The Velo-city 2019 theme of Health & Social is about people and examining the role cycling plays in delivering for the health and wellbeing of all citizens. There are a host of benefits to be gained from cycling - It is good for our...

Velo-city 2019 will take place in Dublin - a beautiful historic city known for its culture and hospitality. The city has a unique landscape being a coastal city divided by a river and encircled by canals. The small, compact nature of Dublin city...

‘Hike it, Bike It, Like it’ is an award winning smarter travel project which was developed in 2012 in Drimnagh, a suburb in Dublin City with a population of over 12,000 people. The project engaged the local community to actively consider and...

The planned F15 cycle highway in the Netherlands represents a new model for cycling infrastructure projects. Not because of the route’s design standard, its length, or the new cycling bridge over the Pannerdensch Canal, but because of the lowest...

How can we help families to cycle more often? Why do some cylists prefer cycle paths and others cycle lanes? What are the road safety implications of electric cycling? You can find answers from both researchers and practitioners to these and many...

Being part of the European internal market, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway have established the EEA and Norway Grants as a way to help alleviate economic and social disparities in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics. They are...

As the festive period approaches what better way to celebrate than to reflect on all of the results that ECF’s advocacy work has brought this year. We have been pushing hard on the great glass doors of the Parliament, Commission and Council and are...

2018 has been one of the best years yet for ECF’s advocacy team; heading into 2019 we really feel like there has been a sea change in thinking on transport policy, as the benchmark for how we measure a successful transportation system has shifted....

Following ECF's analysis of the Commission's proposal for EU VAT rates reform, the multi-stakeholder Platform for Electromobility has adopted a position paper on the VAT treatment of electric bicycles and other light electric vehicles (LEVs). The...

2018 was a huge year for the Global Policies Team at ECF, helping cycling take its place in the international limelight with the launch of the newly anointed World Cycling Alliance, the first, hugely successful UN World Bicycle Day and the...

2018 was a year full of activities for the Scientists for Cycling network and its members. Here is a look back at the highlights of the year and an overview of what is on the programme for 2019. The year started off in March with an...

The highlights of the ECF Cycling Industry Club  throughout 2018 follow two themes. Firstly, there is the support the Club is able to give to ECF in its purpose to create a better Europe through cycling. Therefore, we are pleased to acknowledge...