Exactly one year after the kick-off meeting for @CITY-AF, around 85 participants in the project from partner companies, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and the programme management organisation TÜV Rheinland convened on 9 and 10 October 2019 for a two-day plenum event at the TU Munich in Garching

On the first day of the event, the current status of work in the subprojects and the intermediate results available so far were presented. Also on the agenda were talks about related projects from the @CITY environment, as well as a guest talk with a subsequent discussion of the socio-political relevance and acceptance of autonomous driving. On the second day of the event, working meetings were held in the subprojects in the morning, while in the afternoon, topics relevant to all projects were addressed in workshops. The event therefore offered – for the new colleagues to the project, in particular – plenty of opportunities to share information with everyone involved in the project.

On November 26, 2020, the project partners presented the results achieved so far in a new, digital event format after just over half of the project duration.

The welcome by project coordinator Dr. Ulrich Kreßel (Mercedes-Benz AG) and the greeting by Matthias Marx from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy were followed by an overview of the overall @CITY initiative and its seven subprojects. Subsequently, the previous work of 40 speakers was presented in detail in three parallel livestreams. To give visitors the opportunity to follow as many of the interesting contributions as possible, the respective sub-project sessions were repeated in the three live streams in the afternoon. In this way, each participant was able to freely design his or her own individual program, switching between the streams as desired.

Personal exchange was also not neglected during the all-day event: during the breaks and after the official end of the event, the approximately 250 participants were able to engage in direct conversation in the virtual "café" thanks to a new type of tool via ad-hoc video chats - in pairs or also in groups.

The project partners would like to thank all participants and guests for this successful day and hope to welcome you again at the latest at the @CITY final presentation in 2022 - then again for a face-to-face meeting on site with driving demos, many interactive presentations and direct, personal exchange.

Around 70 participants in the project from the 15 @CITY partners, along with representatives from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and the programme management organisation TÜV Rheinland, convened on 9 and 10 October 2018 in Ulm for the official kick-off event for @CITY-AF, the second part of the project, which was launched in July.

The first day of the event was dedicated to presenting the topic and key research areas being examined by all seven subprojects. The evening event that followed provided an opportunity for all participants in the project to exchange information in person.

On the second day, the current status of work on the subprojects was presented. In the afternoon, networking between the subprojects was discussed and the next work steps were defined in parallel workshops