As a premiere for Bucharest, the Romanian member of ECF "Green Revolution Association", together with Raiffeisen Bank and Kaufland România, announced the launch of the first bike sharing system I’Velo Urban. The bicycles are free of charge for...

Even as news reports focus on the frontline in the east of Ukraine, bicycle and sustainable transportation advocates are riding a growing enthusiasm to rebuild their country. At the end of August, One Street’s executive director, Sue Knaup, traveled...

Thanks to "A Contramano", a Spanish member organization of ECF, the Seville City Center was declared as a 30km/h area creating the largest low-speed traffic area of Spain. "A Contramano" and the Seville City Council has been working hard to...

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 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...

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...

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....

The Ukrainian ECF member AVK - KYIV CYCLISTS' ASSOCIATION hosts the 8th Annual International Cycling Conference "VELOFORUM 2016" in Ukraine, Kharkiv on October 21-23. This year's topics include: Cycling policy: national and...

Success for German ECF member ADFC: For the first time in history, the government has included cycle highways in the new Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan adopted on 3 August 2016. The plan, which is going to be the central document for national...

One woman’s unstoppable desire to change the world for the better has recently been put into a short film by a group of talented directors; but worry not, it is definitely not short of inspiration! ECF had an exclusive opportunity to talk to Emilia...