec. Its purpose is to support the implementation of SUMPs and enhance its impact by identifying marketing techniques that can help engage key actors and travellers. The project objectives, expected outputs and role of the stakeholders were presented.
The final session focused on the identification of Best Practices on engagement. These are initiatives for boosting participatory planning and can be awareness raising campaigns, enabling tools (e.g. social media influencing exploitation), participatory planning meetings, task forces, round tables, events, interactive learning environments (e.g. serious games). Some Best Practices in the region were presented and discussed by the participants.