Dear ECF friends, As a great year for cycling is coming to an end and I am very proud of the achievements of ECF and all our partners. This year, the cycling community made decisive steps forward – none of which would have been...

As the COP21 continued, ECF & WCA’s Transport Initiative Cycling Delivers on the Global Goals was presented by Secretary-General Bernhard Ensink at the booth of the next EU Presidency country: The Netherlands. The Dutch Minister for...

On 27 September, Ségolène Royal, the French Minister for the Environment, confirmed in a radio interview that a kilometric reimbursement scheme for employees cycling to work will be introduced in France.  Read the context article from September...

  Over the past few years the ECF has been running a series of webinars related to using EU Funds for cycling. The emphasis up until now has been to try and influence the documents that set out the funding priorities in each country / region for the...

Arriving at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, we immediately see a bicycle welcoming us to this high-level conference. But just how high is cycling on the agenda? On December 3rd, 2015 there was a special session on transport...

  Five cities have tried out new ways of changing car drivers’ behavior for short car trips. They experimented with specific target groups that are in a life change moment and brought in ICT-tools, personalized travel planning and health arguments...

Cycling is entering a ‘golden age’ in Spain. More and more Spaniards use their bicycles as a daily means of transportation and decision makers are increasingly taking cycling into account. It would not be possible without the work of the ECF’s...

The transport sector continues to be highly dependent on fossil fuels. Without a paradigm shift in transport, the energy transition is doomed to fail. An own-initiative report adopted yesterday by the European Parliament discusses the future of...

In the beginning of November, ECF participated in the 5th International  Conference „Towards a Humane City“ in Novi Sad, Serbia. The event brought together researchers, policy makers and advocates working on sustainable transport. Thanks to the...

ECF has been invited to steer the cycling recommendations ahead of the Commission’s new urban logistics guidelines. Therefore, we organized a European Round Table on Cyclelogistics to consult key stakeholders from industry, cities, EU MEPs &...

Two Years after being taken over by Intersport, the story of the French factory established in West of France has become a strong case-study in demonstrating that bike industry contributes to achieve European reindustrialization and job creation’s...

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is putting itself firmly on the cycling map by investing unprecedented amounts of money into the development of cycling. An ECF analysis. Luxembourg Transport Minister, François Bausch, is walking the talk. After he...