ClairCity newsletter ClairCity newsletter July 2017 | Page 3

ClairCity Conference
Representatives from 18 countries
came together for the annual ClairCity
conference in Hungary, May 2017
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe hosted the first ClairCity Annual
Conference in Szentendre on 24th May 2017, in
Hungary. The conference theme “Tackling urban air
quality: citizen led approaches” focused on behaviour
and citizen engagement, to deliver information on the
activities of the project linked to the conceptual
sociological and environmental research. Future annual
conferences will highlight other relevant themes, such
as scenario modelling and data use.
The future visioning process and work on the city/
region scenarios towards 2050 were important topics at
our first conference. The opening keynote, “Air quality,
Vera Rodrigues from University of Aveiro speaking
at the ClairCity conference 2017
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carbon management and public health challenges in
European cities,” delivered by Dorota Jarosinska (WHO
Europe) and the closing words by Jim Longhurst (UWE
Bristol) showed the importance of horizon scanning and
future thinking on sustainable and healthy lifestyles for
European cities and citizens.
Alongside the public conference, we took the
opportunity to bring together the ClairCity External
Advisory Board (EAB) for a productive day of problem
and theory based presentations. The EAB comprises of
12 experts in the fields of air quality, citizen
engagement, energy and the environment each from
different developed and developing countries.
All presentations from the public conference are
available on our website www.claircity.eu/get-involved/
annual-conference/
Eva Csobod (work package leader WP4, engagement)