EU promotes science-policy dialogue at regional and local levels

Policy professionals will be visiting the research facilities of the LOEWE center emergenCITY and those of the research area Energy and Environment in March. Up to 100 face-to-face meetings between policy professionals and researchers are going to be conducted in May 2023.

Solutions for shaping green and digital transformation processes

Professor Tanja Brühl, President of Technical University of Darmstadt, explains the importance of bringing researchers and policy professionals together: “The shaping of both the green and the digital transformation is of utmost importance to our economy and society. Researchers at the Rhine-Main Universities are working closely together to find sustainable solutions that will turn these processes of transformation into reality – be it the acceleration of energy transition, the preservation of biodiversity, cyber security issues, or the automation of work processes. In order to jointly develop sustainable solutions for local needs, we as universities are in close dialogue with our partners from outside the academic field. We are therefore very pleased about the pilot funding from the European Commission, which makes this kind of dialogue with representatives from state institutions and city administrations possible.”

The Science Meets Regions programme of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission supports eight other pairing schemes in the European Union besides the one at the Rhine-Main universities.

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