As our planet grapples with ever-growing environmental threats, the need to curb CO2 emissions has become more pressing than ever.
In this context, the GREENMOBILITY project is a significant effort to address the substantial influence that the transportation sector has on urban ecosystems. New options of light mobility are becoming a major force behind the shift to a more sustainable lifestyle within the urban context.
In line with the objectives of the European Green Deal, GREENMOBILITY aims at creating training systems and tools and raising awareness of sustainable urban mobility through a lifelong learning approach.
As one of the main achievements of this first quarter of 2024, a Self-assessment Toolkit has been developed and tested by citizens who care about the environment, students, working professionals and those who commute from cities. The toolkit is more than just a set of surveys, it seeks to transform how people interact with urban transportation. During a time when individual responsibility for environmental footprints is crucial, this self-evaluation tool serves an essential function, since it helps users to measure and comprehend the influence they have on the environment, with a special emphasis on the carbon emissions linked to different modes of transportation. The different tools give users a clear image of their own contributions to urban pollution, enabling them to make more informed decisions about sustainable mobility.
The GREENMOBILITY Self-Assessment toolkit is intended to be both thorough and easy to use, appealing to a wide range of users regardless of their level of technical proficiency or environmental knowledge.
Specifically, the the tool provides:
- Opportunities for users to evaluate their own environmental impact, and learn how their regular trips affect carbon emissions.
- Solutions for sustainable mobility, by promoting sustainable forms of transportation that are suited to specific lifestyles, and offering workable, realistic substitutes for lowering carbon emissions.
- Educational resources by informing users about the wider effects that their decisions about urban transportation have on social, economic and ecological sustainability.
The toolkit can be used as a teaching resource for educational institutions, helping trainers or professors to incorporate sustainable mobility ideas into their courses. Furthermore, policymakers and urban planners can benefit from it, since the results and recommendations can offer useful insights into trends in public transportation and citizens’ behavior.
The GREENMOBILITY Self-Assessment Toolkit will be available for free in all partner languages besides English on the project’s website.
Let’s keep moving sustainably and making our cities greener, one step at a time!
The GREENMOBILITY project, funded by the Erasmus+ program, is running from November 2022 and December 2024, in collaboration with: Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania); University of Thessaly (Greece); Land Impresa Sociale (Italy); SYNTHESIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LIMITED (Cyprus); The International Sustainability Collaborative (Sweden).
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