Who are we?
Cerema (which stands for Centre for Studies and Expertise on Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Urban Planning) is the major French public agency for developing public expertise in the fields of urban planning, regional cohesion and ecological and energy transition for resilient and climate-neutral cities and regions. It has a staff of 2,600 people out of which 500 are dedicated to research and innovation activities.
Cerema was created in 2014 by merging eleven public expertise organizations, each with decades of experience in the fields of bridges, roads and ports infrastructure, water, geotechnics, risk, land use and urban development.
As a multidisciplinary scientific and technical resource and expertise centre, Cerema provides assistance in developing, implementing and assessing public policies at national and local levels, where the challenges of the climatic and ecological transition & regional cohesion are paramount.
Why are we in the Mobility Makers project?
Cerema is a knowledge and communication partner and co-leads WP1. In CCPL’s living lab, Cerema co-manages a pilot on mobility targeted at young people and the elderly in an inter-generational perspective.
Thanks to several past research projects, we have demonstrated that the image has an important power of conviction. Cerema's contribution to the European Mobility Makers project is to produce a general public documentary film of approximately 50 minutes, to disseminate it within the territory of the Communauté de communes du Pays de Lumbres and to measure its impacts on changes mobility behaviors.
Cerema implemented visual investigation methods inspired by anthropology and a follow-up with a film team in June and September 2024, five young and five elderly volunteers who explain their current mobility difficulties by means of “ride along interviews”. Then, these volunteers were filmed changing their habits by means of “obstacle overcome interviews” in order to discover the solutions offered by the “mobility mix”(car-sharing, social transport offer, bike-sharing...)
The film will be broadcast in all the community halls of the communes of the Pays de Lumbres territory and invite all residents. The idea is to provoke a cross-generational perspective in order to encourage meetings and if possible to generate collaborative solutions and mutual aid between citizens of all ages. Following its broadcast, the aim will be to evaluate, through an online and/or mail survey, the impact of this cinematographic work on interactions between neighbors, on the creation of local dynamics and on decisions to abandon – or not – the solo car. The film will be subtitled by the Cerema into english, to put to use for all interested parties.
Get in touch
Our website: https://www.cerema.fr/en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cerema/?originalSubdomain=fr
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cerema3139