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ENUAC PROJECTS CATALOGUE 2021 - JPI Urban Europe
ENUAC
                                                      PROJECTS
                                                      CATALOGUE
                                                      2021
    EDITORS
    Katarina Schylberg, IQ Samhällsbyggnad
    Amanda Ritzman, IQ Samhällsbyggnad

    DESIGN AND LAYOUT
    Chris Versteeg, Projekt C

    COVER IMAGE
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CONTENT
    PROJECTS CATALOGUE	                                  7             THE PROJECTS	                27
                                                                        ASAP	                        28
    A EUROPEAN FUNDING SCHEME	                           8             CATAPULT	                    29
    The European partnership on Driving Urban Transitions	8            COCOMO	                      30
    The 15-Minute City pillar	                           9             DyMoN	                       31
                                                                        EASIER	                      32
    PROGRAM MANAGEMENT	                                 10             EX-TRA	                      33
    Projects’ contact point	                            10             GeoSence	                    34
    ENUAC knowledge hub	                                 11            ITEM	                        35
                                                                        JUSTICE	                     36
    THE ENUAC CALL	                                      12            MyFairShare	                 37
    Call topics	                                         12            SmartHubs	                   38
    Timeline	                                           18             SORTEDMOBILITY	              39
                                                                        TAP for uncertain futures	   40
    STATISTICS	                                         20             TuneOurBlock	                41
                                                                        WalkUrban	                   42
    PROJECT OVERVIEW	                                   24
                                                                        CONTACT US	                  45

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ENUAC PROJECTS
              CATALOGUE
              The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity
              (ENUAC) aims to create and consolidate a transnational
              ecosystem to drive transitions towards such sustainable,
              inclusive models for urban accessibility and connectivity.

    The ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and             The joint calls and actions will focus on
    Connectivity (ENUAC) is pooling re-             measures to improve urban accessibility
    sources from 23 partners of 16 countries,       and connectivity for all groups of society
    to implement joint actions in the area of       while moving towards more sustainable
    urban mobility, accessibility and connec-       urban mobility systems.
    tivity. The aim is to create and consolidate
    a transnational ecosystem for inter- and        The ENUAC Projects Catalogue provides
    transdisciplinary research and innovation       an overview of the initiative and the 15
    and enhanced science-policy cooperation         projects funded in the first ENUAC call
    to drive transitions towards such sustaina-     that was launched in December 2020.
    ble, inclusive models for urban accessibility   The ENUAC Projects catalogue is part of
    and connectivity.                               the JPI Urban Europe Projects Catalogues
                                                    series issued since 2016.
    With this shared ambition a series of calls
    for research and innovation projects are        The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility
    planned as well as accompanying measures        and Connectivity is supported by the
    to create the highest impact.                   European Commission and funded under
                                                    the Horizon 2020 ERA-NET Cofund
                                                    scheme under grant agreement N°
                                                    875022.

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A EUROPEAN                                                                           One of the candidates for such a European     THE 15-MINUTE CITY PILLAR
                                                                                              partnership is Driving Urban Transitions to   Although the ENUAC call originates from
         FUNDING SCHEME                                                                       a Sustainable Future (DUT). This part-        the JPI Urban Europe Strategic Re-
                                                                                              nership builds upon the achievements of       search and innovation Agenda (SRIA 2.0)
                                                                                              JPI Urban Europe and aims to strengthen       launched in 2019 the call and the projects
         The ENUAC call was launched by JPI Urban Europe with support
                                                                                              our joint efforts towards sustainable urban   funded in the call are highly related to and
         from the ERA-NET Cofunding scheme under Horizon 2020.                                development and bringing knowledge            builds the ground for the 15-Minute City
                                                                                              and evidence into action. The partnership     pillar of DUT. The table on page 25 indi-
                                                                                              scheme offers the opportunity to establish    cates interlinkages between the 15-Minute
                                                                                              long-term cooperation between European        City pillar key areas and ENUAC projects.
The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Acces-               instrument of Horizon 2020 that supports        countries and the European Commission
sibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) was         and leverages cooperation of national           with a timeframe of seven years and a         The 15-Minute City concept evolves
conceptualised in the framework of the        research and innovation programmes and          comprehensive portfolio of joint actions,     around the idea that the vast majority of
Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban      agencies across Europe. Through the ERA-        from joint calls to knowledge hubs, from      daily needs of city dwellers can be reached
Europe. JPI Urban Europe is an inter-         NET Cofunds, the European Commission            stakeholder mobilisation to impact crea-      and/or accessible within a 15-minute
governmental and strategic partnership        provides top-up funding and strengthens         tion.                                         radius, by walking and cycling, while
of countries addressing the challenge of      the relationship of the JPI Urban Europe                                                      connecting to other 15-minute neighbour-
sustainable urban development through         programme to European strategies and            The Driving Urban Transitioning part-         hoods and covering distances by public
coordinated research and innovation. JPI      priorities, e.g. the various related societal   nership (DUT) proposes a program-             and regional transport. The mobility sector
Urban Europe has the ambition to establish    challenges of Horizon 2020. The ERA-            ming framework around three transition        and urban planning play a decisive role in
as the European platform to create, discuss   NET Cofunds also facilitate the widening        pathways, i.e., three prioritised areas and   combating climate change as well as in
and make available knowledge and robust       of participation of EU Member States or         their interrelationships, along the Green     guaranteeing healthy living conditions for
evidence for sustainable urban solutions      Associated States in such joint calls and       Deal for sustainable urbanisation: Positive   citizens. Therefore, establishing mixed-use
and pathways. More than 20 European           programme activities.                           Energy Districts; 15-Minute City; Circular    and integrated neighbourhoods will support
countries are engaged in the initiative.                                                      Urban Economies. Each of the pathways         the needed green mobility transition by
                                              THE EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP                        represents an integrated approach towards     avoiding traffic before it occurs, focusing
JPI Urban Europe has a longstanding co-       ON DRIVING URBAN TRANSITIONS                    urban transformations in their own right as   on active mobility and public transport,
operation with the European Commission        As part of the preparation of the next          well as in between their sectoral foci.       thus making the mobility system as a whole
with a total of six ERA-NET Cofund calls      European Research and Innovation Frame-                                                       more efficient and sustainable.
launched under the European Research          work Programme – Horizon Europe – new
and Innovation Framework Programme –          mechanisms for public-public partnerships
Horizon 2020. ERA-NET Cofund is an            are under development.

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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
          In ENUAC, program management activities are stepped up
          with a dedicated projects’ contact point and the ambition
          to establish a first knowledge hub on urban accessibility and
          connectivity. These measures provide important references
          for the DUT partnership and its implementation measures.

Through joint calls between national             Stakeholder Involvement Platform, the          web-based stakeholder online platform,          ment of the ENUAC and JPI Urban
programming actions, JPI Urban Europe            Urban Transitions Pathways Symposiums          projects’ results will be readily exposed.      Europe objectives by connecting projects,
continuously expands its portfolio of ongo-      and popular cross-call projects meetings.                                                      contributing to synthesis, identifying
ing and completed research and innovation        Projects are actively featured in online       ENUAC KNOWLEDGE HUB                             results with a high potential for further
projects. To enhance the impact of the           channels - be it social media, web or          JPI Urban Europe builds capacities for          validation or demonstration, and by pre-
funded projects and make use of results          webinar series like the Urban Lunch Talks,     sustainable urban development and policy        paring recommendations and learnings for
in policy developments and concrete local        the latter a forum for projects to exchange    implementation and stays attentive to Eu-       practitioners and policy makers. While the
actions, JPI Urban Europe has developed          impact stories with cities and relevant        ropean and global developments. Building        knowledge hub is based on the ENUAC
formats and routines for a continuous and        research and innovation stakeholders.          capacities is needed to bring strategies into   priorities and projects it may represent
dedicated programme management. This                                                            action. At the same time, many national         at the same time a first action towards a
way, JPI Urban Europe has come to grow           PROJECTS’ CONTACT POINT                        and European activities and projects are        knowledge hub for the 15-Minute City pri-
in the past years into a community of many       To strengthen the cooperation of JPI           funded that contribute to creating such         ority of the European partnership Driving
hundreds of researchers and practitioners        Urban Europe management with the 15            capacities. To overcome the resulting frag-     Urban Transitions.
all over Europe that exchange results and        funded projects and to support realition-      mentation of experiences, competences
insights across projects, calls and countries.   ship building across projects, a dedicated     and results, and to facilitate a platform for
Projects supported in JPI Urban Europe           Projects’ contact point is established.        exchange, a dedicated knowledge hub is
benefit from established strategies on re-       The Projects’ contact point will support       planned as part of ENUAC.
sults dissemination and utilisation. They are    projects throughout their lifetime, monitor
also active contributors to larger recurring     achievements and synthesis results across      The knowledge hub shall be composed of
events and arenas such as the JPI Urban          projects to enhance policy impact. With        experts (research and practitioners) from
Europe Policy Conferences, the AGORA             the projects contact point in place, and the   across Europe and support the achieve-

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THE ENUAC CALL
          The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and
          Connectivity (ENUAC) aims at creating and testing new
          solutions and approaches for sustainable urban mobility.

With this shared ambition, 23 partners         can help cities, urban residents, communi-
of 16 countries are pooling resources to       ties, businesses and institutions make the
implement a series of calls for research and   most use of new developments in urban
innovation projects as well as accompa-        mobility. Sustainable urban accessibility
nying measures to create highest impact.       and connectivity is defined as the ease with
The joint calls and actions will focus on      which activities and opportunities may be
measures to improve urban accessibility        reached in an urban transport system, with
and connectivity for all groups of society     lower negative environmental impacts.
while moving towards more sustainable          Network connectivity reflects the direct-
urban mobility systems.                        ness of routes, using different modes to
The 15 projects funded in the first call       travel between points. It applies both for
that was launched in December 2019             passenger and freight transport.
are expected to be co-creative and have                                                        CHALLENGE 1
strong stakeholder participation already       CALL TOPICS                                     Evolving solutions for an integrated approach on sustainable urban
from the start. The research is based on       The call included five challenges that need     physical mobility and transport, land use and digital connectivity
actual urban challenges and the results        to be responded in order to move towards        The idea is to explore overarching, systemic approaches integrating emerging
should lead to new approaches, tools,          realising sustainable urban accessibility       trends or potential game changers (specially in Information and Communication
instruments, insights and knowledge that       and connectivity for all, taking advantage      Technologies but not only) and to consider the vulnerability of urban mobility
will bring stakeholders closer to sustain-     of current solutions and approaches. The        systems as a whole, due to growing complexity and inter-dependencies between
                                                                                               transport modes and mobility services.
able urban accessibility and connectivity.     funded projects address at least one of the
The project results are expected to make       challenges but some of the projects relate
a clear contribution to the realisation        to several challenges as they focus on a
of relevant urban, regional, national and      crosscutting subject or an issue that is at
European transport policy objectives that      the frontier of several.

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CHALLENGE 2                                                                           CHALLENGE 3
 Develop and support the implementation of innovative mobility systems                 Transform and re-organise urban spaces to pave the ground for sustainable
 and services with a potential to contribute to sustainable urban mobility             urban mobility and accessibility at local level, from the street scale to the district
 This challenge is about developing and supporting the implementation of innovative    The sustainable mobility and accessibility is addressed here at a more local level,
 mobility systems and services but also assessing how these systems and services       namely at the level of the street scale (with the cohabitation of various transport
 contribute or not to sustainable urban mobility and more generally to sustainable     modes) up to the district level; in particular, about the use and management
 urban transition, in all its dimensions of sustainability (equity, environment,       of public spaces, even from a temporary, tactical point-of-view (called tactical
 economic development…).                                                               urbanism for instance).

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CHALLENGE 4                                                                           CHALLENGE 5
 Develop effective policy options for achieving a shift                                Change behaviours and perspectives towards
 towards sustainable urban accessibility and connectivity                              sustainable urban accessibility and connectivity
 This challenge emphasizes the involvement of the various stakeholders and policies    The mobility behaviours and choices study is a crucial question of the research and
 to support a more sustainable urban accessibility and connectivity, even this         innovation led in the urban mobility field. The challenge addresses this question in
 involvement is expected in the other challenges too.                                  the call.

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TIMELINE
The ENUAC call was issued in December 2019 and a year later in December 2020,
15 projects were awarded. Projects will begin in Spring 2021 and finish in 2024.

               17 December 2019                   December 2020                                         2023                        2024
               Call opening                       Funding decisions announced                           Midterm event               Third year report

                                                          March 2021                                           2023                       2024
                                                          Start of projects                                    Second year report         Final event

                                                                May 2021                                                                           2024
                                                                Kick-off event                                                                     Projects end

     2019                   2020                              2021                 2022                            2023                    2024

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STATISTICS                                                                                                      COORDINATORS
                                                                                                                          PER COUNTRY
                                                                                                                          Sweden              1
          The 15 awarded projects are all supported by consortia                                                          Netherlands         2
          that include a mix of researchers from universities and                                                         Italy               1
          large companies, small and medium enterprises, non-profit                                                       France              1
          research organisations, research institutes, municipalities or                                                  Germany            5
          cities and other public organisations. With the total number                                                    Austria            5
          of project partners standing at 135, the majority (46 %) of                                                     Total:             15
          partners come from either universities or research institutes,
          while 21 percent come from large companies as well as small
          and medium enterprises, 4 percent from non-profit research                                                      PARTNERS PER TYPE
          organisations, 13 percent from cities or municipalities and 14                                                  OF ORGANISATION
          percent come from other public organisations.                                                                   Universities	50
                                                                                                                          Large companies	 14
                                                                                                                          Small and medium enterprises 	 15
28 of the partners are non-funded in the         Austria and Germany each have five
                                                                                                                          Non-profit research organisations 	 6
call, including 9 partners from cities or mu-   coordinators in different projects. They are
nicipalities, 8 partners from large compa-      followed by the Netherlands with two pro-                                 Research instititues	 12
nies as well as 11 from the category other      ject coordinators. Sweden, Italy and France                               Municipalities/cities	18
public organisations.                           each have one project coordinator spread
                                                                                                                          Other public organisations	 20
                                                out between 15 projects.
Out of the 135 project partners a total of                                                                                Total:	135
15 partners, one per project, have the role
of coordinator, representing eight different
countries.

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COUNTRIES                          AGENCIES
                                 Austria                            FFG
                                 Belgium                            FRS-F.N.R.S., FWO, Innoviris, VLAIO
                                 Denmark                            IFD
                                 Cyprus                             RIF
                                 France                             ANR
                                 Germany                            BMBF
                                 Italy                              MIUR
                                 Latvia                             VIAA
                                 Netherlands                        NWO
                                 Norway                             RCN
                                 Poland                             NCN
                                 Romania                            UEFISCDI
                                 Slovenia                           ARRS
                                 Sweden                             Formas, SWEA, Vinnova
                                 Turkey                             TÜBITAK
                                 United Kingdom                     ESRC

                               All countries mentioned above are eligible to access the European Commission funds.
PROJECT PARTNERS PER COUNTRY

Austria           24          FUNDING AGENCIES AND                            There is a total of 135 project partners
Belgium           10          PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES                         from 14 countries in the funded projects
                               A total amount of public funding of             with a majority from Austria, Germany,
Germany           21
                               maximum EUR 22.5 M Euro million was             Sweden and the United Kingdom while
Denmark             5
                               provided by national and regional funding       there are no project partners from Roma-
France              7         agencies from 16 European countries,            nia or Cyprus.
United Kingdom    12          including support from Horizon 2020. The
Italy               7         JPI Urban Europe Call Secretariat con-
Latvia              2         sisted of ANR (French National Research
Netherlands       16          Agency, NWO (the Dutch Research
                               Council) and UEFISCDI.
Norway              5
Poland              2
Sweden             17
Slovenia            3
Turkey              4
Total: 135

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MAIN CALL CHALLENGES ADDRESSED
                                                                                                                                                      URBAN LIVING LAB
          PROJECT OVERVIEW

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            DEVELOPMENT
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            SUSTAINABLE
                                                                                                                                                                                                   KEY AREA 3
                                                                                                                                                                                      KEY AREA 2
                                                                                                                                                                         KEY AREA 1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           AGENDA
          JPI Urban Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

                                                                                                                                                                                                                SRIA 2.0

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           URBAN
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            GOALS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           OF EU
          2.0: The JPI Urban Europe strategic research and innovation
          agenda launched in 2019 (SRIA 2.0) manifests a dilemma-driven                         PROJECT
          approach to urban research and innovation. It recognises that in                      ASAP                         2                                                           •            •         1,3        11,9           10.10,10.11
          practice, urban development and cities administration have to                         CATAPULT                     4                                              •            •                      1,2,3      11,10          10.10,10.11,10.5
          deal with multiple and sometimes counteractive goals and targets:                     COCOMO                       2                                              •            •                      2,3        11,10,9,3      10.10, 10.5, 10.3
          having to make priorities amongst manifold issues and strategies.                     Dynamic Mobility             5                                              •            •                      1,3        11,13          10.10, 10.11
                                                                                                Nudge (DyMoN)
          The SRIA 2.0 highlights four urban dilemmas in particular:
                                                                                                EASIER                       5                                              •            •                      2,3        11,13,3        10.10, 10.5, 10.9, 10.3
          Dilemma 1: Digital transitions in urban governance,                                   EX-TRA                       3                                              •            •                      3,4        11,9,3         10.10, 10.9
          Dilemma 2: From urban resilience to robustness,                                       GeoSence                     4                                                                                  1,3        11,3           10.10, 10.11, 10.2
          Dilemma 3: Sustainable land-use and urban infrastructures and                         ITEM                         5                                              •            •                      1,2        11,7,10        10.10, 10.11, 10.8, 10.5
          Dilemma 4: Inclusive public spaces for urban liveability.                             JUSTICE                      4                                                                                  3,4        11,10          10.10, 10.12, 10.9
                                                                                                MyFairShare                  4                             •                •            •                      2,3        11,13          10.10, 10.8
Thematically, each project can be under-       current distribution of public space across      SmartHubs                    5                             •                •            •                      1,2        11,19,5        10.10, 10.11, 10.5, 10.1
stood to cover the majority of the dilem-      the different transport modes and con-           Sortedmobility               1                                              •                                   1,3        11,9           10.10, 10.11, 10.7
mas and several more SDGs (UN Sustain-         necting urban services, production and           TAP for uncertain            1                                              •                                   3          11             10.10, 10.11, 10.7, 10.9
able Development Goals) than stated here.      logistics to create attractive and hu-           futures
The selection was made solely based on         man-centered streetscapes within vibrant         TuneOurBlock                 3                             •                •            •            •         2,3,4      11,13          10.10, 10.7, 10.9
project abstracts and the SDG explicit tar-    neighborhoods. To achieve this transfor-         WalkUrban                    5                                              •            •                      1,3,4      11,13,3        10.10, 10.11, 10.9
gets. All projects match with SDG 11 and       mation of cities an integrated planning ap-
the absolute majority of projects distinctly   proach is needed that thinks together and      Key area 1: Multi-modal                                                                 SRIA 2.0
target SRIA 2.0 dilemma 3: Sustainable         connects 1) the urban mobility system, 2)      and sustainable urban mobility                                                          Dilemma 1: Digital transitions in urban governance
land-use and urban infrastructures.            city planning and design of public space as    Key area 2: Human-centred                                                               Dilemma 2: From urban resilience to robustness
The 15-Minute City pillar of DUT em-           well as 3) logistics and production – which    urban spaces and morphology                                                             Dilemma 3: Sustainable land-use and urban infrastructures
phasizes the need of a dense, diverse and      is represented in the three key areas of the   Key area 3: Smart urban                                                                 Dilemma 4: Inclusive public spaces for urban liveability
polycentric cityscape, rethinking of the       DUT 15-minute pillar.                          production, logistics and services

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THE PROJECTS

              ASAP
              CATAPULT
              COCOMO
              DyMoN
              EASIER
              EX-TRA
              GeoSence
              ITEM
              JUSTICE
              MyFairShare
              SmartHubs
              SORTEDMOBILITY
              TAP for uncertain futures
              TuneOurBlock
              WalkUrban

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ASAP
The Awaken Sleeping Assets Project
(ASAP) has 3 goals: (1) to activate            Contact person: Assoc. Prof. Ing.       CATAPULT
underused or inactive infrastructure or re-    Mag. Dr. Patrick Hirsch, Dr. Susanne
sources for sustainable urban logistics, (2)   Wrighton, University of Natural         How can automated mobility be designed
to provide testbeds for innovative urban       Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna,    and used in a more inclusive way? The         Contact person: Nora Spiegel,
logistics systems and (3) to combine these     Department of Economics and Social      needs of user groups that have often been     AustriaTech
activities to build a new Sustainable Urban    Sciences, Institute of Production and   underrepresented in the process of devel-     > Nora.Spiegel@austriatech.at
Logistics Planning Platform (SULP-Plat-        Logistics; Hans Häuslmayer,             oping new mobility services are of specific
form). Cities, industry and research           h2 projekt-beratung KG                  interest in this research project. Informed   Duration of the project: 2021-2023
partners from Austria, France, Germany,        > patrick.hirsch@boku.ac.at             by field tests and consultations in several   Budget €794,123
and Sweden are gathering and processing        > susanne.wrigthon@boku.ac.at           cities in AT, BE & SE, we aim to support
information to build up an open-access         > hh@h2pro.at                           the development of innovative mobility        www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/
knowledge base from European cities and                                                systems and services by providing policy      catapult/
regions. Based on in-depth evaluation of       Duration of the project: 2021-2024      recommendations and frameworks for a
14 existing and 11 further testbeds ASAP       Budget: €1.796.169,02                   co-creation approach. Politicians, urban
aims to activate “sleeping” assets in the                                              planners and mobility providers shall be
partner cities and to build a network of       www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/asap/    enabled to develop services that are more
“follower” cities.                                                                     inclusive and sustainable.

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COCOMO                                                                             DYMON
There is an emerging need for European                                             DyMoN will provide a solid conceptual and      Contact Person: Dr. Claudia
cities to develop a strategic view on the     Contact person: Dick Ettema,         empirical understanding of the potential       Luger-Bazinger, Salzburg Research
deployment of shared micro-mobility           Utrecht University                   of combining real-time, user generated         Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
(SMM) options. COCOMO aims to pro-            > d.f.ettema@uu.nl                   and publicly available environmental and       > claudia.luger-bazinger@
vide insights into how SMM are combined                                            transport data with nudging methods for          salzburgresearch.at
with existing travel modes and what this      Duration of the project: 2021-2024   promoting behavior change in sustainable
implies for sustainability; how SMM inter-    Budget: €1,337,899                   urban mobility. The project will inves-        Duration of the project: 2021-2024
act with existing forms of travel in public                                        tigate and test how to design effective,       Budget: €1.137.154
space and how this affects accessibility;     www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/      data-driven, digital nudging methods in
how travel implications of, and access        cocomo/                              cities for encouraging use of sustainable      www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/
to SMM differ between geographical                                                 mobility modes. The DyMoN framework            dymon/
contexts and socio-economic groups, and                                            will be co-created with city stakeholders,
what this implies for equity and inclusion.                                        citizens and researchers and demonstrated
COCOMO engages in co-creation with                                                 in two cities (Salzburg and Uppsala) to ad-
users and stakeholders to develop design                                           vance scientific knowledge and to provide
and planning guidelines for sustainable and                                        guidance for other cities through a toolbox,
inclusive implementation of SMM.                                                   virtual workshops and policy briefings.

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EASIER                                                                              EX-TRA
The goal of EASIER is to make active and                                            Across Europe, cities are attempting to
sustainable personal transport modes more     Contact person: Otto Anker Nielsen,   radically reduce their reliance on car-        Contact person: Luca Bertolini
attractive, by combining walking, biking,     Technical University of Denmark       based mobility. In order to support these      (coordinator), Universiteit van
public transport and shared mobility ser-     > oani@dtu.dk                         efforts, EX-TRA will learn from transition     Amsterdam
vices to multimodal journeys. Focusing on                                           experiments in the streets of six cities:      > l.bertolini@uva.nl
the travellers’ perspective, EASIER will 1)   Duration of the project: 2021-2024    Amsterdam, Bologna, Milan, Ghent,
create new insights on user behaviour and     Budget: €1,993,208                    Munich and London. The project aims to         Duration of the project: 2021-2024
preferences in the new mobility landscape,                                          generate insights into: (1) combinations of    Budget: €1.791.631,00
2) seamless integration of active and         www.easier.dtu.dk                     physical design and regulation to increase     (funded €1.586.520,70)
shared modes with backbone public trans-      www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/       diversity and inclusivity of uses and users
port through network design, 3) efficient     easier/                               in city streets; (2) transport and land use    www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/
tariff systems that promote the use of sus-                                         conditions to enable walking and cycling       ex-tra/
tainable modes, 4) increased attractiveness                                         accessibility in city districts; (3) comple-
of terminals through improved physical                                              mentary shared and micro-mobility and
design leading to increased catchment                                               freight delivery options; and (4) strategies
areas, and 5) more effective regulatory                                             of change that can accelerate the transi-
framework supporting improved mobility.                                             tion towards a ‘post-car’ city.

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GEOSENCE                                                                             ITEM
GeoSence elaborates on geofencing                                                    It remains unclear if European cities’
solutions aiming at improving traffic flow,     Contact Person: Rodrigue Al Fahel,   attempts to accelerate electric mobility       Contact person: Dr. Tanu Priya
safety and air quality. The overall objective   Lindholmen Science Park (CLOSER)     (EM) transitions are inclusive. Questions      Uteng and Dr. Lars Böcker, Senior
of the project is to design, trial and evalu-   > rodrigue.alfahel@lindholmen.se     like who benefits, whose needs are consid-     Researcher, Institute of Transport
ate geofencing concepts and solutions for                                            ered, who decides and how needs further        Economics (TOI)
specific cases in cities, within the project    Duration of the project: 2021-2024   probing. ITEM will advance inclusive EM        > Tanu.Priyauteng@toi.no,
and from other previous/ongoing geofenc-        Budget: €1,606,718                   transitions through a dual perspective         > Lars.Bocker@toi.no
ing initiatives, and to propose new ways of                                          on households and urban policy. It will
successfully deploying geofencing tech-         www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/      examine inequalities in EM-related needs,      Duration: 2021-2024
nologies.                                       geosence/                            capabilities, decision-making, accessibility   Budget: €1,321,492
Tools for implementation, as well as                                                 and everyday mobility. It will co-produce
approaches to scale-up and spread the in-                                            understandings to strengthen urban/trans-      www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/item
novation further in Europe will be proposed                                          port planning through inclusive EM tran-
including e.g. ways of integrating geofenc-                                          sition processes. Along with policymakers
ing functionalities in the decision making,                                          and mobility service providers, the project
built environment and traffic management                                             will compare transition processes in Oslo,
in cities.                                                                           Utrecht, Bristol and Poznań.

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JUSTICE                                                                               MYFAIRSHARE
JUSTICE relies on the idea that intra-ur-                                             MyFairShare builds on the sufficiency prin-
ban accessibility is genuinely not the same      Contact Person: Alexis Conesa,       ciples to change mobility habits through         Contact person: Dr. Alexandra
for everyone. Spatiotemporal, but also           LIVE, University of Strasbourg       individual mobility budgets. The project         Millonig, AIT Austrian Institute
social, physical, and socio-cognitive ine-       > conesa@unistra.fr                  combines and expands relevant knowledge,         of Technology
qualities arguably reinforce the intrinsically                                        data and models to construct a scheme for        > alexandra.millonig@ait.ac.at
uneven nature of accessibility. JUSTICE          Duration of the project: 2021-2024   fair distribution of individual mobility budg-
aims to combine accessibility modelling          Budget: total costs: €1.096.557;     ets and identifies effective policy strate-      Duration of the project: 2021-2024
with qualitative approaches to properly          funding from EraNet call: €857.673   gies. The concept is tested in six different     Budget: €1.659.042
consider those inequalities in an inclusive                                           Living Labs varying by scale (community
city strategy. The project focuses on four       www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/      – municipal – (trans-)national) and scope        www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/
specific audiences suffering from accessi-       justice/                             (citizen level– transport management             myfairshare/
bility gaps: disabled, blind- and visually im-                                        level – strategic development level). The
paired, elderly and socially underprivileged                                          resulting policy toolkits and guidelines sup-
people. A participative approach involving                                            port the introduction of socially acceptable
stakeholders as well as NGO representa-                                               mobility budgets on different governance
tives will ensure the setting up of inclusive                                         levels, improving urban accessibility and
city policies.                                                                        transport equity.

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SMARTHUBS                                                                             SORTEDMOBILITY
The SmartHubs project examines mobility                                               SORTEDMOBILITY proposes a holistic
hubs, dedicated on-street locations where        Contact person: Prof. dr. Karst T    approach for self-organizing management      Contact Person: Paola Pellegrini,
citizens can choose from different shared        Geurs, University of Twente          of public transport in urban and inter-      Université Gustave Eiffel
and sustainable mobility options. The main       > k.t.geurs@utwente.nl               urban areas, focusing on rail as mobility    > paola.pellegrini@unif-eiffel.fr
objective is to assess if a co-designed, us-                                          backbone. Simulations will assess the
er-centric development can enable mobil-         Duration of the project: 2021-2024   self-organization approach in case studies   Duration of the project: 2021-2024
ity hubs to act as a game changer towards        Budget: €2,142,633                   in Denmark, Italy and France. They will      Budget: €1,841,776
inclusive sustainable urban mobility and                                              integrate advanced methods for passenger
accessibility. SmartHubs will develop and        www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/      demand prediction and rail traffic mod-      www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/
test novel participatory and impact assess-      smarthubs/                           elling. In a close collaboration between     sortedmobility
ment tools in living labs in Brussels, Rotter-                                        academic and key rail stakeholders, SORT-
dam-the Hague metropolitan region,                                                    EDMOBILITY will showcase the future
Munich, Vienna and Istanbul. SmartHubs                                                of railways while producing guidelines and
has 30 project partners from 6 countries                                              recommendations to support future public
in Europe.                                                                            transport systems.

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TAP FOR UNCERTAIN FUTURES                                                              TUNEOURBLOCK
Society, accessibility and mobility are in a                                           TuneOurBlock validates, internationalizes
state of flux, compounded by the global         Contact person: Professor Glenn        and expands the Superblock concept as        Contact person:
shock of COVID-19. Through a methodo-           Lyons, University of the West of       policy and planning strategy for trans-      Ulrich Leth, TU Wien
logical approach that sequentially address-     England                                formational urban adaptation. Municipal      > ulrich.leth@tuwien.ac.at
es theory, practice, design and application,    > glenn.lyons@uwe.ac.uk                planners, practitioners, researchers, and
Triple Access Planning for Uncertain                                                   NGOs co-create effective and transfer-       Duration of the project: 2021-2024
Futures aims to advance guidance to             Duration of the project: 2021-2024     rable guidelines, policy options and tools   Budget: €1,006,022
improve the resilience and adaptability of      Budget: €1,611,411 (total project      for implementing Superblocks in varied
sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs)        costs); €1,368,534 (requested funds)   urban contexts. TuneOurBlock examines        www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/
in the face of uncertainty. Focus is upon                                              strategies to respectfully involve diverse   tuneourblock/
the tripartite contribution to accessibility    www.tapforuncertainty.eu               stakeholders and explores practical steps
in our towns and cities of physical mobility,   www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/        for implementation processes. These
spatial proximity and digital connectivity.     tap-for-uncertain-futures/             strategies are tested in Urban Living Labs
Existing urban mobility planning will be                                               (Vienna & Berlin), validated by partners
critically examined, and seven case study                                              in Slovenia and Romania and with Eu-
cities in five countries will be used to help                                          rope-wide peer-groups of municipal and
achieve the project’s aims.                                                            civic stakeholders.

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JPI Urban Europe has funded over 100 projects. As we
                                                                                                 continue to launch calls the amount of projects will steadily
                                                                                                 increase. These projects not only examine the urban problems
                                                                                                 we face today but also the critical urban problems of the
                                                                                                 future. Our projects are as diverse as they are interesting.
                                                                                                 However, that certainly does not mean that our projects are
                                                                                                 isolated from each other. In fact, our projects are thematically
                                                                                                 categorised into five areas of great importance.

                                                                                                 Focusing our projects around thematic categories
                                                                                                 accomplishes two things: firstly, it makes it clear how small-
WALKURBAN                                                                                        scale, short-term projects can yield results which fit into
                                                                                                 larger continuous research goals. Secondly, it means our
WalkUrban aims at a better understanding
                                                                                                 projects comply with JPI Urban Europe’s Strategic Research
of local accessibility and urban walkability in   Contact person: Dr. Noriko Otsuka,
order to free up the potential for walk-          ILS-Research Institute for Regional            and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), which seeks to create a new
ing. Through exploring the links between          and Urban Development                          paradigm in research and technological development that will
objective, subjective and perceived walking       > noriko.otsuka@ils-forschung.de               integrate research and bridge the space between research and
accessibility the project will identify key                                                      practical implementation.
drivers for and obstacles to walking in           Duration of the project: 2021-2024
various urban neighbourhoods in close             Budget: €1,063,615
collaboration with local stakeholders in                                                         Are you in a JPI Urban Europe supported project? Don’t
three European cities (Genoa, Dortmund            www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/                forget to mention us in social media so we can help share your
and Gothenburg). Citizens will be invited to      walkurban/                                     results! Instagram and Twitter: @JPIUrbanEurope and e-mail
participate in the assessment of selected
                                                                                                 us your results and materials to be featured in the newsletter.
walking routes of their neighbourhoods.
The ultimate aim is to provide evidence
for local solutions to support walking as
a zero-emission, sustainable and active
transport mode in urban areas.

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CONTACT US
              The ENUAC initiative is operated on a daily basis by a European management
              team. Many operational issues are dealt by national funding agency contact
              points.

              CALL SECRETARIAT
              Aurélien Gaufrès, ANR, France: aurlien.gaufres@agencerecherche.fr
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              Aniek van den Eersten, NWO, Netherlands: a.vandeneersten@nwo.nl

              COMMUNICATION AND EVENTS
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              Amanda Ritzman, IQS, Sweden: amanda.ritzman@iqs.se

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