From insight to impact: leveraging data-driven approaches for smarter regional policy – European Week of Regions and Cities | 14/10/2025, 09:30 – 11:00 CET
How can diverse data-driven approaches support regional resilience and development in the face of skills shortages, brain drain, and mobility challenges?
On 14 October 2025 (09:30–11:00 CET), MOBI-TWIN will take centre stage at the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC) in Brussels with the interactive session “From insight to impact: leveraging data-driven approaches for smarter regional policy ”.
The event brings together four Horizon Europe projects — MOBI-TWIN, RE-PLACE, PREMIUM_EU, and SkillsPULSE — to explore how diverse methodologies and tools can support policymakers in addressing pressing challenges such as skills shortages, brain drain, and mobility flows.
What to Expect
Participants will discover innovative tools and approaches such as:
- the Regional Attractiveness Index,
- the Local Human Development Index,
- the Regional Policy Dashboard, and
- new forms of skills intelligence.
Through a roundtable format, attendees will engage directly with project teams, exchanging insights and experiences on how data-driven evidence can help shape more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable regions.
The session will conclude with reflections from a representative of the European Committee of the Regions, highlighting opportunities to integrate these approaches into real-world policy processes.
Speakers
The panel will feature leading experts including:
Anastasia Panori (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Anastasia Panori is an Assistant Professor at the School of Spatial Planning and Development of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a master’s degree in Economics (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki) and a PhD in Economic and Regional Development from Panteion University of Athens. Her work has been published in top academic journals. She has contributed to generating more than ?10 million through research and consultancy projects, mainly supported via European funding schemes (H2020, Horizon Europe), and she has worked as an expert for the European Commission and the Greek National Documentation Centre. Anastasia serves on the editorial boards of REGION and IET Smart Cities, and she has been invited to edit Special Issues on the digital transition of regional and the future of cities for Regional Studies and Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. She also co-edited the Greek book “Spatial planning in the digital age” (Kritiki).
Seamus McGuinness (Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland)
Research Professor and the Research Area Co-ordinator for labour market research. Seamus McGuinness is a Research Professor and the Research Area Co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Most of his published research has been in the areas of labour economics and the economics of education, with a particular focus on skill mismatches. He has also published research in the areas of industrial relations, regional economics, small business economics, social deprivation and the economics of constitutional change in Ireland. Seamus is also a Research Fellow in the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin.
Session moderator: Giulia Zendron (White Research SRL and Mobi-Twin Project Coordinator).
Practical Information
📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 09:30–11:00 CET
📍 Location: Square Brussels, 213-215
🎟️ Registration: Register to Join on Site
Join us in Brussels to see how MOBI-TWIN and its partners are harnessing data-driven innovation to unlock the potential of Europe’s regions.
