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MED COLOURS
MED COLOURS, a EU Project co-funded by the Interreg Euro-MED Programme, aims at upscaling to a new generation of urban logistics and planning enabling the transition to decarbonised and smart cities. OPEN ENLoCC joins forces with MED COLOURS to develop new SULPs and reduce the negative impacts of freight and urban logistics activities.
WHY MED COLOURS
Climate change is the foremost worldwide challenge. Among the contributing factors, some of the most pressing include congestion, which costs the European economy €100 billion per year (1% of its GDP), air pollution, affecting people’s health, and transport emissions (those from freight count 25% of total urban transport emissions). The EU Green Deal targets to reduce emissions in cities by 55% by 2030 and be climate-neutral by 2050, cannot be met only by vehicles decarbonisation goals.
THE MED COLOURS PROJECT’S VISION
The MED COLOURS (Mediterranean Collaborative Logistics for the Urban Space) project has a clear and ambitious vision: upscale to a new generation of urban logistics and planning enabling the transition to decarbonised and smart cities. By developing new SULPs, MED Cities will plan resilient, sustainable, integrated, and collaborative innovation-driven solutions for the UFAs. This would help reducing the negative impacts of freight and logistics activities.
MED COLOURS’ joint territorial ambition is to enable urban freight distribution in MED-FUAs from a low carbon environmental perspective and, at the same time, give cities a boost in sustainable development and human well-being.
THE TERRITORIAL CHALLENGE
The MED COLOURS joint territorial challenge is to improve freight transport in MED-FUAs in a low carbon & environmental perspective, towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe, while ensuring its vital role to boost sustainable development and management of living areas.
Transition is not an easy task and it is possible to have it in a sustainable way only with collaboration and cooperation, also due the recent international crisis caused by the Ukraine invasion.
MED COLOURS PROJECT OBJECTIVES
MED COLOURS will jointly validate:
- Strategy for continuous cross-monitoring of SULPs
- New Resilient SULPs
- Solutions for innovative and sustainable urban logistics.
This would foster the more effective implementation of existing sustainable policies and improve access to funding/investment for climate-resilient living areas.
Partners
PARTNERS (test phase)
- ITL – LEAD PARTNER (ITALY)
- OPEN ENLOCC (BELGIUM)
- CERTH (GREECE)
- ZARAGOZA LOGISTICS CENTER FOUNDATION (SPAIN)
- SPL LYON (FRANCE)
- MEMEX (ITALY)
- COMUNE DI LIVORNO (ITALY)
- UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR (SLOVENIA)
- MUNICIPALITY OF KOPER (SLOVENIA)
- MUNICIPALITY OF LISBON (PORTUGAL)
- LISBOA E-NOVA (PORTUGAL)
CITIES THAT WILL DRIVE CHANGE (test phase)
MED COLOURS supports the digital and environmental transition in six cities and their related FUA in MED area: Livorno (Italy), Cesena (Italy), Thessaloniki (Greece), Koper (Slovenia), Lisbon (Portugal), and Lyon (France).
Transition is built upon a quadruple helix approach supported by the liaison with other European Projects in the same field. MED COLOURS will adopt a new approach to urban freight planning introducing new collaborative concepts and disruptive/enabling technologies. The project outcomes will go beyond existing practices through long-term transition scenarios to achieve the targets set in the EU green Deal in MED Area.
PARTNERS (transfer phase)
- ITL – LEAD PARTNER (ITALY)
- OPEN ENLOCC (BELGIUM)
- CERTH (GREECE)
- ZARAGOZA LOGISTICS CENTER FOUNDATION (SPAIN)
- MEMEX (ITALY)
- UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR (SLOVENIA)
- LISBOA E-NOVA (PORTUGAL)
- MUNICIPALITY OF FERRARA (ITALY)
- MUNICIPALITY OF GRANADA (SPAIN)
- MUNICIPALITY OF MARIBOR (SLOVENIA)
Transfer phase of the project.
As of 1 July 2026, the Transfer Phase of the MED COLOURS project is officially underway and will run until 31 December 2027.
This new phase focuses on transferring the project’s methodology, tools and results developed during the Test Phase to support additional Mediterranean cities in the development of Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans (SULPs).
The three new receiver cities are Ferrara (Italy), Maribor (Slovenia) and Granada (Spain), which will benefit from the expertise of the project partners and the cities involved in the Test Phase, fostering knowledge exchange and the uptake of more sustainable urban logistics solutions.
WEBS
- Interreg Euro-MED - MED COLOURS
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- https://www.openenlocc.net/med-colours/
- Comune di Ferrara
