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The five European cities Turku, Stockholm, Munich, Madrid and Ruse, together with a variety of supporting partners, have implemented 51 measures and tested innovative sustainable mobility solutions in the living laboratory areas. To give some deeper insight to the project results and achievements, CIVITAS ECCENTRIC will end its project lifetime together with the CIVITAS sister projects DESTINATIONS and PORTIS during a 3 week event.

The networking highlights for the European sustainable mobility community, the annual CIVITAS Forum and the SUMP conference have always gathered a great number of participants to exchange, network and create new connections.

International environmental campaign "Clean beach" is carried out in the frame of cooperation between Saint-Petersburg and Tallinn, Helsinki and Turku with the aim of developing youth cooperation in the field of environmental protection. This year, the campaign was held for the 7th time on the southern-west coast of Kotlin island (Kronstadt) in the Gulf of Finland, with ca. 500 participants.

The Riga Municipal Agency “Riga Energy Agency” has launched the first mobility point in Riga and Latvia in the VEF district, connecting different sustainable modes of transport and offering convenient access to micro mobility and public transport opportunities. The mobility point will also serve as a pilot area for deployment of innovative, data-based solutions, including both a bicycle and pedestrian counter and a testbed for smart city solutions.

In Linköping earlier this year, new guidelines were adopted by the board of urban planning to take an important step towards being carbon neutral. By 2025, all vehicles used for construction and maintainance of infrastructure, maintenance of green areas, snow removal etc will run on fossil-free fuels.

Lahti – next year’s European Green Capital – has its sights set on being the first big city in Finland to become carbon-neutral and on achieving this goal by 2025. Lahti completed its energy transition last year and now also has a personal carbon trading system for local residents. The city is certainly a worthy winner of the European Green Capital Award, but getting there has taken a lot of work.

Developing public transport to serve inhabitants profitably and ecologically is especially challenging in small cities like Kemi. Almost all the households own a car or two, as well as cycling and walking are popular. With the public transport having a strict competition with other ways of moving, how can we decrease cars with only one passenger?

Within the HUPMOBILE project, City of Turku is working on a reorganisation of passenger rail transport in the port area. The goal is to develop a concept and a detailed plan for new railway access to the passenger harbour in the Linnanniemi (Castle Town) area. When developed, the area would be predominantly focusing on recreational activities and tourism as well as facilitating the resident’s access to the river and sea.

In 2020 both events were merged for the very first time into the European Urban Mobility Days - and then shifted online due to Covid-19. Is it possible to create an inspiring network event online, without the human interactions? Sharing knowledge and experiences in virtual spaces, that's something we have practiced since the outbreak of the pandemic in spring 2020, but can we create a conference atmosphere beyond a webinar?

Awareness and environmental education is getting a primary role as a measure to mitigate littering of the marine environment as a consequence of coastal tourism and public recreation. It’s been recognized as an appropriate tool to raise public awareness and attract attention to the problem, inspiring new actors, e.g. local authorities, to join the measures to prevent littering of the marine environment.

The University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald has acquired the official title of the Fairtrade Town as of January 2020 and was nominated for the German Sustainability Award 2021. Read about the city's achievements!

Citizen feedback on cycling infrastructure in Karlskrona, Mobility Points in Rostock, Vilnius, Kalmar, Aarhus and Guldborgsund, Living Streets campaigns in Tartu, Gdansk and Aarhus; this and much more can be found in cities.multimodal’s newly finished final publication.