ECF's member organisation Federazione Italiana Amici della Bicicletta (Federation of Friends of the Bicycle in Italy, FIAB) gave Pope Francis their first membership card for 2016 during an audience in Rome on Wednesday 30 September. Pope Francis...

The first informal Council meeting of the EU and EFTA Transport ministers on the subject of cycling, the so called “EU Cycling Summit", has resulted in the “Declaration of Luxembourg”, an acknowledgement of the benefits of cycling and a call for...

  ECF’s Leadership Programme supports up to ten small and medium cycling organisations per year in order to help them grow into professional national advocates. While the Leadership Programme of 2015 is in full swing, let’s take a look at the...

With more than 20 transport Ministers and Secretary of States sitting in one room and discussing cycling, this coming Wednesday is a big milestone, if not historic event, for cycling advocacy and making ECF’s Vision of doubling cycling in Europe...

Call for participation to a survey launched by the Cycling for Growth Initiative on EU funds for cycling businesses. The objective of this consultation is to make a preliminary assessment of the EU funds received by cycling businesses so far and go...

 “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success”. In the Belgian Province of Limburg, two talented Flemings have decided to apply this guidance from Henry Ford as a leitmotiv to develop a recognised open...

On 27 September, Ségolène Royal, the French Minister for the Environment, confirmed in a radio interview that a voluntary kilometric reimbursement scheme for employees cycling to work will be introduced in France. The amount of the allowance...

On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 UITP (International Association of Public Transport) hold the NODES conference on the next generation of urban transport interchanges in the Solvay Library in Parc Leopold, Brussels. ECF and UITP recently signed a...

The conference takes place in the Vienna City Hall from Tuesday, October 20 and Friday, October 23. The Velo-city 2013 Vienna was a tremendous success as global cycling summit. Now, over two years later, Vienna will host the Walk21 conference which...

Paris is hosting the next international conference on climate change COP21 in December 2015 and Mayor Anne Hidalgo is making some efforts to show leadership and transform Paris into a more sustainable & liveable city. One of those efforts is the...

The International Motor Show (IAA) is the world's most largest show of the automotive industry. Nicolas Urien, Project Director of the 'Cycling for Growth Initiative', was present to promote cycling and e-cycling as a key element of this new...

Recently ECF was invited to the royal opening of the new Gazelle factory in Dieren, Netherlands by our Cycling Industry Club member PON which owns the Gazelle business along with a stable of international bike brands including Union, Kalkhoff,...