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Our Hamburg team decided to participate in this year’s edition of the Altonale in order to widen the Citizen Mobility Community, leveraging a festival that takes place in the centre of Altona, and generate publicity for the project. Ok, but… what is the Altonale? Altonale is the Northern Germany’s biggest cultural festival which is organisedRead more

60 participants attended the Presentation Day in Barton (Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK): a success! They discussed about the services offered by the Demand-Responsive Bus, which became operational last Monday and gathered ideas focusing on overcoming barriers to the usage of the service. Whereas the main target users are considered the elderly and people with disabilities, itRead more

Friday, 29 June 2018, Trikala will host the Hackday, a half-day event to assess the mobility ideas collected so far, rank them and focus on the 10 most promising ones. The ideas gathered by the local team focus primarily on improving the current traffic situation in the central square of Trikala: creating new parking places,Read more

Üsküdar is one of the districts of Istanbul, but it is not small: it is composed by 33 different neighbourhoods. in order to raise awareness about the project at local level, the Municipality of Üsküdar has started a series of workshops engaging one neighbourhood at a time. These workshops are not only meant to introduceRead more

Our first project videos have been released! You should make sure to have a look at our promotional video and share it with your friends and acquaintances: it’s only 40 seconds, the project in a nutshell. If you want to know more about the pilots, see the first one of a series: our case inRead more

Presentation Days and Hackdays represent two crucial days for each of our five pilot areas. They are meant to involve participants in a discussion that first aims to gather ideas about possible mobility solutions to the already identified challenges; then narrow down the ideas to more specific concepts and select ten promising ones. Although theRead more

Almost as a celebration for Cities-4-People first birthday, between March and May we had five different events which inaugurated the Citizen Mobility Labs in our five pilot areas: Hamburg-Altona, Oxford-Barton, Trikala, Istanbul-Uskudar, and Budapest. The five Citizen Mobility Labs are inspired to the successful paradigm of the Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab: they are inclusive, accessible, welcomingRead more

Ever thought of taking part in a slam competition? Ever thought of doing so in a mobility slam? Most likely not, unless you attended our Mobility Slam session on 17 May 2018 in Hamburg Altona. Transportation can be a controversial topic and, especially on the streets, it is rarely addressed with serenity. Mobility can provokeRead more

Between Presentation Days and Mobility Hackdays, there are several upcoming events organised by our five pilot areas. Depending on where you live or travel, try to find the time to check them out. If you can’t do so in person, you can follow the project progress and contribute to it virtually too. Additionally, consider attendingRead more

One week ago we were having our third consortium meeting in Hamburg, in the district of Altona in order to assess the status of the project, reflect back on the previous semester and look ahead for what is coming up. We started on Tuesday afternoon (29 May 2018) and finished with the lunch of ThursdayRead more