For internal communication, the URGE consortium and the reference cities use a communication platform, which also includes a discussion forum. Interested members of the public and external experts are welcome to participate in these discussions.

There are three different levels of access to the discussion forum:

	access only for URGE-Project Partners
	access for the Reference Cities
	access for interested members of the public

In the public discussion board, you can find information about the latest developments of the URGE-Project, as well as the opportunity to participate in the scientific discussion or just to give your opinion.

You have two possibilities for accessing the public discussion board:

1. As a guest, you may only read the posted contributions;
2. as a registered user you can actively participate in the discussion forums.
   If you wish to register, you are kindly asked to provide some brief information about yourself and your own specific field of work.

As a registered user, you will receive information about current work in URGE and about the planned forums. You are invited to join the discussion and, if you wish, you can receive all the contributions of other participants via e-mail. On the public discussion board, there will be regular discussion forums on special subjects, which will last for one/two weeks each. The URGE-Project will post an introductory paper on the board to initiate the discussion. After the discussion deadline, the contributions will be summarised and the summary will be placed on the discussion board and also sent to every registered user. Moreover, the results will be integrated into the current URGE work. So you can contribute to our project and follow the URGE-Project during its whole duration.

However you are going to take part in the URGE discussion forum, thank you for your interest!

Your URGE-Team