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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

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

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

Do you have any idea about the transport challenges of the upper quay in Buda? Or do you know how we can get the Danube closer to people? From May to October, we plan on a variety of locations on DumaParton. Come join them and make your ideas heard! Your opinion matters. Check thew agendaRead more

The Mobility Lab in Oxford was launched on 28th of March at the Barton Neighbourhood Centre. The Centre is a great location insofar as it is close to the project intervention area and, therefore, relevant to people attending the centre. As a matter of fact, Cities-4-People settled on the Eastern side of the city ofRead more

After three warm-up events that took place in the area of Trikala during November and December 2017 and the co-creation workshop of January 2018 that fostered interaction with motivated citizens from the local community, a consultation workshop was organised on 13th of February 2018 by e-trikala. The aims of the event were to define theRead more

Three warm-up events were organised in the Municipality of Uskudar to invite different stakeholder groups and raise awareness on the Cities-4-People project. They took place during September, October and November attracting approximately 250 participants. These warm-up events were important in order to create a first pool of motivated citizens leading to the consultation workshop onRead more

After the organisation of a series of warm-up events, the co-creation workshop was successfully held in the city of Trikala on the 19th of January 2018. The event was organised in e-trikala’s premises in the city center which made it easily accessible by all means of transport – an aspect which is in line withRead more