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D5.3.1_Policy Paper
The primary focus of the Sustainable MED Cities project was to increase the capacity of municipalities to bolster sustainability, a crucial sector due to its significant impact on energy and resource efficiency policies. However, this domain is intricate, involving economic, technical, environmental, and social aspects and interconnected with other challenges like urban planning, mobility, energy autonomy, potable water availability, and waste collection. For that reason, Sustainable MED Cities capitalized the CESBA MED Method and Tools to the needs and priorities of South-East Mediterranean countries in a similar vein as the MedUrbanTools initiative.
In this Policy Paper, 7 policy recommendations are presented and explained capitalising the results of the Sustainable MED Cities Project.
D5.2.3_Evaluation of Results
The Assessment methodology and the Tools were tested on 3 pilot urban areas in Sousse (Tunisia), Moukhtara (Lebanon) and Irbid (Jordan) with the objective to define a strategic concept and plan for optimising the sustainability of buildings and neighborhoods.
The aim of the pilots was to provide an opportunity to the participating municipalities and their experts to use the multi criteria assessment systems, along with the nationally adapted tools, i.e. SMC-SBTool and SMC-SNTool, to support the process aimed to define the optimal retrofitting concept to improve the sustainability of selected buildings and urban areas.
D5.2.2_Test of WP3 and WP4 outcomes
The objective of this report is to describe the test phases carried out by the partner municipalities on a district or a building using an evaluation system SCTool MED, SNTool MED and SBTool which are developed in WP3 and WP4 and which make it possible to measure the sustainability of Mediterranean cities.
The SCTool MED, SNTool MED and SBTool, developed as part of the international Green Building Challenge research process launched in 1998, will be contextualized and adapted to contexts reflecting the local priorities and particularities of the pilot cities and to any Mediterranean city.
The method is based on the concept of “think globally, act locally”, acting as a common “language” for assessing the sustainability of the built environment.
The use of the tools makes it possible to evaluate, compare and aggregate the results of locally deployed sustainability measures and, at the same time, evaluate progress towards global sustainability goals, avoiding uncertainty and confusion generated by the use of different evaluation tools.
D5.2.1_Test Protocol
This document describes the road map concerning the use of the SMC Decision-Making methodology (D4.1.1) to define an optimal retrofitting concept for a urban area and for buildings located in it.
Following the steps of the decision-making methodology, the documents provides all the templated to document the steps taken up to the description of the final retrofitting concept.
The use of common templates makes possible to compare the lessons learned by the PPs, facilitating the exchange of results achieved.
D5.1.2_Training Material
The Training Material is translated in 3 languages (English, French and Arabic). It is composed by 6 Phases:
1.- SBE Method
2.- Decision-making process
3.- KPIs Building Scale
4.- KPIs Neighbourhood Scale
5.- KPIs City Scale
6.- Pilot Case Studies
D5.1.3_Training_Courses
The deliverable D5.1.3 describes the training activities carried out during implementation of the Sustainable MED Cities (SMC) project.
The new sustainable approach to spatial planning and management of Mediterranean cities, offered by the SMC project through the innovative tools and methodologies set up and tested during the project implementation needs public authorities, both technicians and decision-makers, properly trained in order to maximize the effectiveness in using them.
Two macro-types of training activities, in relation to the relative objectives, have been implemented during the project:
- courses addressed at the teams of the three pilot cities in order to support them in adopting the SMC tools and methodology;
- workshops aimed at wider external audiences to raise awareness and knowledge of the concerned stakeholders and spread the use of SMC tools in the MED area.
D5.1.1_Adapt of CESBA MED training system framework
The deliverable D5.1.1 describes the general structure, the methodological approach and the different components of the training system implemented and tested in the Sustainable MED Cities (SMC) project.
The SMC training system represents the capitalisation of the training framework implemented and tested in the CESBA MED project and its adaptation to the needs and specificities of the south and east sides of the Mediterranean area.
D4.4.1 S MED CITIES - Set up of Local Project Committee
The purpose of this document is to incorporate the decision-making methodology into a participatory process through the setting up of Local Project Committees.
LPCs are the primary strategy for actively engaging target groups in the sustainable Med Cities project ‘Integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities’.
In addition, based on what stated in the Application Form of the project, a Local Project Committee (LPC) will be established in each participating municipality.
Local members, representing the different stakeholders interested in the Sustainable MED Cities outcomes, will compose the LPC and they will actively participate in these informal but collective working group.
D4.2.1_Participatory Guarantee System
Starting from the experience gained in CESBA MED project concerning the development of a participatory approach through the implementation of Co-Creation labs, Sustainable MED Cities will capitalise, reply and adapt this approach to the partner cities involved in the testing activity of the project.
The key ending result of this deliverable is a guideline for PPs involved in the testing activity, for setting up and properly manage the key participative moments during the Decision-Making process (see D4.1.1).
This deliverable has been produced in conjunction with “D4.1.1 - Adaptation of CESBA MED generic Decision-Making methodology to South and East side of MED” and with “D5.2.1 - Test Protocol”. For that reason, D4.2.1 must be utilized together with the other companion deliverables mentioned before.
Furthermore, a specific chapter is devoted to the description of the Co-Creation Labs, the places where the participation process physically takes place.
D3.2.2_Collaborative Platform User Manual
A collaborative platform is an online digital tool to involve different types of stakeholders in every process where decisions need to be made. It serves governments, social groups, and other institutions to involve different types of stakeholders in all types and stages of participative processes.
D3.2.2_Collaborative Platform Moderator Manual
A collaborative platform is an online digital tool to involve different types of stakeholders in every process where decisions need to be made. It serves governments, social groups, and other institutions to involve different types of stakeholders in all types and stages of participative processes.
D3.2.1_Assessment_Platform_User_Manual
User Manual for the assessment platform:
https://sustainablemedcities.tools/