235 million. The number of inactive European today. Sedentarity has become a major challenge for individuals and the European Union over the past decades. With 70% of Europeans living in cities, we know they have a decisive role...

After the successful experience of last year’s Velo-city conference, ECF and its global network Scientists for Cycling decided to continue integrating a research track into the conference programme also at this year’s edition in Dublin. The seven...

Velo-city 2019 Dublin officially closed its doors yesterday. The final plenary explored the City of Today and how it should evolve into the future of tomorrow. With a special commitment of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. The closing ceremony was attended...

Four high-level speakers and an enthusiastic audience discussed how to raise funding for cycling at the ‘Cycling and funding’ session, Velo-city Dublin. For example, The budget for cycling amounts to only 1.9% of the Swiss transport budget but the...

Victim-blaming, object-based portrayals and the imbalance of representation were highlighted as the main problems of cycling representation in the Media. On the other hand, with only a few tools and a successful marketing strategy, (social)...

The final day of Velo-city 2019 Dublin started with a plenary session on the importance of partnership and collaboration with a special focus on the “HANDSHAKE” Project by CIVITAS, which brings together 13 of Europe’s top cycling cities to share and...

Bike-to-work campaigns are implemented across multiple countries, in diverse formats, with varying levels of success, in theory with a shared objective; employees cycle to work and employers enable them to do so. One certification scheme centralises...

Tourism is one of the world's largest economic sectors, supporting one in 10 jobs (319 million) and generating 10,4% of GDP globally. And cycle tourism, generating over €44 billion only in Europe, was the topic of a closing plenary of the 3rd day in...

The second cycling tourism session brought together speakers from 5 different European countries, with a focus on cycle tourism data. Jesus Freire, Business Development Officer at the European Cyclists’ Federation, moderated the session. How can...

The CHIPS project (Cycle Highways Innovation for smarter People transport and Spatial planning) financed by Interreg North-West Europe has been 3 years of knowledge sharing and research between  partners from Belgium, the Netherlands...

On the third day of Velo-city 2019, participants of the session ‘Cycling for the Ages’ discussed cycling for all human ages – children, teenagers, adults, elderly and everyone in between. Will Haynes from Sustrans held a presentation about the UK...

  Day three of Velo-city 2019 began with a stimulating plenary on ‘Infrastructure from the City to Greenways’! Infrastructure is the backbone of cycling development. In different contexts and cities, different approaches are taken. For some...