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WORKPLAN
The project HOTEL has a duration of 24 months and is divided into 8 workpackages:
WP 1 “State of the Art”:
General overview of literature and empirical data concerning the meaning of life quality in general, ist definitions, different forms of operationalisation, and to study quality-of-life aspects.
WP2 “Workshop I” and
WP3 “Workshop II”:
Overview of how aspects in the traffic, mobility and city planing area are taken care of in practice. Both workshops complete the data collection phase with the practical knowledge of experts. The objectives are identical. Experts from Central, Northern and Eastern Europe (Workshop I) and from Southern and Western Europe (Workshop II) have been taken part. They were defined as “practitioners”, politicians, decision makers, planners, administrators, etc.: All of them are people, who set the scene for the living conditions of citizens.
WP4 “Organisation of Workshop III”:
Evaluation of the results of the Workshops I & II, preparation of recommendations for guidelines and development of a first concept for data-storing
WP5 “ Workshop III”:
Experts from partner countries will be invited to discuss the results of the first workshops and discuss the possibilities of the development of a data-bank with all relevant (quantitative & qualitative) data concerning QoL. The Workshop takes place in Ferrara in March 2004.
WP6 “Toolbox”:
The Handbook resulting from the activities of WPs 1 - 5 will imply research guidelines that can be used in all European countries. These guidelines will include recommendations how to measure QoL in connection with traffic and town-planning. These recommendations will include sample size, dissemination of sample, evaluation of data, timetable etc. as well as different assessment modules for different societal, political and demographical conditions of groups or of countries. These assessment modules should be flexible, in order to be able to consider characteristics of different groups, regions, occasions appropriately, but nevertheless to reach comparable results that can be stored in data banks.
WP7 “Pilot Study”:
The guidelines are tested and their relevance is demonstrated in the frame of a pilot study:
At Kristianstad (SWE), satisfaction of citizens with some selected innovation at this site will be assessed. Thereby, it will be shown that there are important qualitative differences in the assessments of the site by different groups, and we will demonstrate how assessments can be made comparable in spite of the mentioned qualitative differences.
WP 8 “ FINAL REPORT/ DISSEMINATION”:
Recommendation both for the assessment of quality of life (“toolbox”) and for the storing of assessment data will be put on this Web-site. If our ideas and recommendations are taken up, this will be a starting point of the establishment of an exemplary data-bank, which should enhance broader accessibility and better networking within Europe in connection with transport-, mobility- and town-planning, and their relation to QoL.
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