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At the end of June, on the 26th, the Budapest Citizen Mobility Lab organised the Presentation Day, inviting a diverse and proactive stakeholder group, including mobility specialists and representatives of the civil society. Their goal was double: to agree on priorities among the many suggested interventions for the upper Danube river embankment and to assessRead more

Do you remember our first roadshow in Budapest? The second one took place not too long ago, on the 5 and 6 June 2018. Once again the aim was to involve a wide public, make people familiar with the project and allow them to express their view about local mobility challenges and solutions by meansRead more

26 June 2018, Buergertreff Altona Nord, Hamburg: 19 days after a first productive Lab Night, the Hamburg team organised a second one. This time, the night took place in the Northern part of Altona instead of the so-called Gerichtsviertel. Our local team wanted to spread the discussion evenly and try to involve the whole district:Read more

As it was the case for the other two neighbourhood workshops (Aziz Mahmut Hüday and Mimar Sinan), the mobility workshop for the Ahmediye neighbourhood was organised in Keşfet Üsküdar. On 23 May, 5 citizens and representatives of the local administration came together with our team to learn about the Cities-4-People project and brainstorm about mobilityRead more

4 academics, 2 local elected councillors, 4 transport providers and 58 citizens met on 23 June 2018 at the Barton Neighbourhood Centre for the Cities-4-People Presentation Day. This is not the beginning of a joke. It is part of the magic of this project: bringing together people with different backgrounds, needs and perspectives to tryRead more

Cities-4-People aims to get citizens and a broad variety of stakeholders involved: people are the centre of this project! This is why our Hamburg team is very active in participating in external events, such as the Altonale, and in organising entertaining, yet informative sessions, such as the Mobility Slam. After a series of other activities,Read more

Do you remember we wrote about the first neighbourhood workshop organised by the Municipality of Istanbul to raise awareness of Cities-4-People locally and to gather input on urgent mobility challenges? Here’s the second one: Mimar Sinan. The workshop was held on 22 May in Keşfet Üsküdar. As in the case of the previous workshop, severalRead more

Trikala’s Presentation Day took place on 8 June at the Tsitsanis Museum, a new popular cultural centre close to the central square (and therefore also to the Citizen Mobility Lab). Besides our local partners (e-trikala and Q-PLAN International), other organisations participated in the event to share their view on the opportunities Cities-4-People creates for themRead more

The Presentation Day of the Üsküdar Mobility Lab took place on June, 6th as an “iftar” event, that is a dinner activity, on the Valide Sultan Ferry. The Ferry belongs to the Municipality of Üsküdar and takes citizens to the Bosporus. Passengers are entitled to a free sightseeing ride with a guide. The aim ofRead more

You may have missed the press release, but last June, 8th our partner from Trikala, E-trikala S.A., participated in the “Major Cities of Europe” conference in Leipzig and presented the Cities-4-People project to the public that attended the event. The organisation “Major Cities of Europe – IT Users Group” is composed of leading experts ofRead more