The Community of Practice convened on 3 December, marking the opening day of the consortium meeting at the picturesque Lake Bled in Slovenia. Participants included representatives from our sister project SOTERIA, stakeholders from the West Midlands Pilot location and local partners from Zagreb and Ljubljana.
The session began with an overview of the project and an outline of PHOEBE’s expectations for the community of practice, particularly valuable as several new and local stakeholders were attending for the first time.
POLIS underlined the importance of critical feedback to ensure that PHOEBE’s solutions and framework can ultimately be applied by public authorities. The workshop then moved into an in-depth explanation of the PHOEBE framework, detailing the models it comprises and the links between them. This was complemented by a presentation of the project’s core principles, including demand modelling, risk assessment, and behaviour modelling.
To support participants’ understanding, examples drawn from the pilot activities were presented, such as the Athens Great Walk, alongside practical conclusions that will inform future work. These included insights on data availability and compatibility, the need for multi-criteria evaluation across safety, mobility and environmental indicators and the potential for PHOEBE use cases to serve as reference configurations for cities with similar profiles.
The second half of the community of practice was devoted to discussing the first PHOEBE results, with participant responses now undergoing analysis. The intensive day of exchange concluded with a networking event, offering an opportunity for attendees to get to know one another in an informal setting.