Events 15 Nov 2021

EESC event for the European Year of Rail 2021

On 15 November, the EESC's Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society (TEN) and Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) organises an event dedicated to the European Year of Rail.

Opened by Christa Schweng, EESC president, and attended by Elżbieta Łukaniuk, member of Commissioner Vălean's Cabinet, the event will bring together high-level speakers from European civil society organisations and European and national institutions, including Barbara Thaler, MEP, TRAN committee, EPP shadow on the European Year of Rail, and Tālis Linkaits, Latvian Minister for Transport.

CER Executive Director Alberto Mazzola will speak in the panel 'Decarbonisation and Digitalisation of Railways' from 11:00 - 12:30 CET.

The conference will be webstreamed with interpretation into EN, FR and DE. Viewers will have the opportunity to engage in the debate using the platform Slido, with the code #EYR2021.

Full details available here on the EESC website.