Participation in international projects
Participating in European cooperation projects provides Elx City Council with valuable funding, opportunities to exchange best practices, and skill development for our teams, enabling us to deliver more effective and innovative solutions for our community. Below is the list of EU cooperation projects we have taken part in so far.
We are actively looking for cooperation oportunities. If you would like to explore them, you cna contact Jorge Vitores Mas (fondoseuropeos@elche.es).
HYDRO-HERITAGE CITIES 2024-2026
| Project Name: | Hydro-heritage Cities |
| Programme: | URBACT IV – Innovation Transfer Networks |
| Dates: | 01/09/2024 – 31/08/2026 |
| Project budget: | EUR: 549.983,50 (EU funding: EUR 329.148,13) |
| Partner budget: | EUR: 89 110,00 (EU funding: EUR 62.398,00) |
| Short Description: | Hydro-heritage Cities examines how cultural heritage linked to various water resources (hydro-heritage) can be revitalized and repurposed as innovative urban infrastructure. The project aims to promote sustainable urban regeneration, tackle climate change and water-related challenges, and encourage inclusive, participatory urban policy design. By reintegrating cultural and natural resources into daily life, both tangible and intangible, it seeks to create new relationships and spaces for co-governance. In the URBACT programme, an Innovation Transfer Network (ITN) project focuses on sharing successful practices and solutions between cities. It helps cities adapt and apply proven urban innovations from one context to another, promoting sustainable development and improved local policies through knowledge exchange and collaboration. This is a innovation transfer network project, based on the project CULTURAL H.ID.RA.N.T. (CULTURAL Hidden IDentities ReAppear through Networks of WaTer). |
| Partners: | • Chalandri City Council (EL) – LEAD PARTNER • Elx City Council (SP) • Roma City Council (IT) • Roselare City Council (BE) • Serpa City Council (PT) • Sombor City Council (RS) |
| More info: | Cultural Hidrant – Project webpage |
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CLARA 2019-2022
| Project Name: | CLARA: (Comunidades Locales de Aprendizaje contra el RAcismo, la Xenofobia y los discursos de odio) – 847508 |
| Programme: | Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) – REC-AG-2018/REC-RRAC-HATE-AG-2018 GA 847508 |
| Dates: | 02/09/2019 -01/03/2022 |
| Project budget: | EUR 395.703,12 (EU funding: EUR 316.461,58) |
| Partner budget: | EUR 29.181 (EU funding (ERDF): EUR 23.344) |
| Short Description: | The project’s main objective has been to enhance the local police’s ability to identify, prevent, and respond to hate crimes, hate speech, and racist or xenophobic incidents. This was achieved through an innovative training model that actively involves the communities targeted by hate speech. Using the Local Learning Communities methodology, various strategies and tools have been developed, such as specialized police units for hate crime and diversity management, community liaison officers, and stable collaboration frameworks between police and local organizations.These initiatives are designed to be sustainable and evolve over time, reflecting the participants’ commitment to continuing the work started under the CLARA project. |
| Partners: | • Madrid City Council (SP) – LEAD PARTNER • Elx City Council (SP) • Bradford Hate Crime Alliance (UK) • Dinamia (SP) • Fuenlabrada City Council (SP) • Getafe City Council (SP) • Leganés City Council (SP) • Málaga City Council (SP) • Ministry in Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations (SP) • Pamplona City Council (SP) • University of Salamanca (SP) |
| More info: | CLARA – Project webpage Clara in EU Funding & Tenders Portal |
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IMPULSE PLUS 2021-2022
| Project Name: | IMPULSE PLUS – Reaching new territories in the use of Integrated Management Support tools for Energy efficiency in Mediterranean PUblic buildings |
| Programme: | Interreg MED 2014-2020 |
| Dates: | 01-03-2021 / 30-06-2022 |
| Project budget: | EUR 499.971,25 (EU funding (ERDF): EUR 424.975,57) |
| Partner budget: | EUR 24.573,75 (EU funding (ERDF): EUR 20.887,69) |
| Short Description: | IMPULSE PLUS worked to transfer to new regions and cities the outputs developed during the MED project IMPULSE (provision of support tools for the development of gradual renovation plans and financial planning for cost-optimal solutions for public building stocks). To allow the transfer, the Financial Scheme Evaluation tool was revised and adapted under a transnational and cooperative way. The transferring process allowed to scale the scope of application in some of the countries previously involved in IMPULSE project (from small/medium municipalities to bigger cities (such as Valencia in Spain), but also, from the local to the regional scale (Emilia Romagna Region in Italy and Western Greece. It also allowed the transfer to a country that had not been involved previously in IMPULSE (Slovenia). Finally, IMPULSE PLUS did allow to improve and adapt the tools to the requirements established in the new EU program period. |
| Partners: | • Valencia Institute of Building / Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación (SP) – LEAD PARTNER • Elx City Council (SP) • ART-ER Attractiveness Research Territory (IT) • Regional development centre Koper / Regionalni razvojni center Koper (SI) • Valencia Climate and Energy Foundation / Fundació València Clima i Energia (SP) • Western Greece Region / Periféria Dhitikís Elládha / Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας – (EL) |
| More info: | IMPULSE PLUS in Keep.eu |
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IMPULSE 2016-2019
| Project Name: | IMPULSE – Integrated Management Support for Energy efficiency in Mediterranean PUblic buiLdings |
| Programme: | Interreg MED 2014-2020 |
| Dates: | 01 -11- 2016 – 31-07-2019 |
| Project budget: | EUR 2.222.863,00 (EU funding (ERDF): EUR 1.889.433,55) |
| Partner budget: | EUR 206.643,00 (EU funding (ERDF): EUR 175.646,55) |
| Short Description: | The main challenge tackled is the insufficient capacities of public administrations to set-up reliable and affordable energy efficiency plans for their public building stock, which at local level is reflected by missing or incomplete Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs). The main problem is the lack of available energy consumption data for the building stock and of easy-to-use decision-support systems to conclude the most affordable action plans with bankable and realistic solutions. The project acknowledges the need for concrete decision-support solutions as well as the transnational approach needed to account for MED diversified conditions in buildings, energy solutions, climate, regulations, etc., towards the wider capturing of MED specificities. The project’s transnational approach foresees extensive testing in representative pilot MED Cities in 6 Countries, of previously established methods for the conclusion of MED public building typologies accompanied with cost-optimal interventions and financial and gradual renovation plans. The results are organised into a transnational purpose web and GIS-based information system being a user-friendly decision making tool for affordable SEAPs with high impact. The tool is verified through small-scale renovation projects in each pilot City and further evaluated through targeted transferring activities. |
| Partners: | • CRES – Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Savings (EL) – LEAD PARTNER • Elx/Elche City Council (SP) • Agence régionale d’équipement et d’aménegement Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (FR) • Energy Institute / Energetski institute Hrvoje Požar (HR) • Heraklion City Council (EL) • Mostar City Council (BA) • Osijek City Council (HR) • Ravenna City Council (IT) • Valencia Institute of Building / Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación (SP) – Lead |
| More info: | IMPULSE – Project webpage IMPULSE (Youtube Channel) IMPULSE in Keep.eu Other |
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CAP4ACCESS 2014 - 2016
| Project Name: | Collective Awareness Platforms for Improving Accessibility in European Cities Regions – CAP4ACCESS (Grant Agreement ID:612096) |
| Programme: | 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development 7FP7-ICT-2013-10 |
| Dates: | 01/01/ 2014 – 31/12/ 2016 |
| Project budget: | EUR 2.789.026,00 (EU funding: EUR 2.216.989,00) |
| Partner budget: | (EU funding: EUR 75.600,00) |
| Short Description: | Buildings and built environments do not present easy access for people with permanent or temporary reduced mobility. This fact affects millions of people in Europe, including: wheelchair users, elderly people, people with crutches or parents with baby strollers. Europe needs to be more accessible. In this context, the objective of the project is to develop tools for the collection and dissemination of information on accessibility in public environments. The development is based on extensive research and the active participation of the agents involved. Specifically, throughout the project, 4 pilots will be carried out in the cities of Vienna (Austria), London (United Kingdom), Elche (Spain) and Heidelberg (Germany). The new tools will be built based on examples of online mapping best practices. |
| Partners: | • Empirica Gesellschaft fur Kommunikations und Technologieforschung (DE) – LEAD PARTNER • Elx/Elche City Council (SP) • Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung (DE) • Mapping for Change (UK) • Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE) • Sozialhelden EV (DE) • University of València (SP) • University College London – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health (UK) • Zentrum fuer Soziale Innovation (AT) |
| More info: | CAP4ACCESS – Project CAP4ACCESS in Cordis |
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MEMURBIS 2006 - 2008
| Project Name: | MEMURBIS – Mémoires Urbaines (Urban Memories) |
| Programme: | Interreg III B – SUDOE / Interreg South West Europe 2000-2006 |
| Dates: | 2006-2008 |
| Project budget: | EUR 304.826,00 (EU funding: EUR 171.714,49) |
| Partner budget: | EUR 101.608,67 (EU funding: EUR 57.238,16) |
| Short Description: | Urban planning choices in cities that have built or archaeological heritage must combine policies for the conservation and valorization of this heritage with the response to current demands in terms of housing, quality of life or transportation. This is a problem that was shared by the cities participating in the project, which worked together in three lines: • The creation of a cooperation network between SUDOE researchers and urbanization professionals; • The preservation and valorization of cultural heritage thanks to the use of a Geographic Information System; • The creation of new tools for knowledge and management of urban heritage. |
| Partners: | • Toulouse City Council (FR) – LEAD PARTNER • Elx/Elche City Council (SP) • Coimbra City Council (PT) |
| More info: | MEMURBIS (Youtube Channel) MEMURBIS in Keep.eu |
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