A focus group meeting was held within the framework of the Horizon 2020 Era-Net Cofund Project, which has Strasbourg from France, Brussels from Belgium and Konya from Turkey as partners.
A focus group meeting was held as part of the Horizon 2020 Era-Net Cofund Project, in which Konya Metropolitan Municipality is a partner.
The study, abbreviated as JUSTICE (Project for Achieving an Inclusive City Model through Urban Morphology, Time-Spatial, Socio-Cognitive Accessibility Participation), is being conducted in collaboration with project partners from three different countries.
The partners of the project, which include Strasbourg from France, Brussels from Belgium, and Konya from Turkey, consist of Konya Metropolitan Municipality, Necmettin Erbakan University, Universite de Strasbourg, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Eurometropole de Strasbourg, Societe des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles, and various non-governmental organizations.
Within the scope of the project, collective transportation journeys using vehicles such as buses and trams were carried out with a group of 24 individuals in Konya, including people with physical disabilities, visual impairments, the elderly, and economically disadvantaged groups.
Officials from the Transportation Department and the Health and Social Services Department of Konya Metropolitan Municipality, as well as representatives from non-governmental organizations, academics, and representatives of disadvantaged groups, attended the meeting and shared their perspectives mutually.
During the meeting, a reciprocal analysis and assessment of the study, which was similarly conducted in Strasbourg and Brussels, were carried out. The project, with a total duration of 36 months, has completed approximately 27 months of its timeline.
