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WP5: CIVITAS Community Support – Progress and Next Steps

WP5: CIVITAS Community Support – Progress and Next Steps Jerome Simpson, VANGUARD Project Coordinator 3 rd April 2009. Consortium Meeting, Brussels. Slide 2/28. Presentation Structure. Action items from last meeting (5’) CIVITAS Secretariat incl. CIVITAS CATALIST (5’)

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WP5: CIVITAS Community Support – Progress and Next Steps

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  1. WP5:CIVITAS Community Support – Progress and Next Steps Jerome Simpson, VANGUARD Project Coordinator 3rd April 2009. Consortium Meeting, Brussels

  2. Slide 2/28 Presentation Structure • Action items from last meeting (5’) • CIVITAS Secretariat incl. CIVITAS CATALIST (5’) • Forum 09 incl. time for discussion on plenary/closing session speakers and poster session (45’) • CIVITAS Award (5’) • Political Advisory Committee (5’) • Discussion (10’)

  3. Slide 3/28 Action items from last meeting • 5.1 REC, EUROCITIES and EC appraise the Bologna Forum/meet for a brainstorming in Brussels sometime in 2008 (Meeting: Dec.08) • 5.2EUROCITIES will prepare ahead of the Nov. meeting a summary of key indicators related to the six Forum events (Done: Dec.08) • 5.3: VANGUARD presence at the Bologna Forum, “+” sign is added to CP cities (FGM-AMOR Done: Oct.08) • 5.4: ICLEI/FGM-AMOR to introduce info@civitas.eu on the CIVITAS website as a replacement for civitas@fgm.at (FGM/REC/ICLEI: Mar.09) • 5.5 REC notify new CP cities that it as rep. of the Secretariat becomes their contact point for CIVITAS issues (Still to be done: Mar. 09) • 5.6: EC to determine internally how applications from would-be CIVITAS cities are submitted/handled in the future(No change: Mar.09) • 5.7: REC to participate in the Bologna “PAC” (Done: Oct.08) • 5.8: REC/EC to review the modalities for the preparation of the policy recommendations for the PAC (Still pending: Apr.09) • 5.9: Clarify POLIS’ role within the PAC Secretariat task within the DoW (DoW/Inception report revision May 09) • 5.10: REC to talk to FGM-AMOR about the modalities of hosting the PAC without Direct Costs (Done: Dec.09)

  4. Slide 4/28 CIVITAS Secretariat - I • Csaba Mezei becomes the “face” of the Secretariat • All mail to: secretariat@civitas.eucomes to Csaba’s account (NB: this id replaces info@civitas.eu & civitas@fgm.at) • Email id visible at: CIVITAS “contact us” page (www.civitas-initiative.org/cms_pages.phtml?id=1902&lan=en)

  5. Slide 5/28 CIVITAS Secretariat - II • Secretariat functions to include: • Handling general queries from CIVITAS cities, students and the interested public (already started to happen!) • Tracking requests received (simple table) • Working with the EC to ensure new declaration signatories appear online at: www.civitas.eu/cms_network.phtml?id=1812&lan=en and are then added to the ICLEI hosted CIVITAS email group • Verifying *all* contact details in the current signatories’ excel sheet (deadline: mid- May 2009) as well as adding new signatories’

  6. Slide 6/28 CIVITAS CATALIST (Csaba) • While verifying contact details, REC will draft an introductory text for app. 80 non-demo cities following a fixed template (working towards delivery: mid-May 2009) • Introduction will summarise demographic city data (one sentence), geo-location data (one sentence), city transport data (several sentences, something about current situation, progress against policy targets and future plans) plus date of preparation. • Sources: Wikipedia, Lonely Planet, city’s own website, tel. “interview”

  7. Slide 7/28 Agenda2009 - Krakow Generally Accepted Date: Oct 19-21

  8. Slide 8/28 The “Old” Conference Venue: Auditorium Maximum

  9. Slide 9/28 The “Old” Conference Venue: Main Plenary

  10. Slide 10/28 The “Old” Conference Venue: Technical Sessions & Roundtables

  11. Slide 11/28 The “Old” Conference Venue: Exhibition & Poster Session Area

  12. Slide 12/28 PAC Session + Coktail Reception Venue: Municipality of Krakow HQ

  13. Slide 13/28 Banquet Dinner : Wieliczka UNESCO World Heritage Site

  14. Slide 14/28 Roles & Respon-sibilities

  15. Slide 15/28 Timeline/Next Steps

  16. Slide 16/28 Forum Promotion • Website established by FGM-AMOR at: www.civitas.eu/forum_conference_2009, content still to be okayed by EC, wherafter can be linked from News and Events • Once online, announce via email to the CIVITAS email group (ICLEI), and invite our city networks (POLIS, EUROCITIES, ICLEI) to more widely disseminate, plus post on ELTIS (Mobiel 21)

  17. Slide 17/28 Opening Plenary Session Speakers • Setting the scene for a discussion to explore the future of urban mobility and “The Way Forward for CIVITAS”: • Welcome Addresses: • Mayor of Krakow: Jacek Majchrowski • European Commission: VP Tajani • Four keynotes by inspirational, well-informed mobility experts: • CIVITAS II (Gdansk?); • CIVITAS Plus (San-Sebastian?); • PAC personality (Jean Yates?) • One non-CIVITAS personality (e.g. S.Korean architect/planner). • Panel discussion: Three questions to be shared for debate & discussion. Moderator - Savary?

  18. Slide 18/28 Closing Plenary Session Speakers • Closing Plenary • This will serve as a forward looking session where “visionaries” and outside speakers via 1-2 keynote addresses will help illustrate sustainable urban futures • Conclusions • Roundtables willhave explored and developed ideas important to the future evolution of CIVITAS, therefore it should be easy to summarise a handful of priorities for urban mobility research and innovation while the technical sessions will have offered a flavour of the solutions currently available. A personality like Phil Goodwin will be invited. • Award • Having presented solutions and successes, this session will segue nicely into the Award ceremony to congratulate 3 cities

  19. Slide 19/28 CIVITAS Award • Call for applications to go out 15th June, deadline 10th Sept • Mini-survey – In parallel and while checking declaration signatories’ contact details, REC will re-enquire declaration cities’ awareness, ask whether they’ve applied in the past, if not, why not, what would tempt them to apply… • Based on “survey” findings, may reorganise process, criteria and number of awards for 2010 • Further brainstorming about nature of trophy & ceremony to follow till mid-June • Ceremony *will* clearly evidence selection criteria and allow time for both host and recipient speeches, + photo opportunity.

  20. Slide 20/28 CIVITAS Award – Timeframe

  21. Slide 21/28 Technical and Roundtable Sessions

  22. Slide 22/28 Technical and Roundtable Sessions - II

  23. Slide 23/28 Technical and Roundtable Sessions - III POLIS and SN are kindly asked to help “headhunt” contributors (appx. 10 days’ each).

  24. Slide 24/28 Krakow Site Visits • SIEMENS Traffic Management Center • Travelling via a new fast tram the trip will encompass a new, multi-roundabout and a visit to two new modern major bus and tram stations at Lubicz and Rakowicka Streets on the first ring road • Transport dispatch centre of the Tele-Bus operator MPK • Trip with Tele-Bus to see… • Integrated access control and enforcement in the inner city • Trip on foot within the inner city areas (A, B and C zones), and presentation of electronic access control system. • Krakow’s public bicycle (renting) service in Poland + tourist attractions by bike • Starting point: Bagatela-Wawel following the Vistula river to the Museum of Urban Engineering (limited number of people). • Each site visit will end at the Museum of Urban Engineering on Wawrzyńca St. in Kazimierz

  25. Slide 25/28 Forum Exhibition • (ICLEI+Krakow) • ELTIS, financing institutions like EIB, ERDF, EC programmes like Structural and Cohesion Funds, IEE alongside transport industry players such as ACEA, hySolutions gmbh, ERTICO, and entities involved in CIVITAS Events (check the WP3 database)

  26. Slide 26/28 Forum Poster Session Posters for Award winners too • (ICLEI+CATALIST i.e. REC/Csaba) • “Each CIVITAS demonstration city (25 CIVITAS Plus + 33 CIVITAS I + II) should present a poster, alongside each horizontal project (POINTER, VANGUARD, and CATALIST)” • Bullet point content and/or headlines that serves as a case study/success story on measures implemented (cities) • Content could be transferable to CIVITAS cities “coffee table” catalogue, slide library and website • Method – What can we build on? • CIVITAS II: some pictures + summary available tx to GUARD • CIVITAS I & Plus: pictures + summary - web descriptions only? • Funding (Time & Printing Costs) • CIVITAS I & II Cities – CATALIST (WP4: Dissemination?) • VANGUARD - CIVITAS Plus (WP5: ICLEI, 1PM; REC, 5.5 PM + 3k)

  27. Slide 27/28 Political Advisory Committee • Call for new PAC Members drafted by BOKU & REC in February, still to be distributed (BOKU to collect applications) • Website updated(?) with all relevant contact info (Email id: PAC@civitas.eu delivers to Boku and REC till….) • Next PAC Meeting: TBD • POLIS to support with time (app. 1PM/yr), not direct costs. • 2007 Modus Operandi review incl. city/member selection criteria /applications might be a good idea • Still to fix tri-lateral meeting (VANGUARD, EC and GUARD)

  28. Thank You Jerome Simpson Tel: +36 26 504 039 E-mail: JSimpson@rec.org www.civitas.eu

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