Name: Sixth meeting of the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform
Start: 2024-04-18
End: 2024-04-18T23:59:00
Location: Europe

The Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform ZPSP will hold its sixth meeting on 18 April 2024.The meeting will focus on various topics, including progress and perspectives on the Zero Pollution Action Plan; Zero Pollution and evaluation, and implementation of the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform. The meeting will also provide a platform for stakeholders to share their perspectives on the progress and future direction of the Zero Pollution agenda. The agenda is provided below and the meeting will be live streamed as of 13h30. and further practical information will be added to this webpage as soon as it is available.

Sixth meeting of the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform

As part of the European Youth week 2024 event organised by the European Commission from 12-19 April 2024, young people in the EU are invited to take part in activities from all over Europe and beyond. This year's focus is on democracy and the European elections, encouraging young people to voice their vision for the EU. The main objectives of the 2024 edition are: During this event, young people will have the opportunity to: Rural young people will join the representatives of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development for a workshop around young people in rural areas and agriculture to: Follow the discussions on social networks with EUYouthWeek.     The Transport Research Arena TRA is the largest Transport Research and Innovation Conference in Europe and around 4.000 participants are expected in Dublin for TRA2024, based on the high attendance at previous conferences close to 3.000 participants attended the conference organised in Lisbon, Portugal in November 2022. TRA is organised every two years.TRA gathers stakeholders from all transport networks road, rail, waterborne and aviation, bringing notably research and industry communities closer to each other and providing a forum where they can exchange views and ideas with the policy makers on the challenges and opportunities the industry faces.The event is open to researchers, academics, students and young researchers, engineers; transport infrastructure managers and owners; traffic operation managers, transport operators; SMEs and start-ups; industry, vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, ship builders; public authorities, governmental bodies; non-governmental organisations; other transport stakeholders and decision makers.The European Commission is co-organiser of the TRA2024 conference, together with the Irish host.TRA is a truly multimodal transport conference covering all transport modes road, rail, waterborne, air transport and it is directly supported by several European Technology Platforms ERTRAC, ERRAC, WATERBORNE TP, ALICE, ECTP, ACARE and associations like ETRA European Transport Research Alliance and CEDR Conference of European Road Directors. Programme  Speakers  Themes    The Transport Research Arena TRA is the largest Transport Research and Innovation Conference in Europe and around 4.000 participants are expected in Dublin for TRA2024, based on the high attendance at previous conferences close to 3.000 participants attended the conference organised in Lisbon, Portugal in November 2022. TRA is organised every two years.TRA gathers stakeholders from all transport networks road, rail, waterborne and aviation, bringing notably research and industry communities closer to each other and providing a forum where they can exchange views and ideas with the policy makers on the challenges and opportunities the industry faces.The event is open to researchers, academics, students and young researchers, engineers; transport infrastructure managers and owners; traffic operation managers, transport operators; SMEs and start-ups; industry, vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, ship builders; public authorities, governmental bodies; non-governmental organisations; other transport stakeholders and decision makers.The European Commission is co-organiser of the TRA2024 conference, together with the Irish host.TRA is a truly multimodal transport conference covering all transport modes road, rail, waterborne, air transport and it is directly supported by several European Technology Platforms ERTRAC, ERRAC, WATERBORNE TP, ALICE, ECTP, ACARE and associations like ETRA European Transport Research Alliance and CEDR Conference of European Road Directors. Programme  Speakers  Themes  In 2024, Transport Research Arena TRA will take place in Dublin, Ireland from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 April. The theme for TRA 2024 is "Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility". TRA is co-organised by the European Commission and is the foremost European transport event that covers all transport modes and all aspects of mobility. It is the largest European research and technology conference on transport and mobility. The event offers a great venue for researchers, policymakers and industry representatives to get together and contribute to the discussion on how research and innovation can reshape the transport and mobility system. The conference provides a unique opportunity to hear about mobility trends in different parts of Europe, learn from achievements in the industry as well as share best practices of policies and deployments. Programme The EU Road Safety Conference will take place as a side event to TRA on 16 April.   The European Consumer Summit will take place on 18 April 2024 in Brussels and will bring together stakeholders from all EU Member States, including policymakers, national consumer enforcement authorities, academia, and representatives of civil society, such as consumer, business and youth organisations, at both EU and national level. The aim is, based on the achievements and lessons learned from the current Consumer Agenda, to discuss and provide input to Shaping the Future Consumer Policy Priorities and Actions. The annual high-level policy event will be hosted by the European Commission in collaboration with Belgian Presidency of the EU Council. The Summit will consist of several plenary sessions with the participation of Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice, and Alexia Bertrand, Belgian Secretary of State for Consumer Protection, as well as other high-level speakers. There will be breakout sessions for discussions on different topics as well. The event will be held in person with web streaming for only the opening and closing plenary sessions. Interpretation will be available at the venue and online in English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and Hungarian during the plenary sessions. Greece's Independent Authority for Public Revenue IAPR has set the aim of training their staff in Clear Writing in order to achieve better internal and external communication. This hands-on seminar focused on IAPR's specific needs and texts. Participants will be shown how IAPR's texts can be deconstructed and recomposed according to the readers' needs. This includes the language, as well as the structure and formatting of these texts. New templates for IAPR's various types of documents will be prepared in the framework of this workshop. The meeting will focus on various topics, including progress and perspectives on the Zero Pollution Action Plan; Zero Pollution and evaluation, and implementation of the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform. The meeting will also provide a platform for stakeholders to share their perspectives on the progress and future direction of the Zero Pollution agenda. The agenda is provided below and the meeting will be live streamed as of 13h30. and further practical information will be added to this webpage as soon as it is available.

European Committee of the Regions

Directorate-General for Environment

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