What is SYLVIE aiming at?

SYLVIE is aimed at alleviating noise, and achieving a significant reduction in noise disturbance in parts of the 5th and 12th district of Vienna.

SYLVIE will help those involved to identify and exploit the existing scope for action.

SYLVIE is action oriented. This demands both an overall perspective of the advantages and disadvantages of living together in cities, and an innovative approach to project implementation methods.

SYLVIE is aimed at initiating and supporting cooperation. Noise reduction in urban residential areas demands wide-ranging and systematic cooperation in order to achieve the necessary measures and changes in behaviour.

How will it work?

The SYLVIE noise abatement project consists of the following components:

  • A noise analysis in the selected abatement area.
    • At first all data about the noise situation in the pilot area was being collected as completely as possible. Apart from noise measurements carried out by the Council of Enrvironmental Concerns MA 22, the TEAM SYLVIE also asked the locals to state their noise problems in street interviews and by answearing the postcards, that had been sent to all households in the area.
  • Consultative noise abatement procedures in accordance with the principles of Local Agenda 21. The scope for action will be sounded out, and an abatement concept drawn up together with all concerned parties. Pilot projects launched in the course of the project will play an important part.
  • SYLVIE will also involve negotiation on the resolution of conflicts between those causing noise and those disturbed by it (neighbourhood noise, noise in parks and green areas, restaurant noise, traffic noise, etc.).
  • Public relations work, awareness campaigns and an online information system. The PR work is aimed at establishing and maintaining a dialogue with the general public. It supports the objectives of the project by offering opportunities for information and communication. It gives SYLVIE an internal and external information platform.

    • SYLVIE will have a project budget of ATS 11 million (EUR 800,000) spread over three years, and will attract a 50% subsidy from the EU.

Who is working in the SYLVIE Team ?

The SYLVIE Team consists of an interdisciplinary group of experts.

The MA 22 - Department of Environmental Concerns of the Vienna City Council is responsible for the overall project management .

SYLVIE solves noise problems by cooperating with everyone involved in the noise conflict. Those may be residents that are interested in the topic or being disturbed by noise and representatives of institutions that are being confronted with noise problems - e.g. district management, park management, schools, the police, local environment committees and different municipal authorities.

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