EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - CIVITAS, CIty-VITAlity-Sustainability

CIVITAS, CIty-VITAlity-Sustainability

Introduction

CIVITAS - cleaner and better transport in cities - stands for CIty-VITAlity-Sustainability.

Description

With the CIVITAS Initiative, the EC aims to generate a decisive breakthrough by supporting and evaluating the implementation of ambitious integrated sustainable urban transport strategies that should make a real difference for the welfare of the European citizen.
CIVITAS I started in early 2002 (within the 5th Framework Research Programme); CIVITAS II started in early 2005 (within the 6th Framework Research Programme).

Within CIVITAS I (2002-2006) there are 19 cities clustered in 4 demonstration projects, whilst within CIVITAS II (2005-2009) 17 cities in 4 demonstration projects are taking part. These 36 cities all over Europe will be funded by the EU with 100 million euros and the overall budget of the Initiative will be more than 300 million euros.

Key elements of CIVITAS:

CIVITAS is co-ordinated by cities: it is a programme “of cities for cities”
Cities are in the heart of local public private partnerships
Political commitment is a basic requirement
Cities are living ‘Laboratories' for learning and evaluating.

Participants

For a detailed overview of participating cities in CIVITAS please click on the ‘cities-link’ in the ‘links section’ at the bottom of this page.

Objectives

CIVITAS has the following Objectives:

to promote and implement sustainable, clean and (energy) efficient urban transport measures
to implement integrated packages of technology and policy measures in the field of energy and transport in 8 categories of measures
to build up critical mass and markets for innovation.

Contact info

CIVITAS
http://www.civitas-initiative.org/

Links

Find out what cities participate in CIVITAS

Document type

network

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Transport and infrastructure