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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

Our Hamburg team decided to participate in this year’s edition of the Altonale in order to widen the Citizen Mobility Community, leveraging a festival that takes place in the centre of Altona, and generate publicity for the project. Ok, but… what is the Altonale? Altonale is the Northern Germany’s biggest cultural festival which is organisedRead more

60 participants attended the Presentation Day in Barton (Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK): a success! They discussed about the services offered by the Demand-Responsive Bus, which became operational last Monday and gathered ideas focusing on overcoming barriers to the usage of the service. Whereas the main target users are considered the elderly and people with disabilities, itRead more

Friday, 29 June 2018, Trikala will host the Hackday, a half-day event to assess the mobility ideas collected so far, rank them and focus on the 10 most promising ones. The ideas gathered by the local team focus primarily on improving the current traffic situation in the central square of Trikala: creating new parking places,Read more

Üsküdar is one of the districts of Istanbul, but it is not small: it is composed by 33 different neighbourhoods. in order to raise awareness about the project at local level, the Municipality of Üsküdar has started a series of workshops engaging one neighbourhood at a time. These workshops are not only meant to introduceRead more