THE CITY OF TOMORROW AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

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THE CITY OF TOMORROW ANDCULTURAL HERITAGE

• Workshop Good Practice Towards Integration,
  Brussels 15 December 1999
• David MILES
• EUROPEAN COMMISSION
• Directorate D.I - Preserving the Ecosystem
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• E-mail david.miles_at_cec.eu.int

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage

• 1st Call for Proposals
• 1999

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural HeritageSummary
of 1st call 1999

• Available Budget 17 000 000 EURO
• Very good response
• 137 proposals (requesting 180 000 000 EURO)
• 21 GO proposals (requesting 21 000 000 EURO, of
  which 18 destined for SMEs), good coverage of MS
  and candidate countries

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage Results
of First Call Selected Projects

• All sub-themes covered. Substantial
  socio-economic relevance and content. Potential
  policy contribution.
• Proposals in 4.2.2 (Cultural Heritage), 4.3.1
  (Built Environment) and 4.4.1 (Sustainable Urban
  Transport) very good
• Proposals in 4.1.1 (Governance and Decision
  Making) of value but need clustering to bring out
  holistic approach to urban governance

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural HeritageNumber of
partners in First Call Selected Projects
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Benefits of networkingand clustering

• widening scope of individual projects
• better consistency co-ordination between
  projects, researchers and stakeholders
• increased awareness of technology trends
• enlarging RTD towards integrated solutions and
  improved exploitation of strategic RTD
• strengthening RTD infrastructure through
  foresight analysis, access to research
  facilities
• contributing to focus and concentration

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural HeritageFirst
Call Results Clustering

• 4.1.1. Clustering could help in the formation of
  a coherent research community relating to urban
  governance and decision making.
• 4.2.2 Only networks and concerted actions were
  open in the first call additional clustering was
  not seen as appropriate.
• 4.3.1 There would be merits in linking the two
  networks which were seen as complementary.
• 4.4.1 There would be merits in clustering
  proposals around sustainable transport through
  integration with land use planning.
• At this stage, clustering should be seen as
  exploratory and should only proceed when mutual
  interest is established. Coordination rather
  than clustering is the most appropriate means of
  linking with other Key Actions.

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural HeritageNo Go
ANALYSIS
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Messages for potential proposers based on
experience of the first evaluation

• Present the objectives and the potential results
  in the context of the work programme. Explain
  why the proposed approach is the best way of
  meeting the objectives. Describe the methodology
  showing how the results would be obtained.
  Justify claims for socio-economic impacts.
• All levels (researchers, end users, public
  authorities etc.) of stakeholders should be
  involved in the research.
• The state of the art must be described (a
  description is of much more value than a list of
  references!).
• The approach to be followed must be sufficient to
  convince the evaluators of its credibility
• Ask somebody not involved to critically evaluate
  the draft proposal.

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage

• Second Call for Proposers
• Opens 18 November 1999
• Closes 15 February 2000
• Budget approx. 40 Million EURO
• Pre-proposal check from 18 November 1999 to 15
  January 2000

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage

• Sub-themes open in 2nd Call
• 4.1.2 Improving the quality of urban life
• 4.1.3 Waste reduction and its life cycle
  management
• 4.1.4 Economic development, competitiveness and
  employment
• 4.2.1 Improved damage assessment on cultural
  heritage
• 4.2.2 Development of innovative conservation
  strategies
• 4.2.3 Foster integration of cultural heritage in
  the urban setting.
• 4.3.1 Revitalisation of city centres and
  neighbourhoods
• 4.4.2 Comparative assessment and demonstration of
  new transport technologies and related
  infrastructure.

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New challenges

• Unemployment (18 million in Europe)
• Quality of life (health, environment)
• Sustainable development
• Growing competition
• Ethical and social consequences of increased
  knowledge
• Globalisation of economic activity

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage

• Evaluation criteria
• Thresholds for each step
• Scientific Quality and Innovation
• Community added value and contribution to EU
  policies
• Contributions to Community Social Objectives
• Economic development and ST prospects.
• Research, Partnerships and Management

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A simplified structure
Thematic Programmes
Key Actions Generic technologiesResearch
infrastructure
Key Actions Generic technologiesResearch
infrastructure
Key Actions Generic technologiesResearch
infrastructure
Key Actions Generic technologiesResearch
infrastructure
Quality of life
Information Society
Growth
Energy, Envir. and Sust. Dev.
Horizontal Programmes
Coordi- Specific nation Actions
Coordi- Specific nation Actions
Coordi- Specific nation Actions
International Role
Innovation and SMEs
Human Potential
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1. Quality of life and living resources

• Food, nutrition and health
• Control of infectious illnesses
• The cell factory
• Environment and health
• Sustainable agriculture, fishing and forestry,
  and the integrated development of rural regions
• The ageing population

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2. Creating a user-friendly information society

• Systems and services for the citizen
• New working methods and electronic trade
• Multimedia contents and the tools
• Essential technologies and infrastructures

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3. Promoting competitive and sustainable growth

• Innovative products, methods and organisation
• Sustainable mobility and intermodality
• Land transport and marine technologies
• New perspectives in aeronautics
• Also
• Generic activities on materials and
  standards, measurement and testing

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4. Energy, environment and sustainable
development

• Environment
  Million EURO
• Sustainable management and quality of water 254
• Global change, climate and biodiversity 301
• Sustainable marine ecosystems 170
• The city of tomorrow and cultural heritage 170
• Energy
• Cleaner energy systems, including renewables 479
• Economic and efficient energy 547
• Activities of a Generic Nature
• Fight against natural and technological hazards
  and socio-economic aspects of environmental
  change

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THE CITY OF TOMORROW ANDCULTURAL HERITAGE
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• The overall goal is to support
• sustainable economic development and
  competitiveness, improved urban management and
  integrated planning policy, and help safeguard
  and improve the quality of life and cultural
  identity of citizens

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• The focus will be on the provision of an
  integrated socio-economic knowledge-base, and
  products, services, tools and technologies for
  better city management and on the environmental
  challenges, particularly in relation to reducing
  pollutant emissions

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Approach

• Socio-economic, environmental and technological
  including the development, integration, and
  demonstration of technologies, tools and
  methodologies to improve forecasting, monitoring
  and assessment and establishing best practice
• Emphasis on increasing citizen and stakeholder
  participation in urban decision making and
  helping ensure the availability of reliable,
  efficient and affordable services for all urban
  citizens, including those with special needs

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4 themes

• 4.1 Sustainable city planning and rational
  resource management
• 4.2 Protection, conservation and enhancement of
  European cultural heritage
• 4.3 Development and demonstration of technologies
  for safe, economic, clean, effective and
  sustainable preservation, recovery, renovation,
  construction, dismantling and demolition of the
  built environment, in particular for large groups
  of buildings
• 4.4 Comparative assessment and cost effective
  implementation of strategies for sustainable
  transport systems in an urban environment

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4.1 Sustainable city planning and rational
resource management

• 4.1.1 Improving urban governance and decision
  makinginstruments and best practices for
  effective sustainable city management (1st
  call)
• 4.1.2 Improving the quality of urban life
  optimised methodologies and best practice for
  improving the quality of life (social,
  environment, housing, access to services) in
  urban areas (2nd)
• 4.1.3 Waste reduction and its life cycle
  management reduction of volume, variety and
  hazardousness of solid waste requiring disposal
  (2nd)
• 4.1.4 Economic development, competitiveness and
  employment best practices aimed at effective
  integration of technologies to improve job
  creation within the urban context (2nd)

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4.2 Protection, conservation and enhancement
of European cultural heritage

• 4.2.1 Improved damage assessment on cultural
  heritage better prediction and prevention of
  environmental damage to cultural heritage and
  identification of pollution threshold levels
  (2nd call)
• 4.2.2 Development of innovative conservation
  strategies tools for the sustainable management
  of cultural heritage (1st networks
  concerted actions only 2nd)
• 4.2.3 Foster integration of cultural heritage in
  the urban setting tools, methodologies and
  models to assist the decision making for
  sustainable exploitation and integration of
  cultural heritage in the urban development
  context (2nd)

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4.3 Development and demonstration
of technologies for safe, economic,
clean, effective and sustainable
preservation, recovery, renovation,
construction, dismantling and demolition of the
built environment,In particular for large groups
of buildings

• 4.3.1 Revitalisation of city centres and
  neighbourhoodsa sustainable built environment
  achieved through solving specific challenges
  not covered elsewhere and integrating activities
  aiming at quantified goals for environmental
  (including energy, water and materials
  conservation and rehabilitation of contaminated
  land) and economic sustainability (reduced life
  cycle costs) enhancing social inclusion, indoor
  health, comfort, and accessibility land use
  planning to minimise the overall demand on the
  transport system mitigating risks associated
  with natural and man-made disasters (1st and 2nd
  calls)

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4.4 Comparative assessment and cost effective
implementation of strategies for sustainable
transport systems in an urban environment

• 4.4.1 Strategic approaches and methodologies in
  urban planning towards sustainable urban
  transportplanning tools, assessment
  methodologies and best practices aimed at
  managing transport demand through reducing
  individual motorised vehicle movements and
  encouraging greater use of collective and other
  sustainable transport modes (1st)
• 4.4.2 Comparative assessment and demonstration of
  new transport technologies and related
  infrastructureconcept simulation and evaluation
  of urban transport/transit means in a specific
  urban context (2nd)

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City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage

• RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES
• Extracts from principal policies which set a
  research agenda

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (1)

• Treaty establishing the European Community (1998)
• Article 2.
• to promote throughout the Community a
  harmonious, balanced and sustainable development
  of economic activities, a high level of
  employment and of social protection, equality
  between men and women, sustainable and
  non-inflationary growth, a high degree of
  competitiveness and convergence of economic
  performance, a high level of protection and
  improvement of the quality of the environment,
  the raising of the standard of living and quality
  of life, and economic and social cohesion and
  solidarity among Member States.
• Article 6.
• Environmental protection requirements must be
  integrated into the definition and implementation
  of the Community policies and activities referred
  to in Article 3, in particular with a view to
  promoting sustainable development.

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (2)

• Treaty establishing the European Community (1998)
• Article 151.
• to contribute to the flowering of the cultures
  of the Member States, while respecting their
  national and regional diversity and, at the same
  time bringing the common cultural heritage to the
  fore.
• The Community shall take cultural aspects into
  account in its action under other provisions of
  this Treaty (e.g. Research)

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (3)

• Treaty establishing the European Community (1998)
• Article 157.
• ensure that the conditions necessary for the
  competitiveness of the
• Communitys industry exist
• through
• speeding up the adjustment of industry to
  structural changes
• encouraging an environment favourable to
  initiative and to the development of undertakings
  throughout the Community, particularly SMEs
• encouraging an environment favourable to
  cooperation between undertakings
• fostering better exploitation of the industrial
  potential of policies of innovation, research and
  technological development.
• Article 163.
• strengthening the scientific and technological
  bases of Community industry and encouraging it to
  become more competitive at international level...

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (4)

• Fifth Environmental Action Programme (OJ EC C138
  -17.05.1993)
• Linking environmental sustainability and the
  quality of urban life
• through
• developing a comprehensive approach for EU
  activities on urban issues
• public authorities in Member States providing
  data on urban environment issues on a comparable
  basis work on the development of urban
  indicators
• local authorities developing and implementing
  Local Agenda 21 initiatives

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (5)

• Sustainable Urban Development in the European
  Union A Framework for Action COM (1998) 605
  final of 28.10.98
• Strengthen economic prosperity and employment in
  towns and cities
• Promote equality, social inclusion and
  regeneration in urban areas
• Protect and improve the urban environment
  towards local and global sustainability
• Contribute to good urban governance and local
  empowerment
• through
• improvement of know how and exchange of
  experience between the involved actors, essential
  contribution of FP5
• improve the economic vitality of cities by
  encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship,
  raising of productivity and exploitation of new
  sources of employment to promote a polycentric,
  balanced urban system
• organise access to the benefits of increased
  productivity and competitiveness, reduce social
  exclusion, improve safety,
• more environmental sustainable cities avoid
  imposing costs of development to their immediate
  environment, surrounding rural areas, regions,
  the planet itself and future generations
• encourage innovative and flexible decision making
  processes and urban institutions.

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (6)

• Sustainable Urban Development in the European
  Union A Framework for Action COM(98)605 final
• affordable access to basic services, especially
  housing, education and training, health, energy,
  transport and communications, effective policing
  and justice.
• renovation of the housing stock, measures to
  reduce pollution and vandalism, and the
  protection and improvement of buildings and open
  spaces in run-down areas as well as the
  preservation of the cultural heritage.
• need to minimise and manage environmental risks
  such as those posed by landslides, subsidence,
  earthquakes and floods, as well as technological
  risks such as those associated with major
  industrial plants and nuclear power stations.
• resource efficiency (optimising the use of
  material inputs and non renewable natural
  resources per unit of output) and circularity
  (such as the recycling of materials, land and
  buildings) to reduce environmental impacts and
  make cost savings"

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (7)

• Protocol to the Climate Change Convention
  (UNFCCC), Kyoto on 11 December 1997
• Strengthens the commitments of industrialized
  countries by setting quantified emission limits
  for the period after 2000
• Reduction of the emission by 8 in the period
  2008 - 2012, for CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and
  SF6(cf. 1990 levels)
• Climate Change - Towards an EU Post-Kyoto
  Strategy (COM(98)353) Communication to achieve
  the Kyoto commitments
• Preparing for Implementation of the Kyoto
  Protocol (COM(99)230) the implementation of the
  Kyoto commitments by the EU to ensure a speedy
  ratification of the Protocol

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (8)

• European Spatial Development Perspective (10 May
  1999)
• economic and social cohesion
• conservation and management of natural resources
  and cultural heritage
• more balanced competitiveness of the European
  territory
• through
• development of a balanced and polycentric urban
  system
• creation of a new rural-urban partnership
• parity of access to infrastructure and knowledge
• prudent management and sustainable development of
  the natural and cultural heritage

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (9)

• Community Action Plan in the field of Cultural
  Heritage (Council Decision - O.J. 94/C 235/01)
• Cultural Heritage as a priority field of action
  (includes both movable and fixed heritage)
• through
• conservation and safeguarding of Cultural
  Heritage of European significance
• taking Cultural Heritage into account in regional
  development and job creation tourism and
  environment research

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (10)

• Energy for the Future Renewable Sources of
  Energy COM (97)599 final
• "In retrofitting as well as for new buildings,
  the total energy consumption in this sector could
  be reduced by 50 in the European Union by 2010
  through integrating measures of rational use of
  energy (for the building envelope as well as for
  heating, lighting, ventilation and cooling) with
  the use of renewable energy technologies.
• The Competitiveness of the Construction Industry
  COM (97) 539 final
• "To improve the quality in construction
  (...)quality will be a key element of
  sustainability, and in the long term the economic
  benefits will substantially outweigh the costs"
• "progressive reorientation towards the goals of
  sustainable construction and renovation, and
  towards the satisfaction of basic and social
  needs will also contribute to increased
  competitiveness, while benefiting society as a
  whole."

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (11)

• Ambient air quality assessment and
  management(Council Directive - 96/62/EC)
• To define and establish objectives for ambient
  air quality
• To avoid, prevent or reduce harmful effects on
  human health and the environment as a whole
• Through
• Levels on concentration and/or deposition of
  pollutants (gases and particles)
• Limit values fixed on the basis of scientific
  knowledge for avoiding, preventing or reducing
  harmful effects on population, historic heritage

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (12)

• Developing a Community approach on transport and
  CO2 (COM(98) 204 final)
• ...reduce CO2 emissions from passenger cars
  corresponding to an improvement in the average
  fuel economy of new cars in the market in the
  order of 30
• Measures to be taken against air pollution by
  emissions from motor vehicles - Quality of fuels
  (Directives 98/69 and 98/70)
• An adequate framework should be created as soon
  as possible to accelerate the introduction on the
  market of vehicles with innovative propulsion
  technologies and vehicles which use alternative
  fuels with a low environmental impact

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (13)

• Developing the citizens network (COM(98) 431
  final)
• ...support the role of local and regional
  passenger transport in contributing to economic
  development and employment, reducing congestion,
  using less energy, producing fewer pollutants,
  making less noise, reducing social exclusion and
  improving quality of life
• Sustainable urban development in the EU a
  framework for action (COM98 605 final)
• promote transport strategies that reduce
  traffic congestion and will examine ways to
  improve the regulatory framework for domestic
  public transport

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RELEVANT EUROPEAN POLICIES (14)

• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA Directive -
  85/337/EEC and amended EIA Directive 97/11/EC)
• The EIA procedure ensures that environmental
  consequences of public and private projects
  (motorways, airports, urban development projects,
  car parks, tourism and leisure projects,
  railways, waste disposal, tradeports, etc.) are
  identified and assessed before local or national
  authorisation is given
• through
• case-by-case examinations or by thresholds or
  criteria set by the Member States. In both
  cases, the criteria should refer to
• characteristics of the projects (size, risks,
  etc.)
• location of the project (densely populated areas,
  cultural heritage significance, etc.)
• characteristics of the potential impact
  (duration, reversibility, magnitude, etc.)
• identification, description and assessment of the
  direct and indirect effects of projects on human
  beings, materials assets and cultural
  heritage,etc.

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