Save the date: EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK annual award ceremony & workshops taking place in March 2024

Mark your calendars, the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK award ceremony and annual workshops are returning to Brussels from 14 - 15 March 2024.

At the award ceremony, the winners of the 2023 EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK award and MOBILITYACTION award will be announced live.

More information about the ceremony and workshops, including the announcement of the award finalists, will be published in early 2024 here.

The Mayor of Braga (Portugal) Ricardo Rio understands that transforming shared urban space can elicit strong reactions. However, Braga’s longstanding commitment to advancing sustainable mobility is rooted in its desire to improve residents’ quality of life. As the most recent winner of the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK award, this Portuguese city is reducing pollution, improving quality of life, and increasing efficiency by expanding cycling infrastructure, opening streets for pedestrians, collaborating with local businesses, and engaging with community members to achieve these goals. We sat down with Mayor Rio to learn more about Braga’s sustainable mobility work.

Read the full interview here.

The annual POLIS Conference in Leuven (Belgium), which took place from 29 - 30 November, welcomed more than 900 participants to discuss innovative mobility solutions and initiatives. “Active mobility for all” and the “reallocation of urban space” emerged as two leading topics during sessions hosted by Mobiel 21 and the German region of Baden-Württemberg.

Learn more about the conference and session outcomes here.

Opportunity for towns & cities: CIVITAS Replication & Deployment Programme

The CIVITAS Replication and Deployment Programme has just launched a call for 12 Champion Cities. The selected twelve cities should have expertise in one of three topics: ‘accessibility and universal design,’ ‘sustainable urban logistics’ or ‘placemaking and participatory practices.’ They will support the take-up and transfer of knowledge to six pre-selected Challenge Cities by sharing their best practices and lessons learnt. Participation in the Programme will allow for travel to destinations like Istanbul (Turkey), Riga (Latvia) and Funchal (Portugal).

The CIVITAS initiative supports cities in gaining better access to innovative mobility solutions and in addressing challenges through activities like twinning sessions, co-creation workshops and site visits.

Applications will be accepted until 16 January 2024. Learn more here.

A survey launched by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the University Politecnico di Torino (Italy) aims to support EU local authorities in implementing the European Green Deal. The EU Green Deal aims to make Europe climate neutral by 2050 by creating sustainable industry and transport, cutting pollution, and boosting the economy through green technology. The results of the survey will help inform the next European Commission regarding policy and target priorities within the Green Deal framework for cities.

The survey takes 10 – 15 minutes and is open until 23 December 2023. Fill in the survey here.

Feedback? Questions? Let us know: mobilityweek@iclei.org. EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK is the European Commission’s flagship campaign on sustainable urban mobility, with around 3,000 towns and cities joining each year from 16-22 September www.mobilityweek.eu.