“More biking in small and medium-sized towns of Central and Eastern Europe by 2020″ (Mobile2020)

Mobile2020 promoted bicycles as a mode of transportation Mobile2020: (1) initiated national working groups of cycling professionals to support the discussion on a high level and to think about long-term objectives, (2) broadly and systematically informed towns and cities about what they can do to increase the share of cycling in the future, (3) empowered municipal planners and decision-makers to make the right investments, improve their planning procedures and to trigger a change in their citizens’ mobility behaviour, (4) implemented a number of workshops, seminars and study visits to spread the good experiences, knowledge and ideas that will improve the conditions for cycling in Central and Eastern Europe in the future, (5) organized a number of public events and competitions where municipalities in the region could demonstrate their achievements in favour of cycling and every cycling enthusiast could join in. Thus, Mobile 2020 stimulated the re-thinking of planning processes and transferred good suitable experiences from different European countries to the target regions of the Mobile 2020 project.