Europe is an urban society, with many environmental challenges to face. The European Commission has long recognised the important role that local authorities play in improving the environment, and their high level of commitment to genuine progress. The European Green Capital Award has been conceived as an initiative to promote and reward these efforts.
Languages: English
EPOMM - European Platform on Mobility Management
EPOMM is the European Platform on Mobility Management, a network of governments in European countries that are engaged in Mobility Management (MM). They are represented by the Ministries that are responsible for MM in their countries. EPOMM is organised as an international non profit organisation with seat in Brussels.
Languages: English
ManagEnergy – Directorate for Energy and Transport
ManagEnergy is an initiative of the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy, which aims to support the work of actors working on energy efficiency and renewable energies at the local and regional level. The main tools are training, workshops and online events. Additionally information is provided on case studies, good practice, European legislation and programmes.
Languages: EU official languages
The Transport Research Knowledge Centre (TRKC)
The TRKC portal gives an overview of research activities at European and national level. It comprises among all the information on transport research programmes across the European Research Area, a compendium of European and national research funding mechanisms, a project database of ongoing and completed European and national transport research projects. Main results and policy implications of the projects are outlined and categorised into key thematic areas.
Languages: English
PRESTO – “Promoting Cycling for Everyone as a Daily Transport Mode”
PRESTO is a project of the EU’s Intelligent Energy – Europe Programme granted by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI). The project is about competence building in cycling policies. The project aims to offer a set of tools for technicians to create cycle friendly urban environments, to implement sound cycling plans and to start up targeted promotion campaigns.
Languages: English, German, French, Croatian, Polish, Italian
ELTIS - European Local Transport Information Service
ELTIS is a portal for local transport news and events, transport measures, policies and practices implemented in cities and regions across Europe. It aims to support a practical transfer of knowledge and exchange of experience in the field of urban and regional transport in Europe. The website also contains a good practice database with more than 1,600 case studies.
Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
Cybercars2 is a follow-on project that builds on the work of two earlier EU-funded projects. The main challenge of the project is to make the vehicles automatically cooperate with each other. One of the main aspects was to route data between vehicles.
More information about EU-funded research projects on the CORDIS website.
Languages: English
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