MOVE ON GREEN

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Sustainable transport is vital to maintaining the environmental and economic health of rural areas, as well as to ensuring the access of both inhabitants and potential visitors to key services such as employment, education and healthcare. Rural areas policy-makers have come to realise that the lack of sustainable mobility schemes is a cross-cutting element which affects every development strategy implemented in rural territories; no matter how much effort is expended on areas such as education, promotion of tourism or development of new economic initiatives, the lack of a sustainable (from the environmental, social and economic perspectives) transport pattern has severely hampered every development initiative. MOVE ON GREEN’s overall objective is to improve the design and effectiveness of regional policies on sustainable transport in rural areas, through an exchange of experiences aimed at fostering sustainable mobility from the environmental, social and economic points of view. 13 partners - 12 regional governments and decission-making bodies of low-density European areas with a high environmental value, plus Euromontana- will cooperate through MOG to develop feasible strategies and policies in the field of sustainable transport. The transferability of the results to the rest of Europe’s rural areas is ensured: solutions which are feasible for the extreme rural areas in the MOG partnership can be replicated in other rural areas subject to fewer limiting factors. The adoption of sustainable transport schemes by European rural areas would, in the long term, have a significant positive impact on both the environment and on the social and economic conditions of rural territories. MOG partners were selected on the basis of two possible criteria: the relevance of their experience and awareness of the theme, or their urgent need for solutions despite their lack of experience. Via videoconferences and daily exchanges an initial appraisal of experiences has been carried out during the preparation phase. MOG’s main activities are, in addition to those related to the administrative, legal and financial tasks in the project, ongoing strategic communication and dissemination activities and activities aimed at fostering an exchange of experiences. The main outputs will be a guide of good practices mutually discussed on sustainable transport, a set of policy guidelines for sustainable transport in rural areas, 12 implementation plans, 4 thematic seminars plus 5 study visits,one another exchange event specifically devoted to transfer through the organisation of bilateral meetings plus kick-off meeting and final conference as well as the communication material produced. The main expected result is the improvement of regional policies for sustainable transport in rural areas, through increased awareness and knowledge by authorities, stakeholders and citizens.

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