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Prosperity through innovation and promotion of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans

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Objective

PROSPERITY will:
1. Produce a culture shift in terms of environment for SUMPs in member states and in the organisational culture of transport planning in city authorities.
2. Get ministries and national agencies to play a national leading role on SUMPs, as in many member states these are the organisations from which cities take their main direction; where ministries are already playing this role, to support and strengthen their approach.
3. To provide mechanisms and tools for Ministries to take this lead role.
4. Analyse clearly the problems of (lack of) take-up of SUMPs – to understand from cities themselves why they are not taken up and then to help cities to address these barriers.
5. Extend the existing 25-county EU-SUMP-network with at least two more countries
6. Get more cities to take up effective high quality SUMPs – through cities’ involvement in the project and indirectly through more cities hearing about SUMPs in their country.
7. Ensure that these SUMPs contain and will lead to implementation of a broad range of innovative sustainable transport measures.
8. Build cities’ capacity to develop and implement SUMPs that genuinely reflect the spirit of the EU SUMP Guidelines, rather than being mandatory documents to fulfil a requirement linked to major transport infrastructure.
9. Deliver a measurable impact.

The core concept of PROSPERITY is bringing ministries into the project, which will significantly enhance the visibility of the project at the national level and therefore increase numbers of cities active on SUMPs. Thus PROSPERITY will ensure that more cities commit to SUMPs that are in line with the EU SUMP Guidelines and that include a broad range of innovative measures. This will generate a high leverage factor, especially in regions and cities where take up is so far low and the impacts from transport are severe – therefore the majority of PROSPERITY activities is in such regions and cities - thus in southern, central-eastern and eastern Europe.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.3.4. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Topic(s)

MG-5.4-2015 - Strengthening the knowledge and capacities of local authorities

Call for proposal

H2020-MG-2015_TwoStages

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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MOBILITAET - Austrian Mobility Research FGM - AMOR Gemeinnutzige GMBH

Address

Schonaugasse 8a/1
8010 Graz

Austria

Activity type

Research Organisations

EU Contribution

€ 664 130,76

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Participants (26)

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EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 338 032,84

URBANISTICNI INSTITUT REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE

Slovenia

EU Contribution

€ 128 941,50

ASOCIATIA ORASE IN MISCARE

Romania

EU Contribution

€ 135 471

MOBILISSIMUS KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGUTARSASAG

Hungary

EU Contribution

€ 129 146,75

MOBIEL 21 VZW

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 346 395

Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik gGmbH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 215 240,75

MICHNEJ MACIEJ

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 108 076,25

CLUB SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL SOCIETY ASSOCIATION

Bulgaria

EU Contribution

€ 97 275,25

APLINKOSAUGOS VALDYMO IR TECHNOLOGIJU CENTRAS VIESOJI ISTAIGA

Lithuania

EU Contribution

€ 83 332,50

GRUPO DE ESTUDIOS Y ALTERNATIVAS 21SL - GEA 21

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 85 806

INSTITUTO DA MOBILIDADE E DOS TRANSORTES TERRESTRES INSTITUTO PUBLICO

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 65 875

CENTRUM DOPRAVNIHO VYZKUMU v.v.i.

Czechia

EU Contribution

€ 92 233,50

STRATAGEM ENERGY LTD

Cyprus

EU Contribution

€ 117 998,50

GRAD KOPRIVNICA

Croatia

EU Contribution

€ 60 684

TRT TRASPORTI E TERRITORIO SRL

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 68 497,50

CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE LISBOA

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 76 458,75

LIMASSOL MUNICIPALITY

Cyprus

EU Contribution

€ 71 904,15

JONAVOS RAJONO SAVIVALDYBES ADMINISTRACIJA

Lithuania

EU Contribution

€ 25 397,50

MAGISTRAT DER STADT KASSEL

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 85 888,75

GRAD DUBROVNIK

Croatia

EU Contribution

€ 33 272,50

OBCINA LJUTOMER

Slovenia

EU Contribution

€ 29 123,75

STATUTARNI MESTO HRADEC KRALOVE

Czechia

EU Contribution

€ 32 366,25

MUNICIPIUL FAGARAS

Romania

EU Contribution

€ 26 155

KATOWICE - MIASTO NA PRAWACH POWIATU

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 26 772,50

OBSHTINA VARNA

Bulgaria

EU Contribution

€ 18 701,25

SZEGED MEGYEI JOGU VAROS ONKORMANYZATA

Hungary

EU Contribution

€ 24 871,50

Project information

Prosperity

Grant agreement ID: 690636

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2016
End date

31 August 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 188 049
EU contribution

€ 3 188 049

Coordinated by:

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MOBILITAET - Austrian Mobility Research FGM - AMOR Gemeinnutzige GMBH

Austria

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A much-needed boost for sustainable mobility in EU cities

A large awareness raising, dissemination, training and cross-learning programme has enabled cities from 13 EU countries and regions to make up for lost time in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). All of these countries are now working on – or already have – a dedicated national programme.

SOCIETY

CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENT

We – regular citizens and public administrations alike – all want the same thing for our cities: less pollution, less congestion and smarter mobility solutions. But whilst meeting these requirements all comes down to effective SUMPs, these plans have yet to materialise in most European cities. The Prosperity project aimed to tackle this problem by establishing national SUMP ‘task forces’. Over three years, these platforms became the place to discuss cities’ needs and requirements, and more specifically the planning and implementation of national SUMP support programmes tailored to these needs in each participating city. “The idea was to bring about a cultural shift in transport planning at all levels of government,” says Robert Pressl, coordinator of the project on behalf of Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR. “But we particularly focused on developing new national government activities to stimulate sustainable urban mobility planning. Besides, we brought together cities and national-level agencies in each country to build a mutual understanding of SUMP and build capacity, thanks to national-level exchanges of experience and training events.” The project covered a total of 13 countries whose take-up of SUMP concepts was non-existent or needed to be further developed, and successfully helped them in preparing a relevant national programme. The team also carried out a comprehensive set of training sessions for city representatives, with a particular focus on city and site managers, people in charge of budgeting, technical personnel and politicians. In total, over 300 city representatives could benefit from these training sessions. Utilising a peer-to-peer approach To ensure success, the project consortium used a peer-to-peer approach: they identified ‘champion’ SUMP cities and selected their development leaders to become trainers in other, less advanced cities. “This ensures that the information and content, contained in the training and awareness raising material, are based on the experience of real cities and these messages resonate most with other cities because they provide real evidence,” Pressl points out. For those who didn’t have a chance to attend these training sessions, the project provided training material and also created ‘innovation briefs’ describing innovative approaches and ideas in sustainable urban mobility planning and implementation. Since the project was launched in 2016, partner cities have been used as test beds and role models. The project purposely picked very different cities in terms of size and population to test various ideas. In Lisbon, for instance, stakeholders are now developing a digital platform to detail measures and objectives, as well as monitoring and evaluation methods. In Fagaras, urban mobility measures were selected to converge with needs and objectives in the area of urban development and energy efficiency, by harmonising the SUMP with land use plans and the energy efficiency strategy. In high density residential neighbourhoods, for instance, the city introduced on-street paid parking. Keeping SUMPs alive Pressl is hopeful that the availability of national and regional SUMP supporting programmes will uplift SUMP to a higher policy level in participating countries. The consortium is getting ready to maintain SUMP task forces beyond the duration of the project, whilst all national SUMP networks are still in operation and have gained significant visibility within their own countries. The Slovenian SUMP network, for instance, currently has 210 active members including national institutions, regional agencies, municipalities, NGOs, public transport operators, the news media, and transport experts.

Keywords

Prosperity, SUMP, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, sustainability, urban mobility

Project information

Prosperity

Grant agreement ID: 690636

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2016
End date

31 August 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 188 049
EU contribution

€ 3 188 049

Coordinated by:

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MOBILITAET - Austrian Mobility Research FGM - AMOR Gemeinnutzige GMBH

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Reporting period: 2016-09-01 to 2018-02-28

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

For decades the common practise followed the ‘predict and provide’ approach. The consequences of this approach were longer journey times and congestion, increased greenhouse gas emissions, poor air quality, poor health, car dominated city centres and neighbourhoods and many accidents. A pure expansion of infrastructure has proven to be insufficient.
In response to this, a new planning philosophy has been developed – the Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning - and with the Urban Mobility Package, the EC reinforces its supporting measures. The ANNEX of the policy paper ‘Together towards competitive and resource-efficient urban mobility’, focuses on ‘A CONCEPT FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY PLANS’.
CIVITAS PROSPERITY follows exactly the SUMP philosophy. The main aim of the project is to support local and national authorities to improve the quality and uptake of SUMPs.
It is important to achieve this broad take up of SUMPs through the involvement and interaction of the national level administrations, at the same time addressing their cultural differences. This is due to a gap between the needs & demands of the cities that should develop SUMPs and higher administrative institutions who should prepare the ground / provide programmes to encourage cities.

The objectives are as follows. CIVITAS PROSPERITY will:
1. Produce a culture shift in the organisational culture of transport planning in city authorities.
2. Get ministries and national agencies to play a leading role.
3. To provide mechanisms and tools for ministries to take this lead role.
4. Analyse the problems with the take-up of SUMPs and understand from the cities involved why they are not taken up, and then help cities to address these barriers.
5. Get more cities to take up SUMPs.
6. Ensure that these SUMPs will lead to implementation of more innovative transport measures.
7. Build capacity to develop and implement SUMPs that reflect the spirit of the EU SUMP Guidelines, rather than being mandatory documents written to fulfil a requirement linked to major transport infrastructure documents.
8. Deliver a measurable impact.
In short, these objectives will be achieved in 12 member states and across a broad and active network of partner cities by means of a four-pronged approach:
1. NAT. PROGRAMMES - Activating cities by strong involvement of the national level:;
2. LIVING LABS - A support system for PROSPERITY partner cities as they act as living labs to demonstrate to other cities in their country how SUMP can be developed and implemented;
3. TOOLS & GUIDELINES - Developments and improvements of SUMP tools and guidelines to provide advice and support to cities and
4. CAPACITY BUILDING - Innovative capacity building and training, led as much by cities as by expert trainers, informed by the experience and participation of Champion SUMP cities tailored to the needs and context of each country where it takes place

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Hand over certificates to the trainees of the Lithuanian National Training Session

Project information

Prosperity

Grant agreement ID: 690636

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2016
End date

31 August 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 3 188 049
EU contribution

€ 3 188 049

Coordinated by:

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MOBILITAET - Austrian Mobility Research FGM - AMOR Gemeinnutzige GMBH

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