Shared Multimodal Mobility For ALL

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North Sea

Date of latest update: 2025-02-03

Description

Description (EN):

Shared mobility is becoming an established solution for more sustainable transport in the North Sea Region, reducing traffic congestion and emissions, improving air quality and general livability. Every second, 5 shared mobility trips are made across major EU cities, mainly by bike or e-scooters. However, 90% of today’s shared mobility solutions are only used by young urban adults, in a region where one third of the population are people with reduced mobility (PRM, focusing on children and families, elderly and physically disabled). Due to the current design and set-up of shared mobility solutions, over 20 million citizens in the NSR are being excluded from the transition to less car-dependent lifestyles. SMALL brings together public authorities, knowledge partners, PRM associations and mobility operators to co-create, test and demonstrate new shared mobility and active travel solutions to drive the green mobility transition whilst leaving no one behind. To do so, SMALL partners will deploy 10 social innovation pilots in 7 NSR cities (e.g. on-demand tricycle taxi services, inclusive MaaS application). This will be done by testing new innovative devices while leveraging volunteering and social assistance, resulting in solutions with economic, health, and social integration benefits, and reducing dependency on private vehicles (PRM modal share of 62% as driver/passenger, UCL). SMALL will create a new SUMP topic guide on inclusive shared mobility, serving as European guidelines for all mobility practitioners. It will capitalise on transnational cooperation to raise awareness and address a challenge that still today goes mostly ignored. SMALL is the first European project that addresses shared mobility and active travel solutions for PRM, targeting the entire multimodal mobility chain (including first and last-mile solutions and public transport) while involving mobility providers at all levels (regions, metropoles, cities, non-profit and private mobility operators).

Actual Achievements (EN):

During this project's period, the project successfully put into action the shared learnings from the first period. Having learnt much more about co-creation and sharing this culture within the consortium, all partners channelled their energy to finalise their user engagement plans (O1.1) and started engaging actively with their local organisations and end-users. Following the success of the subgroups created for A1.5 (peer-review), the project continued to make use of monthly subgroups meetings to allow for more intimate conversations and additional feedback on deliverables. This way, all user engagement plans developed by partners have been enriched by all organisations from the consortium. All objectives of the semester 2 have been met and even exceeded: all user engagement plans have been finalised (O1.1) as well as all pilot implementation plans (A2.1). The first insight paper of the project has been published (A2.2) as well as the first magazine (A1.2). The Lead Partner Mpact is now organising dedicated workshops, smaller versions of expert roundtables, to bring external knowledge on needs identified by partners. In January, a workshop was organised with shared mobility operators Tier Mobility and Voi to discuss the topic of shared tricycles and elderly community. The consortium gathered for a partner meeting in Copenhagen in October 2023 to exchange on co-creation and to share on the local work that was done by each partner. The project also took the opportunity to meet with the other Interreg NS project Active Cities to share experiences and learnings. Many communications and dissemination activities have been organised by Mpact and project partners ; the SMALL project is very active and is growing its community every month. The project is now experimenting with a new forum platform to bring all experts and interested organisations to a common online area to share knowledge and experiences. Overall, the consortium is very united and enjoys working together.

Website: https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/small

Thematic information

Multimodal transport

Priority: (VI-B_NS_2) Priority 2: A green transition in the North Sea region

Priority specific objective: RSO2.8. Promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility, as part of transition to a net zero carbon economy

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility

Type of intervention: 109 Multimodal transport (not urban)

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Mpact

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0415131393

Address: Koningin Maria Hendrikaplein 65b, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: https://www.mpact.be/en/

Total budget: EUR 988 868.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 593 321.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 395 547.00

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER

Athena Instituut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Name: Athena Instituut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL851029279B01

Address: De Boelelaan 1085, 1081HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/research-institutes/athena-institute

Total budget: EUR 167 351.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 100 411.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 66 940.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

Gemeente Amsterdam

Name: Gemeente Amsterdam

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL002564440B01

Address: Amstel 1, 1011PN Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.amsterdam.nl

Total budget: EUR 396 226.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 237 736.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 158 490.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

Vervoerregio Amsterdam

Name: Vervoerregio Amsterdam

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL810938029B01

Address: Jodenbreestraat 25/ P.O. Box 626, 1011NH Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: https://www.vervoerregio.nl

Total budget: EUR 266 287.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 159 772.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 106 515.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

Voi Technology AB

Name: Voi Technology AB

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SE559160299901

Address: Generatorsgatan 1, 41705 Gothenburg, Sweden

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Enterprise, except SME

Website: https://www.voiscooters.com/

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER

Ville de Saint-Quentin

Name: Ville de Saint-Quentin

Partner’s ID if not PIC: FR03210206660

Address: Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, 2100 Saint Quentin, France

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.saint-quentin.fr

Total budget: EUR 273 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 163 800.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 109 200.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

Varbergs Kommun

Name: Varbergs Kommun

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SE212000124901

Address: Norra Vallgatan 14, 43280 Varberg, Sweden

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://naringsliv.varberg.se/

Total budget: EUR 397 600.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 238 560.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 159 040.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

Ghent University

Name: Ghent University

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0248015142

Address: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://geoweb.ugent.be/en

Total budget: EUR 288 750.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 173 250.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 115 500.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

Rupprecht Consult Forschung und Beratung GmbH

Name: Rupprecht Consult Forschung und Beratung GmbH

Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE198534371

Address: Clever Strasse 13-15, 50668 Cologne, Germany

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Business support organisation

Website: http://www.rupprecht-consult.eu

Total budget: EUR 365 900.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 219 540.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 146 360.00

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER

Region Hovedstaden

Name: Region Hovedstaden

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 40544976

Address: Kongens Vænge 2, 3400 Hillerød, Denmark

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: https://www.regionh.dk/english/Pages/default.aspx

Total budget: EUR 331 484.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 198 890.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 132 594.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

POLIS aisbl (formerly Promotion of Operational Links with Integrated Services aisbl)

Name: POLIS aisbl (formerly Promotion of Operational Links with Integrated Services aisbl)

Partner’s ID if not PIC: VAT number TVA-BE 0460 400 701

Address: Troonstraat 98, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Other

Website: http://www.polisnetwork.eu

Total budget: EUR 194 790.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 116 874.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 77 916.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

De Fietsambassade Gent

Name: De Fietsambassade Gent

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0665587076

Address: Botermarkt 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://fietsambassade.gent.be/en

Total budget: EUR 361 800.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 217 080.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 144 720.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

Brest Metropole

Name: Brest Metropole

Partner’s ID if not PIC: FR94242900314

Address: 24, rue Coat-ar-Gueven - CS 73826, 29200 Brest, France

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.brest.fr

Total budget: EUR 399 160.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 239 496.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 159 664.00

GBER schemes / de minimis:

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Athena Institute, Vrije University Amsterdam

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Economische Zaken Amsterdam

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Vervoerregio Amsterdam

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Voi Technology

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City of Saint-Quentin

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Municipality of Varberg

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Universiteit Gent

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Rupprecht Consult

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Region Hovedstaden

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Mpact

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Summary

Operation of strategic importance (OSI) or above EUR 5 million

Project name (EN): Shared Multimodal Mobility For ALL

Project acronym: SMALL

Project ID: qxaeEQkMG

Project start date: 2022-10-02

Project end date: 2026-10-02

Project status: ongoing

Relevant mentions and prizes:

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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 431 216.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 658 730.00

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 60.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 658 730.00. Co-financing rate, 60.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

European expert roundtables on shared mobility for PRM / Mpact and POLIS will lead high-level round table discussions involving a wide range of stakeholders (mobility operators, PRM groups, city representatives, experts), creating new knowledge for the pilots and the SUMP topic guide.
Co-Design Pilot Implementation Plans / Building upon WP1, pilot partners will develop local pilot implementation plans together with end-users. This will result in a report per pilot detailing objectives, final design, business case, user journey, expected results and timeline.
Observatory: Identification of the State of the Art of PRM engagement for Shared Mobility Projects / Rupprecht and all partners will create and contribute to an observatory platform (website) to collect and showcase PRM shared mobility projects and engagement processes from public authorities and shared mobility operators in the NSR and beyond.
European Roundtables: Insight Papers / Led by POLIS and Mpact, each European roundtable will result in an insight paper covering the main conclusions reached on the topics addressed (e.g, user engagement, digital accessibility, integration of PRM into city strategies, etc).
Pilot deployment / Partners will deploy different inclusive shared mobility solutions, suporting each other at operational level (from tendering of providers to deployment of particular solutions and monitoring), in line with D.2.1 (implementation plans).
Annual SMALL publication / To disseminate the knowledge gathered through the observatory platform, SMALL will produce a yearly publication to communicate about the latest use cases, shared mobility solutions and publications related to PRM.
Regulatory Framework Analysis for PRM shared mobility solutions / POLIS will lead the identification of the relevant national/regional regulatory frameworks for the deployment of shared mobility solutions for PRM in the NSR, including opportunities and weaknesses therein and linked recommendations.
Data gathering / Ugent will support pilot partners in gathering relevant data (useability, adoption rate, etc.) through surveys derived from the use of the foreseen pilots by PRM user groups before, during and after the implementation.
Guide for PRM user engagement / UGent will create a practical guide to support pilot partners in their engagement process with PRM. It will include 3 separate sets of guidelines per user group targeted (children and families, elderly, physically disabled).
Updating SMALL pilot partners mobility strategies / SMALL pilot partners will use and apply the SUMP topic guide created in WP3 (O 3.1) to update their mobility strategies. This will take the form of workshops facilitated by Rupprecht Consult.
Pilot analysis / Pilot and academic partners will conduct socio-economic analyses of the data gathered, to identify the pilots' impacts in terms of increased accessibility, reduced emissions, user experience and future replication and scale up of solutions.
User engagement tools and training of pilot partners / VU Amsterdam will identify and enrich existing engagement co-creation tools (eg: visualization tools) in order to train the pilot partners to help build competencies related to co-creation to apply them at local pilot level with end-users.
SUMP General Helpdesk / SMALL will run a SUMP General Helpdesk, targeting NSR public authorities and mobility operators that are undergoing a mobility strategy update. It will support the integration of PRM into strategies through coaching and mentoring.
Pilot dissemination / Dissemination of results and lessons learnt from the deployment of SMALL pilots through published articles, newsletter and end-user video interviews. The videos will give end-users the opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of pilots.
Peer reviewing of user engagement action plans / Using D1.3 and 1.4, and together with universities, pilot partners will draw up a detailed action plan (O 1.1) to structure the participation of end-users in each pilot. These plans will be shared within the consortium and reviewed by all partners.
Train the Trainer webinar series / Webinars aimed at instructing knowledge organisations (e.g universities) on how to apply the SUMP topic guide to local and national contexts, thus further spreading knowledge across the NSR. The webinar will be included as a chapter of the MOOC.
SMALL Pilot Knowledge Transfer / Building on the lessons learnt in each pilot and using D3.3 (regulatory framework analysis), the consortium will organise 7 workshop sessions (1 per pilot partner) to help them draw pilot replication plans and visions at their local level.
User engagement events / Using D 1.5, each pilot partner will engage with PRM throughout the project via co-creation events (min 3/pilot) such as hackathons or consultation events to co-identify challenges, co-validate solutions and co-define measurable KPIs.
MOOC on inclusive shared mobility / UGent, together with POLIS, Mpact and Voi, will develop a Massive Open Online Course that collects project learnings and which targets a wide audience of stakeholders from the NSR mobility scene (e.g cities, mobility operators, academia.etc.)
Evaluation methodologies for pilots / UGent will lead the establishment of quantitative and qualitative methodologies for the evaluation of SMALL pilots, including data collection, analysis, storage and management and transferability, summarised in one report.
Dissemination of project results / SMALL partners will explore different formats (podcast episodes, memorandums, social media) to further disseminate the project's findings towards public authorities, mobility operators and the general public, in attractive and innovative ways.
Participation in external events / Dissemination of SMALL learnings on PRM user engagement through the participation at international events and summits, podcasts and conferences.
SMALL Final conference / The SMALL consortium will organise a closing conference to share project results, tools and main outputs, in synergy with large EU mobility events organised by project partners (e.g. Shared Mobility Rocks, POLIS conference, etc).

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

SMALL directly contributes to the 2030 Territorial Agenda's core objectives for a Just and Clean Europe, by addressing societal imbalances that hamper PRM to access and benefit from the transition towards sustainable mobility modes. It therefore supports the agenda's objective of developing a more just Europe that offers opportunities for all people.
SMALL seeks to contribute to making the transition towards more sustainable mobility and transport modes more inclusive. This can be seen as an objective in itself (leaving nobody behind by making mobility accessible to all, particularly PRM) and as a way to incentivise a major portion of our societies (children and families, elderly and physically disabled) to move away from private vehicles towards shared and sustainable mobility.
By making the transition to more sustainable and shared mobility available for all, SMALL contributes to the EU Green Deal's objective of ensuring the green transition is just and inclusive. SMALL puts citizens with reduced mobility at the centre, ensuring they are not left behind and that they can entirely benefit from it. By doing this, the EU Green Deal's climate objectives are reinforced, with larger portions of society taking up more sustainable modes of transport and mobility.
SMALL is contributing SDG 10 reduced inequalities, 11 sustainable cities and communities and 13 climate actions. On the one hand, this is done by providing access to sustainable mobility systems to PRM and thus improving green accessibility. On the other hand, SMALL contributes to lowering CO2 emissions by deploying new sustainable mobility solutions to users that have not yet the opportunity to access shared mobility.
SMALL contributes to several European Pillars on Social Rights including Principle 3 (Equal Opportunities) and Principle 17 (Inclusion of people with disabilities) by ensuring shared mobility and active travel solutions are available to more user groups (including children and families, elderly and physically disabled). This is done by involving the end-users in the design and the experimentation of new shared mobility services, and representing PRM at national and european policy-making level.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:

Delivered output indicator(s):

(RCO83) Strategies and action plans jointly developed: 256
(RCO84) Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects: 756

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

Delivered result indicator(s):

(RCR79) Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations: 14
(RCR104) Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations: 10

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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North Sea

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2025-02-03

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65 / 65 (100%)

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791 / 791 (100%)

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