Towards energy responsible places: establishing walkable cities in the Danube Region

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Danube

Date of latest update: 2023-11-06

Description

Description (EN):

CityWalk project helps cities in the Danube Region to reduce emissions, noise and to become safer, better places to live, by increasing the role of more sustainable forms of mobility in the urban transport mix, especially active transport forms – like walking and biking. To do so the main focus of project is to improve the key conditions of walkability. Increasing greenhouse gas emissions and congestions are negative side effects of urbanization, resulting from inefficient and unsustainable local transport systems. A key challenge in cities is to improve transport systems and accessibility in an environmentally-friendly manner. CityWalk project will result in improved urban mobility - while reducing emissions, noise levels and congestions, increasing safety and making cities more liveable places (and also contributing to a healthier population). Although the emphasis is on walking, the proposed project addresses the challenge with a holistic approach – improving urban mobility through efficiently combining various means of transport. Efficient urban transport systems, with an emphasis on active forms of transport – especially walking have various conditions – we help cities in the Danube Region to identify the obstacles, develop and implement a plan to address those obstacles. To do so, our partnership will develop a toolkit (walkability guide, index and online tool), design 8 walkability plans, deliver 8 pilot actions, develop and present policy proposals.

Achievements (EN):

WITH A STEADILY GROWING URBAN POPULATION IN ALMOST ALL CITIES IN THE DANUBE REGION, THE MOBILITY DEMAND IS ON A RISE TOO. TO COUNTERACT THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF URBAN TRANSPORT, THE CITYWALK PROJECT IS HELPING CITIES TO PROMOTE MORE SUSTAINABLE FORMS OF MOBILITY, ESPECIALLY FORMS OF ACTIVE MOBILITY, SUCH AS WALKING AND CYCLING. Many modern urban areas have been built around cars. Traffic congestion, local air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions are just some of the negative effects resulting from the growing numbers of fossil-fuel powered vehicles circulating on the roads of our cities. On the other hand, walking, instead of using cars, has many benefits. In addition to the scientifically proven fact, that being physically active improves health and leads to a happier life, it's beneficial for the environment too. With less noise and air pollution, walking makes cities cleaner, healthier and more sustainable places to live. In the CityWalk project, municipalities, development agencies, research organisations and chambers of commerce from nine countries share best practices to promote walking in the cities by small-scale pilot actions focusing on awareness raising, traffic safety or street design. CHANGING THE CITY IN THE DANUBE REGION: To bring this idea to fruition, the project team developed a ‘walkability toolkit’, which, among other things, includes a walkability index, measuring how pedestrian-friendly different urban neighbourhoods are, and the Walk'n'Smile app, allowing to assess walking conditions by using smart phones. One of the cities that took part in the project was the historic town of Ptuj in north-eastern Slovenia. As a tourism destination, the city of Ptuj stakeholders wanted to create public space where residents and tourists alike feel safe and can easily orient themselves. Changing the street signage and wayfinding design in the pilot action, therefore, aimed at making the town more attractive and accessible to the pedestrians. As a result, new information system was designed and installed in the historic centre of the town. Later on, the works continued with the redesign of the city marketplace. “Before the CityWalk project, I had constant problems due to the incorrect construction of the sidewalks, the car parking lots and the bad layout of the whole market. Cars park directly in front of my store’s entrance, blocking the space intended for pedestrians and my customers. With CityWalk, our city solved these problems. They corrected the sidewalk, banned the parking lots and promoted walking. Now my customers have no problem walking safely, have normal access to shops and are separate from cars," says Ljudmila Grabar, shop owner in the centre of Ptuj. Solutions promoting walking, like the ones in Ptuj, were published in the Good Practice Catalogue. All in all, 47 good practices from 18 countries were included. REGIOSTARTS AWARD: Upon completion of the project in 2019, CityWalk project was selected as a finalist of Europe’s Regiostars award, given to EU-funded projects which demonstrate excellence and new approaches in regional development and won the Public Choice category where it was competing against 24 projects from all over Europe.

Website: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Intensity of cooperation of key actors in the programme area in order to strengthen environmentally-friendly, safe and balanced transport systems (survey based composite indicator)

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main result of the CityWalk project will be sustainable human centred urban transport and mobility and improved walkability in the urban areas in the Danube Region. These changes will contribute to establishing liveable, healthy, safe places in the region, where walking is a positive experience! In the course of the project 8 Walkability Plans will be developed to encourage and enable safe and accessible environment within the City for all users. The smart integration of public transport, walking and cycling can become a competitive - and healthier - alternative to individual car transport – this way we can contribute to the development of a better connected, interoperable and also environmentally-friendly urban transport systems, as well as to better organised public transport links and other sustainable modes of transport in functional urban and rural areas, all resulting in better connectivity. All these will result in more lively city centres which is attractive for people.

Thematic information

Transport and mobility Improving transport connections

Specific Objective:

Support environmentally-friendly and safe transport systems and balanced accessibility of urban and rural areas (short title). Improve planning, coordination and practical solutions for an environmentally-friendly, low-carbon and safer transport network and services in the programme area contributing to a balanced accessibility of urban and rural areas

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Bistra Ptuj

Address: Slovenski trg 6, 2252 Ptuj, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.bistra.si

Total budget: EUR 265 750.00

ERDF budget: EUR 225 887.50

Első Magyar Felelősségteljes Innováció Egyesület

Name: Első Magyar Felelősségteljes Innováció Egyesület

Address: Agyagos u. 4/B, 4/12, 6723 Szeged, Hungary

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.rri.hu

Total budget: EUR 205 960.00

ERDF budget: EUR 175 066.00

Nyíregyháza Megyei Jogú Város Önkormányzata

Name: Nyíregyháza Megyei Jogú Város Önkormányzata

Address: Kossuth Square 1, 4400 Nyíregyháza, Hungary

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nyiregyhaza.hu

Total budget: EUR 185 635.00

ERDF budget: EUR 157 789.75

Stadtgemeinde Weiz

Name: Stadtgemeinde Weiz

Address: Hauptplatz 7, A-8160 Weiz, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.weiz.at

Total budget: EUR 175 895.50

ERDF budget: EUR 149 511.18

Razvojni center Srca Slovenije, d.o.o.

Name: Razvojni center Srca Slovenije, d.o.o.

Address: Kidričeva cesta 1, 1270 Litija, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.razvoj.si

Total budget: EUR 171 100.00

ERDF budget: EUR 145 435.00

Regionální rozvojová agentura Plzeňského kraje, o. p. s.

Name: Regionální rozvojová agentura Plzeňského kraje, o. p. s.

Address: Riegrova 1, 301 11 Pilsen, Czech Republic

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rra-pk.cz

Total budget: EUR 166 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 141 440.00

Варненски свободен университет "Черноризец Храбър"

Name: Варненски свободен университет "Черноризец Храбър"

Address: Yanko Slavchev str., Chaika resort, 9007 Varna, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vfu.bg

Total budget: EUR 162 675.00

ERDF budget: EUR 138 273.75

Grad Varaždin

Name: Grad Varaždin

Address: TRG KRALJA TOMISLAVA 1, 42 000 VARAŽDIN, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.varazdin.hr

Total budget: EUR 161 125.00

ERDF budget: EUR 136 956.25

Cassovia Life Sciences

Name: Cassovia Life Sciences

Address: Komenského 1339, 2401 Kysucké Nové Mesto, Slovakia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.cassovialifesciences.eu

Total budget: EUR 160 132.50

ERDF budget: EUR 136 112.62

ОБЩИНА ВАРНА

Name: ОБЩИНА ВАРНА

Address: Osmi Primorski polk Blvd. 43, 9000 Varna, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.varna.bg/

Total budget: EUR 158 112.50

ERDF budget: EUR 134 395.62

Primăria Municipiului Oradea

Name: Primăria Municipiului Oradea

Address: Piata Unirii 1, 410100 Oradea, Romania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.oradea.ro

Total budget: EUR 151 250.00

ERDF budget: EUR 128 562.50

Grad Valjevo

Name: Grad Valjevo

Address: Karadjordjeva Street 64, 14000 Valjevo, Serbia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.valjevo.rs

Total budget: EUR 135 400.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 115 090.00

Privredna komora Srbije

Name: Privredna komora Srbije

Address: Resavska Street 13-15, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.pks.rs

Total budget: EUR 130 155.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 110 631.75

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Scientific research centre Bistra Ptuj

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First Hungarian Responsible Innovation Association

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Nyíregyháza Megyei Jogú Város Önkormányzata

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Stadtgemeinde Weiz

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Development centre of the Heart of Slovenia

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Regional Development Agency of the Pilsen Region

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Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar"

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The City of Varaždin

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Cassovia Life Sciences

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Община Варна

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Municipality of Oradea

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City of Valjevo

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Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia

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Summary

Project name (EN): Towards energy responsible places: establishing walkable cities in the Danube Region

Project acronym: DTP1-045-3.1 CityWalk

Project start date: 2016-12-08

Project end date: 2019-05-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 229 590.50

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 895 151.92

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 669 430.18.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 225 721.75.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Final interactive workshops-summary (WP5; 5.3.1)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/citywalk

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Interactive workshop to a professional audience-summary (WP3; 3.3.3)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/citywalk

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Pilot actions-summary report of all pilot actions (WP5; 5.1.)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/citywalk

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Training course to a wider audience-summary report (WP3; 3.3.2)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/citywalk

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-05-31

Languages: en

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Policy proposal package (WP5; 5.2)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/citywalk

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-05-31

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Danube

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-09-22

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155 / 155 (100%)

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1 582 / 1 582 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-danube.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-10-06, 2023-01-10 and 2024-01-30.

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