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.
Fields of science
- social sciencessocial and economic geographytransportsustainable transport
- humanitiesartsmodern and contemporary artfilm
- social sciencessocial and economic geographytransporttransport planning
- social sciencessocial and economic geographytransportfreight transport
- humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophy
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
Call for proposal
H2020-MG-2015_TwoStages
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
8010 Graz
Austria
Participants (26)
EH14 1DJ Edinburgh
1000 Ljubljana
023977 Bucuresti
1093 Budapest
3000 Leuven
10969 Berlin
31-851 Krakow
1463 Sofia
Kaunas
28013 Madrid
1649 022 Lisboa
636 00 Brno
3065 Lemesos
48000 Koprivnica
20141 Milano
1100-365 Lisboa
3600 Lemesos
55158 Jonava
34117 Kassel
20000 Dubrovnik
9240 Ljutomer
502 00 Hradec Kralove
505200 Fagaras
40 098 Katowice
9000 Varna
6720 Szeged