Doubling cycling in the EU in the next ten years calls for the development of a European cycling strategy. To obtain political support at the highest level, the European Cyclists’ Federation together with the Permanent...

The ECF office is located at the heart of Brussels, advocating daily for a better, greener and more sustainable world. All the successes and achievements we've enjoyed in the past years would not have been possible without the work of...

Pascal Smet from Brussels Region, Nathalie Guri from Eurocities, Bernhard Ensink from ECF and Alain Flausch from UITP kicked-off the 2016 edition of the European Mobility Week in Brussels.  Pascal Smet is very proud of growing number of...

The New Urban Agenda – the principles and guidelines for sustainable cities – has been finalized last week in New York and is awaiting signing during the Habitat III conference next month. In the meantime, ECF is preparing its Networking Event to...

Over the next few months the blueprint for an EU Cycling Strategy will be developed. In a series of blogposts, stakeholders involved in this process share here their thoughts and ideas in support of the strategy, sending a strong political sign for...

For a successful advocacy campaign on a local level, it’s important to involve citizens and the cycling community to broaden your impact and make your voice heard. In Austria two innovative participation campaigns were held during the year...

(Para la versión en español, hacer click aquí) For many years we have been receiving good news from Spain on successful cycling advocacy and increments of the use of bicycles in many of the main Spanish cities. Barcelona, Seville, Zaragoza or...

This year’s Advocacy Summit confirmed that collaboration between industry and advocacy is paying off and concluded that now is the time to join forces and lobby for a European wide cycling strategy that will boost sales around the continent. “By...

Bike industry leaders, innovative data and connectivity companies, bike users and technology experts gathered in Friedrichshafen today for the European Cyclists’ Federation/Cycling Industry Club Smarter Cycling Conference. ECF director of...

As part of our work to help cycling and the bike industry into the world of smart, connected and shared mobility we are working with visionaries and leaders who are setting the tone in this new mobility. We are going to be inviting some of them...

People around the world are migrating faster and faster towards urban areas. Nowadays, more than 50% of the world’s population live in cities and, if it goes on like this, more than 75% of the population will be living in urban areas by 2050....

On Thursday the 18th the #Journey Of Hope team set out from Copenhagen, on the first leg of their month long journey through Europe. The kick-off event was organised in central Copenhagen at Israels Plads, by ECF partner ISCA together with DGI move...