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19 March 2021

Call for Applications open to join Mobility Match event

Mobility practitioners and city planning staff from European countries are invited to apply to participate in 'CIVITAS Mobility Match sessions'. The sessions are designed to provide mobility-related professionals with added knowledge and tools to support local sustainable mobility planning. In orde...

8 March 2021

International Women’s Day: making sustainable mobility gender-sensitive

Ana Drăguțescu works as the Coordinator of the Sustainable Mobility and Transport team at ICLEI Europe. She has extensive experience supporting cities to ensure their mobility systems work for everyone. Last year, as part of the overarching ‘SUMP 2.0’ process, Ana authored a Sustainab...

25 February 2021

ICLEI Europe expands its sustainable mobility horizons

Whilst over 70 percent of EU citizens are now living in urban areas, the links between modes of transport in urban areas and their links to the surrounding areas have often become a major factor affecting quality of life. Under the European Green Deal, the European Commission is seeking to reduce e...

24 February 2021

New handbook advises on improving inner-city bike parking

Amsterdam is the only city in the world with more bicycles than inhabitants. That poses a question: how to provide parking for all of these bikes? A new handbook from the City of Amsterdam reveals the city’s approach to bicycle parking, with a particular focus on busy inner-city areas. In suc...

28 January 2021

Podcast digs into the success of Helsinki's Bicycle Action Plan

Many cities across Europe grapple with how to make cycling safe and feasible year-round. This challenge is, of course, that much greater for cities with harsh winters characterised by snow and ice. Henna Hovi, an urban planner and cycling specialist for ICLEI Member Helsinki (Finland), recently joi...

14 January 2021

Call opens to host CIVITAS Forum 2021

Applications are now being accepted from cities across Europe for the opportunity to host the CIVITAS Forum Conference 2021. The CIVITAS Forum Conference serves as the main event of the CIVITAS Initiative, and is one of the leading conferences on sustainable mobility in Europe. The conference provi...

15 December 2020

Helsinki approves its Bicycle Action Plan for 2020-2025

ICLEI Member Helsinki (Finland) aims to make the Finnish capital a place in which cycling is suitable for all ages in all seasons with its Bicycle Action Plan 2020-2025: an update of the first city-wide cycling plan released in 2014. In addition, the city has set out to increase cycling’s moda...

11 December 2020

New e-publication explores cities daring to do mobility differently

Learning from your fellow peer cities as if you were visiting them – how is that supposed to work during a global health pandemic? As in-person peer exchanges could not be organised this year, the CIVITAS Initiative – one of the European Commission’s flagship programmes for sustai...

26 October 2020

Join new knowledge transfer programme and learn about innovative sustainable urban mobility

Pursue an opportunity for cities to learn from other's tests of innovative sustainable urban mobility planning measures and approaches. A call has been launched for cities to join the CIVITAS SUMP-PLUS Follower Cities Group. This EU-funded project, is working in six co-creation "city labs" across E...