CIVITAS Forum 2026

The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), officially established on 15 February 2021, has started its activities on 1 April 2021 in order to implement parts of certain EU programmes.

CINEA plays a key role in supporting the European Commission to advance economic development, enhance competitiveness and protect nature, through the efficient and effective implementation of its delegated programmes. 

It is a dynamic and innovative working place, where professional and experienced staff feel empowered and committed to achieve the organisation’s mission and strategic objectives.

The Agency fosters an efficient knowledge sharing and synergies between its different programmes and establishes strong partnerships with its stakeholders.

The Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) is responsible for developing mobility and transport policies within the European Union. Transport plays a crucial role in improving quality of life, fostering economic resilience, and tackling climate and environmental challenges. DG MOVE aims to make the transport sector sustainable, efficient, safe, affordable, and accessible through innovation, clear regulations, and reliable funding.

The EU transport policy supports five key priorities: (i) the European Green Deal, (ii) a digital-ready Europe, (iii) an economy that works for people, (iv) a stronger global presence, and (v) promoting the European lifestyle. DG MOVE significantly contributes to advancing the European Green Deal and adapting to climate and digital transitions, guided by the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy.

Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece and a major economic, industrial, commercial, and political center, as well as an important transportation hub. In 2021, Thessaloniki adopted its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), with the vision of promoting cultural heritage and entrepreneurship in a vibrant, resilient and functional urban environment for both residents and visitors, where sustainable transport modes can be easily accessed and combined.

The strategy of the city, according to its SUMP, is to promote pedestrian movement through the redistribution of public space, to develop low traffic areas, as well as organize city logistics by using alternative means of transport to upgrade the urban environment and reduce GHG pollutants. Thessaloniki acts as a large-scale ITS testbed for the implementation of cooperative mobility services.

Additionally, Thessaloniki’s planning promotes multimodality and the infrastructure of new modes through the development of hubs and stations for electric cars and bike-sharing. The deployment of a city-wide MaaS scheme, including public transport and shared mobility services, is part of the vision of the city. Additionally, the city is home to a Smart Mobility Living Lab, which aims to develop techniques for collecting, managing, and validating mobility data from multiple sources.

Thessaloniki is the host of the CIVITAS Forum 2026.

https://www.elaborator-project.eu/
ELABORATOR project aims to support cities in the design of sustainable urban mobility solutions, with the goal of contributing to climate neutrality. The project utilises a holistic approach for planning, designing, implementing and deploying specific innovations and solutions that focuses on safe, inclusive and sustainable urban mobility. These solutions consist of smart enforcement tools, space redesign and dynamic allocation, shared services, and integration of active and green modes of transportation.

Solutions will be specifically co-designed and co-created with identified groups that have been identified as vulnerable to exclusion, as well as local authorities and relevant stakeholders. The solutions will be demonstrated in a number of cities across Europe, starting with six Lighthouse cities and six Follower cities, with three aims:

1. To collect, assess and analyse user needs towards a safe and inclusive climate neutral city;

2. To collect and share rich information sets made of real data, traces from dedicated toolkits, users’ and stakeholders’ opinions among the cities to increase the take up of the innovations via a twinning approach;

3. To generate detailed guidelines and built capacity for service providers, planning authorities and urban designers for the optimum integration of such inclusive and safe mobility interventions into Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs).

https://amigos-project.eu/
Through co-creation activities and innovative digital tools, the AMIGOS project will identify present and future mobility challenges in five Living Lab cities and ten Urban Areas, known as 'Safety Improvement Areas'.

The digital tools will allow for the collection of new mobility data and will feed a big data platform that will allow for the analysis and production of digital twins capable of visualising mobility scenarios. These tools will allow urban stakeholders to identify mobility challenges, which will serve the co-development of adapted mobility solutions. Mobility solutions will focus on reducing traffic, increasing public and active mobility modes, improving safety and multimodality in the fifteen cities identified.

Key stakeholders, such as public authorities and vulnerable users, will be included in the identification and definition of policies and technological adaptations, as outlined in the mobility solutions. The environmental, safety, economic and social impacts of the mobility solutions will be assessed, as well as their replicability.

https://reallocatemobility.eu/
REALLOCATE catalyses change in mobility practices by developing integrated and innovative sustainable urban mobility solutions, enabling European cities to exchange knowledge, experiences and ideas, and inspire other cities to replicate and adapt the developed solutions to their own contexts.

The four-year project is aligned with the Mission Cities 2030 climate neutrality goals. The project supports the cities in working towards their net-zero carbon objectives, accelerates the development of integrated and innovative sustainable urban mobility solutions and  tools for  safe, inclusive and smart cities.

During the course of the project, 10 Mission Cities (Gothenburg-Tampere, Heidelberg-Utrecht, Lyon-Warsaw, Budapest-Zagreb, Barcelona-Bologna) work in five  twinned pairs consisting of a Lead City and a Twin City. Supported by thematic experts throughout the project, the cities develop their knowledge  to implement  zero-emission, inclusive, active and citizen-centred mobility interventions.

https://www.just-streets.eu/
JUST STREETS supports 8 pilot cities and 4 follower cities in transforming cities’ car-centered mobility narratives that take for granted that streets are for motorised traffic only. The project addresses the pressing need to reshape our streets both from an infrastructural and behavioural dimensions, sharing the generated “how-to-do-it” knowledge with hundreds of cities for rapid replication across Europe. In close collaboration with citizens, policy makers, experts, and interest groups the project will not only develop a new vision of spatial justice where streets become public space for all, but equally important find ways to rapidly implement changes.

The focus extends to marginalised groups, including migrants, LGBTQI+ communities and individuals with disabilities, ensuring that their voices are not only heard but actively incorporated into the planning and development process.

https://corespaces-horizon.eu/
CORESpaces supports cities in their transition towards climate-neutral, resilient and people-centred urban environments.

Addressing the growing pressures of urbanisation, mobility, energy demand and space scarcity, the project develops and demonstrates COREInnovations: a suite of adaptable digital and physical tools integrating AI-assisted planning, Digital Twins and participatory approaches to optimise urban space, mobility infrastructure and energy efficiency.

Through demonstrations in 9 Living Labs and validation in follower cities, CORESpaces enables data-driven and human-centric urban transformation while actively engaging citizens and stakeholders in inclusive decision-making.

The project also develops governance frameworks, financial mechanisms and replication blueprints to support dynamic urban space management, accelerate decision-making and ensure long-term uptake across Europe.

By fostering collaboration between cities, public authorities, academia, industry and citizens, CORESpaces contributes to more liveable, sustainable and climate-resilient urban environments, supporting the European Green Deal and the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities.

https://urban-flow.eu/
Demonstrated in three Lead Cities and three Replicant Cities, the project optimizes limited urban space by enabling multimodal transport, better integrating suburban areas, and strengthening the links between mobility networks, energy grids, and green infrastructure. Through co-creation with citizens, stakeholders, and policymakers, Urban-Flow supports the transition towards liveable, accessible, and climate-neutral cities, improving public health, air quality, and the overall efficiency of urban spaces.

https://www.nextlogic-project.eu/
NEXTLOGIC (Next-Generation Urban Freight Logistics for Net-Zero Emissions through Innovative Solutions) is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action supporting cities in their transition to climate neutrality by rethinking how urban space, mobility and logistics are planned and managed. 
  
The project combines Digital Twins, eXtended Reality (XR) and advanced data analytics to enable cities to co-design, test and implement innovative solutions such as zero-emission urban microhubs, smart loading and unloading zones, 15-minute multimodal hubs, and incentive-based behavioural change mechanisms. 
  
Deployed and validated in eight European Mission Cities, NEXTLOGIC empowers local authorities, logistics operators and citizens to collaboratively optimise the movement of people and goods, improve the use of public space, and reduce emissions, contributing to more liveable, efficient and climate-neutral cities by 2030.

https://www.codezero-project.eu/
The convenience of online shopping has created high expectations among consumers for fast, free, and flexible delivery options. However, this poses a significant challenge for retailers and logistics providers striving to meet these demands while minimising environmental impact. The disconnection between consumer expectations and the realities of delivery logistics needs to be addressed to create a more sustainable e-commerce ecosystem.

CodeZERO is innovating, testing and sharing solutions to influence consumer behaviour to choose more sustainable delivery options in four pilot sites: Antwerp, Milan, Oslo, and Utrecht.

https://green-turn.eu/
GreenTurn uses design thinking approaches to develop solutions which bridge between behavioural interventions (including incentives, nudges and gamification) and delivery and return options (such as time windows, in-store pick-ups and returnable packaging, among others).

To test solutions, GreenTurn implements 5 complementary pilots involving logistic service providers, marketplace providers and retailers as partners or stakeholders.

Besides, the GreenTurn pilots will touch upon social sustainability aspects too, for both customers (e.g. physical and digital accessibility), and e-commerce logistics employees (e.g. work conditions, market reintegration, etc.) Together with its public authorities, GreenTurn will translate results into policies that can secure uptake and long-term impact.

http://www.metaccaze-project.eu/
The metaCCAZE project aims to revolutionise mobility in European cities, serving both passengers and freight, with innovative electric, automated, and connected solutions designed to make transportation smarter, net zero, and more efficient for all. 

In the vibrant streets of four trailblazer cities – Amsterdam, Munich, Limassol, and Tampere – metaCCAZE tests and demonstrates technologies that support shared zero-emission mobility solutions for people and goods, contributing to climate neutrality. Successful technologies and activities will be shared with and implemented in six Follower Cities – Athens, Kraków, Gozo, Milan, Miskolc, and Poissy (Paris).  

To ensure the technologies meet the needs of citizens and urban mobility stakeholders, a series of co-creation activities will be organised locally in the cities.   ​

https://www.geminiproject.eu/
The GEMINI project will develop and test sustainable business models for New Mobility Services (NMS). This includes shared and connected automated vehicles, public transport, as well as boosting public-private partnerships. Ultimately, the project aims to increase shared mobility (MaaS and MaaC) solutions for enterprises, families and tourists.

Eight New Mobility Services will be co-designed, deployed and tested in Mobility Living Labs (MLLs) in 8 cities (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Ljubljana, Munich, Paris, Porto and Turin). This Living Labs will seek to engage local communities in the co-creation, development and adoption of promising innovative mobility solutions with significant impact, accounting for user acceptance, sustainability and financial viability.

https://dynamicity.eu/
DynamiCity brings together 27 partners and 9 associated partners from 18 European countries to unlock the health potential of walking, cycling and micro-mobility, positioning active travel as a strategic tool for cancer prevention and survivorship.

The project develops human-centred interventions across five levels — individual, community, digital, infrastructure and policy — implemented in 12 living labs, including 6 net-zero cities. DynamiCity supports its 6 follower cities in achieving a 15% reduction in GHG emissions and a 30% increase in walking and cycling in their demonstrator areas, while twinning activities extend these benefits to more than 5 additional European cities.

By combining infrastructure change, behavioural interventions and integrated policies, DynamiCity breaks down silos between the health and transport sectors, feeding its results into EU guidance on active mobility and cancer prevention.

https://mobilities-for.eu/
MOBILITIES for EU showcases innovative urban mobility solutions, leveraging electrification, automation, and connectivity to transform urban transportation. Seven European cities, aligned with climate neutrality goals by 2030 as part of the 112 Mission Cities, form the project's core.

Urban Transport Labs (UT-Labs) in these cities engage local stakeholders throughout project phases, ensuring solutions meet community needs. Madrid and Dresden lead with 27 pilot actions, spanning from technologies such as autonomous e-buses to decentralized data ecosystems.

Each solution undergoes rigorous evaluation, guiding future scalability. Replication Cities—Ioannina, Trenčín, Espoo, Gdańsk, and Sarajevo—will adapt and replicate successful solutions from the Lead Cities, fostering sustainable mobility across Europe.

https://civitas.eu/projects/periasty
periASTY addresses a critical gap in Europe’s climate transition: the integration of peri-urban areas into decarbonisation efforts. Peri-urban areas, which connect cities with their wider regions, face distinct challenges such as dispersed populations, inefficient energy consumption with limited renewable integration, less effective waste collection strategies, and governance tools focused on city centres rather than whole Functional Urban Areas (FUAs).

To overcome these barriers, periASTY develops tailored solutions that fully integrate peri-urban areas into the climate neutrality transition, supporting Europe’s 2030 climate objectives.

periASTY introduces periInnovations: flexible and adaptable solutions specifically designed for peri-urban environments. The periInnovations cover four key areas: mobility, energy, industry, and governance. They are co-designed with citizens, local authorities, and other stakeholders, with demonstrations in nine Living Labs in Dublin (Ireland), Limassol (Cyprus), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Marseille (France), Guimarães (Portugal), Helmond (Netherlands), Kalamata (Greece), Sofia (Bulgaria), and Sisslerfeld (Switzerland).

https://bio-intel-mob.eu/

BIO-INTEL-MOB develops an integrated framework for mobility and logistics systems that connects urban and regional contexts through data, infrastructure and governance.

By combining mobility data spaces, artificial intelligence and digital twins with real-world interventions such as mobility hubs, routing solutions and circular logistics models, the project delivers new ways to design, test and operate mobility systems in real environments.

BIO-INTEL-MOB advances a new generation of governance approaches, integrating participatory tools and decision-support systems that enable public authorities to plan, evaluate and scale mobility solutions based on data, user needs and territorial realities.

ALTHEA places Europe's peri-urban areas at the heart of the transition to climate neutrality. Using the Transition Super Living Lab (TSLL) approach, the project brings together five TSLLs (Milan Metropolitan Region, Antwerp-Rotterdam, Epirus-Ioannina Region, Alicante-Elche Functional Area, Lisbon Metropolitan Region) and three replicator sites (Greater Copenhagen, Gdynia, Aachen) – spanning cross-country, cross-region, cross-city and city–peri-urban settings. Together, they create a shared learning ecosystem where public authorities, industry, research organisations and civil society co-design, test and replicate solutions tailored to diverse peri-urban contexts.

The project delivers 59 targeted interventions and 21 innovations across four innovation axes: sustainable mobility, connecting peri-urban and urban areas through low-carbon, integrated mobility systems; decarbonised energy systems, boosting local renewable production and smart energy management; zero pollution industry, driving cleaner, circular industrial activity; and cross-sectoral governance, strengthening collaboration across institutions and territories.

https://civitas.eu/coordination/muse

As the current Coordination and Support Action for the CIVITAS Initiative, MUSE primarily engages in support activities to boost the impact of CIVITAS Community activities on sustainable urban mobility policy. 

Its main objectives are to:

• Act as a destination for knowledge developed by the CIVITAS Community over the past twenty years

• Expand and strengthen relationships between cities and stakeholders at all levels

• Support the enrichment of the wider urban mobility community by providing learning opportunities

Through these goals, the CIVITAS Initiative strives to support the mobility and transport goals of the European Commission, and in turn those in the European Green Deal.

CIVITAS MUSE is coordinated by ICLEI Europe.

https://spurup.eu/

Peri-urban areas, characterized by their blend of urban and rural features, are located at the rural–urban fringe, the transitional zone where urban and rural landscapes meet. These areas are often overlooked in traditional planning. These regions are under pressure from urban sprawl, industrial pollution, and complex land-use conflicts. SpurUP (Sustainable Peri-Urban framework for Climate Neutral development) is a Horizon Europe initiative designed to give peri-urban areas a clear voice and a sustainable future.

CIVINET Iberia is the CIVITAS local network in Spain and Portugal, whose main objective is to promote sustainable mobility in both countries. We are a Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking team working with and for cities.

The aim of CIVINET Iberia is to facilitate knowledge and good practice transfer and the development of joint projects on sustainable and user-centred transport. Through exchanges between key stakeholders, community building and capacity development, CIVINET Iberia will foster political commitment and strengthen collective knowledge, equipping cities with the tools they need to place mobility at the heart of decarbonisation.

CIVINET CY-EL is the Greek-speaking local network of CIVITAS, which focuses on the promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Greece and Cyprus. It is also national multiplier of ELTIS and a key partner of the Urban Transports Community of Interreg MED.

Its main role is:

• raising awareness among citizens, mobility practitioners, stakeholders and politicians

• capacity building of the staff of public and private sector

• providing funding opportunities and supporting local authorities in implementing sustainable mobility measures

• supporting governments for the appropriate adaptation of the legislative framework

• promoting the achievements and the needs of its members, at national and European level

The bodies of the Network include the General Assembly, Secretariat, Political Advisory Committee, Scientific Advisory Committee, and the Thematic and Territorial Working Groups.

The financial viability of CIVINET CY-EL is dependent on revenue generation from:

• CIVITAS and European programmes

• The central state

• Collaboration with other public bodies (educational, research, etc)

• Collaboration with the private sector

• Annual membership fees of its members

CIVINET is the network of cities and regions for sharing knowledge and experience about sustainable mobility in general and CIVITAS in particular. In addition to access to state-of-the-art expertise, innovations and best practices, CIVINET Netherlands offers an accessible entrance to “Europe”. As a learning network in the Netherlands, CIVINET Netherlands has been bringing together local governments for more than 10 years to work on sustainable, clean and efficient transport systems.

Das CIVITAS Netzwerk für den deutschsprachigen Raum setzt sich für eine Verbesserung der Lebensqualität und Lebensbedingungen in Städten ein. Das deutschsprachige CIVINET umfasst alle deutschsprachigen Regionen in Europa, mit Mitgliedern aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Städte und stadtnahe Unternehmen, Städteverbände, Bundesinstitutionen, Forschungseinrichtungen und Unternehmen, die sich mit nachhaltiger urbaner Mobilität beschäftigen, sind herzlich eingeladen, sich zu beteiligen.

Innovations and best practices from CIVITAS projects are accessible to all local authorities in Europe. However, many municipalities are having difficulty benefiting maximum from the CIVITAS program. They often struggle to identify interesting CIVITAS calls for projects, find like-minded project partners, or implement innovations and best practices from current CIVITAS projects.

How can your municipality overcome these challenges and make the most of CIVITAS? Thanks to CIVINET .BE, of course! This network facilitating exchanges between Belgian cities and municipalities puts them in contact with other local authorities in Europe and with numerous organizations active in the field of sustainable and intelligent mobility.

The CIVINET ROMANIA National Network is intended for cities in Romania and areas where the Romanian language is used, to share experience and best practices in the development and implementation of sustainable urban mobility strategies, policies and measures in this field. The network is open to local authorities (municipalities, county councils, metropolitan areas, ministries), but also to associations, research centers, universities and other organizations (both public and private sector) that have an interest in urban transport.

CIVINET is the only network in Romania that aims to promote the CIVITAS approach in the field of integrated sustainable mobility and its principles.

The CIVINET Czech and Slovak Republics is a network of cities, regions, and other partners devoting to sustainable mobility. We support sustainable modes of transport: pedestrian, bicycle, public, forms of shared transport and clean mobility. The cross-cutting themes are integrated transport planning, mobility management and comprehensive coverage of sustainable urban mobility via the creation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (so-called SUMPs).

The CIVINET offers membership and partnership to entities actively involved in sustainable transport planning and interested in gaining inspiration and further education in this area, as well as those interested in networking and information exchange. We monitor and respond to current topics, organize seminars, workshops, conferences and excursions.

CIVINET Polska is a local CIVITAS network bringing together public and private entities and non-governmental organizations operating in the field of urban transport and mobility at the national level, to promote and implement integrated strategies for sustainable urban mobility. CIVINET Polska is a kind of national ambassador of the European CIVITAS Program, which has been working for over 20 years to realize sustainable and intelligent urban mobility for all users.

CIVINET Slovenia - Croatia - Southeast Europe is a network of cities and other stakeholders that are focused on and advocating for sustainable planning and mobility management. Since it’s foundation in 2013, it has been active in the areas of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. The objective of the network is knowledge sharing and good practice exchange, as well as implementation of partner projects which are meant to finance future sustainable mobility activities. Networking and all forms of cooperation are welcome for more effective urban traffic and mobility problem solving, thus strengthening the local, regional and national capacity around sustainable urban mobility, which enables better usage of EU funds.

Сivinet Ukraine - is a Ukrainian-speaking national network of CIVITAS, which focuses on the promotion of sustainable climate-neutral mobility in Ukraine.

NetZeroCities is part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme in support of  European Union’s Green Deal. NetZeroCities has been designed to help cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.

NetZeroCities supports the EU’s Mission of “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” launched as part of the Horizon Europe programme. The project works as a service-oriented platform supported by world-class practitioners. It helps European cities by providing them with the support and solutions they need to achieve climate neutrality in a socially inclusive way.

New and existing tools, resources and expertise are developed and promoted into a one-stop platform accessible to all cities through an online portal. Dedicated services are designed to support cities that are part of the EU’s Mission “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030”. In addition, NetZeroCities supports a series of Pilots to help drive rapid learning about how to achieve climate neutrality at city scale, and runs a Twinning Learning programme to enable peer-learning.

CIVITAS is an initiative of the European Union to connect European cities that are at the forefront of solving urban mobility challenges or are open to learning new practices. CIVITAS provides funding opportunities for R&D projects on forward-looking mobility solutions and provides a platform for exchange of experience between transport professionals in cities.

In recent years, several national and cross-border regional CIVITAS networks (CIVINET) have been established so that cities operating in similar situations and within similar frameworks can share their results and experiences without language barriers and learn from each other's examples.

Magyar CIVINET is a network of cities for cities, made up of municipalities committed to sustainable urban mobility in Hungary or using (also) the Hungarian language. The network, which has been successfully operating for over 10 years, helps cities and urban mobility stakeholders by sharing knowledge to learn about and implement sustainable transport solutions in the short and long term.

Events organised by Magyar CIVINET are usually open to anyone interested in sustainable urban mobility, but members have priority in participation if there is an attendee limit. From time to time, Magyar CIVINET also cooperates with other regional CIVINETs in order to exchange experiences across borders.

EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK (16-22 September every year) is the European Commission’s leading campaign on sustainable urban mobility. It promotes behavioural change in favour of active mobility, public transport and other clean transport solutions.

A MOBILITYACTION is an initiative promoting sustainable urban mobility, organised by businesses, educational institutions, civil society organisations, citizen initiatives, municipalities, etc., which can be registered all year round. Mobility management planning solutions are especially welcome. Sustainable urban mobility can help lower carbon emissions, improve air quality, and make Europe’s towns and cities more pleasant places to live and work.

In 2025, over 2,700 towns and cities from 46 countries participated in EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK. Additionally, more than 900 businesses, educational institutions, civil society organisations, citizen initiatives and municipalities registered a MOBILITYACTION.

The European Urban Initiative is an essential tool to support cities of all sizes, to build capacity and knowledge, to support innovation and develop transferable and scalable innovative solutions to urban challenges of EU relevance.

In times of rapid urbanisation, Europe is increasingly facing dire urban challenges ranging from the global health crisis and the rise of digitalisation to societal inequalities, demographic changes, climate change and environmental degradation.

To face these pressing challenges, EU cities must transform and adapt themselves, pushed to develop their creative and innovative potential, within the limits of their competencies, funding and capacity.

In this transformative perspective for cities, the European Urban Initiative (EUI), funded by the European Union, supports urban areas of all sizes with innovative actions, capacity and knowledge building, as well as policy development and communication on sustainable urban development.

The EU Urban Mobility Observatory facilitates the exchange of information, knowledge and experience in the field of sustainable urban mobility in Europe. It addresses individuals working in transport as well as in related disciplines, including urban and regional development, health, energy and environmental sciences. Created 25 years ago, it is now Europe's main source of information on urban mobility, and is financed by the European Commission's Directorate General for Mobility and Transport.

The Ambassadors for #DiversityInTransport seek to promote diversity, equality and inclusion within the EU transport sector, through raising awareness and sharing information on and developing and implementing initiatives to promote diversity in the EU transport sector, both from the perspective of transport workers and transport users.

The network of Ambassadors for #DiversityInTransport is the European Commission’s initiative to build a transport sector that reflects the diversity of the society it serves — inclusive, accessible, and open to all.

From gender equality to disability inclusion, LGBTIQ+ rights, ethnic diversity, intergenerational balance and beyond, this platform brings together people, ideas and actions to make European mobility more representative and fairer. Here you will find inspiring stories, practical tools, learning opportunities and ways to get involved. Whether you're a policymaker, a transport professional or an engaged citizen, this space is for you.

The EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy is the largest movement of local governments in Europe acting on climate change to secure a better future for their citizens. It gathers over 10,500 local authorities voluntarily committed to the European Union’s energy and climate targets. 

As a keystone initiative of the European Commission, the Covenant of Mayors empowers cities and towns of all sizes to act on energy and climate in line with the EU’s vision for a climate-neutral, resilient and fair future for all.

InclusiveSpaces: Designing Inclusive and Climate-Resilient Urban Spaces

Urban spaces often fail to meet the needs of people with disabilities, older adults, and other underrepresented groups, limiting accessibility, comfort, and social participation. InclusiveSpaces is a Horizon Europe project developing innovative design frameworks, digital tools, and climate-friendly assistive technologies to create more accessible, inclusive, and climate-resilient cities.

Through a design-for-all and co-design approach, the project actively involves people with disabilities, older adults, and other diverse groups in the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of urban environments. InclusiveSpaces is demonstrating five planning & design tools and five assistive technologies across six European cities, generating practical solutions for accessibility, mobility, comfort, and universal design. By translating real-world results into standards, policies, and recommendations, InclusiveSpaces supports the transition towards a more inclusive, accessible, and climate-friendly built environment for everyone.

DISCO aims to support cities in undertaking the digital transformation of urban logistics and sustainable planning, as well as the optimisation of urban space. Its name stands for ‘Data-driven, Integrated, Syncromodal, Collaborative and Optimised urban freight meta-model for a new generation of urban logistics and planning with data sharing at European Living Labs’.

The goal of the project is to support the EU Mission Cities in achieving their climate goals by 2030, by demonstrating 23 flagship solutions on optimal and sustainable use of urban space for logistics in 8 European Living Labs and 4 Follower Cities and Regions.

In today's fast-paced world, the convenience of online shopping fuels the rising demand for last-mile delivery. However, this exponential growth strains urban spaces, causing congestion, pollution, and inefficiency, which presents an ever-growing challenge for mobility planners, policymakers, and logistics providers. Last-mile delivery energy consumption and space usage are particular challenges.

The UNCHAIN project will work with 7 European cities to support the development of 12 data-driven city services that address congestion, safety, and environmental issues. The project will foster public-private data exchange and interoperability, thereby creating a European space for mobility data. By collaborating between authorities and logistics stakeholders, the project will seek to optimize urban logistics, and support the development of more sustainable cities.

The FOREMAST project aims to advance cleaner and more efficient logistics in urban and coastal areas. At its core is the development of Small, Flexible, Automated, Zero-emission (SFAZ) vessels for sustainable freight transport along inland waterways, helping to reduce road congestion and emissions while improving accessibility and logistics efficiency.

UPPER aims to spearhead a public transport revolution that will strengthen its role as the cornerstone of sustainability mobility and innovation in cities, ultimately leading the transition towards a future of zero emission mobility.

The project will put public transport at the centre of the mobility ecosystem by implementing a combination of 84 "push and pull" measures. These measures will respond to the five "axes" that influence user choice, namely:

• Mindset and culture

• Urban mobility planning

• Mobility services ecosystem

• Road network management

• Democratic governance

The measures will be supported by the UPPER Toolkit, which will consist of seven IT tools that combine social and technological innovation. These measures will be demonstrated within the project living lab cities (Valencia, Rome, Ile de France, Oslo and Mannheim) and twinning cities (Lisbon, Leuven, Hannover, Budapest and Thessaloniki).

Using this integrated approach, UPPER aspires to create an attractive, efficient, reliable, safe, inclusive and affordable public transport system, in line with the concept of Mobility as a Right (MaaR).

SPINE sees smart Public Transport as a necessary piece of the climate transition puzzle. Through a network of collaborative Living Labs (LLs), the project will work to foster transferability that applies an intersectional view of  transport system users. With this equity-centered approach, SPINE aims to create more efficient, sustainable, resilient and inclusive public transport systems.

Co-creation activities will take place in the four Lead City LLs - Antwerp, Bologna, Tallin, and Las Palmas - where multiple stakeholders will help inform the development of efficient, replicable, and socially acceptable innovative mobility solutions.

The SPINE approach involves the creation of:

• innovative simulation and Digital Twining (DT) tools, along with open data and behavioural models, that will allow the building of scenarios combining different mobility interventions and the implementation of the most promising ones;

• data-driven impact assessment models that will foster the twinning, transferability and adaptation of the successful solutions of the four LLs in seven Twining Cities.

The successful solutions developed in the four LLs will be adapted and transferred to seven Twining Cities – Barreiro, Valladolid, Zilina, Sibenik, Heraklion, Gdynia, and Rouen.

SPINE sets an ambitious plan for the co-design and implementation of 55 smart, sustainable and inclusive mobility solutions.

eBRT2030 (European Bus Rapid Transit of 2030: electrified, automated, connected) seeks to support sustainable urban transport by proposing innovative solutions for electric Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). The eBRT2030 project will create a New Generation of advanced full electric, urban and peri-urban European Bus Rapid enhanced with novel automation and connectivity functionalities. These innovative solutions are piloted in 7 demonstrations in real-operations in Europe and outside Europe (in Latin America), and fully integrated in the whole urban mobility scenario. The final aim is the definition a new European concept of Bus Rapid Transit for year 2030, benefitting of evaluation, multiplication and replication of the real-operation test of innovations, that improve the performance of the whole European urban bus system

GOLIA is advancing the sustainable, digital and green transition with practical tools, methods and evidence-based recommendations to make transport systems more efficient, inclusive and environmentally friendly.

Urban mobility faces fragmented management, a lack of standard protocols, and poor integration of micro-mobility and vulnerable road users. These gaps hinder efficient traffic control. In this context, the EU-funded FEDORA project will create a federated spaces platform that unites data, services, and tools for smarter traffic and network management. It enables precise sensing of demand and supply, optimises transport operations, and fosters adaptive learning in complex environments. By connecting with existing EU and national mobility strategies, FEDORA’s framework includes advanced data integration, traffic optimisation, and multi-modal simulations to test future scenarios. Its impact will be demonstrated across six diverse European regions (from Austria to Denmark), ensuring solutions fit varied urban and rural contexts.

MODALSHIFT is developing a data-driven framework to help cities and transport stakeholders better coordinate freight and passenger mobility. By connecting data from transport infrastructure, logistics and mobility operators through a trusted Mobility Data Space, the project will enable more effective traffic monitoring, forecasting and multimodal decision-making.

MODALSHIFT combines innovative IoT solutions, secure data sharing and anonymisation, predictive and prescriptive analytics, digital twins and agent-based modelling to identify and test better ways of managing transport networks and multimodal hubs. The approach will be demonstrated in three real-world Case Studies in Trieste (Italy), Varna (Bulgaria) and Madrid (Spain), addressing different urban and transport contexts.

The project aims to improve traffic event detection, reduce interconnection and transshipment delays, and support a shift towards low-carbon, active and shared mobility. By bringing together transport authorities, infrastructure managers, logistics and mobility operators, MODALSHIFT will demonstrate how trusted data and collaborative decision-making can contribute to less congested, more efficient and more inclusive urban transport systems.

Growing a Positive Traffic Safety Culture in your network

A systematic Transition towards shared Responsibility for Safe and Sustainable Mobility in the EU and beyond.