‘Cuts in the budget for innovation are wrong,’ told European Commissioner for Research & Innovation last week in Brussels. ‘How can you, in a Europe that wants to be first class? What an amazing opportunity we have in Europe if we keep going the way we know is right,’ the Commissioner said. ‘We can really be leaders today [because] there are other parts of the world that don’t want to be leaders.’ By cutting research, Europe would cede an opportunity to move ahead of science-sceptical nations, Moedas added. Read more on the Amsterdam Economic Board website.
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Calling all community engagement specialists shaping the future of our urban spaces! 📢
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We’re building an ambassador community for dedicated community engagement professionals to join us in pioneering a platform created for (and with!) the people driving change in our cities.
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MRA Smart Mobility Congres
Werk je aan slimme mobiliteit of wil je er meer over weten? Kom dan 13 november naar de Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam-Noord. Daar vindt voor de 4e keer het MRA Smart Mobility Congres plaats van het MRA-platform Smart Mobility.
Samen met overheden, kennisinstituten, marktpartijen en andere aanwezigen brengt het platform die dag slimme mobiliteit een stukje verder. Ze delen kennis en ervaringen. En zoeken samen met anderen naar oplossingen voor een efficiënt mobiliteitssysteem waarbij stad en platteland duurzaam verbonden zijn. Daarbij staan mens en data altijd centraal.
Wat kun je verwachten?
✅ Dagvoorzitter Irene Rompa en programmamanager Daniël van Motman praten je bij over de status van smart mobility en de plannen van het platform voor de toekomst.
✅ Na de lunch is het tijd voor deelsessies. Je kunt meedenken over de toekomst van MaaS of over oplossingen voor duurzame mobiliteit tijdens SAIL 2025. Ook zijn er inspirerende voorbeelden van Smart Zones.
✅ Aan het eind van de dag is er een netwerkborrel waar je nieuwe contacten kunt leggen en nog meer ideeën kunt opdoen.
Het congres staat volledig in het teken van verbinding. Van mensen en organisaties, van regionale opgaves aan innovaties én van verbinding aan de praktijk. Samen leren, ontwikkelen en vooral samen doen!
Nieuwsgierig geworden? Meld je dan aan voor het MRA Smart Mobility Congres op woensdag 13 november!
- Woensdag 13 november 2024
- Van 10.30 – 17.30 uur
- Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam-Noord
Everybody will admit that the decision to invest has to be justified by insight in the ROI. I am afraid that pleading for investments in innovation has become asking for a wild card to spend money, believing that some results will appear automatically One of the best things the EU has done ever with respect to innovation was taking societal challenges, like transport, health and energy as points of department for thinking of innovation. What went wrong is that investments in innovation within within these domains do not run parallel with investments in these domains. With other world there is a huge gap between investments in the development of innovative products and services and the markets for these products and services. In a country like China such a gap does not exist, at least in domains like transportation, energy and water. As a consequence, innovation will thrive if a clear link is established between investments in innovation and investments in corresponding societal domains.