28/05/2016 Stockholm, Sweden. On the 2016 Annual General Meeting in the Swedish capital, the European Cyclists Federation Board was pleased to welcome three brand new full members associations in its big European family. The first new member is...

The Slovak national Government has shown great support towards the bicycle. Since 2014, it has been organising the national Bike2Work campaign, improving it every year and growing the numbers it registers. This year, the Minsiter of Transport and...

At the opening reception of the 2016 ECF AGM in Stockholm the board and members of the federation recognised the tenth anniversary of the appointment of Bernhard Ensink as Secretary General.  In Stockholm City Hall ECF President Manfred Neun...

The Portuguese government has launched a €6.4 million long term bicycle-lending program in 17 universities, covering different parts of the country’s mainland. Conventional and electrically assisted bicycles will be lent to students as part of a...

It’s that wonderful time of year again. ECF partner ISCA (the International Sports and Culture Association) is currently hosting their 5th annual Move Week. Move Week has been a regular part of the larger Now We Move campaign since 2012. The...

Sindikat Biciklista from Zagreb, Croatia, together with the Minister of Economy Tomislav Panenić and Minister of Environmental and Nature Protection Slaven Dobrović, announced the biggest Croatian national Bike2Work campaign on May 2nd, 2016....

The Transport Research Arena (TRA), Europe’s largest research conference on transport, was organised in Warsaw from 18 to 21 April this year. Compared to previous editions of the biannual event and thanks to the efforts of ECF and its global network...

Russia and several CIS countries held an International Congress on Cycling. The event gathered delegates from the greatest cycling countries, to share their expertise and best practices. More than 30 organisations participated, including ECF's...

The European Commission has invested time and energy to promote Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). This is a new term for what exists in a number of cities already a long time. Since 1996, all French cities with more than 100.000 inhabitants...

ECF’s Secretary General Bernhard Ensink was invited to represent ECF and the World Cycling Alliance (WCA) at the Climate Action 2016 Summit on “Catalyzing a Sustainable Future” in Washington DC May 5-6 and the Work Day on Sustainable Transport the...

“More bicycles, better cities, healthier society and economy!” That is the motto of the newly launched Portuguese Bicycle Commitment, an organisation created by the Plataforma Tecnológica da Bicicleta of the University of Aveiro that...

What would happen if more people would use their bicycle instead of using their car? What would happen if cycle use in a midsized Dutch city, like Alkmaar, were to increase 10%? Fietsberaad, the Dutch cycling knowledge center, used advanced...