The MATCH-UP project in the Interreg Europe programme started in June 2018. The district of Northeim, which has been supported by aconium since the beginning of 2017 in its entry into European project work, is the German partner here. By participating in an Interreg project, the district of Northeim wants to work with other European regions to find practical solutions to similar problems in the field of “mobility in rural areas”. The MATCH-UP project offers the right opportunities for this: five partners from Italy, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Romania will work together until 2022 to examine, evaluate and optimise existing solutions and concepts for multimodal mobility. In the first years of the project, the focus will be on improving the situation in the respective partner regions, in particular the reduction of motorised private transport and improved connections through more multimodality. Subsequently, the partner regions will incorporate the optimised approaches and plans for multimodal mobility into the development of the relevant policy instruments for the coming structural fund period and develop action plans.
The kick-off event for the MATCH-UP project took place in Bologna on July 4 and 5, 2018. Britta Schmigotzki, project manager at aconium GmbH, accompanied three representatives from the district of Northeim to this meeting as an external consultant. On the first day of the event, Prof. Simona Tondelli from the University of Bologna, as the responsible project coordinator, welcomed the participating partners and presented the planned project processes and objectives as well as the role of the University of Bologna as the lead partner in the project. In a subsequent public event, the role of sustainable mobility in the Emilia-Romagna region was highlighted in various specialist presentations.
The second day served as the project partnership’s first working meeting. Among other things, the selected policy instruments for the regions were presented by all partners.
Following the successful kick-off in Bologna, the district of Northeim is now embarking on concrete project work. Regular exchange and intensive cooperation between the region’s stakeholders play an important role in this. aconium will support the establishment of the regional project network and actively accompany it throughout the entire project phase.
Photo above: Working meeting of the project partnership for the MATCH-UP project on July 4 and 5, 2018 in Bologna.
Photo below: Prof. Simona Tondelli explains the course of the planned interregional learning process to the partnership.
Photo credit above: aconium GmbH
Photo credit below: UNIBO