Why is the project of importance, and what does it seek to achieve?

This project is important for a number of reasons:

• Europe must remain globally competitive in the long term, with the purpose to ensure the cohesion within its limit, and must influence on world wide basis particularly on such issues as climate change
• Europe cities must remain socially inclusive and attractive places, offering a high quality of life for their citizens
• To achieve this, Europe’s Ministers want to see the Leipzig goals come to life
• Cities need quality means to make that so – not all, and not to every extent; but some and to significant extents
• Cities face heightening pressures from modern day challenges and need better decision support
• We must future proof our cities; our economy; our society; and our environment

This project seeks to achieve the following:

• To deliver an accepted common framework for sustainable urban development on which to be situated, decide and learn
• To put in place the foundations on which to improve the skills and capacity to deal with sustainable integrated urban development
• To deliver a kernel of quality material (tools; good practices and the like) that can evolve and be adapted to suit city needs – and that will endure
• To sufficiently mobilise city and national bodies to build a sustainable learning network

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