The "AGORA Konya Thematic Dialogue Meeting," organized by JPI Urban Europe (Joint Programming Initiative) affiliated with the European Union, was hosted by the Konya Metropolitan Municipality.
Representatives from local government, academics from universities, and business representatives from Turkey, as well as delegations from Austria, Belgium, France, Sweden, Latvia, and Romania, participated in the meetings held at the Metropolitan Municipality Stone Building Culture and Arts.
During the workshops held as part of the meeting, various issues related to achieving climate neutrality in cities, challenges and solutions for promoting active mobility in cities, sustainable solutions in freight transportation (a roadmap for safe, sustainable, efficient, technology-supported, integrated urban logistics), and how to achieve speed reduction in urban traffic were discussed. Solutions to these problems were explored and presented.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay visited the workshops and expressed his satisfaction at hosting such an important international meeting. Mayor Altay, expressing the hope that new horizons would emerge for Konya as a result of the conducted studies, wished success to the participants.
Agora meetings, attended by academics from universities, local government representatives, planners, entrepreneurs, and business representatives, seek solutions to the current issues faced by cities. The meetings also provide significant opportunities for networking and establishing partnerships for grants financed by the European Union.
