The RECREATE Project is organising the final dissemination event within the 6th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility – CSUM 2022 that will take place from 31st August to 2nd September 2022 in Skiathos Island, Greece.
The Conference is organised by The University of Thessaly, Department of Civil Engineering, Traffic, Transportation and Logistics Laboratory – TTLog, in collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Universidade do Porto, Université du Luxembourg, University of Hawaii at Manoa and University of Southampton. This year’s theme is “Smart Energy for Smart Transport” and will cover six thematic areas:
- Electric and clean energy in transportation
- Emerging and innovative technologies in transport
- Active and non-motorized travel
- Equitable, just and inclusive transportation
- Sustainable and resilient supply chain
- Urban planning and transport infrastructure
The main aim of the Conference is the dissemination of knowledge and the exchange of good practices between researchers and practitioners in transportation and mobility.
The RECREATE project final dissemination event will be one of the Special sessions of the Conference – Special Session 4: Reinforce Competitiveness of Regional Transport SMEs – and will take place on 31st August 2022 from 11:30 to 13:30. During the event, it will be showed how the project has mapped transport SME support measures, assessed their effectiveness, and explored the best Good Practices in the sector to ultimately deliver Action Plans and Policy Recommendations to improve the competitiveness of transport SMEs in the four regions involved.
Moderator of the session will be Dr Eleni Anoyrkati, Operations & Development Manager in Coventry University Enterprises Ltd, RECREATE Lead Partner. The agenda is as follows:
- Interreg Europe programme: State of play, Anne Rocheteau, Finance Officer, Joint Secretariat – Interreg Europe (11:30-11:50)
- The RECREATE Project: project overview and main results, Dr Eleni Anoyrkati, Operations & Development Manager, Coventry University Enterprises Ltd (11:50-12:00)
- West Midlands region: adapting a sectorial approach in business support programmes, David Hope, Business Development Manager, Coventry City Council (12:00-12:20)
- The South Aegean region’s experience through the RECREATE Project: from the identification of regional best practices to the creation of a cluster, Alkis Kyriakou, Director of Strategic Development Department, LEVER SA (12:20-12:40)
- The state of the transport sector in Lithuania: what the country has learnt from the RECREATE project and what is the potential for future development, Povilas Bacevičius, Expert, Lithuanian Innovation Centre (12:40-13:00)
- The RECREATE project in South-West Oltenia region: innovation increase and strengthening of Transport SMEs competitiveness through digital support, Sorin Cosmulescu, Manager of the Unit for ROP Monitoring & Evaluation, Regional Development Agency South-West Oltenia (13:00-13:20)
- General Questions & Answers from the audience (13:20-13:30)
More information on the session can be downloaded here.
In addition, a paper based on findings generated within the project, “Reinforcing competitiveness of transport SMEs in West Midlands region, UK”, authors Eleni Anoyrkati, Alba Avarello and Giuliana Famiglietti‐Pipola (Paper 61), has been accepted. This shows key policy directions for reinforcing the competitiveness of the transport SMEs in the region of West Midlands (UK) and will be presented during “Technical session 5.2 ‐ Advances in operation and management of freight transport and logistic” on 2nd September 2022, from 11:30 to 13:30.
More information about the programme of the Conference is available here.
Everybody is welcome to join. If you would like to participate, please register on https://csum.civ.uth.gr/#register or contact Eleni Anoyrkati ([email protected]).
