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Cities-4-People is one year old! Since our last newsletter several things have changed. Or, to put it differently, progress has been done. In particular, after the warm-up events that took place in 2017 to gather the core members of the Citizen Mobility Community, our pilot area partners have been mobilising the Communities and worked withRead more

Surely you noticed, thanks to the hundreds of emails you received, that in May, more precisely on 25 May 2018, something changed with regard to personal data collection, storage and usage: the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union was enforced. Among those emails, you may also have received one by Cities-4-People. This isRead more

Cities-4-People is about participatory processes and co-creation. In the project, co-creative processes concern the identification of critical intervention areas, the definition of local mobility challenges and the design, prototyping and piloting of solutions. Yet, there is an additional edge to co-creation: we want to involve citizens not only in creating the solutions, but also inRead more

The Cities-4-People Citizen Mobility Community in Oxford is working with the provider of a new Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) service to overcome the mobility challenges they have identified. The Cities-4-People project has been working with BartOn the Move, a mobility community in Oxford, to identify the mobility issues they face and then design and implementRead more

On 25 April, our coordinator – the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) – flew to Bucharest on behalf of the Cities-4-People project to attend a COST Connect event. More precisely, it was a two-day workshop on “How to shape Sustainable Urban Mobility for all”, organised by the COST Association with the purpose of creating a dialogueRead more

The opening of the Budapest Citizen Mobility Lab was a feast: from the 2nd to the 5th of May, under the beaming sun, the local team was busy explaining people what the C4P project aims to do and engaging passers-by and curious citizens in brief co-creative sessions and open discussions. Had you been in BudapestRead more

In the past months, Waag Society has developed a novel toolkit to explore and bring about co-creation processes: designed as a metro map, the Co-creation Navigator (CNN) is an open access instrument that can help you find useful techniques to engage different people in productive discussions and achieve your goals, regardless of the sector. In ourRead more

On the 7th of May the EUROCITIES network launched a new campaign named “cities4europe – Europe for citizens” – a name that nicely matches our project’s name. The match is not only in the name, but also in the objectives: cities4europe aims to promote people-oriented approaches and to strengthen or increase the collaboration between authorities,Read more

The first Cities4People MobilitySLAM is all about the mobility of tomorrow: from start-ups to established transport companies, from bicycles to subways, all ideas for the mobility of the future are told in speedy and effective 10-minute presentations. In a classic slam style. Up to the audience to choose their favourite. But it’s not only aRead more

Last 6th May the 22nd People’s Cycling Tournament “The Tour of Trikala” took place. On that same day, our Trikala team launched the Citizen Mobility Lab, involving all participants and spectators, as well as passers-by. As a matter of fact, the Lab is conveniently located in the central square of the city, which happened toRead more