By Jill Warren and Mike Brennan. 2023: the year cycling was elevated to a strategic priority in Europe, as ECF’s work took cycling to brand new heights and paved the way for unprecedented impact

ECF looks back on the main achievements of our community throughout 2023. From making the case for cycling on local, regional, and national levels, to advancing policy frameworks, and securing investments for new infrastructure, our members and...

Authored by Jill Warren and Froso Christofides At COP28 this year, ECF was on the ground advocating for more cycling as a core answer to the climate crisis. 

One of the parameters we analyse in our QECIO (Quantifying Europe’s Cycling Infrastructure using OpenStreetMap) dashboard is the uptake of contraflow cycling: the percentage of streets on which cycling in both directions is allowed in the total...

Transport is an integral part of our daily lives, and accounts for more than a quarter of our greenhouse gas emissions. While discussions on transport have often revolved around decarbonising motorised vehicles, the new UN ‘World Sustainable...

The Velo-city 2023 Leipzig team was honoured to be recognised as a finalist for the ICCA & BestCities Global Alliance, Incredible Impacts Award. This award spotlighted the Velo-city 2023 conference for driving real change through passion,...

The European Declaration on Cycling marks a pivotal step for cycle route networks and cycle tourism in establishing Europe as a leading cycling tourism destination. 

ECF releases a new factsheet which compiles, compares and analyses requirements for longitudinal slopes across national and regional standards and guidelines from 12 countries.

On Car Free Day 2023, usually traffic-clogged avenues and streets became places of leisure and play, as cars gave way for people. In Belgium, more than 40 towns turned their streets into car-free havens.

With exciting announcements and commitments, lively discussions and a picturesque conference dinner, our flagship EuroVelo & Cycling Tourism Conference 2023 was an inspiring platform and celebration for the future of cycling tourism.

ECF has co-signed a letter calling for the Commission to close legal loopholes in European and national legislation that permit US-style pickup trucks to enter the EU with little to or no safety or environmental protection regulations...

Today marks World Mental Health Day 2023, and the theme for this year ‘Mental health is a universal human right’. The message is as timeless and simple as the remedy itself - cycling.