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Additionally, despite this potential, building strong and resilient coalitions between CSOs and urban public authorities remains challenging. CO/ALIGN investigates the transformative capacities of coalitions between CSOs, multi-level government and knowledge institutions in driving sustainable mobility transitions through the 15minC concept, and to develop frameworks for integrating CSO-led initiatives within multi-level governance structures. Working with CSOs, government agencies, and knowledge institutions across diverse European city-regions, CO/ALIGN will address critical research gaps in understanding how proximity-based mobility can be collaboratively realized. This will be achieved through the following objectives: (1) Build an evidence base of the tactics and strategies, organizational forms, and thematic discourses of CSOs advocating for the 15minC. This objective will generate much-needed systematic insights on the emergence and functioning of CSOs, and how these contribute to community-centered local mobility needs; (2) Understand the conditions under which different types of coalitions between CSOs, multi-level governments and knowledge institutions are able to achieve transformative change. This objective will gain comparative insights on (the emergence of) different types of coalitions, and will analyze if, how, and why these succeed or fail to achieve transformative change (i.e. to implement 15minC practices); (3) Develop, test, and evaluate inclusive strategies to scale up these coalitions from the street or neighborhood-level. This objective will gain comparative insights on how CSO-led 15minC initiatives can be integrated into formal planning frameworks (e.g. SUMPs) to achieve higher-scale transformative change, and on the innovative participatory strategies and instruments this requires. CO/ALIGN will implement these objectives through a case selection comprising five cities with similar challenges, yet different governance arrangements, transport planning procedures, instruments and participatory practices, stages of 15minC implementation, and mobility behaviors: Antwerp (BE), London (UK), Turin (IT), Cluj (ROM), and Barcelona (ES). In each case, a CSO will collaborate with multi-level government agencies and an academic partner, and in some cases is joined by a private sector partner. The project’s practical output will be a COMPENDIUM: a hands-on toolbox for CSOs, policy makers, local administrations as well as researchers. This resource will include a European-wide ATLAS of 15minC CSOs, a Playbook for strategic innovation workshops with CSOs, urban governments and knowledge institutions, Living Lab portfolios, a Toolkit for inclusive upscaling strategies, and four dedicated Knowledge Hub outputs. Together, these will provide tailored and easy-to-navigate actionable frameworks supporting coalitions of stakeholders in their pursuit towards sustainable and community-centered urban and metropolitan mobility solutions.