One of the biggest public events of the EU is the EWRC, which is organized every year in October in Brussels, usually attracting 5-6000 people from all over the EU countries, regions and cities.
This year one of the sections of EWRC was titled “Unlocking the Power of EU Funds for Cities”. As opening of the session Kata Tüttő, President of the Committee of the Regions was talking, emphasizing the importance of the Cohesion Policy, which is now threatened by the simplification ideas of the Commission. The keynote presentation of the event was given by Iván Tosics about the results of the ESPON URDICO project, which is led by Metropolitan Research Institute, in cortium with Politecnico Torino and University of Valencia. The keynote was followed by contributions of Mathias De Clercq, President of EUROCITIES and Mayor of Ghent, Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw (on video) and Hugo Sobral, Deputy Director-General of DG REGIO.