EU's projects for cycling

PRESTO's funding programme: Intelligent Energy-Europe

PRESTO is one of STEER Efficient Energy in Transport projects within the Intelligent Energy-Europe Programme, managed by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI) of the European Commission. Link: www.ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/

EU's projects about cycling

ExtraEnergy aims to raise end costumer's awareness of electric mobility, including pedelecs. Link: www.extraenergy.org

Go Pedelec! aims to raise awareness of pedelecs among citizens as well as municipal decision makers. Link: www.gopedelec.eu

Life Cycle is a project of the EU's Public Health Programme. The aim is to integrate cycling as the natural mean of transport in daily life. Link: www.lifecycle.cc

Trendy Travel aims to make sustainable travel more emotionally appealing, so as to affect a modal shift from car to healthier, more eco-friendly transport modes. Link: www.trendy-travel.eu

BAMBINI aims to increase the presence of soft mobility in the lives of small children and to motivate parents to use car-free mobility to achieve internalisation of eco-friendly means of transport from early on. Link: www.mobile-bambini.eu

BICY. This EU project aims to achieve a widespread modal shift towards cycling and walking to improve the quality of life and reduce pollution by designing and implementing trans-national, cross-border and national strategies. Link: www.bicy.it

EcoMobility SHIFT aims at developing a certification system to improve and promote the sustainability of local governments’ transport and land-use policies. In addition, municipalities will be able to obtain an ‘EcoMobility Label’ that values their efforts to improve the ‘friendliness’ of their cities for pedestrians, cyclists, wheelers and public transport users. Link: www.ecomobility.org/shift/

CARMA (Cycling Awareness Raising and MArketing) is a target group oriented cycling communication project, which focuses on better cooperation with the selected target groups and on the integration between communication and infrastructure initiatives on cycling. The aim of CARMA is to develop new methods for cost-efficient marketing of cycling which leads to increased cycling. Link: www.cyclingcarma.com

OBIS aims to improve the role and the opportunities of bike sharing as a valuable instr ument to foster clean and energy efficient sustainable modes of mobility in urban areas. Link: www.obisproject.com

Active Access aims to increase the use of cycling but especially walking for short every-day trips in local areas, in order to benefit people’s health, and the health of the local economy. Link:

BYPAD (Bicycle Policy Audit) is a tool to assess the quality of cycling policies in towns, cities or regions. Link: www.bypad.org

EU's projects about mobility and e-learning platform

e-TREAM (e-learning for TRaining Energy Agencies in Mobility Management) aims to develop and implement a e-learning tool for energy agencies across Europe, plus other organizations involved in mobility management, to improve their knowledge and skills through the inexpensive and convenient medium of e-learning. Link: http://etream.team-red.net/

PRO.MOTION aims to facilitate energy efficient transport forms in the joint field of housing and mobility and to reduce the need for transport by providing services and facilities, which replace transport services. PRO.MOTION aims to change mobility behaviour by influencing people’s travel decisions where the most important ones are made: at home. Link: http://iee-promotion.eu/index.phtml