Low carbon urban morphologies

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

Date of latest update: 2025-08-23

Description

Description (EN):

According to EU studies, managing global warming cost 1% of global GDP every year, while inaction could cost from 5% to 20%. A small part is required to invest in a low-carbon economy and fighting climate change would in return induce cumulative benefits. Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy consider "we should now move to full scale delivery of all actions needed”. This global shift is still expected when consistent progress are to be underlined: -increasing ecological awareness, as promoted by the COP21 Declaration. -ground actions in European cities (Agenda 21, Climate an energy Plans, green strategies for housing, transport..). -financial means, i.e. €38 billion EU Funds for Low Carbon economy investments 2014-20, two times more compared to 2007-13. The paradox lies in those increasing means, and the huge distance remaining to reach global objectives on climate change. MOLOC partners propose to focus on the brakes that limit the impact of local policies and actions. Gathering cities involved in energy transition strategies, the project consist in collectively design and test innovative ways of achieving low carbon cities through a three steps program: 1-2017/2018: Analysis of the social, cultural, economic and political models, in an holistic approach of sustainable urban development. 2-2018/2019: Design of local action plans, based on a joint critical assessment and on a crossed learning process. 3-2019/2020: Action plan’s implementation and monitoring: energy efficiency management system and networks, alternative behaviors, political recommendations. Keen at promoting the values of sharing knowledge and practices, MOLOC is supported by the EU network of cities for sustainable energy. Inspired by a bottom up approach, the partners will pay attention: to place uses of the city and ways of living at the center of the reflections, to gain appropriation of local stakeholders within the whole process, and to fit the results for scaling-up and wider dissemination.

Achievements (EN):

In terms of activities, the project has organised a total of 64 policy learning events. It has also identified 10 good practices, produced 5 action plans and led to the increased capacity of 78 people. In terms of results, the project has succeeded in improving 4 regional development policies for a total amount of funds influenced of EUR 4,616,428. 57.

Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/interreg-europe-2014-2020

Expected Results (EN):

OVERALL OBJECTIVE: To develop a new city building approach, associating quality of life and energy efficiency. SUB-OBJECTIVES: -To draw up a critical assessment adressed to policy makers in order to overpass brakes and obstacles that prevent from adopting low carbon measures. These brakes are: economic (costs), cultural (behavior change, accepting to make efforts, "path dependency " which limits "green" investments, complexity of the measures that affects on daily life of people causing a lack or a wrong use of these measures), political (multi level governance, notion of sector) and regulatory (legislative contradiction between low carbon measures and health and security regulations). -To conciliate the city functions (residential, productive and centrality) with citizens expectations and climate change challenges: biodiversity in city as an answer of climate change and bring closer production and consumering spaces. -To find new measures financially viable that can be used easily by contractors and local authorities. -To invent a pertinent multilevel governance and a bottum up approach by working on the Low Carbon sector and by involving policy makers and citizens in the decision making. -To encourage the social acceptance of the efforts to be accomplish to lead the energy transition issue within citizens, users, and professionals of the city, by questioning the way people want to live and enjoy their environment. This in order to improve living comfort and satisfaction of new ways of living in the city -To produce a political impact able to convince policy makers on the economic and social advantages of the implementation of energy efficiency measures (Low Carboon Model as an competitive economy model). The project proposed by the city of Lille and its partners aims to define, thanks to the cooperation between cities, a set of propositions and solutions defining the different approaches and action plans with a tangible application in phase 2.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The result expected is to develop a “set of recommendations” so that the “Low carbon” economy isn’t restricted to exemplary and occasional “best practices”, but a “normal” and essential use in urban planning, especially as solutions proposed will take into account financial constraint of city managers: -The policy instruments addressed by MOLOC are influenced throught the implementation of new projects and indirectly through the definition of a new governance. -A critical assessment addressed to policy makers at European, regional and local level is drawn up, with a deep analysis on the alternative solutions to overpass brakes and impediments that prevent from adopting low carbon measures. -New measures financially viable that can be used easily by contractors and local authorities are identified. An economic model for Low Carbon Urban City is defined. -The solutions founded are based on a multilevel governance and are defined within a bottom up approach taking into account the way people wish to live their environment, the quality of life and the professionals constraints. -The social acceptance of the efforts to be accomplish to lead the energy transition issue within citizens, users and professionals of the city is encouraged. -A political impact is produced to convince policy makers on the economic and social advantages of the implementation of energy efficiency measures (Low Carboon Model as an competitive economy model). Outputs: -5 action plans. -1 kick off meeting. -3 training workshops led by Energy Cities (EC) organized during the interregional meetings and study visits. -6 interregional meetings (including phase 2). -5 study visits. -10 local and regional seminars. - 55 stakeholders groups. -5 reports with a territorial analyisis and under a common framework. -1 comparative analysis (EC). -1 final recommandations document (EC). These action plans will consider the results of EU collaboration between the partners through study visits and the regional seminar dynamics. These seminars aim to share, exchange and receive experts advice from different professional environments (stakeholder group) about the making action plans process. Moreover they aim is to mobilise and make aware politicians and inhabitants about the positive impact of their contribution to the “Low carbon” economy. The making action plans process will result in: -A real synergy between actors and public, private and collective interests (institutional partners, economic actors, universities, users). -Making links between different professional sectors (architects, planners, businessmen, students and universities, user associations) involved in the urban transformation and encourage a dialog with policy makers. -Proposing concrete and efficiency solutions in energy transition, financially viable and allowing a better social acceptance of measures (regulatory or not).

Thematic information

Energy efficiency Climate change and biodiversity

Specific Objective: Improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes, in particular programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs and, where relevant, ETC programmes, addressing the transition to a low-carbon economy

Thematic Objective: (04) supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors by:

Investment Priority: (04e) promoting low-carbon strategies for all types of territories, in particular for urban areas, including the promotion of sustainable multimodal urban mobility and mitigation-relevant adaptation measures

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Ville de Lille

Department: Urban Planning Department

Address: Hôtel de Ville, 59033 Lille, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lille.fr

Total budget: EUR 390 692.00

ERDF budget: EUR 332 088.20

Comune di Torino

Name: Comune di Torino

Department: Land and Environment Department Urban Planning Area

Address: Via Meucci 4, 10121 Italy, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.comune.torino.it

Total budget: EUR 264 204.00

ERDF budget: EUR 224 573.40

Energy Cities

Name: Energy Cities

Address: 2 chemin de Palente, 25000 Besançon, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.energy-cities.eu

Total budget: EUR 123 501.00

ERDF budget: EUR 104 975.85

Municipiul Suceava

Name: Municipiul Suceava

Department: European Integration and Development Strategies

Address: 1 Mai Boulevard, no 5A, 720224 Suceava, Romania

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 134 344.00

ERDF budget: EUR 114 192.40

Główny Instytut Górnictwa (GIG)

Name: Główny Instytut Górnictwa (GIG)

Department: Department of Energy Saving and Air Protection / Laboratory of Advanced Energy Technologies

Address: Plac Gwarków 1, 40166 Katowice, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gig.eu

Total budget: EUR 211 676.00

ERDF budget: EUR 179 924.60

Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Senatskanzlei

Name: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Senatskanzlei

Department: Department of European Affairs

Address: Hermannstraße 15, 20095 Hamburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hamburg.de/senatskanzlei

Total budget: EUR 224 872.00

ERDF budget: EUR 191 141.20

Partners map

Lead partner

Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): Low carbon urban morphologies

Project acronym: MOLOC

Project start date: 2017-01-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 349 289.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 146 895.65

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 146 895.65.

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

Action Plan - Suceava Municipality, Romania

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan for the City of Katowice

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan for the City of Turin

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2019-12-19

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Lille: Action Plan for a Low Carbon City

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2019-10-16

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Rapport d’activite 2017 - Morphologies Urbaines Bas Carbone

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: fr

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Low carbon city: Obstacles and solutions identified by the city partners

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2019-05-22

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

MOLOC video - Short presentation

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/moloc/

Publication date: 2024-09-02

Document date: 2021-01-08

Languages: fr, en

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

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

2023-10-31

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

258 / 258 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 084 / 2 085 (99.95%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

Languages

Contact Form

Low carbon urban morphologies

Description

Thematic information

Partners (6)

Partners map

Summary

Documents

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Disclaimer