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Innovative solutions for sustainable mobility of people in suburban city districts and emission free freight logistics in urban centres. (CIVITAS ECCENTRIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The cities of Madrid, Stockholm, Munich, Turku and Ruse have formed the CIVITAS ECCENTRIC consortium to tackle the challenges of mobility in suburban districts and clean, silent and CO2 free city logistics. In many cities, these two important areas have received less attention in urban mobility policies.Though European cities have made significant steps forward in making city centres attractive an ...
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Promoting Sustainable Freight Transport in Urban Contexts:Policy and Decision-Making Approaches (PROSFET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Within a context of growing urban population, advances in urban logistics operations and improved local authority planning, especially in the field of the urban freight transport, can alleviate the associated negative environmental and economic impacts occurring in cities.Several types of stakeholders are involved in such urban logistics management processes. Among them, freight carriers and shipp ...
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GrowSmarter

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

GrowSmarter aims to:• Improve the quality of life for European citizens by better mobility, housing and the quality of urban infrastructure while improving the citizens economy by lower energy costs and creating as much as 1500 new jobs (on the demonstration level).• Reduce the environmental impact by lower energy needs by 60 % and increased use of renewable energy thus reducing GHG emissions eve ...
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Wuppertal goes Europe

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Even the title of the project "Wuppertal goes Europe" describes the main objective of the City Council Wuppertal: EU mobility’s improve European competences of learners and VET staff or modernisation through internationalisation. The implementation of European policies is an ever-present cross-cutting issue in all areas of our administration. European laws and regulations be respected, European fu ...
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Sharing and Collaboration Offering Practice Exchange - Strategic Partnership Supporting the Exchange of Good Practices

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The Council of the European Union (2009) has as a key strategic objective the promotion of equity, social cohesion and active citizenship. It outlines that 'education and training policy should enable all citizens, irrespective of their personal, social or economic circumstances to acquire, update and develop over a lifetime both job-specific skills and the key competencies needed for their employ ...
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FREVUE VALIDATING FREIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN URBAN EUROPE (FREVUE)

Start date: Mar 15, 2013, End date: Sep 14, 2017,

Eight of Europe’s largest cities, will demonstrate that electric vehicles operating “last mile” freight movements in urban centres can offer significant and achievable decarbonisation of the European transport system. Demonstrators will be deployed in Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Rotterdam and Stockholm. The demonstrators have been designed to ensure FREVUE covers the breadth of ...
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Integrative energy planning of urban areas: collective learning for improved governance (URBAN LEARNING)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

URBAN LEARNING gathers capitals and other large cities across Europe facing the common challenge of considerable population growth while being committed to significantly reduce fossil energy consumption and CO2 emissions. E.g. Stockholm grew by more than 12.000 people / a (1.5%); in the next 10 years Vienna has to build for 200.000 new people. Efficient and effective planning processes will be cru ...
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Thematic Network Innovation for age-friendly environments in the European Union (AFE-INNOVNET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The overarching goal of AFE-INNOVNET is to set up a large EU wide community of local and regional authorities (LRAs) and other relevant stakeholders who want to work together to find smart and innovative evidence based solutions to support active and healthy ageing and develop age-friendly environments (AFE).Many innovative solutions supporting active and healthy ageing have been developed as pilo ...
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Holistic and sustainable abatement of noise by optimized combinations of natural and artificial means (HOSANNA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"Noise pollution is a major environmental problem within the EU. The social costs of traffic noise have been estimated to 0.4% of total GDP. Road traffic is the dominant source, and also rail traffic noise is significant. At the same time, road and rail traffic are expected to steadily increase, and the source strength is not expected to significantly decrease within the near future. To reduce the ...
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Acoustically Green Road Vehicles and City Areas (CITYHUSH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"The CITYHUSH project will support city administrations in the production and implementation of noise action plans according to the directive EC 2002/49.The identified hot spots and noise acting plans made with the existing technology suffer from major shortcomings:1. poor correlation between hot spots with annoyance and complaints;2. most measures lead to increased emissions;3. only indoor noise ...
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