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.

With kick-off meetings already having been held in the individual subprojects, all participants in the project convened on 20 and 21 November 2017 at Daimler AG in Ulm for a two-day kick-off event for everyone working on the overall @CITY project.

The topics covered by the subprojects, and the key focal points of the work done by the individual project partners, were presented in detail. These presentations and an intensive exchange of information in networks encompassing both the partners and the subprojects resulted in a shared understanding of the project. Furthermore, the event provided a space for the participants in the project to meet each other in person.