ENT22: Stepping Stones

Status

  

The topic of “Stepping Stones - Making mobility patterns sustainable” has been explored to identify opportunity for launching a trans-national funding initiative.
Facts

  • Countries involved: Poland, The Netherlands, Sweden and Germany as funding partners; UK and Belarus as observers
  • Type: Joint call/national calls (virtual common pot)
  • Total Funds: 500.000 EUR
  • Launch of the call: 1 March 2012
  • Closing of the call: 7 June 2012

Information about the call is provided in the call text as well as in the flyer. For further information you can contact your national contact point or the STEPPING STONES Call Secretariat as listed in the call documents. The template for proposals must be used.
Some examples of research cases have been collected and a Initiates file downloadframework document as well as Initiates file downloadFAQ are available.

 

The vision

The vision of this trans-national call is to support a long term, sustainable transport system in Europe and enable sustainable mobility. For decades governments have tried to influence their citizens’ travel behaviour in an effort to encourage them to opt for alternatives to (single) car use. The need for a sustainable change in travel behaviour becomes increasingly urgent.

 

STEPPING STONES serves as a trans-national platform to identify the common European research questions in this field, to gather research resources and to conduct research jointly on these issues. The research should provide well-based informa­tion for transport policies and transport research policies of the national governments and input for the discussion at the European level.


The key objectives of the joint research call are: 
 - To understand the successful (policy) measures aimed at making mobility patters more sustainable and the underlying mechanisms including social & psychological factors
- The research result should be of common interest across Europe

 

Thematic focus and research scope

The focus will be on all policy measures that con­tribute to the research objective to make mobility patterns more sustainable. Policy measures can also be seen as a package of regulating and stimu­lating measures and/or the use of technology.

This research initiative will have its main focus on two aspects:

1. What are effective and efficient (combinations of) policy measures to change the choices of mobilists in order to realise more sustainable mobility patterns.

2. How to implement effective and efficient policy measures.

The thematic focus is further described in the call text.

Countries involved 

Funding Partners:
Poland
The Netherlands
Sweden
Germany

Observers:
UK
Belarus

 

Contact information


Call Secretariat
Ms. Anette Enemark
Tetraplan 
phone: +45 3373 7137
ae[at]tetraplan.dk


National Contact Points
are listed in the above call documents

Action Group Leader
Marien Bakker

NL Agency, The Netherlands

marien.bakker[at]agentschapnl.n