EURE

The EURE project – Effectiveness of Environmental Urban policies to improve Resources Efficiency – proposes the exchange of experience among local authorities as methodology to evaluate the different ways to articulate the 5% of their European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support integrated sustainable urban development.

Project funded under the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union, 2019 - 2023

Highlights

Following a previous report which provides an analysis of the use of ERDF funds allocated for the development of urban policies in 10 thematic areas, EURE issued an Opinion Report addressed to European, National, Regional and Local authorities. This report aims to increase awareness of policy makers and governments to improve the participation of small, medium and peripheral cities in the definition and more effective implementation of European Urban Policy, for a polycentrism at the centre of Urban Policy and Cohesion Policy and from an urban life to a more humane life. Read the 10 Policy Recommendations to be taken into consideration by the targeted authorities in the preparations of the programming period 2021-2027 of European funding.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

The Europe 2020 strategy recognizes that urban areas are the main resources consumers and the main responsible for the urban environment quality. The project aims to improve the regional development policies in order to increase resource-efficiency, green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management of the urban areas. The EURE project’s objective is to improve the way the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Regulation addresses the environmental urban challenges of cities, paying also attention to those cities of small dimension but with influence in the sparsely populated areas where they are located. The final aim is:

to support European urban areas in being more resource-efficient
to include, as transversal priority of the integrated urban policies, the principles of circular economy, and
to assure a proper environmental performance management at urban level.

ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

As Advisory partner, ACR+’s role in the project is two-fold. On the one hand, ACR+ will support the baseline situation analysis on urban environmental policies, gathering and benchmarking of good practices. Furthermore, ACR+ will support the design of local action plans, facilitating capacity building activities and peer working between partners and the project’s pool of experts.

On the other hand, ACR+ will supervise the project’s communication activities, in particular managing the website and publishing newsletters and press releases, to ensure visibility, engagement and networking.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

PARTNERS INVOLVED

EURE’s lead partner is Eixo, Atlantic Axis of Peninsular Northwest (ES)*. The other partners are:

ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (BE)
ASEV, Agency for the Development of the Empolese Valdelsa (IT)
Municipality of Alba Iulia (RO)
Lubelskie Voivodeship (PL)

UKEP, Department of coordination of European projects of the Pilsen City (CZ)
ANEL, Nicosia Development Agency (CY)
Conference of Atlantic Arc Cities (FR)
Riga City Council (LT)

*ACR+ members

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