This past week the Velo-city Series and Global Policies team and members of the World Cycling Alliance (WCA) were in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend the annual BiciRio conference and hold kick-off Velo-city 2018 workshop. It was the 6th edition...

Last month World Cycling Alliance’s (WCA) very own Amanda Ngabirano delivered a successful presentation entitled “Mainstreaming Transport in the Sustainable Development Goals: For a Smart Moving Uganda” to the highest political figures at the...

On the 14th of June in Gothenburg, Sweden a successful Cyclelogistics Empowerment Workshop for Cities took place. Jointly co-organized by the European Cyclists’ Federation, the city of Gothenburg, the Urban Freight Logistics Thematic Group of...

Wouldn’t it be great if computers could to the work of traffic planners? Couldn’t they perform a much better job in calculating data and making well-considered decisions than human beings? There is already a lot of experience in using traffic...

BRUXELLES, 23/06/2016 - People cycling are early risers. Chaired by MEP Michael Cramer and MEP Istvan Ujhelyi, 40 people with diverse backgrounds gathered yesterday to present and discuss the potential for an EU Cycling Strategy and ways...

On Monday 13th June 2016, Dr. Libor Lochman, Executive Director of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) welcomed Dr. Bernhard Ensink, Secretary General of the European Cyclists Federation (ECF) to the CER’s office in...

Rome, 04/05/2016. In a press conference held on the 4th of May the Italian Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Graziano Delrio introduced a new Cycle Tourism Masterplan which aims to create a national infrastructure network for touristic...

After one month of intense cycling battle, the competition is finally over. It’s now time to stop pedalling and check the final scoreboard for the participants of the fifth edition of the European Cycling Challenge 2016. And the winner is... The...

Krakow, Poland. ECF Went to Poland recently for the TRA conference where health policy officer Dr Randy Rzewnicki presented How to calculate the positive impact of increasing cycling on health and the economy?  Then he took the high speed train...

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...