European Robotics Week (ERW) will be celebrated in schools, labs and other venues across Europe as always. ERW National Coordinators have been working hard to create events to engage young people and non-specialist audiences with an interest in robotics. Details of events planned so far are shown on the ERW 2022 events page of the euRobotics website (scroll down the map to get the full picture). New events are being added all the time so please visit the page regularly. 

Erol Sahin, Director, METU-ROMER and ERW National Coordinator in Turkey, is organizing a Pan-European Virtual Robot Tournament as part of ERW this year. Further details are given in a short presentation about this event: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16bpkehNVveoECDurz52Km2qTExs8rygZffnqRwc7LvM/edit?usp=sharing

Inevitably ERW 2022 takes place under the long shadow of Covid-19. This year’s Central Event will take the form of a simple hybrid opening ceremony in Hannover, Germany, with a keynote address and panel discussion on Thursday 17th November, followed the next day by an event to showcase the work of the Roberta initiative in Hannover. The opening event is scheduled to take place in the Lichthof, the airy and impressive atrium at Leibniz University Hannover before a locally-invited audience.  

The event will be presented by robospace GmbH as sponsor of the Roberta RegioZentrum in cooperation with the roboterfabrik of Leibniz Universität Hannover, together with euRobotics. 

All members and supporters of euRobotics are invited to join the event via live stream from 4pm CET on 17th November. Please keep this time free to join us and enjoy the presentations. Full details of guest speakers will be given in our special ERW preview in the November newsletter.