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On the occasion of the Austrian presidency of the EU Council, the ECF has analyzed the impact of the newest WHO plan promoting physical activity (GAPPA 2018-30)...

29 Oct, 2018

More than a quarter of the world’s adults (1.4 billion) have greater risk of type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia and cardiovascular disease, because they do ...

06 Sep, 2018

Telling success stories of cities reducing congestion by walking and cycling at TRA2018  ECF brought FLOW to TRA2018, telling success stories that sho...

27 Apr, 2018

Here’s a quick round up of items cycling around in the ECF health arena. The EU seeks your input on how to make cities healthier places to live with more walkin...

19 Feb, 2018

A study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has found that expanding designated cycling networks in cities could p...

18 Jan, 2018

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

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
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

On 20 July, in the Slovak Ministry for Transport, ECF member Ekopolis will host a workshop on the WHO’s Health Economic Assessment Tool. HEAT “is designed...

08 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