Training course on SUMPs

Training course on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans for five  Western Balkan countries

TRT was selected by GIZ (the German Cooperation) to design and manage a training course targeted to urban mobility experts, public officials and local practitioners from five different Western Balkan countries (Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania).

The training programme was designed as an intense, full-time, one-week long, interactive course (“Boot Camp”). It was held in May 2019 in Podgorica, Montenegro, with the participation of 25 trainees. Participants were experts in the field of traffic, urban or strategic planning, from local self-governances, academia, relevant NGOs or similar.

The training course had two main goals: i) to improve the knowledge and to increasing the capacities of the participants, in order to enable them to support a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) development process in line with the ELTIS European guidelines; ii) to select potential candidates for a “regional expert pool” to be established by GIZ in the Balkan countries. in the Balkan countries.

Activities performed by TRT included the development of the programme, the drafting of training materials, the management of the sessions on site with two experienced trainers, and the final evaluation of the proficiency of participants.