European Youth Health Champions (EYHC) was a strategic partnership between 8 organisations from 6 European countries. Project objectives:1.To convert knowledge & experience from cross-sector stakeholders in youth peer education in health enhancing physical activity into learning resources that can be used transnationally by organisations in youth work, health, & community sport.2.To create an online learning portal of project resources, open & accessible for all.3.To ensure that young people with fewer opportunities are integral to the design & testing of the resources.4.To drive the impact of European Youth Health Champions by advocating & disseminating to policy stakeholders in each participating country & Europe-wide at local, regional, national, & European levels.Participating organisations:StreetGames UK (Lead coordinating partner) The leading UK charity committed to ensuring disadvantaged young people & communities lead healthy active lifestyles. With an Alliance of over 1,000 locally trusted organisations, StreetGames engages over 30,000 young people aged 12-25 each year.Royal Society for Public Health UK (RSPH) The organisation is dedicated to the promotion & protection of collective human health & wellbeing. They advise on policy development, provide education, encourage research, disseminate information & accredit health improvement programmes. With over 6000 members, they represent a broad range of organisations across the UK. Birmingham City Council UK (BCC). BCC’s Health & Wellbeing Service provides a range of programmes promoting & improving the health & wellbeing of the residents of Birmingham. BCC engage with residents through participation, education & volunteering programmes, & collaborate with a range of organisations. International Sport & Culture Association, Denmark (ISCA) With over 230 member organisations, ISCA is a democratic, not-for-profit umbrella organisation who’s tag line is MOVING PEOPLE. The organisation develops capacity building projects & promotes cross-sector collaboration to increase citizens’ involvement in community sport & physical activity. Vlaams Instituut voor Sportbeheer en Recreatiebeleid vzw, BELGIUM (ISB) The Flemish institute for sport administration & recreation management is a non-profit institution specialised in local & regional recreation management. ISB is a member organisation & a knowledge centre. ISB promote sport & exercise on a local level through a ‘sport for all’ policy. BG BE ACTIVE, BULGARIA (BGBA) The purpose of the organisation is to increase the popularity of sport & physical activity. BGBA work on a local, national & international level & use sport as a tool to decrease physical inactivity across all ages. A key priority of the organisation is to use sport & physical activity as a tool to build a socially responsible society, particularly working with young people. Aġenzija Żgħażagħ, MALTA (AZ) As the National Youth Agency of Malta, the mission is to promote the interests of young people & help them to achieve their potential. AZ work collaboratively to address the needs & aspirations of young people. They do this by providing community spaces, advocating young peoples’ voices, developing engagement & empowerment programmes & conducting research. Mine Vaganti NGO, ITALY (MVNGO) The mission of the organisation is to promote intercultural dialogue, social inclusion through sport & environmental protection using non-formal education. MVNGO is an educational training provider at local & European levels & has a consultant role for public & private bodies in order to promote & develop international projects. Project activities: 3 intellectual outputs (IOs) (evidence review, online training course & online portal); 5 transnational project meetings (TPMs); 6 multiplier events (MEs); 1 learning/teaching/training Blended Mobility (BM) event.The project has achieved the following impact:EYHC has created high quality research & leaning resources that are relevant & fit for purpose. 246 young people have supported the research & design & testing of the training which will enable others to develop the skills required to be an effective peer educator within their community. 55 participants have become peer educators themselves.13 Young people have travelled abroad, as a direct result of EYHC, since the BM event.263 people attended multiplier events in 6 countries.Over 550,000 people have been reached through online media, events, & dissemination of open-access resources.Longer Term Benefits: The resources are available online via open access. SG will maintain this platform for at least 10 years. Continued promotion, & inclusion in ongoing projects will ensure that the resources continue to be used. As a result of EYHC & the research, there is a commitment from all partners to continue to advocate & disseminate ‘Peer Education’ at a European level, to bring about sector recognition.

Transportation sector undergoes a considerable transformation as it enters a new landscape where connectivity is seamless and mobility options and related business models are constantly increasing. Modern transportation systems and services have to mitigate problems emerging from complex mobility environments and intensive use of transport networks including excessive CO2 emissions, high congestion levels and reduced quality of life. Due to the saturation of most urban networks, innovative solutions to the above problems need to be underpinned by collecting, processing and broadcasting an abundance of data from various sensors, systems and service providers. Furthermore, such novel transport systems have to foresee situations in near real time and provide the means for proactive decisions, which in turn will deter problems before they even emerge. Our vision is to provide the required interoperability, adaptability and dynamicity in modern transport systems for a proactive and problem-free transportation system. OPTIMUM will establish a largely scalable, distributed architecture for the management and processing of multisource big-data, enabling continuous monitoring of transportation systems needs and proposing proactive decisions and actions in an (semi-) automatic way. OPTIMUM follows a cognitive approach based on the Observe, Orient, Decide, Act loop of the big data supply chain for continuous situational awareness. OPTIMUM's goals will be achieved by incorporating and advancing state of the art in transport and traffic modeling, travel behavior analysis, sentiment analysis, big data processing, predictive analysis and real-time event-based processing, persuasive technologies and proactive recommenders. The proposed solution will be deployed in real-life pilots in order to realise challenging use cases in the domains of proactive improvement of transport systems quality and efficiency, proactive charging for freight transport and Car2X communication integration.

The physical infrastructure that facilitates the transport of people, freight, waste and utility services, and thus provides the essential support to civilised life, is under threat from numerous sources: deterioration through (often extreme) ageing, adverse ground chemistry, surface loading or stress relief due to open-cut interventions; severely increased demand; ever changing (different, or altered) demands; terrorism; the effects of climate change; funding constraints and severe natural hazards (extreme weather events, earthquakes, landslides, etc.). Such vulnerability, and the need for resilience in the face of such threats, is recognised widely - see Building Britain's Future17 and the ICE's State of The Nation Report: Defending Critical Infrastructure18 (both 2009), and the aims of the new Infrastructure UK delivery body18. This feasibility study seeks to explore radically different ways of conceptualising, designing, constructing, maintaining, managing, adapting and valuing the physical infrastructure to make it resilient no matter which threats are manifested or how the future develops. In this context resilience refers to the symbiosis existing between infrastructure, management systems and end users.Recent years have witnessed a shift to a more transdisciplinary concept of resilience that integrates the physical (both built and natural) and socio-political aspects of resilience. This change has been crucial because the socio-political and managerial aspects are arguably as important to the attainment of resilience as the physical aspects; resilient engineering also demands a more resilient infrastructural context with regard to the professions and the structures and processes which govern engineering activity.This proposal explores the engineering and social dimensions of resilience research needed to bring about radical changes in thinking and practice for an assured future in the face of multiple challenges. The following represent two core resilience themes at the interface of engineering, spatial planning and social science, from which feasibility studies to address key challenges will emerge via a series of workshops. The tangible manifestation lies in Local Area Agreements - a set of 32 centrally-approved and locally-implemented performance indicators linking engineered solutions, mechanisms for adoption, behavioural adaptation and education.1. Bespoke local utility infrastructures for resilient communities2. The role of transport in societal resilienceThe research team draws from five major research groups at the University of Birmingham, all of whom are addressing core themes of infrastructure and resilience. The team is supported by innovative thinkers drawn from the stakeholder community, both practitioners and policy makers. The primary themes to be studied are the creation of local utility infrastructures and transport to deliver resilience, recognising the UK shift towards enhancing innovation in the public/private sectors and local decision-making and delivery. Our team will deepen trans-disciplinary research by overcoming the tension that exists between the engineering focus on solutions and the social scientists concern with problems by developing realistic solutions to local problems. This requires exploration of the interface between four communities of practice: engineering and physical sciences, social sciences, private firms and local government. The intention is to identify solutions that reduce costs and enhance delivery, but also to identify new projects that have the potential to create innovative products that have commercial value.

The first phase of the SUE Programme has focused necessarily on the present, assessing current solutions and their application in the near future, thus providing a strong empirical base on which to build. There now exist both the need and a sufficient body of work to extrapolate the findings to establish and test alternative urban futures: to create a variety of scenarios, building on prior and new work, and predicated on different fundamental assumptions and priorities; to assess those scenarios in terms of design, engineering implementation and measurement of performance; to refine them, in terms of mitigation and adaptation measures, incorporating novel solutions; and ultimately to provide alternative solutions with an associated evidence base and strategies for their implementation. This bid seeks to integrate the outputs of three current SUE consortia (Birmingham Eastside, VivaCity 2020 and WaND) and complementary research on the use of trees to mitigate the effects of atmospheric pollution. The team will work across disciplines to envision and establish alternative futures (using extensive literature on this subject and prior WaND consortium work) and construct scenarios that might flow from each alternative future. The various work packages will then focus on testing specific dimensions of each alternative future vis a vis their design, implementation and performance in the context of case history sites. Each project will engage an expert panel of influential stakeholders who will meet six-monthly to test and help shape new ideas, the chairs of each of the expert panels forming the higher level project steering committee. Panel consultation will be followed by interviews of stakeholders on motivations and the decision-making process, and specific empirical research and modelling. The following high level questions will be addressed via this process: - How does the ab initio conceptualization of sustainability influence design outcomes (e.g. form, density)? How would outcomes change if urban renewal were predicated on either environmental or social or economic overriding drivers? - How does development impact on its environs, and vice versa (e.g. is a 'sustainable' site good for the city / region / country and, if so, in what ways?) and is there an optimum development size to yield optimally sustainable outcomes? - Push versus pull to achieve sustainable outcomes. Much of what is done is thought good (for individuals, society, the environment), what might be wanted (push). Thus decisions are made and people must decide whether or not to take ownership. Might more sustainable outcomes follow if those who must take ownership dictate what is created (pull)? Birmingham Eastside will be used both to develop sustainability ideas and to test them on sites at various stages of planning and development (the research team has unparalleled access via its partnerships with key stakeholders involved in Eastside). Lancaster (with Morecambe, population 96k) and Worcester (94k) will be used to test the outcomes at the scale of smaller urban areas (e.g. market towns) but no attempt will be made to build comprehensive databases as at Eastside. Several other UK and international urban areas (including Sao Paulo, Singapore and an urban area in India) will be used to test a sub-set of the project's findings to assess the transferability of the scenarios to a variety of contexts and thus their general applicability.