Mobility Opportunities Valuable to Everybody MOVE Interreg North Sea Region

About Mobility Opportunities Valuable to Everybody MOVE Interreg North Sea Region

Mobility Opportunities Valuable to Everybody (MOVE) is an Interreg North Sea Region under the programme priority 4 “Promoting green transport and mobility”.

Semi-rural areas are often excluded from new or green mobility initiatives like car and bike sharing, Uber and large scale 0-emissions transport. Long distances and too few users make these too costly or simply not feasible, so many people use cars. Those who cannot afford/use cars are less likely to get a job or will leave to go to cities. This results in a vicious circle making these areas less attractive for business, or partnerships with big companies from the transport sector. Local authorities in turn often struggle in finding the capacity in staff and financing for green and flexible solutions, which remain heavily subsidised and are not always efficient: an empty electric bus does not reduce overall emissions, and the users’ needs are still not answered.

To solve these issues MOVE will take on a new approach in developing innovative and sustainable mobility initiatives through co-creation, bringing together local authorities, knowledge centres, local economic players and (temporary) inhabitants. MOVE will use local specificities to create practical solutions in 4 pilots based on unlikely combinations, with tangible business plans, to be implemented, tested and evaluated. This aims at increasing accessibility, reducing individual cars use, emissions and costs. MOVE will share its best practices in sustainable mobility and governance to increase take-up in other regions and support the greening of the transport sector and stimulate rural areas in the NSR as a whole.

MOVE is run by a consortium of 11 partners from 5 European countries.

The project is cofinanced by the European Fund for Regional Development (ERFD) under grant agreement No J-No.: 38-2-2-18. It runs from 01/09/2018 till 31/08/2021.

Keywords

• Advier (Nl)
• Gate21 (Dk)
• Gemeente Middelburg (Nl)
• Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen (De)
• Hz University Of Applied Sciences (Nl)
• Intergemeentelijke Vereniging Voor Ontwikkeling Van Het Gewest Mechelen En Omgeving (Be)
• Landkreis Northeim (De)
• Nhs Highland (Uk)
• The Highlands And Islands Transport Partnership (Uk)
• Universiteit Gent (Be)
• Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Sud-Niedersachsen (De)

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