STREET-15: Skolebasert omstilling for robuste, engasjerte og likeverdige ungdomsorienterte 15 minutters nabolag

Project summary

Reimagining Our School Streets: Safer Today, Transformed Tomorrow School streets—where motorised traffic around schools is reduced temporarily or permanently—are not just safety measures. They're powerful catalysts for creating vibrant, healthy communities where youth, children, and their families can thrive. STREET-15 elevates these interventions from isolated safety zones to the building blocks of youth and children-friendly, 15-minute neighbourhoods where daily necessities are just a short walk away. STREET-15 Approach - Empowering young voices through innovative participatory methods that place children and youth at the heart of urban planning decisions - Developing comprehensive assessment tools that measure real impacts on accessibility, health, safety and social equity - Creating blueprints to scale successful school street interventions into neighbourhood-wide transformations STREET-15 tackles critical urban mobility challenges by: - Transforming fragmented interventions into coordinated, systemic urban mobility solutions - Engaging children—traditionally excluded from planning—as active co-designers of their environment through creative, arts-based methods - Building frameworks that connect local school experiments with broader climate action and sustainable mobility agendas STREET-15 brings these innovations to life through Living Labs in London, Naples, and Bergen, developing practical tools, policy recommendations, and a comprehensive digital atlas to help cities across Europe implement inclusive, youth-centred mobility solutions that benefit entire communities.