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New approach to promoting physical activity moves cycling and walking to head of the pack. WHO launched a process developing a new Global Action Plan for t...

25 Jul, 2017

We've long been fans of cycling for tranSPORT, cycling to sport, and even now and then cycling as a sport, as long as you're doing it yourself! As ECF’s health...

04 Jul, 2017

The prominent researchers Buehler & Pucher found that far fewer people have died walking and cycling over the years since the early 90s. Reviewing data...

17 Feb, 2017
Picture from flickr, by Juan Pablo Mejía

Its alphabet soup time. ECF has been continuing its fruitful work together with the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the promotion of cycling. A lot of it is...

06 Feb, 2017

WHO-ECF HEAT webinar: hear about the value of the cycling happening in your city or country, then check out the one hour webinar that ECF and World Health...

23 Jan, 2017

The latest ECF report on the Cycling Economy puts the health value at €96.55 billion per year as calculated by the WHO’s Health Economic Assessment tool (HEAT)...

12 Dec, 2016

Research reports show: 1. Air pollution does not negate the health benefits of cycling and walking unless you’re cycling more than 5 hours daily in some of the...

10 Nov, 2016

  Groningen is set to spend €85,000,000 promoting cycling in the next 5 years. This was confirmed by the city cycling policy officer, Mr Jaap Valkema, who...

25 Oct, 2016
Bratislava, HEAT conference

BRUSSELS, 14/07/2016 - This month the Slovaks took up the EU rotating presidency, with a number of events. The full program is here.  ECF will attend...

14 Jul, 2016

Krakow, Poland. ECF Went to Poland recently for the TRA conference where health policy officer Dr Randy Rzewnicki presented How to calculate the positive impact...

06 Jun, 2016

Across the entire EU, eBikes are saving money, time, and CO2 emissions for cities and companies. They are also increasing efficiency, productivity – and in some...

30 Mar, 2016

You haven't heard much about the Pro-E-bike project for a while because it's business as usual. No we don't mean because it's winter time that the bikes aren't...

01 Feb, 2016

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