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Almost seven months ago, we were celebrating the launch of our Citizen Mobility Labs: it was a big milestone, but we still did not know what would have come out of them. Over the summer, the Labs started working at full speed with own events, such as the Presentation Days (one per location: Budapest, Hamburg,Read more

In the past week, the Cities-4-People teams in the different pilot areas were busy organising meetings and events. It was not just the usual September frenzy, when everyone is back from holiday and life goes back to normal. For us it was a special moment: we were on the verge of selecting the concepts thatRead more

Üsküdar held a meeting with the so-called Quadruple Helix Stakeholders (that is citizens, people from academia, people from the industry and public authorities) on 26 September 2018. 21 invitees took part in activities that served to complement the online voting on YourPriorities. The dedicated page with all concepts to be ranked had been opened forRead more

Last summer each of our five pilot areas organised an Hack Day. What for? To involve the largest possible number of people in choosing their favourite mobility intervention, either commenting on and voting for existing ones or suggesting new ones. The idea behind the event was for each pilot to have, by the end ofRead more

You may personally know the Matsopoulos Mill cultural centre from a previous visit or you may recall it from the description of the HackDay that was held there by e-trikala and Q-PLAN International in June 2018. A few months afterwards, last 2 October, the Citizen Mobility Community and our local team convened again to theRead more

On September, 12th, the Hamburg team had a mission: having the quadruple helix stakeholders (citizens, public authorities, representatives from academia and industry representatives) select and endorse 5 concepts out of the 12 that came out of the Hackday. The first step was to inform the community at large about the 12 concepts and encourage voting,Read more

Like all the other pilot areas, the local team in Oxfordshire held a Quadruple Helix Stakeholder (QHS) workshop to finetune the selection of intervention proposals for Barton and narrow it down to 5. The initial selection was done during the Hack Day and entailed 12 concepts, namely: Multi-modal link-up in terms of locations and/or timingRead more

Remember the list of 10 ideas for possible interventions that resulted from the HackDay in Budapest? We wanted to have the community endorse 5 and we succeeded to do so on September, 15th-16th, which happened to be the car-free weekend in Hungary. On a sunny afternoon, from 3 to 5 p.m., our local team hostedRead more

Do you remember the first and second roadshow organised by our Budapest team? On 20 July 2018 the third one took place: A round table discussion at Valyo Harbour about the challenges of the Danube and the city. Four main speakers contributed to the panel with their insights into the relation between the river andRead more

The Hackday of Istanbul took place on 18 July 2018 at Keşfet Üsküdar, the official location of the Citizen Mobility Lab in the building of the Municipality of Üsküdar. 18 people from different backgrounds, including public authorities, students, citizens and a mobility expert contributed to the elaboration of 10 mobility concepts that could respond toRead more