Edinburgh Napier University

  Policy transfer is the process of applying a policy, or knowledge that informs a policy, from one setting to another. The European Union (EU) provides the ideal platform for knowledge exchange between member states and its various funding streams for multi-national projects, especially so. To date, however, there has been little research into the effectiveness of EU-funded projects for facilitating such policy transfer and in particular which particular processes within them were most effective at delivering the transfer – especially in the field of transport. This paper examines six different examples of policy transfer in sustainable transport, involving 8 different EU countries, where a deliberate attempt was made to structure, support and facilitate the transfer in a planned manner, within the EU STEER/IEE project EPOMM+ (www.epomm.eu). This is important because many projects, particularly at the EU level, attempt to bring about policy transfer yet the way in which this process works is still poorly understood and there is a lack of actual examples, as [1] point out.