Spatial Adaptation for Heat Resilience in Small and Medium Sized Cities in the 2 Seas Region

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

Date of latest update: 2024-12-17

Description

Description (EN): To increase the capacity of small and medium-sized cities in the 2 Seas area to adapt to the heat-related effects of climate change through interventions in spatial development and urban design in public and private space.

Achievements (EN):

Climate change causes warmer summers with more frequent heat waves. In many cities and towns, this causes heat stress and has an impact on public health, productivity and well-being. Cool Towns is a collaboration of 14 partners - cities, academia and companies - to reduce heat stress in cities. The partners worked on solutions at street level to combat heat effectively. To determine the extent of heat stress in cities and the impact of various intervention scenarios, Cool Towns developed a model to map stress in partner cities and combine this with spatial information on vulnerable groups and functions to improve heat resilience planning and interventions in cities. To gain insight into the current thermal comfort of our cities during summer days, Cool Towns created a measurement protocol. With this standardised method partners measured heat stress on locations in Ostend and East Flanders (BE), Breda and Middelburg (NL), Kent, Southend-on-Sea (UK) and Saint-Omer (FR) and surveyed public perception of heat stress. This measurement program was repeated each summer from 2019 to 2022. Cool Towns invested in pilots to demonstrate, compare, and measure the cooling effect of different interventions to reduce heat stress in public space on 15 sites in Middelburg, Breda, Oostende, East Flanders, Saint-Omer, Kent and Southend-on-Sea. Across these sites partners added countless trees and green infrastructure, built 5 living walls and 2 green roofs, created a water playground and a cool bicycle parking, installed cool pavement and 2 shade canopies to create cool spaces in our increasingly hot cities. Based on the insights gained they developed tools to better prepare cities for future heat events. For instance, a Decision Support Toolkit and Intervention Catalogue allowing planners, landscape architects and local authorities to identify the best heat resilience measures for their territory; a roadmap for policymakers shows practical steps for heat resilient urban development; next, training programmes for urban planes, policy makers, students and property owners on heat stress and available solutions and experience. During the project lifetime, over 5500 people participated to such trainings. Finally, the Urban Heat Atlas brings all insights together in a standardised assessment for mapping heat vulnerabilities.

Website: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

The project’s main outputs are : ● A heat stress mapping & modelling tool – interactive tool for mapping heat stress and modelling impact of different intervention scenarios. ● A decision support tool for selecting heat resilience measures – showing key decision-making parameters incl.: heat reduction effect, co-benefits, costs, resources, conditionalities of heat resilience measures ● 16 pilots of different types of heat resilience measures in varying small & medium sized city conditions ● A training and capacity building package on heat resilience ● A roadmap of heat resilient city development for local authorities – looking at objective setting, policy integration, measures, financing models, regulation and incentives. Check the “Outputs” section below to download related material and see “Main Achievements” section for further information about the achieved results.

Thematic information

Regional planning and development Climate change and biodiversity

Specific Objective: Improve the ecosystem-based capacity of 2 Seas stakeholders to climate change and its associated water-related effects

Thematic Objective: (05) promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management by:

Investment Priority: (05a) supporting investment for adaptation to climate change, including ecosystem-based approaches

Partners (14)

Lead Partner: Gemeente Middelburg

Department: Economic development, environment and strategic planning

Address: Kanaalweg 3, 4530 LA Middelburg , Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 317 058.49

ERDF budget: EUR 790 235.09

Ville de Saint-Omer

Name: Ville de Saint-Omer

Department: local public authority

Address: 16 rue Saint Sépulcre , 62 505 Saint Omer, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 379 220.04

ERDF budget: EUR 227 532.03

Communauté d’agglomération du Pays De Saint Omer

Name: Communauté d’agglomération du Pays De Saint Omer

Address: 2 rue Albert Camus – CS20079, 62968 Cedex LONGUENESSE, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 197 071.23

ERDF budget: EUR 118 242.75

Sioen Industries

Name: Sioen Industries

Department: R&D Coating Division

Address: Fabriekstraat 23, 8850 Ardooie, Belgium

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 421 717.60

ERDF budget: EUR 168 687.04

Hogeschool van Amsterdam

Name: Hogeschool van Amsterdam

Department: Technical Faculty, Urban Technology Research Program

Address: P.O .Box 1025, 1000 BA Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 475 527.28

ERDF budget: EUR 285 316.37

AUD Agence d'Urbanisme et de Développement de la Région de Saint-Omer et Flandre Interieure

Name: AUD Agence d'Urbanisme et de Développement de la Région de Saint-Omer et Flandre Interieure

Address: Centre administratif Saint-Louis Rue Saint Sépulcre, 62503 Saint-Omer Cedex CS 90128, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 122 607.31

ERDF budget: EUR 73 564.39

GreenBlue Urban

Name: GreenBlue Urban

Department: Strategic Partnerships

Address: Northpoint, Compass Park, Bodiam, TN325BS Bodiam, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 303 447.27

ERDF budget: EUR 182 068.36

Université Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)

Name: Université Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)

Department: Laboratoire des Technologies Innovantes (LTI)

Address: Chemin du Thil, 80000 Amiens, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 394 377.71

ERDF budget: EUR 236 626.62

Kent County Council

Name: Kent County Council

Department: Sustainable Business and Communities

Address: Invicta House, ME14 1XX Maidstone, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 603 087.00

ERDF budget: EUR 361 852.20

University of Greenwich

Name: University of Greenwich

Department: Faculty of Engineering and Science

Address: Central Avenue, ME4 4TB Chatham, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 203 979.26

ERDF budget: EUR 122 387.55

Southend on Sea Borough Council (SBC)

Name: Southend on Sea Borough Council (SBC)

Department: Department for PLACE

Address: Civic Centre, Victoria Avenue , SS2 6ER Southend on Sea , United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 718 122.89

ERDF budget: EUR 430 873.73

Stad Oostende

Name: Stad Oostende

Department: Strategy & Management

Address: Vindictivelaan 1, 8400 Oostende, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 959 679.45

ERDF budget: EUR 575 807.68

Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen

Name: Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen

Department: Environmental policy planning & support; Nature developmt & Provincial environmental research centre

Address: Woodrow Wilsonplein 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 716 880.32

ERDF budget: EUR 430 128.19

Gemeente Breda

Name: Gemeente Breda

Department: Spatial adaptation

Address: Claudius Prinsenlaan 10, 4811 DJ Breda, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 931 263.72

ERDF budget: EUR 558 758.25

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Summary

Project name (EN): Spatial Adaptation for Heat Resilience in Small and Medium Sized Cities in the 2 Seas Region

Project acronym: Cool Towns

Project start date: 2018-09-01

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 7 744 039.57

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 4 562 080.25

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 0.59%

Co-financing sources:

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Cool Towns Heat Stress Model and Mapping Tool

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2023-10-23

Document date: 2021-12-16

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Cool Towns EN with subtitles

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2023-10-23

Document date: 2020-08-16

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

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