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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

Building on the results of the Presentation Day and Hack Day, the Trikala Cities-4-People team organised the Quadruple Helix Stakeholders event to involve its Mobility Community in the final selection of the intervention to be scaled up. Decision makers from the local authority, including the Municipal Department for Civil Planning, the Department of Green SpacesRead more

The Cities-4-People team in Üsküdar organised the Quadruple Helix Stakeholders workshop in combination with the Presentation Day. The event was kicked-off with a presentation held by our local team on the outcomes and impact of the three interventions piloted in the municipality. The presentation enabled a group discussion on lessons learned and challenges encountered byRead more

In Barton, the QHS selection process took place immediately after the Presentation Day. As a matter of fact, introducing the participants to the impact of the three initiatives in the first phase of the day contributed to creating an informed and motivated audience that could actively engage with the analysis tools used in the QHS.Read more

In this second iteration round, the Cities-4-People team in Hamburg decided not to carry out a standard Quadruple Helix Stakeholder workshop but to use various participation channels to select the concepts that should be implemented. During the Hack Day, which took place in August 2019, participants came up with seven possible ideas for the scaleRead more

The Üsküdar Hack Day was held on 25 September at the Discover Üsküdar Office in the Municipality of Üsküdar and built upon the results of the Presentation Day and QHS Workshop that were held at the beginning of September. During the previous events, the Üsküdar Mobility Community selected the “I own my garden” intervention forRead more

The Trikala Hack Day was held on 20 September at the e-trikala Operational Control Center and immediately followed the Presentation Day. During the first piloting round, the Citizen Mobility Community in Trikala came up with a solution to reduce the traffic in the city centre by installing easily accessible, free lockers inside the Info Point,Read more