A new European project for NextMove: RECIPROCITY

NextMove has successfully applied for the European project "Replication of innovative concepts for peri-urban, rural or inner-city mobility ". **RECIPROCITY **(its acronym) addresses the challenges of urbanization and climate change.

As part of this project, innovative mobility solutions are to be initiated in at least 20 European cities to meet the challenges of urbanization, climate change and digitization - underlying trends which make it inevitable to rethink mobility. The aim of the RECIPROCITY project is to connect urban and rural regions, and support them in the deployment of a multimodal transport offer (with at least two alternative means of transport) for intelligent, clean mobility.

During the RECIPROCITY project, cities that differ in size, location, degree of urbanization and mobility needs will be equipped with tools, knowledge and contacts to accelerate the process of developing innovative mobility solutions. This includes workshops and webinars as well as twinning events, new partnerships and local exchanges through mobility missions to strengthen networking and knowledge sharing. Success stories are then to be replicated in other partner regions to make innovative mobility solutions quickly and easily accessible to a wider circle of cities and municipalities.

The consortium comprises 10 partners, including European clusters and research institutes:

R-Tech, E-Mobility Cluster Regensburg (Germany) - Coordinator, European Regions Research and Innovation Network (Belgium), Greenovate! Europe (Belgium), NextMove (France), ZONE Klaszter (Hungary), Istanbul Okan University (Turkey), Business Upper Austria - OO Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH (Austria), Regionalni rozvojova agentura Plzenskeho kraje, o.p.s. Czech Republic), INSTITUTO ARAGONES DE FOMENTO (Spain), Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council (Uudenmaan liitto - Nylands Förbund) (Finland)

The project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 framework program for research and development, with a grant of around 1.5 million euros. A virtual kick-off meeting is scheduled for February 1, 2021, organized from Regensburg, to mark the project's official launch.

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