CIVITAS ELEVATE expands the CIVITAS support activities with a dedicated offer to the current and forthcoming CIVITAS 2020 Innovation Actions (IA), the Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) and the CIVINETs. The mission of CIVITAS ELEVATE is to increase the Europe-wide impact of the CIVITAS (R)IA’s on urban mobility policy making and thereby advancing the CIVITAS community to a higher level of knowledge, exchange, impact and sustainability, while guaranteeing essential high-quality support. ELEVATE is committed to reaching the following objectives: i) Developing the CIVITAS knowledge base and transferring new knowledge; ii) Enriching the current CIVITAS generation and feeding future EU initiatives and CIVITAS-type actions; iii) Building a European mobility community able to navigate transition; and iv) Representing CIVITAS on the international stage. ELEVATE will implement a Liaison System and identifying Stewards alongside, and support the RIAs and IAs with engaging meetings and networking events. ELEVATE will create and maintain a comprehensive communication and dissemination framework that will enable the (R)IA projects and CIVINETs to portray their work with maximum effect to an international audience. ELEVATE will also increase the impact of the CIVITAS programme and the CIVINETs through its Mobility Match sessions, an Incubator and the CIVINET Support and Investment Centre and by training and capacity building through its Learning Centre and Educational Network. Supporting the stakeholders involved in the (R)IA projects and from across CIVITAS 2020, and advancing the CIVITAS knowledge, are further key aims of ELEVATE. ELEVATE will also ensure the sustainability of its outcomes, not only continuing the financing of the CIVINETs through the CIVINET Activity Fund but by developing CIVINET Business Models and by involving the next generation of transport professionals in the CIVITAS community.

The CIVITAS Initiative will be led by a new CIVITAS MUSE Coordination and Support Action from 2023-2027, coordinated by ICLEI Europe and involving 8 expert partners in total. This project will deliver a wide range of services to the European Commission and its funded urban mobility-related projects, to enhance their results through further communication, capacity building and exploitation activities. These will involve and reach all parts of the urban mobility community, particularly CIVITAS project participants and EU cities. Further dissemination of the state of the art is made possible through CIVITAS MUSE by enhancing operational structures that involve wider community stakeholders such as the Secretariat, CIVINET regional and national networks, the Policy Advisory Committee, annual Conferences, a new Collective of European mobility networks, as well as improving collaboration groups between projects and their partners (and their related stakeholders and experts), at both a management and thematic/topic based level. The CIVITAS MUSE project helps to guarantee the replication of innovative solutions and results through a deployment planning cycle, working with cities through capacity building exchanges to promote solution-specific learning and broad skills development. Monitoring, extracting and communicating the most useful results and information from projects lies at the core of CIVITAS MUSE, with projects supported in employing up to date evaluation approaches. CIVITAS MUSE comes at a key time in the Smart and Climate Neutral Cities Mission and the achievement of multiple Destination goals including those under Cross-Sectoral Solutions for the Climate Transition.