Capacity Building
30.11.-0001
“Improving Public Transport for a Changing Urban Landscape” The 3rd UPPER&SPINE Webinar
UPPER Project EU teamed up again with sister project SPINE for the 3rd Webinar Series. This time, we focused on ‘Improving Public Transport for a Changing Urban Landscape. A privileged catwalk to present developing project measures improving the mobility offer taking care of shared urban space.
Upper ‘Twinning City’ Lisbon was represented along with SPINE’s Las Palmas, Gdynia, and AMIGOS EU’s Hamburg.
This was a must-attend event to further learn about the amazing work done on our project with a broader perspective from other EU-funded mobility projects under the CIVITAS Initiative ☂
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