Survey on urban sustainability in cities

Posted on: 4 April 2012
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In order to gauge the sustainability priorities and views of European cities, the European Metropolitan network Institute (EMI) and ICLEI have jointly launched a digital questionnaire on urban sustainability. Cities are asked to fill out the questionnaire before the 23 April 2012 so that results can be used in further developing EMI’s Urban Sustainability Research Agenda. The main aim of this Agenda is to, together with cities, identify new, overarching research questions so that cities can become (increasingly) sustainable.

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Communicating EU transport research

Posted on: 3 April 2012
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In order to help research project teams to improve the communication, dissemination and promotion of transport research, the European Commission has released a set of recommendations and tips. The publication includes good practices and examples from project coordinators and a checklist for improving communication activities from the start of the project.  The publication also provides a list of freely accessible tools that the European Commission is providing for use to raise project profiles.

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European Platform on Mobility Management

Posted on: 27 March 2012
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EPOMM, the European Platform on Mobility Management, has developed two new services that are rapidly gaining recognition:

TEMS: The EPOMM Modal Split: This is an online tool allowing access to modal split data from currently more than 330 cities across Europe, with more cities added all the time. This is the first publicly accessible database that allows easy access to such data on a European-wide scale. Users can select a city from the map or compare a group of cities using search and benchmarking options. This allows, for example, to compare all cities in Europe with between 100.000 and 200.000 inhabitants and a cycling modal share of over 10%. The aim of EPOMM is to be able to provide the modal split data of all of the more than 600 European cities with more than 100.000 residents, and to foster discussion on a European standardisation of such data.

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MaxEva is an interactive web tool that guides and helps cities to evaluate and collect monitoring data of their projects. It provides an overview of results at any time during the project and automatically calculates the effects in terms of modal split, reduced mileage and reduced CO2-emissions. Projects that have already used MaxEva can be found by using either an interactive map or a search and benchmarking tool. For each project, a large array of background data is available.

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Cycling in Lviv, Ukraine

Posted on: 27 March 2012
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The Western Ukrainian city of Lviv has taken the strategic decision to develop cycling as regular mode of transport: Improved cycling infrastructure and active promotion of cycling as modern, clean and truly European mode of transport will help to increase the share of cyclists.

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Consultation on the EU environment policy priorities for 2020: Towards a 7th EU Environment Action Programme

Posted on: 23 March 2012
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The purpose of this consultation is to collect the views of all stakeholders, at EU and national level, and the public at large on the environment policy priorities up to 2020. Comments are requested by 1 June 2012.

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How can eco-restoration become an asset for the local economy?

Posted on: 23 March 2012
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This report presents to outcomes of a meeting held by members of the LINKS project in Bayonne from 12-14 October 2011 which examined the economic implications of eco-restoration. The cities involved in LINKS project aim to replace their historical cities into a dynamic of residential attractiveness while preserving the architectural identity cultural heritage and historical values.

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Consultation on the EU environment policy priorities for 2020: Towards a 7th EU Environment Action Programme

Posted on: 23 March 2012
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The purpose of this consultation is to collect the views of all stakeholders, at EU and national level, and the public at large on the environment policy priorities up to 2020. Comments are requested by 1 June 2012.

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Linkoping and Noorkpoing: Case study

Posted on: 22 March 2012
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As part of the European Metropolitan network Institute’s Knowledge and Research Agenda on Polycentric metropolitan areas, EMI has published a new case study on the polycentric development in the region of Linköping-Norrköping in Sweden. Both cities were selected for an EMI case study, because the collaboration between the cities Linköping-Norrköping is exemplary for the processes at play when relatively equally sized cities are becoming increasingly integrated. This article gives you a preview of several challenges the EMI research team analysed.

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Attitudes of Europeans to water-related issues

Posted on: 22 March 2012
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This Flash Eurobarometer provides insight into European citizens’ awareness of different water-related issues.

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Implementing “community-led” local development in cities. Lessons from URBACT

Posted on: 16 March 2012
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How can community-led local development become a powerful tool for improving our cities? Drawing on URBACT’s experience, experts in urban development have put forward their first answers in an article.

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