MED COLOURS

MED COLOURS, a EU Project co-funded by the Interreg Euro-MED Programme, aims at upscaling to a new generation of urban logistics and planning enabling the transition to decarbonised and smart cities. OPEN ENLoCC joins forces with MED COLOURS to develop new SULPs and reduce the negative impacts of freight and urban logistics activities.

WHY MED COLOURS

Climate change is the foremost worldwide challenge. Among the contributing factors, some of the most pressing include congestion, which costs the European economy €100 billion per year (1% of its GDP), air pollution, affecting people’s health, and transport emissions (those from freight count 25% of total urban transport emissions). The EU Green Deal targets to reduce emissions in cities by 55% by 2030 and be climate-neutral by 2050, cannot be met only by vehicles decarbonisation goals.

 

THE MED COLOURS PROJECT’S VISION

The MED COLOURS (Mediterranean Collaborative Logistics for the Urban Space) project has a clear and ambitious vision: upscale to a new generation of urban logistics and planning enabling the transition to decarbonised and smart cities. By developing new SULPs, MED Cities will plan resilient, sustainable, integrated, and collaborative innovation-driven solutions for the UFAs. This would help reducing the negative impacts of freight and logistics activities.

MED COLOURS’ joint territorial ambition is to enable urban freight distribution in MED-FUAs from a low carbon environmental perspective and, at the same time, give cities a boost in sustainable development and human well-being.

THE TERRITORIAL CHALLENGE

The MED COLOURS joint territorial challenge is to improve freight transport in MED-FUAs in a low carbon & environmental perspective, towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe, while ensuring its vital role to boost sustainable development and management of living areas.

Transition is not an easy task and it is possible to have it in a sustainable way only with collaboration and cooperation, also due the recent international crisis caused by the Ukraine invasion.

MED COLOURS PROJECT OBJECTIVES

MED COLOURS will jointly validate:

• Strategy for continuous cross-monitoring of SULPs
• New Resilient SULPs
• Solutions for innovative and sustainable urban logistics.

This would foster the more effective implementation of existing sustainable policies and improve access to funding/investment for climate-resilient living areas.

CITIES THAT WILL DRIVE CHANGE

MED COLOURS supports the digital and environmental transition in six cities and their related FUA in MED area: Livorno (Italy), Cesena (Italy), Thessaloniki (Greece), Koper (Slovenia), Lisbon (Portugal) , and Lyon (France).

Transition is built upon a quadruple helix approach supported by the liaison with other European Projects in the same field. MED COLOURS will adopt a new approach to urban freight planning introducing new collaborative concepts and disruptive/enabling technologies. The project outcomes will go beyond existing practices through long-term transition scenarios to achieve the targets set in the EU green Deal in MED Area.

OUR COMMITMENT

OPEN ENLoCC is proud to be part of this initiative, together with other important partners.

OPEN ENLOCC is the leader of the “Coordination with IDP and other Initiatives for capacity development” and it is MED COLOURS Project Communication Officer and Result Amplification Coordinator.

Thanks to the deep knowledge of the MED area, OPEN ENLoCC will focus on exploitation of the results carried out in MED COLOURS project from all partners and thanks to the members of OPEN ENLoCC network it will be possible to activate synergies with all the members and their projects on the same topic.

In WP2, OPEN ENLoCC will support the cities in the field of the Freight Quality Partnership, interdisciplinary groups of stakeholders involved in a permanent table with the aim to identify problems and solutions in the field of urban freight, and for transversal topics (e.g. road safety).

In WP3 it will actively support the partnership in developing relevant roadmaps and strategies and disseminating impacts produced by the cities.