Cyclists’ Union is a non-governmental organization, a member of ECF and supported by our Leadership Programme (the programme invests in small and medium-sized organisations to become influential national leaders), that...

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...

Bernhard Ensink, ECF Secretary General, spoke at a Hi-level transport ministers meeting In Malta on Wednesday 29th March, here’s the press release. It followed a road safety conference the day before and it was an eventful couple of days. The road...

During the last months, four European countries have introduced tax breaks for cycling to work or extended existing ones: France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy. This shows that the idea of rewarding sustainable commuting behaviour through fiscal...

To enable more people to cycle to work, is one of the objectives of the European CHIPS – Cycle Highway Innovation project. The first step of the project involved a survey of workplaces located near the cycle highways in Northern Ireland (Comber...

European Transport Ministers launched the “Valetta Declaration on Improving Road Safety” at a Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Valletta (Malta) today undertaking to put in place many measures to improve road safety across the EU[1]. They...

For the Kyiv Cyclists’ Association (AVK), the Ukranian member organisation of ECF, 2016 was a very busy and successful year, advocating for a better cycling environment in the Ukraine and their efforts are paying off: the number of...

It is possible to get more people to use long-distance and international rail services and thereby help to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in EU – and it only takes seven simple steps. Today, on the 13th March 2017, European Cycling...

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...

The Leadership Programme supports future leaders in cycling advocacy and aims to support organisations through a transition – in structure, in resources or in effectiveness. It recognises that at some periods in the life of an organisation...

The 21st of February had been marked for some time in the calendars of fifteen students from the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. On this day they would present their Final Design...

This week The European Commission announced at the Motor Vehicle Working Group that it is delaying the proposal on Vehicle Safety Regulations until at least March 2018! Meanwhile, vehicle technologies have been moving at an incredible pace over the...