How to use the OPTI-UP Toolkit: from city context to planning direction

The OPTI-UP Toolkit helps cities explore which public transport improvement strategy may fit their local context. Here is how the process works. The Toolkit was designed primarily for public authorities, transport planners, regional mobility organisations and other professionals involved in public transport planning. You do not need to prepare a complete transport study before starting.…

URBIO BAUHAUS Final Conference: Bridging Nature, People and Design Together

On 21 October 2026, Poliedra will host the URBIO BAUHAUS Final Conference in Milan, the concluding event of the URBIO BAUHAUS project funded by the Interreg Central Europe programme. The conference will bring together representatives of public authorities, researchers, practitioners, project partners and other stakeholders to discuss how the principles of the New European Bauhaus…

OPTI-UP Toolkit: helping cities make better public transport decisions

After more than two years of research, modelling and real-world testing across Central Europe, OPTI-UP is bringing its accumulated knowledge together in one practical tool. Small and medium-sized cities face complex decisions when planning public transport. Should an existing network be reorganised? Would demand-responsive transport be more suitable for low-density areas? Is it time to…

OPTI-UP Publishes Pilot Action Results: New Evidence for More Efficient and Sustainable Public Transport

The OPTI-UP project has reached another important milestone in its mission to support more efficient, accessible and sustainable public transport systems in small and medium-sized cities across Central Europe. Four new deliverables have been published, presenting the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of pilot actions carried out in the six project areas: Modena, Grosuplje, Osijek, Paks,…

GreenGov thematic briefs on the DNSH principle and Climate Proofing

[October 2025]  The first two thematic briefs produced by the Interreg Europe GreenGov project, focused on the “Do No Significant Harm” (DNSH) principle and Climate Proofing of infrastructure, are now available online. These documents provide an overview of the European regulatory framework, highlight the main operational challenges, and propose practical recommendations to improve the implementation…

URBIO-BAUHAUS project’s official start: kick-off meeting in Wroclaw

On June 18th the official kick-off meeting of the URBIO BAUHAUS project took place in Wroclaw, Poland, hosted by the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences. Delegations from the 10 project partner institutions gathered to organise the collaborative work and officially initiate project’s activities. The project consortium includes 10 partners: Wroclaw University of Environmental…

Kick-off meeting of the OPTI-UP project in Zagreb

On 22 May, the Kick Off Meeting of the OPTI-UP project (Optimising and greening Public Transport networks through Integration with Urban Planning and data-driven approaches), which promotes more environmentally sustainable urban mobility systems, was held in Zagreb. EY Croatia, the project leader, hosted the partnership, which includes a broad partnership from countries such as Austria,…

CROSS-REIS collaborative research and sharing events

July 2024 Over the past two weeks, project partners of the Horizon Europe CROSS-REIS project participated in two collaboration events in Rijeka, Croatia and Niš, Serbia. The main objectives of these events are to get to know the project partners’ institutions, network and facilities, explore potential research collaboration, share data and discuss key project developments…