SUP4SUD

Environmental and climate emergency

Territorial cohesion

2025 - 2029

Active

SUP4SUD seeks to bring together municipalities, regions, innovation agencies and universities to explore how strategic urban planning can effectively incorporate the principles of sustainable development and contribute directly to the policies of the European Green Deal, the New European Bauhaus and the Urban Agenda for the EU. In this project, the PEMB seeks to contribute to introducing the metropolitan dimension into the Spanish Urban Agenda.

Objectives

The overarching objective of the project is to strengthen national, regional and local planning instruments and to strategically integrate the dimension of sustainable and integrated urban development in all types of European urban areas.

The “Strategic Urban Planning for Sustainable Development” (SUP4SUD) project forms part of the Interreg Europe call for projects, which focuses on transforming and improving territorial planning instruments aimed at social and environmental sustainability.

Unlike other forms of Interreg funds, Interreg Europe funds projects between European regions that are not necessarily bordering each other or even from countries outside the European Union. In this case, the partnership involving the PEMB is led by the Innovation Agency of the Hungarian Central Transdanubian Region, and includes the Northern and Western Regional Assembly of Ireland; the municipalities of Oslo (Norway), Mannheim (Germany), Chisinău and Ialoveni (Moldova), Tallinn (Estonia) and Avanhard (Ukraine); the Prague Institute for Planning and Development (Czech Republic); the Krakow Metropolis Association (Poland); and the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, which will act as the scientific partner for the project. Each of these institutions will carry out the corresponding work to improve one of their own planning tools, and they will exchange their knowledge and experience.

As for the PEMB, thanks to its experience acquired in drafting the Metropolitan Commitment 2030, the instrument to improve chosen in partnership with the Spanish Ministry of Housing and the Urban Agenda is, precisely, the Spanish Urban Agenda. The first phase of this agenda was deployed on the basis of more than one hundred local action plans in cities of all types, however none of them addressed the metropolitan scale. It was only later that different cities realised the lack of fit between the local plans of various municipalities which, in reality, constitute metropolitan areas. This is the improvement to be applied to these planning instruments of the Ministry: drafting action plans for metropolitan or functional areas.

The PEMB will work for four years with a group of institutions in metropolitan Barcelona along with another group of cities across Spain to design the analysis and planning tools that will enable, or create, these new action plans from scratch, or based on existing tools at the municipal level, where possible. The PEMB will spearhead this work, as the Ministry has considered the experience of the Metropolitan Commitment 2030 as the model to follow in these new plans to be designed.

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