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Karen Vancluysen
Secretary General
Karen was appointed as Secretary General of POLIS in September 2014, after having been the network's Research Director for 8 years.
Prior to joining POLIS in 2004, she was Network Manager at ACCESS-EUROCITIES for a New Mobility Culture and Project Manager at Langzaam Verkeer, a Belgian centre for mobility management.
Since 1998, she has been involved in urban mobility networking, innovation and policy activities as well as a wide range of European urban transport research projects.
You can contact her in English, Dutch and French.
+32 (0)2 500 56 75
kvancluysen@polisnetwork.eu

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20/09/2021

20/09/2021
Electronomous: Active Travel and Micromobility, one happy family?
On September 20, POLIS will be moderating a discussion on active travel and micro mobility at Electronomous....
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Online
17/09/2021

17/09/2021
Public transport & COVID-19: What happened and what will happen?
This first webinar of the Public Transport Lab series will have a look at what has happened to public transport during the COVID-crisis....
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Online
02/07/2021

02/07/2021
ERTRAC Annual Conference 2021
The ERTRAC Annual Conference will discuss the next challenges for road transport research that should be addressed in the Horizon Europe programme....
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Online
28/06/2021

28/06/2021
Small and Medium Sized City platform meeting
The POLIS Small and Medium Sized City platform (SMC) will convene on 28 June...
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Online
25/05/2021 - 27/05/2021

25/05/2021 - 27/05/2021
EU Conference on Access to Risk Finance for Clean Energy Technologies
Held on May 25-27, this Conference will provide a platform to network and discuss the future of EU energy technology funding. ...
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Online
10/05/2021

10/05/2021
POLIS at THE PEP: Reallocating space towards permanent infrastructure for active travel
Join the POLIS’ event at THE PEP Vienna 2021 – Fifth High-level Ministerial Meeting on Transport, Health and Environment....
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Online
06/05/2021 - 07/05/2021

06/05/2021 - 07/05/2021
Governance and Integration Working Group meeting: Public Private Partnerships
POLIS’ Working Group Governance & Integration will meet to discuss the role of public-private partnerships for the next generation of urban transport...
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Online
16/03/2021

16/03/2021
Policy Making for Data Sharing – A European and Local Perspective
POLIS is co-hosting a webinar to discuss European perspectives on data sharing for MaaS, in partnership with WBCSD and IRF....
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Online
30/06/2020

30/06/2020
Post-Lockdown Mobility webinar: Bouncing Ahead… and Out of the Box!
We are standing before a unique opportunity to make our urban mobility systems more sustainable and safe. But for change to happen, we have to overcome existing practices and prejudice, and an inertia...
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Online
23/06/2020

23/06/2020
Recharging urban mobility in Europe: Next steps for electromobility
Organised in cooperation with Transport & Environment and Uber
Electrification could be a game changer for mobility in our fight to reduce emissions and noise in cities. Nevertheless, the curre...
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Online
23/06/2020

23/06/2020
Urban transport innovation in the aftermath of COVID-19. Have the disruptors been disrupted?
This webinar will look at how disruptive urban transport solutions are coming out of the crisis and will reflect on their possible contribution to making cities’ mobility systems bounce back from CO...
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Online
03/04/2020

03/04/2020
NEW DATE! Polis webinar on Small and medium-sized cities
The COVID-19 pandemic is heavily impacting our society. New drastic measures are being taken every day by an increasing number of countries, including Belgium. For this reason, the SMC webinar has bee...
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Webinar
11/02/2020 - 12/02/2020

11/02/2020 - 12/02/2020
MOVE2020: Mobility Re-Imagined
MOVE2020 is a mobility event where disruptive technology and innovation drive much-needed change. MOVE brings together disruptors, their technology and their attitude with stakeholders across all mode...
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ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock - E16 1XL, London
07/12/2019

07/12/2019
COP25 Workshop “Mobility and climate change: The integrated approach of cities”
This COP25 workshop will show how cities are tackling transport sector's challenges and which planning tools, measures and solutions are being deployed. ...
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IFEMA exhibition centre, Madrid, Spain
14/11/2019 - 15/11/2019

14/11/2019 - 15/11/2019
3rd CoMotion LA Leadership Conference
The global conference CoMotion LA will take place in Los Angeles on November 14-15, 2019 and will explore the new mobility revolution and the challenges and opportunities it poses for cities....
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ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
15/10/2019

15/10/2019
SAE Workshop: ‘Shared and Micromobility: what’s beyond the hype?’
SAE International in partnership with Autonomy & The Urban Mobility Summit is organizing the workshop “Shared and Micromobility: What’s Beyond the Hype?” in Paris....
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Paris, France
25/09/2019

25/09/2019
Polis Small and Medium-sized Cities Platform: First Meeting
Members of the Polis Small and Medium-sized Cities Platform will meet for the first time in Bilbao, Spain on 25 September 2019.
The Small and Medium-sized Cities platform is open to Polis members i...
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Bilbao, Spain