EuroPCom is the European Conference on Public Communication. It's an annual based conference organised by the EU Committee of the Regions, the European Comission, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, the EU Presidency of the Luxembourg (2015) and the European Economic and Social Committee. This year it reached it's sixth edition and it was held on 21 and 22 October in Brussels in EU Comittee of the Regions and EU Parliament.
More than 80 professionals in public communication from Europe gathered together with more than 1000 participants on lectures, debates and interactive workshops focused on major challenges in both EU and public communication. This year the main issues of more than 30 plenary sessions were : how to develop a two-way dialogue on the local level and how to regain the trust of the citizens in the EU. The program included interactive events with possibilities for networking and discussions on specific topics.
The high level of speakers sucha as : Xavier Bettel (Prime Minister of Luxembourg), Sylvie Guillaume ( Vice-President of the European Parliament), Luc Van den Brande(Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions), Sir Martin Sorrell (CEO WPP), Alex Aiken (Executive Director Government Communications UK) , Emily O'Reilly (European Ombudsman) emphasized the importance of the event.
All conference materials can be downloaded on the website of CoR.
