Organisation of a National SUMP Technical Training Event

Eltisplus SUMP Technical Training WorkshopCologne, 21-22 November 2011

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Overview

• Training formats• Checklist exercise• Practicalities• Training material• The national moderator• Feedback from awareness raising events

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Action 1 — Accelerating the take-up of sustainable urban mobility plans•EC will support local authorities in developing sustainable urban mobility plans covering freight and passenger transport in urban and peri-urban areas. •It will provide guidance material, promote best practice exchange, identify benchmarks, and support educational activities for urban mobility professionals. •EC could take further steps, for example through incentives and recommendations.•Whenever possible, the Commission will encourage Member States to provide platforms for mutual learning and sharing of experiences and best practices that would foster the development of sustainable urban mobility policies. •The Commission will also introduce an urban mobility dimension in the Covenant of Mayors in order to promote an integrated approach linking energy and climate change with transport. It will encourage the incorporation of transport and mobility issues in the Sustainable Energy Action Plans to be prepared by the cities participating in the Covenant.

Action Plan on Urban Mobility (2009)

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Eltisplus aims to accelerate the large scale take up of SUMPs by local and regional authorities in Europe

•Need for a differentiated training strategy•Responding to the training needs and requirements of local and regional authorities in 31 European countries

Training formats•Awareness raising events•Technical trainings•Experience exchange events

Training formats

Training-of-the-future-trainer workshops

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Aims

Raising awareness on SUMP among influential decision and opinion leaders of the target country or region

Improving the technical capabilities of local developers and implementers of SUMPs in cities and regions of the host country

Providing an opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge among representatives from advanced SUMP cities from different countries

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Aims

Raising awareness on SUMP among influential decision and opinion leaders of the target country or region

Improving the technical capabilities of local developers and implementers of SUMPs in cities and regions of the host country

Providing an opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge among representatives from advanced SUMP cities from different countries

Enabling individuals from target countries to moderate a national awareness raising or technical training workshop, respectively, in their own country and language

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Aims

Enabling individuals from target countries to moderate a national awareness raising or technical training workshop, respectively, in their own country and language

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Target groups

Awareness raising events

•Representatives of national ministries•Professional associations•National network of cities•Other “high-level“ representatives and “multipliers“

Technical trainings•Local implementers of SUMPs, primarily representatives of urban planning and land use departments

Experience exchange events•Representatives from advanced SUMP cities, primarily local implementers, but with an option to also target political decision makers

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Technical training Aim Improving the technical capabilities of local developers and implementers of SUMPs

in cities and regions of the host country Target group Local implementers of SUMPs, primarily representatives of urban planning and land

use departments Target countries

All countries possible. For UK and France, only experience exchange events for selected cities are planned; In Block-3 countries, an awareness raising event has to precede the technical training event

Set-up Workshop hosted by a city administration over two days, including plenary sessions, parallel workshops and a site visit

Duration 1 - 1.5 days limiting the participants’ time out-of-the-office to maximum two full working days

Content / Workshop elements

Introduction Aims of the Workshop Kick-off presentation with emotional appeal SUMP video presentation Introduction of participants

Core modules Overview of SUMP concept and its benefits Plan implementation phase presenting real cases of implemented SUMPs Citizen and stakeholder involvement; possibility for case study and group

exercises / role plays to anticipate stakeholder involvement processes

Optional modules based on the needs and requirements of the host country SUMP preparation process explaining the initial SUMP planning phase;

possibility to include case study on “how to get started” in particular city SUMP planning phase “rational and transparent goal setting”, explaining in

particular importance of strategic planning and vision building Plan elaboration phase with emphasis on evaluation and monitoring

requirements Transport modelling; presentation of models which could be used in

sustainable urban mobility planning Working with the media; introductory presentation of different media and

group exercise anticipating different situation working with the media

Site visit of an interesting urban mobility hot spot in the venue city as an optional agenda item

Question and answer session Tools Presentations, SUMP video, case studies, group exercises, site visits (if applicable),

question and answer session Moderation and support

Moderator from the ELTISplus consortium or project-external moderator trained in Train-the-Trainer event; In case of a project-external moderator, an ELTISplus consortium member should support the event (making consecutive translation necessary); presentations given by moderator or supporting consortium member, in some cases, invited case study speakers will present their experiences

Language National language for national workshops; English in case of international events Realisation Between June 2011 and December 2012

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Check List Exercise

• Session in small groups to brainstorm about the national SUMP technical training events

Agenda Target Groups

Promotional Material

Venue Date

Cost

MediaConstraints

and Obstacles

Support

Host

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Check List Exercise:Pairs

Pair 1 “Under the Sun”: Kerstin Burckhart, Mário Alves, Cosimo Chiffi

Pair 2 “Hellas“: Stratos Papadimitriou, Karl Reiter

Pair 3 “BeNe“: Marcel van Lieshout, Friso Metz, Jan Christiaens

Pair 4 “Éire“: Graham Lightfoot, Tom Rye

Pair 5 “Magyar“: András Ekés, Sebastian Bührmann

Pair 6 “Red and White Dynamite“: Annette Kayser, Robert Pressl

Pair 7 “Youngest EU“: Ana-Maria Baston, Frank Wefering, Lucia Ilieva, Ivo Cré

Pair 8 “Baltic“: Kristina Gaučė, Ingrida Bremere, Lauri Hooli, Sylvain Haon, Hannes Luts

Pair 9 “Western East, Eastern West“: Danuše Strnadová, Udo Becker, Aljaž Plevnik, Marcin Wolek

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Timing•Between December 2011 and December 2012

Moderation•Project partner or subcontractor•Individually agreed subcontracts (December 2011)

Language•National language•English for international events

Practicalities:Workshop Organisation

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Support•Project partner for organisational support•In some cases, back-up support during workshop•Support letter by EACI

Synergies•Possibility to organise SUMP training seminars in cooperation with EPOMM+•Back-to-back events

Practicalities:Workshop Organisation (II)

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

• Train-the-Trainer Workshop:Travel and subsistence cost for project-external trainers

• Room rental (ideally no cost due to self-interest of national host organisation)

• Catering• Subcontracts

Practicalities:Cost coverage

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Practicalities:Translation requirements

As agreed in individual trainer contracts•PowerPoint presentationsowerPoint package for translation:

•Invitation text (~500 words)

•SUMP brochure text (~1000 words)

•Elements table

During technical training events

•In exceptional cases (f.e. guest presentation in English)

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

• State-of-the-Art Report on SUMPs in Europe• SUMP Guidelines on Develoing and Implementing SUMPs• Video (in three parts and as continuous version)• Brochure• PowerPoint presentations• Moderator Guide

Practicalities:Training material

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Roles•Ambassador and multiplier of the SUMP approach•Co-organiser of national SUMP events (in cooperation with the Eltisplus team)•Moderator – Trainer – Facilitator

Expectations•Participation in train-of-the-future trainer event•Networking and support of invitation process to national SUMP event•Translation of key training material to national language •Moderation of national SUMP event in national language•Prepration of workshop follow-up report (template) •Contribution to SUMP Community

The national moderator

Technical Training Workshop Cologne, 21-22 November 2011

Marcin Wolek•Northern Polish Awareness Raising Workshopin Gdansk, 20 October 2011

Frank Wefering•German City Association, Traffic Planning Committee Meeting in Strasbourg (FR), 13-14 October 2011

Kristina Gaučė •Preparation of Lithuanian awareness raising event

Feedback from awareness raising events