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| Street LIFE – building community spaces in Spain |
Madrid is a fast-growing city, with population growth resulting largely from immigration into the urban area. The city is expanding in particular to the south-east, with the development of the Vallecas area. 26,000 new apartment dwellings are being built, ranging from small units to larger, upmarket developments. The city authorities hope this will result in a diverse, mixed population.
Nevertheless, in one area of the new development, primarily low-cost housing units are planned. At the same time, the trend in commercial development is for large-scale shopping centres separated from residential areas. Madrid's Municipal Housing and Land Authority (Empresa Municipal de la Vivenda y Suelo – EMVS) was therefore concerned to develop eco-friendly facilities in the low-cost housing area that would benefit quality of life and help prevent any future “ghettoisation” of the district.
This was the basis for the LIFE-Environment project Mediterranean Verandahways (LIFE02 ENV/E/000198), which ran from September 2002 to August 2005 with an EU contribution of €601,000. The objective was to evoke the Mediterranean spirit of outdoor public life through a contemporary urban design project for an open space in the newly developed district of Madrid.
A key issue for beneficiary EMVS was the heat of summer in Madrid – how to encourage residents to use outdoor public spaces in temperatures that can reach 40 degrees. A design competition was held and won by the studio Ecosistema Urbano, who proposed to line a semi-pedestrianised boulevard with pavilions that would act as “air trees”, providing shade, ventilation and vegetation, whilst functioning as “social activators” - bringing people outdoors – in the yet-to-be-built neighbourhood.
The prototype pavilion consists of 17 metre tall steel cylinders (using 80 percent recycled steel), with inner surfaces overgrown with ivy. At the top, funnels draw air into the cylinders. When temperatures reach 27 degrees, ventilators activate and propel the air down into the cylinders and through dampened cellulose panels, creating a cloud of water vapour and reducing the temperature of the falling air by 8 to 12 degrees. The pavilions therefore offer both shade and cool air. Because the design functions best at high temperatures and low humidity, it is ideal for – and transferable to – most Mediterranean cities. The designers expect the temperature under the pavilion to be 10 to 15 degrees cooler than the surrounding area.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| CIVITAS - VIVALDI |
“Increasing the urban transport systems sustainability and efficiency through radical strategies for Clean Urban Transport” (CIVITAS). It also jointly addresses the objectives of the ENERGIE5-T1 call for proposals, targeted action D “Rational use of Energy-Clean Urban Transport”.
More generally the VIVALDI demonstration project aims to contribute to European policy development with regard to :
the Citizens’ Network ;
the Green paper on Clean Urban Transport ;
the European Transport Policy white paper ;
the Environmental Action Programme “Towards Sustainability” ;
and the implementation of the Kyoto protocol.
The VIVALDI project seeks to demonstrate an integrated package of innovative transport strategies and measures, in EU city laboratories, and to assess their contribution to improving the four key urban policy goals of :
urban vitality and economic success ;
social inclusion ;
the health and well being of citizens ;
sustainability.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| SHARE |
The overall project objectives of SHARE are to increase sustainability of energy use and reduce associated carbon emissions and the risk of uncomfortable and unaffordable fuel bills in social housing through:
- raising awareness amongst relevant actors of these benefits for residents and landlords
- promoting practical ways to achieve improvements
- promoting behavioural change by residents
- enabling exchange of information and experience both between local actors and European partners
Each partner is following a common theme and approach, and designing a local programme relevant to their own local context. The common features are:
- Bringing together key local actors in social housing energy forums that take place approximately every three months. In these forums, the partner facilitates discussions and guest speakers on energy related issues.
- Development and delivery of a series of targeted training courses
- Development and delivery of local energy awareness and advice campaigns
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Stop-no more tolerance to the collusion of silence! |
The project aims to rise the awareness of targeted groups between four project partners - metropolitan police units from Warsaw, Helsinki, Vilnius and Riga in the field of positive treatment of domestic violence victims, especially concerning the very first contact with them. Expected result is to set up a model of innovative methods of helping and assisting victims by the first contact policemen to handle with legal procedures. This result will be
reached by joint police intervention on domestic violence, multisectoral network with NGO's, social and medical services, prosecutors, municipal guards and local authorities from
participating countries during seminars and workshops, close co-operation with victims. Main
beneficiares will be women, mainly domestic workers, and children up to 12 years old. Main target group will be police officers acting in the field of preventing and combating domestic
violence.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Engagement for the first "green" suburb of Paris |
Since May 2005 the Friends of the EcoZAC fight for the construction of the first eco-friendly district of Paris. EcoZAC (zone d'aménagement concerté écologique) might emerge in the 13th arrondissement of Paris within a project of the town administration.
It is planed to build an office and living area with 20.000 m2 each, a 5.000 m2 park and some public buildings. The association claims to realize the project on the basis of principals of solar architecture. Low energy houses shall be built, Renewable Energy shall be used, and furthermore the quarter shall be conceived car-free and with an exemplary connection to the public transport system. Furthermore the project shall reintegrate social weak fellows and train local handcrafters in the field of Renewable Energy. Also an education center for Renewable Energy and ecologic building might emerge. Intensive public relations, information events and study trips for journalists, local politicians, civil servants and local well known persons stimulate a growing support of the project in the public. The Friends of the EcoZAC fight with dedication for a project that has high symbolic value for France and other urban metropoles. To dignify and support this engagement against all resistance, the Friends of the EcoZAC are awarded with the European Solar Prize 2006.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Stop it |
The project aims to contribute to the prevention of violence by developing training methods
aimed at professionals dealing with the issue of violence and the victims. The partners (It-
Be-Lt-A-Ir) have carried out researches and put together their skills, knowledge and
practices to elaborate training programmes which can be delivered in seminars and through
e-learning. Expected results are to disseminate the training products originated by Leonardo
da Vinci and Daphne previous projects such as: Joconda, Jocaste, Saturne, Pegasus. These
results will be reached by translating, adapting culturally and piloting the training modules
already developed. Main beneficiaries of the project will be children, women and disabled
victim of violence. Main target groups will be health and social workers, educators, doctors,
pedagogists and psychologists working in the field of violence against children, women and
disabled.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Mobility Management for housing areas |
ADD HOME aims to reduce transport needs and is fostering a modal shift from car-trips to energy saving modes especially starting from residential areas.
The own front door is in 4 out of 5 cases the place where modal choices are taken. But hardly any other area of life is likewise influenced by private car use, the most energy-consumptive transport mode and the easiest accessible mode in daily life.
The approach includes three levels:
1) legal and regulatory settings will be reshaped to enable sustainable mobility before planning new residential areas
2) the accessibility of new residential areas and each household will be refocused from the focus on private car parking lots to more energy saving modes of transport
3) mobility patterns and habits will be reorganised by mobility-services that bundle trips, shift trips and substitute them.
The cooperation of municipalities and housing companies/neighbourhood administrations will create liveable housing areas that enables residents to freely choose their transport mode. The project will lead to a more ecological, economical and social way of living.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| EuNIC |
The aim of the EuNIC project is to promote throughout Europe a “concept oriented” approach to digital literacy, as opposed to a technology oriented one.
Objectives
* To identify a European shared approach to digital literacy taking into account the different national contexts and to instantiate it with different editions of the same course in partners’ countries.
* To design and develop ICT services for supporting participants during the courses on digital literacy
* To define a model for supporting teachers and tutors, and to instantiate it with ICT services able to create embryos of virtual ‘communities of practice’ for teachers and tutors.
* To develop methods and ICT based- tools aiming at supporting the participants after the course, so that the developed competences can be continuously stimulated and further strengthened.
* To define a transferability strategy describing how to extend the prototype to a larger scale within the countries involved in the project and possibly in other European countries.
EuNIC outcomes
The EuNIC project developed several products:
- Reports
* “The state of art of digital literacy in the partners’ countries – The specific local needs and possible targets”
* “EuNIC: towards the definition of a European approach to digital literacy”
* “Supporting the EuNIC teachers”
* “Defining a transferability strategy for EuNIC”
* “EuNIC ToL – online training course for EuNIC teachers”
* “First external evaluation report (January – February 2007)”
* “Second external evaluation report (March – June 2007)”
* “Third and final external evaluation report (June - July 2007)”
* “Fourth and final report”
- Learning and teaching materials
* EuNIC teacher materials
* EuNIC student learning materials
* 6 EuNIC pilot courses
* Dissemination materials
* English booklet
* project website
During the project six pilot courses were run. Every partner has delivered at least one edition, while the Greek partner has organized three courses. EuNIC courses are the final result of the transferability strategy with the translation (in English first, in each partner’s languages later) and the customisation of NIC teaching and learning materials. Some contents (e.g. sections concerning CD-ROM, folder compression and extraction, Internet and e-mail) have been fully revised and adapted for the EuNIC pilot courses. Moreover, teaching and learning materials have been modified according with different recipients/users needs.
During the project a network of partners increased both at a global level, with a EuNIC partners community, and at a local level. An another good result was the contribution of the project to the learning by interacting processes through cooperative and collaborative behaviours, with the aim to develop a critical and reflective attitudes towards a functional and responsible use of ICT.
Every EuNIC partner believes that the project can generate a “multiplier effect” for the development of the digital literacy competency in their countries, but there are still many things to do to define an official training standard and certification for the EuNIC teachers and to enforce the membership to the community of practices.
EuNIC teachers agreed with the possible contribution of the project to the realisation of further similar initiatives in their countries, but they pointed out that it will be difficult to propose EuNIC inside a national transferability plan.
EuNIC partners have to assure the formal acknowledgement of the EuNIC learning processes and products inside the international ICTs trainers community, by means of both the technical optimization of the EuNIC standard and the social consensus and recognition about the learning achievements (skills and competences). It has to be gradually built and developed also at an institutional level, by influencing the local government policies and the initiatives aimed at spreading digital literacy in the adult population.
Teachers have to become active promoters of its original conceptual approach among the other ICTs trainers, also in alternative/opposition with more tested and known models such as ECDL, also by animating the EuNIC virtual community with continuous communication and interaction and by realising shared practices to develop their identity and membership.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| My Militia protects me in Russia |
The aim of the project is to protect the rights of children who have contacts with the police, either as young offenders or as victims or witnesses of crime. Project activities include legal education of police officers; psychological training sessions for police officers, social workers and psychologists. The social workers and psychologists will then themselves train either at summer rehabilitation camps for children or teach police officers directly.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Mobility Management for housing areas - from car-dependency to free |
ADD HOME aims to reduce transport needs and is fostering a modal shift from car-trips to energy saving modes
especially starting from residential areas.
The approach includes three levels:
1) legal and regulatory settings will be reshaped to enable sustainable mobility before planning new residential areas
2) the accessibility of new residential areas and each household will be refocused from the focus on private car parking lots to more energy saving modes of transport
3) mobility patterns and habits will be reorganised by mobility-services that bundle trips, shift trips and substitute them. The project will lead to a more ecological, economical and social way of living.
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