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Another World Car-Free Day is behind us, and the experience showed how streets can be a beautiful place when filled with walkers, runners and cyclists instead o...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 th...

26 Oct, 2023

The annual flagship event of ECF, Velo-city, the world cycling summit, is where advocates, cities, decision and policy makers, researchers and industry lea...

20 Oct, 2023

This year, from 11-13 October, the EuroVelo & Cycling Tourism Conference 2023 embraced the theme “Cycling: a new perspective on heritage.” Hosted in the bea...With exciting announcements and commitments, lively discussions and a picturesque conference dinner, our flagship EuroVelo & Cycling Tourism Conference 2023 was an in...

18 Oct, 2023

The seven civil society organisations included on the letter are:  BEUC - the European Consumer Organisation Eurocities   European Cyclists’ Fed...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...

11 Oct, 2023

Today, with one in eight people in the world living with a mental health disorder, the significance of mental health cannot be overstated. World Mental Health D...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 itse...

10 Oct, 2023

The European Cycling Declaration proposal is the Commission’s most ambitious initiative on cycling to date. It elevates cycling to a strategic priority and ackn...ECF and its members and networks and cycling associations CIE and CONEBI enthusiastically welcomed the European Commission’s joint proposal European Declaration on C...

04 Oct, 2023

Cycling advocacy associations the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF), Cycling Industries Europe (CIE), and the Confederation of the European Bicycle Industry (CONEB...

04 Oct, 2023

On the occasion of World Tourism Day, the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) is delighted to announce the next proposed EuroVelo route: EuroVelo 16 – the Iberian Cycle R...

27 Sep, 2023

VENECO is an intermunicipal partnership of 21 municipalities around Ghent, Belgium, with a total population of approximately 385,000 residents. The affiliated...ECF welcomes VENECO to Cities & Regions for Cyclists, a network that brings together local and regional administrations, actively working to promote the bicycle as a...

27 Sep, 2023

“In 2022 we took inventory of existing bike paths and their condition, identified priority investments and compiled a national map. With this conference, we wan...In the new financial period 2021-2027, Lithuania is among the most ambitious countries with respect to using EU Structural Funds for cycling investments, with €47 per cap...

25 Sep, 2023

Velo-city, the flagship event of the European Cyclists’ Federation, is the premier international platform for sparking dialogue, collaboration and knowledge sh... Velo-city 2024, the annual world cycling summit, is gearing up to take place in the Belgian City of Ghent from 18-21 June 2024. With the call for abstracts officially op...

14 Sep, 2023

In 2021, EU Member States adopted their National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) under the EU’s €800 billion “NextGenerationEU” stimulus package. Thanks t...With National Recovery and Resilience Plans in place for two years now, it is time again for ECF to check how cycling investments are progressing. Short answer: More or l...

14 Sep, 2023

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