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Proximity - Vilvoorde's campaign encouraging citizens to act

Vilvoorde is a front-runner of climate policy in Flanders, but the challenge of working with all local stakeholders is an are thats in need of improving if the municipality wants to reach its high aspirations. As a small city and organization, it is impossible to achieve the climate ambitions without the efforts of citizens, companies and organizations.

« L’espace citoyens » : a smart collective hub

The city of Saint Quentin took over citizen participation in 2014.

Starting the change with the next generation – sustainable mobility workshops for pupils

The municipality of Guía de Isora emphasised the improvement of mobility options for children over the last two years. As by its pilot on changing the traffic scheme of an access road to both, a school and the centre of the Guía des Isora nucleus. Improving traffic organisation and infrastructure was the key of this one. Now, Guía de Isora acted on the behaviour side of the story.

Public space: connecting mobility infrastructure to the community

A journey always starts at the front door of your home, workplace or other location. It doesn't start at the stop where you get on a tram or metro. The Vervoerregio is committed to making door-to-door travel carefree and seamless so that everyone can continue to travel smartly, safely and sustainably. This can only be achieved by working well together and improving, amongst others, the public space leading to mobility services. The Vervoerregio will develop in the coming years as the leading transport authority within our own region and beyond.

Mobility: ensuring decarbonisation is at the heart of rethinking our infrastructure

In the efforts to reduce carbon emissions, mobility is a key issue. Read here how our partner TfGM is promoting a more sustainable mobility model, both by favouring the shift to cleaner modes, and also reducing emissions in all vehicles.

Towards more human-scale mobility infrastructures

Transnational meeting in Baia mare was focused on brokerage and the new role of public administration in boosting social innovation.