The SUSI-Man European project
The full name of the project is "Environment and Sustainable Development Integration in Urban Plans and Management Projects" and the overall budget was 1 167 743 € with 591 535 € from the European Commission.
The SUDEN budget was 573 520 € and the contribution from the European Commission should have been 286 760 €.
The proposal was written by Catherine Charlot-Valdieu and Philippe Outrequin with some help from Awatif Smirani from Cosmos 2001. It was sent to the European Commission the 31th of March 2004, just a few days after the official creation of the Association. It was selected in July, improved in August (always by Catherine Charlot-Valdieu and Philippe Outrequin) and signed by the European Commission and Mr Renaud Dutreil the 29th of December 2004.
SUSI-Man is a network gathering local authorities, social owners, land planners, architecture agencies, universities, etc. It aims at disseminating at a large scale the good practices, methods, tools and integrated approaches available in urban planning and urban management, such as the HQE²R approach for neighbourhood regeneration projects in order to close the gap between knowledge and practice and to show how SD indicators can be used for managing urban projects towards sustainability.
The objectives of the SUSI-Man project are:
- To disseminate territorial or local knowledge and know-how in order to improve contextual (taking into account local stakes, priorities and problems) approaches towards sustainability;
- To increase the abilities to integrate Environmental Quality in Sustainable Development (EQSD) approaches at the level of local authorities for all the actors involved;
- To show how it is possible to improve local governance towards a co-production of urban projects, involving most of the actors (including inhabitants);
- To give economic value to knowledge and experience (in terms of skills and competitiveness) gained from the teaching of best practices among professionals;
- To create or improve links between researchers and municipalities (with their local partners), and to identify the needs for further research;
- To train decision makers and professionals;
- To involve universities in order to provide future professionals with an EQSD approach.
The SUDEN actions and results are:
The first task of the SUSI-Man project was the selection of pilot urban projects inside specific working groups.
The full description of the pilot projects in each of the five Working Groups selected is the following:
- WG 1: Sustainable buildings;
- WG 2: Sustainable management of local resources and Local Agenda 21;
- WG 3: Neighbourhood regeneration projects towards sustainability;
- WG 4: Sustainable new neighbourhoods;
- WG 5: Cross cutting pilot projects are on the private web site but a synthesis is on the public web site.
The work programme in each of these 5 Working Groups are on the private web site and the overall work programme (deliverable 3 part 1) is also on the private site with the official contractual work programme (DOW).
The only result is the INDI-RU.2005 evaluation model for the French neighbourhoods and for the French neighbourhood regeneration projects. This model is an adaptation to the French national context of the INDI model worked out in the HQE²R approach. A synthesis of this model is available on the SUDEN public web site.