SIMPLA online observatory

"The SIMPLA online observatory (ready in its initial version at month 12) leads the viewer on a journey through the subsequent stages in the definition of a SIMPLA integrated, multi-sector plan. Each individual step reports the related contents in the guidelines with examples, models and templates to download and links to other relevant sites. Moreover, the online observatory grows with the project, offering: training materials from in-class training; recordings from webinars; reports from coaching sessions; a database of plans developed in the framework of the project (plans are reported or linked in the national language, but a descriptive fiche in English allows any visitor to understand and learn the main issues). The SIMPLA observatory is not a mere replication of other existing portals (as ELTIS and the Covenant of Mayors portal), although reference to these and links will indeed be vastly used, since the scope and purpose of the action here are innovative and therefore all contents and materials are seen from a different perspective: not the development of a SEAP, of a SUMP or any other policy/plan, but the integration and harmonization of the above, which is the main purpose and guiding principle, each content serving as an example or a best practice, complementary and coherent with the more general road-map setting. So the SIMPLA online observatory could be held as the ""trait d'union"" between the portals specialised just on SUMP or SEAP, guiding cities in melting these recommendations into a single vision for their city."