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Three years have passed since the Cities-4-People project started. The end of May should have marked the end of the project’s activities, however, the pandemic has changed the plans and Cities-4-People will now be extended for six more months. Looking back at what was done so far, we can already acknowledge great results. Three yearsRead more

The second round of prototyping organized by our pilot cities was dedicated this time to the scale-up. Over the summer we have met with our communities to discuss the experience with the first round of pilots and to select and develope new concepts to improve one of the interventions. The results of these co-creation activitiesRead more

In September, each pilot city organised a Quadruple Helix Stakeholder meeting to select the most promising interventions to be scaled up. The QHS concept refers to the four main category of stakeholders we aim to include in the co-creative process of the project, notably: public authorities and policy makers, researchers and academics, industry representatives, and,Read more

After the Presentation Day and QHS meeting, the team in Üsküdar selected the “I own my Garden” pilot for the scale-up phase. A new park was identified for the pilot scale-up, Nakkaştepe Millet Bahçesi Park, which connects multiple transportation points. Several green areas in Üsküdar are affected by mobility issues similar to those tackled byRead more

Scaling-up in Trikala will focus on the provision of electric wheelchair scooters for people with disabilities. The service introduced during the first round of pilots will be now further improved and expanded. To do so, during the prototyping event, our team in Trikala aimed to point out and successfully resolve potential risks or obstacles thatRead more

Prototyping in Budapest focused on improving the Mobility Point pilot. The event was held in Budapest on 7 October 2019, in the form of a 3 hours workshop engaging with key stakeholders. Starting from the outcomes of the first pilot round, the benefits and issues that emerged during the first round of the pilot atRead more

Our Mobility Community in Hamburg decided to focus on the bike rack intervention for the scale up. The prototyping event in Hamburg took place on 26 August 2019, in the Goetheplatz walking street in Altona, a very busy pedestrian shopping street in the heart of the pilot area. For the prototyping workshop, a row of tentsRead more

Between mid-August and late September, all five partner cities hosted Hack Days. In this second iteration round, the main objective was to involve the largest possible number of people to collect and co-develop concepts to improve and scale-up one of the mobility interventions piloted in the specific area during the first pilot iteration. Each pilotRead more

Prototyping in Oxford took place on 28 August 2019 at the Barton Neighbourhood Centre. The event was included in the Barton Bash, an annual fair held in the Barton Neighbourhood Centre. This is the largest event held in the neighbourhood and therefore, this represented an ideal occasion to reach out to the community. The eventRead more

In Budapest, the car-free weekend of the European Mobility Week, 21-22 September 2019, provided a very good opportunity to hold an open-door QHS workshop. The Presentation Day and Hack Day took place earlier in the same week, and now it was the time to set up two offline voting boards for local citizens, representatives ofRead more