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The MOVE TOGETHER people The project will adopt a participatory approach by involving a transnational focus group of 27 European citizens, one from each EU Member State, plus a panel of 25 local citizens in the Rome event. These two groups will provide their advice and appreciation of the EU research on sustainable urban transport respectively:
The project will be realised by the MOVE TOGETHER consortium, including the following partners:
The MOVE TOGETHER expert team includes: Carlo Sessa (ISIS), Project Coordinator. Carlo, before joining ISIS in 1983, conducted research at NYU, working with the Nobel Prize winner Wassily Leontieff. Recently Carlo has coordinated the European citizens conference organised by the RAISE project. Maurizio Tomassini (ISIS). Maurizio, before joining ISIS in 2007, was Director of Systems & Innovation at STA, the Mobility Agency of the Municipality of Rome. Irina Rachieru (ISIS). Irina is the project management assistant. Danilo Zaini (ISIS). Danilo is the project web manager Liana Giorgi (ICCR). Liana joined ICCR since 1991, holding her expertise in social and political sciences. Since then, she has been involved in several transport research projects. Michael Schmidt (ICCR). Michael is an economist, with experience accumulated in several EU research projects in the energy, transport and general services sectors Yves Mathieu (Missions Publiques). Yves is an experienced facilitator of citizens conference processes, and he holds specialised knowledge in the field of qualiity and innovation of customer services in public companies Fanny Gleize (Missions Publiques). Fanny holds a postgraduate in Political studies and social economy. She has managed several citizens’ processes gathering different stakeholders on topics such as civil dialogue, training, transport and mobility. Alexander Carius (Adelphi Research). Alexander is co-director of Adelphi Research in Berlin. He is specialised in international environment policy, development policy and foreign policy. Emanuele Farnetani (AICCRE). Emanuele is the General Manager of AICCRE, and he holds specialised knowledge and training experience on EU policy implementation and local authorities matters. Francesca Battisti (AICCRE). Francesca is responsible for the AICCRE international projects, networks and relations with the European Commission. André Nieemegeers (UITP). André is Director of Knowledge & Membership Services at UITP. He previously was acting as an international consultant with expertise in transportation, project evaluation and participatory approaches. Bruno Ginocchini (Federmobilità). Before joining Federmobilità in 2007, Bruno has been the Director of Regione Emilia-Romagna's Public Transport Agency, promoting in particular initiatives for the inclusion of transport users in active consultation processes. Luca Lo Bianco (Rome Municipality). Luca is the Director of the Economic and Development Policy Depertment and the Statistic Department of the Municipality of Rome. He is in charge in particular of decentralised international cooperation activities for the Municipality of Rome and the general management of Local Agenda 21 process in the municipal districts. Silvia D'Annibale (Rome Municipality). Since 1998 Silvia has been working as consultant for the Economic and Development Policy Department of the Municipality of Rome, managing several projects related to urban sustainable development topics. Andràs Lukàcs (CAAG). Andràs, a geophysicist by profession, is President of the Clean Air Action Group since its foundation. He is expert on environmental economics, transport and urban sprawl issues.
The members of the European MOVE TOGETHER citizens' focus group are: Dominik (Austria) – 23 years of age and living in Vienna. He is a full time student of economic sciences and now in his Masters year. Dominik is very excited about getting involved in the move together project. He believes that sustainable transport needs to be understood as a global issue where the different nations/cities should be given the chance to cooperate to enjoy scale benefits.
Eva (Czeck Republik) – 28, is a translator and teacher living in Brno. She enjoys sports, in particular cycling and running, and in this respect has an advantage as she lives in a nice house close to a forest. She came to the conference because she is very interested in what young people have to say about cities and living in these cities. Harry (Cyprus) – comes from Lefkara, a small town of less than a thousand inhabitants. He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science (2003) and a Masters degree in Advanced Information Technologies (2005). He works as a computer programmer and systems analyst in the IT Division of Alpha Bank Cyprus Ltd. Harry is an amateur photographer. Additionally he likes socializing and gaining new experiences. Hanne (Denmark) – 42, is a teacher in school in Denmark. Besides feeling European, she considers herself a citizen of the world because she has had the opportunity to live in a number of foreign countries such as America and Luxembourg. She thinks that the RAISE project is a wonderful opportunity, corresponding to her believe that cooperation between countries is absolutely necessary. Kate (Estonia) – .............. Arto (Finland) – is from Tampere, which has one of the lowest densities of Cities of its size in Europe. Being 45, he is married and has two sons. He is working for a company producing particle analyzing devices. He joined the RAISE project because he wants to learn about issues related to City or urban development and because he was lucky to be on the email list of the project. In particular, he is concerned about the developments in Tampere, which faces new problems in traffic and housing policy that are related to the growing city. Francois (France) – ...................... Noemi (Germany) – She was born in Berlin 26 years ago and grew up there. Now she is living in Vienna, studying theatre science and stage design. She joined Move Together because she find it very important, especially with a topic like public transport, to involve regular citizens and ask them for their opinions, also on the EU level. Her everyday medium of transport is the bicycle. The big and even growing power of cars seems to rule our cities and she doesn’t understand and want to accept that. In cities walking, cycling and using public transport are much more sustainable modes and mostly much more practical as well. Things could work in a better way and that’s why she initially was interested in the Move together project and the EU research on sustainable public transport. Afroditi (Greece) – is a journalist from Athens. She is working for a private Radio Station and her job comprises reading international news. Privately, she enjoys going to coffees, reading and traveling. She came to the RAISE citizen’s conference in order to meet new people. Moreover, she believes in the European idea, though she thinks that not everything should be decided in Brussels and that there should be more involvement of the member states. Gabriella (Hungary) – from Budapest is widowed and has two daughters. In the context of her work she particular developed expertise in the field of internet law. Being a strong believer in the future, she expects to continue meeting globally and locally. Desmond (Ireland) – was born in Dublin before his parent migrated to London for employment reason. Only eight years ago, he returned to Dublin and Ireland, where he worked for a couple of years. Now, he is retired and started studying Anthropology, classic literature, and celtic and irish history. He is very concerned because according to his perception, trends and developments in Ireland are more influenced by the US rather than by Europe. Marzia (Italy) – ................................. Ilze (Latvia) – is from Riga, where she is working in an adult education organization being basically involved in administrative tasks. One reason why she joined the RAISE citizen’s conference is because her parent recently moved out of the city, which left her concerned about City development. She is very interested in sharing opinions and thoughts with the other participants and she wants to find out more about EU research. Simonas (Lithuania) – lives and works in Vilnius. He holds bachelors degree in politics and international relations as well as a Masters degree in European public administration. Working for a private research institute for public policy and management he particular focuses on educational projects. Habiba (Luxembourg) – is originally French with Arabian ancestors. Yet, she has been living in Luxembourg for quite a few years, where she works as a lawyer. She considers herself being dynamic; she likes traveling and has an 8 year old son. Moreover, she likes Luxembourg and the assets of the City. She is very interested in the RAISE subject since it is related to her work on some cases of urban policy. Artwell Cain (Netherlands) – lives in the area of Rotterdam. He is a cultural anthropologist. He specializes in social mobility strategy training and coaching. This is in addition to his academic and practical work in the field of diversity management, as a consultant, he also owns and manages a management and advice agency called Ace Advies. Anthony Zammit (Malta) – is a biologist specialising in environmental impacts and resource management, and has a keen interest in sustainabiity issues. His main interest in this process is based on his belief that many of the problems felt by EU citizens in the different contexts in which they live are similar and sharing of local ideas and solutions are important tools in disseminating the concept of sustainability. Michal-Cezary (Poland) – is a student of languages with focus in Polish and Russian and he intends to become a translator in the future. He lives in Rome with his wife and he has also lived in some other European countries such as England and Portugal. He has already had a number of different job, and currently works in a shop preparing and repairing model trains
George-Sebastian (Romania) – belongs to the higher middle class of Romania. He decided to participate in the RAISE citizens conference in order to address the problems of his country, because he thinks that most of the problems in his country should be solved before its accession to the EU. Karol (Slovakia) – is a teacher - he has been teaching at elementary and secondary schools and later at universities. At the same time, he has been a journalist, writer, environmentalist, and a citizen involved in various civic programmes in Slovakia. Marika (Slovenia) – is a columnist and graphic designer for a small company in Ljubljana. She likes arts and everything related to arts. She does neither consider herself being an average citizen not is she an expert in urban affaires, but she thinks a lot about her city and about what should be done there. Eduardo (Spain) - from san Sebastian in the Basque country is married and has children. He teaches economics at the university and has a very curious nature. Of course, he supports his local football team and he likes nature very much. He is here because he is quite concerned about where cities are going in the future, and what kind of living space they will provide for our children and children’s children.
Linda (UK) – I have been lots of things in my life: computer programmer; systems analyst; academic researcher; housewife; mother; and currently, local government clerk and desk top publisher. But I always think of myself as a writer, because that is what I do, and what makes me who I am, even if no one ever pays me to do it! I was born and live in England, and I love my home, but I also love the continent of which it is a part, and I am proud to have friends in all the countries of the EU. The members of the Local MOVE TOGETHER citizens' panel will be selected with a call for applications which will be launched in April 2008. The call will be open to the people living or working in the City of Rome. The participants to the MOVE TOGETHER logo competition. This call was done in February 2008 involving students of art and design from the City of Vienna, in Austria. The participants and the different logos submitted are shown below: |
Claude (Belgium) – Claude (Belgium) is 65 years and living in Nivelles (30 km South of Brussels). Retired after a 35 years career in consulting to management of business and no profit organisations, he dedicates is time to gardening and studying Philosophy and remains interested in the evolution of democratic decisions making.
Adem Durmushev (Bulgaria). He was born in a small town on the NE of Bulgaria. Bachelors degree in "Rehabilitation"(2000) and "Social Pedagogy"(2006). He worked 4 years in Bulgarian National Emergency Institute". Now He is living and work in Sofia like technical analysist of investment interests. This year is his last one in Master degree in International Political Relationship and Security.
Nuno (Portugal) – is an architect living in the north of his country. He likes sport and running and he hopes to have the space to continue pursuing his sporty ambitions in the cities centers in the future. He decided to participate in RAISE in order to learn how citizens can become active and participate in local decision making processes.
Daniel (Sweden) – lives in Lund, in southern Sweden, and is currently studying Human Ecology at the university. Believes the key to sustainability lies in an active dialogue between citizens, politicians and stakeholders on all levels. Living in Lund gives a very thorough experience of transport, public as well as private, on local, regional and European level, and Daniel is quite worried about the development that is currently going on.