The project SAFETY TUNES AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN TRAFFIC develops and implements an awareness-raising methodology to meet the high-risk target group of young drivers and co-drivers educated by lower level. This methodology includes social skills and competences in traffic, social-art, peer-education, emotion and social media to reach a new generation of young drivers. The aim of SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL is to reduce severe accidents caused by young people on European roads to avoid young people’s death as well as accident drivers with poor future perspectives. Road accidents are the most frequent cause of death in the age group from 15-24 years. Youngsters between the ages of 15-17 years start to learn autonomy, and more particularly gain access to different means of transport, notably to driving motorized vehicles. In the year 2014 631 young people between 15-17 years died on European Roads [18]. In general young people from 18-24 years are far more likely to be victim in road accidents than people in any other age group worldwide. More than 57,000 people between 18-24 years were killed in road accidents in the EU within the decade 2006-2014, close to a fifth of all road fatalities in those countries (17%). Results of the EU project “Close-to”. in which 125 young accident drivers (18-24) in Austria were analyzed, show that 90% of these drivers are male and registered in vocational education. A cross connection between young people educated on lower level and unsafe driving behavior and a higher accident rate can thus be shown. 13% of these young accident drivers have lost their job after the punishment and found it very hard to find a new job after serving their sentence. The Project SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL increased awareness of young people for a responsible and social behavior in traffic by including social skills and competences into road safety prevention work. A joint experience and knowledge base between the Belgian Partner Mobiel 21 and the Austrian partner FGM-AMOR regarding creative and active road safety work with youth optimized the effect on youth. 103 young people aged 13 -24 have been involved directly in innovative, creative and active prevention workshops in which road safety related messages were created through different types of artistic forms (videos, raps, and posters). These messages have been disseminated via social media and 3.277 young people have been reached indirectly through a compact social media strategy. This kind of creating social art focuses on active involvement of participants: young people have to deal with social skills in road safety topics in an interactive and creative way. The workshops in Austria and Belgium have been implemented by young youth workers and young artists in youth centers, vocational and secondary schools. In summary, the SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL methodology combines a peer approach, an emotive know-how transfer and social-art with social skills in road safety. At the end of the project, 9 workshops have been implemented, 4 videos and 1 rap song have been produced, 103 young people have been involved in the workshops. After the workshops 79% of them stated that they will be more careful on the roads in future. 3.277 young people have been reached throuth social media and are now aware of the importance of social skills in traffic. Consequently the desired impact of the project at national and European level is to decrease fatalities of youth within SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL regions from 2017 on.The videos are uploaded on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzqkFdSZMb3WBozbSh_5cow?view_as=subscriberPictures and videos are available on Facdbook: https://www.facebook.com/Wirfahrnab/

CIVITAS ELEVATE expands the CIVITAS support activities with a dedicated offer to the current and forthcoming CIVITAS 2020 Innovation Actions (IA), the Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) and the CIVINETs. The mission of CIVITAS ELEVATE is to increase the Europe-wide impact of the CIVITAS (R)IA’s on urban mobility policy making and thereby advancing the CIVITAS community to a higher level of knowledge, exchange, impact and sustainability, while guaranteeing essential high-quality support. ELEVATE is committed to reaching the following objectives: i) Developing the CIVITAS knowledge base and transferring new knowledge; ii) Enriching the current CIVITAS generation and feeding future EU initiatives and CIVITAS-type actions; iii) Building a European mobility community able to navigate transition; and iv) Representing CIVITAS on the international stage. ELEVATE will implement a Liaison System and identifying Stewards alongside, and support the RIAs and IAs with engaging meetings and networking events. ELEVATE will create and maintain a comprehensive communication and dissemination framework that will enable the (R)IA projects and CIVINETs to portray their work with maximum effect to an international audience. ELEVATE will also increase the impact of the CIVITAS programme and the CIVINETs through its Mobility Match sessions, an Incubator and the CIVINET Support and Investment Centre and by training and capacity building through its Learning Centre and Educational Network. Supporting the stakeholders involved in the (R)IA projects and from across CIVITAS 2020, and advancing the CIVITAS knowledge, are further key aims of ELEVATE. ELEVATE will also ensure the sustainability of its outcomes, not only continuing the financing of the CIVINETs through the CIVINET Activity Fund but by developing CIVINET Business Models and by involving the next generation of transport professionals in the CIVITAS community.

WeCount aims to empower citizens to take a leading role in the production of data, evidence and knowledge around mobility in their own neighborhoods, and at street level. The project will follow participatory citizen science methods to co-create and use innovative low cost, automated, road traffic counting sensors (i.e. Telraam) and multi-stakeholder engagement mechanisms in 5 pilots in Madrid, Ljubljana, Dublin, Cardiff and Leuven. Following this approach, we will be able to quantify local road transport (cars, Heavy Goods Vehicles, active travel modes and speed), produce scientific knowledge in the field of mobility and environmental pollution, and co-design informed solutions to tackle a variety of road transport challenges. Moreover, the project will provide cost-effective data for local authorities, at a far greater temporal and spatial scale than what would be possible in classic traffic counting campaigns, thereby opening up new opportunities for transportation policy making and research. In WeCount, we empower citizens to develop evidence-led interventions into the political discourse on civic and environmental issues. By putting citizens at the heart of the innovation process, the project seeks to overcome existing technological and societal silos so that citizens can champion a new perspective on road transport that take into account their own concerns in pursuit of better quality of life and more equitable, healthy futures.

The CIVITAS Initiative will be led by a new CIVITAS MUSE Coordination and Support Action from 2023-2027, coordinated by ICLEI Europe and involving 8 expert partners in total. This project will deliver a wide range of services to the European Commission and its funded urban mobility-related projects, to enhance their results through further communication, capacity building and exploitation activities. These will involve and reach all parts of the urban mobility community, particularly CIVITAS project participants and EU cities. Further dissemination of the state of the art is made possible through CIVITAS MUSE by enhancing operational structures that involve wider community stakeholders such as the Secretariat, CIVINET regional and national networks, the Policy Advisory Committee, annual Conferences, a new Collective of European mobility networks, as well as improving collaboration groups between projects and their partners (and their related stakeholders and experts), at both a management and thematic/topic based level. The CIVITAS MUSE project helps to guarantee the replication of innovative solutions and results through a deployment planning cycle, working with cities through capacity building exchanges to promote solution-specific learning and broad skills development. Monitoring, extracting and communicating the most useful results and information from projects lies at the core of CIVITAS MUSE, with projects supported in employing up to date evaluation approaches. CIVITAS MUSE comes at a key time in the Smart and Climate Neutral Cities Mission and the achievement of multiple Destination goals including those under Cross-Sectoral Solutions for the Climate Transition.

FastTrack will deliver climate-resilient urban, peri-urban and rural areas through the deployment of sustainable mobility innovations across 24 local areas, involving 20 local authority project affiliates, and 4 ambassadorial partners. FastTrack presents a suite of interlinking methods that provide local authorities with opportunities to learn from the best, capturing and presenting the experiences of those who have successfully accelerated transition. FastTrack’s twin-track core learning programme includes five separate FastTrack Capacity Building Weeks over 24 months: 1. Deep learning and exchange within the consortium, across four topic-based clusters guided by interests expressed by our 24 authorities. Each event will be led by an Ambassador (from Antwerp, Bologna, Budapest or Stockholm), supported by technical partners (WP2) 2. Meet the FastTrackers events, where 24 authorities will be introduced to skills and learning on cross-cutting topics (such as data, funding and governance) and will develop innovations with insights and inputs from external stakeholders recruited through a FastTrack database (including innovation networks, projects, funders, and end-users) (WP3) This programme will be informed by a rapid, intense review of innovation and exchange practices (WP1). An internal, competitive programme will fund small-scale “springboard studies”, rewarding outstanding innovation ideas with the most widespread internal interest and greatest potential for applicability and replicability across the EU. In culmination, programme pillars will be gathered in a performance management activity to oversee 24 deployment plans, as authorities rapidly refine, focus and develop innovations (WP4). Exploitable recommendations for process, and new solutions, technologies and approaches, will be supported by a further outreach phase, giving extra opportunity for on-the-ground deployment to be reflected in FastTrack’s final recommendations and results.