Project description
Driving transport innovation to sustainability
Urban transport is strategically important for the economic competitiveness, social cohesion and sustainable growth of Europe. The EU is encouraging cities and towns to move towards sustainable and integrated urban transport. To support these efforts, the EU-funded FastTrack project will deliver climate-resilient urban, peri-urban and rural areas through the deployment of sustainable mobility innovations across two dozen local areas, involving local authority project affiliates and several ambassadorial partners. The project will present a suite of interlinking methods that provide local authorities with opportunities to learn from the best, capturing and presenting the experiences of those who have already accelerated transition successfully.
Objective
FastTrack will deliver climate-resilient urban, peri-urban and rural areas through the deployment of sustainable mobility innovations across 24 local areas, involving 20 local authority project affiliates, and 4 ambassadorial partners.
FastTrack presents a suite of interlinking methods that provide local authorities with opportunities to learn from the best, capturing and presenting the experiences of those who have successfully accelerated transition. FastTrack’s twin-track core learning programme includes five separate FastTrack Capacity Building Weeks over 24 months:
1. Deep learning and exchange within the consortium, across four topic-based clusters guided by interests expressed by our 24 authorities. Each event will be led by an Ambassador (from Antwerp, Bologna, Budapest or Stockholm), supported by technical partners (WP2)
2. Meet the FastTrackers events, where 24 authorities will be introduced to skills and learning on cross-cutting topics (such as data, funding and governance) and will develop innovations with insights and inputs from external stakeholders recruited through a FastTrack database (including innovation networks, projects, funders, and end-users) (WP3)
This programme will be informed by a rapid, intense review of innovation and exchange practices (WP1). An internal, competitive programme will fund small-scale “springboard studies”, rewarding outstanding innovation ideas with the most widespread internal interest and greatest potential for applicability and replicability across the EU. In culmination, programme pillars will be gathered in a performance management activity to oversee 24 deployment plans, as authorities rapidly refine, focus and develop innovations (WP4). Exploitable recommendations for process, and new solutions, technologies and approaches, will be supported by a further outreach phase, giving extra opportunity for on-the-ground deployment to be reflected in FastTrack’s final recommendations and results.
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
Germany
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.