Project description
Leading the way to equitable streets
Cities across Europe are addressing car-centric urban mobility, which exacerbates issues of social inequality and environmental degradation. In this context, the EU-funded JUST STREETS project, led by 30 partners spanning 17 countries, will focus on promoting walking, cycling and active mobility, with a focus on people in vulnerable situations. It seeks to reshape infrastructure and behaviour in 12 cities, benefitting over 4.5 million citizens. By engaging citizens, policymakers and experts, JUST STREETS strives to foster spatial justice and rapidly disseminate its transformative strategies across Europe. The project’s emphasis on inclusivity and sustainability underscores its commitment to creating fairer cities. With a diverse consortium and strategic dissemination plan, JUST STREETS aims to empower urban decision-makers continent-wide to enact positive change.
Objective
JUST STREETS is the project proposal from a team of 30 partners from 17 countries, including 12 cities representing more than 4,5m citizens. It aims to transform cities’ car-centered mobility narratives that take for granted that streets are for motorized traffic only, promoting walking, cycling and other active modes of mobility. JUST STREETS will be re-shaping street infrastructure and changing individual mobility behavior in 12 cities, while proactively sharing the generated “how-to-do-it” knowledge with hundreds of cities for rapid replication across Europe. In close collaboration with citizens, policy makers, experts, and interest groups the project will not only develop a new vision of spatial justice where streets become public space for all, but equally important find ways to rapidly implement changes. A strong focus is on displaying how necessary transformations in the face of climate change can (and must) successfully improve social justice, accessibility, inclusivity, and security along the way. Putting marginalized social groups, the most vulnerable mobility users, as well as those citizens at the core of JUST STREETS that have been previously underrepresented in mobility infrastructure decision-making will allow the project to create highly valuable knowhow, critical in creating better, more just, and sustainable cities for all citizens.
The unique composition of the JUST STREET consortium is critical in making sure this knowledge is not only created, but subsequently shared with as many urban decision makers as possible from cities across Europe who have the means to initiate transformation in their cities. Top-level research and organizations with vast experience in the fields of mobility, urban planning, climate change, and social transformation are collaborating with the communication and dissemination expert partners who have established channels to reach and interact with tens of thousands urban decision-makers that will shape the future of cities
Fields of science
- social sciencessocial geographytransportsocial aspects of transport
- social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceslawhuman rights
- social sciencessocial geographytransportsustainable transport
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
10138 Torino
Italy
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Participants (28)
1012WX Amsterdam
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10129 Torino
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2300 Kobenhavn
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5020 Bergen
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32000 Haifa
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50018 Zaragoza
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16129 Genova
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10123 Torino
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4099-002 Porto
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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60486 Frankfurt Am Main
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8010 Graz
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1784 Sofia
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
55132 Kalamaria - Thessaloniki
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
515600 CUGIR
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50131 Kozani
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3000 Vratsa
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50071 Zaragoza
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20122 Milano
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
20134 Milano
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
20157 MILANO
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400114 Cluj Napoca
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1050 RIGA
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3310511 Haifa
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1011 PN Amsterdam
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09601 Vilnius
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4704 514 Braga
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1200 Bruxelles / Brussel
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Partners (3)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
SE1 2QH London
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
W1B 2UW London
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
SWIE 6QP London
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