POLIS joins the REFOCUS Project for the next generation of SUMPs and regional mobility plans

The REFOCUS Project is an Interreg Europe Green Topic project bringing together 10 partners, including POLIS, to support local and regional Sustainable Urban Mobility (SUM) planning with data-driven and inclusive methodologies and tools.

Running from 2024 to 2028, REFOCUS will exchange knowledge on data-driven approaches that support sustainable mobility interventions from the seven city and regional partners involved in the consortium. Following the Interreg Europe programme objective, REFOCUS will 'improve the implementation of regional development policies, by promoting the exchange of experiences, innovative approaches, and capacity building in relation to the identification, dissemination and transfer of good practices among regional policy actors.'

These policy actors, and their respective policy instruments, are:

City of Stockholm and the Climate Action Plan for the City of Stockholm
Region of Central Macedonia and the Regional Programme 2021-2027 Central Macedonia
Istituto sui trasporti e la logistica (ITL) and the Emilia-Romagna Regional Operational Programme ERDF 2021-2027
City of Vilnius’ Municipal Enterprise "Susisiekimo Paslaugos" (JUDU) and their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP)
Sint-Niklaas and their SUMP
Poznan and the Poznański Instytut Technologiczny and their SUMP
The Municipal City Institute of Lviv and their SUMP

Map of Europe showing the locations of the policy instruments of the REFOCUS project.

REFOCUS project partners and their respective policy instruments.

The above partners will be supported by the Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas (CERTH) acting as lead partner to the consortium and, of course, POLIS who will be acting in an advisory capacity.

Specifically, POLIS will develop a Learning Exchange & Capacity Building Programme to facilitate the overall Interreg Europe objectives of policy improvement through mutual exchange. Simultaneously a process of matchmaking will take place to maximise opportunities for mutual learning amongst the policy actors based on the identification of Good Practices already implemented in each region.

The project will host a series of seven study visits for the policy actors, five public webinars across the project lifetime and a final conference with high-level policy actors in Brussels. Locally, each region will host four rounds of online and in-person local stakeholders’ consultation workshops with hands-on policy learning opportunities and a local consensus-building conference in 2027.

The REFOCUS project is part of the EU’s broader goal to decarbonise transport by 2050 and addresses the need for continuous and informed management of sustainable mobility interventions including the planning and replanning of these policy instruments to meet our common climate commitments.

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