 INTEGAIRE
stands for Integrated Urban Governance and Air Quality Management in Europe.
INTEGAIRE is a three-year project, which
started in March 2002. The project is financed by the European
Commission and co-ordinated by EUROCITIES. UBC acts as a partner in the project.
The INTEGAIRE project aims at improving the
quality of air in Europe. The innovative aspect of INTEGAIRE is the involvement of cities
to define the air quality management policies. Thus, the project is at the same time a
thematic network consisting of cities, research institutions and network organisations to
achieve the better air quality by improving urban governance and decision-making.
In dealing with the everyday air quality
management issues local authorities face different problems such as the lack of
integration between national and local level, difficulties in meeting the needs set for
the air quality management in EU legislation and the lack of integrated urban governance.
The INTEGAIRE project was founded to solve these kinds of problems.
The partnership of INTEGAIRE brings together
academics and researchers in air quality with the managers in the cities responsible for
ensuring clean air. The unique aspect of this project is the involvement of cities which
will provide a pan-European local vision of the air quality situation. The best practices
and lessons learned will be identified and further introduced and disseminated to a wider
audience of European cities.
The project is divided into six work
packages. Three of the packages are thematic and the other three horizontal packages. The
thematic work packages concern Governance and Management, Air Quality, Land and Transport
Planning, and Legislation and Implementation. The horizontal work packages concern Project
Management, Dissemination and Exploitation of outputs and Towards a European Thematic
Strategy.
UBC is taking part in the following work
packages: Dissemination and Exploitation, Towards a European Thematic Strategy, and
Legislation and Implementation. Within these packages UBC is committed in representing the
views and concerns of our member cities and more broadly in the EU accession and
implementation process of EU directives and policies. One important aim of the Thematic
Strategy work package is to interact with CAFE
(Clean Air for Europe) project where UBC's role is to inform both the member cities of UBC
and INTEGAIRE partners of CAFE.
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